"Listen, things are not what they appear."

Title: "How About You"

Artist: Staind

if someone else showed you the way
would you take the wheel and steer?
it hurts me that you're not ashamed
of what you're doing here
if they jumped off a bridge
would you meet them on the ground?
or would you try and claim
that it never made a sound

everyone plays the hand they're dealt
and learns to walk through life themselves
not everything in life is handed on a plate
when people think your words are true
it doesn't matter what you do
i sold my soul to get here
how 'bout you?

so you choose to force your hand
what a strange way to make friends
and you always change the rules
so the drama never ends
and you blindly go through life
judging only by its worth
just try not to forget
that the meek inherit earth

so please don't take offense
this is just a point of view
cuz i'm the only one who
will say these things to you

This song hits me in so many ways that i felt i needed to share, the song is sung by a band named Staind, a group who through appearance would not be a band that just anyone would listen to. Heavy rock comes from most of their workings, but i picked up their "14 Shades of Grey" album(which i'm sure is copyrighted so please respect) despite the parental advisories all over the cover I use them as an example to promote how the most unseeming or different of people can still teach a good message to those who are willing to listen.

This song opened a lot of images in my head about people that i know or are related to in someway, especially young people i know, that do not look at the world in a good way. This song teaches me to value things as they are and not what it's worth to me or what i would get out of it.

Not to follow crowds, to stand up and be my own person against all other opinions and odds, and not to take advantage of people or befriend them just to get something out of them.

WORK and work hard for what you want in life and hold true to your word. Have a conscience and feel bad for things that you do so you know when its wrong and you can make it right. So many in this world go through life doing tasks and deeds that hurt people or do not benefit anyone but themselves, and there is hardly any remorse and if there is any shown it's usually empty and fake.

Your not always going to get your way and you can't manipulate people to do so, it may work on smaller, weaker souls that you pass through this world but one of these days reality is going to hit and hit really hard and your going to go up against someone stronger and not manipulatable and your fantasy world is going to come crashing down all around you. Leaving you with a big mess of lies and manipulations to clean up and a lot of people very hurt and mad at you, then you'll really feel what it's like to be alone and unliked.

Most people manipulate reality as a defense mechanism against themselves, so that they don't have to be real and take the risk of learning what people really think of them. If they control people's actions then they can control there reactions, so you think.

Be real, if people don't like you for who you are then they don't need to be your friend.

Respect everything, do not take advantage of what you or anyone else has, it may not last.

Know people for who they are not who you want them to be. If you don't like who they are - don't judge them or try to change them, just call it a draw and just don't hang around them.

There are no short cuts and even though you might think you have found them, it just makes life harder for tomorrow by shortening the task for today.

Work, things are not be handed to you for the rest of your life.

Just be YOU...

and maybe pick up this album, there are other pretty good songs on there as well..

"The Bloodline of God"

I heard a song the other day the was about family history and bloodlines that weren't so great and usually fell to the way side and didn't follow the pathway of God. He was also singing about how it made him what he was and he basically blamed his family for everything wrong in his life.

We are not made by our bloodlines, family trees or even non family/blood acquaintances. We are what we make of ourselves and no one and nothing but yourself can be to blame for where you end up in this world. The song talked about how everything that happened to him was based on what his family did in the past, this can't be true because your family wasn't there when you stood there and did that stupid or just not too bright thing that got you into trouble.

When you have gotten in trouble with the law, or financially, or with personal/sex issues, was your dead beat dad standing behind you telling you to steal, or to speed in your car, or do those drugs or alcohol. When you spent all your paycheck on crap, or on your girlfriend, or the law issues was your mother who couldn't balance a check book to save her life or spent all the money your dad made before he made it tell you to forget the rent and buy that stereo or take your girl out to the most expensive place in town. Oh and here's a good one, i'm sure that your 16 year old sister who was knocked up at 14 was standing right there telling you it's o.k. have sex with that person and tie yourself down to children and or child support for 20 years before you've even finished high school.

So see, the decisions we make in our lives are ours. Not the ones our family made or someone up in the tree with no fork in it. The only blood line we follow is that of God and as far as I know that is about the best Bloodline to be connected with. Especially having a brother who gave his life so we might live. What better example of family does a person need.

Blood is fluid, it leaks out and makes a mess. What stands in time and in the record books of heaven are the tasks and deeds that we perform here on earth to please our one father and the only father we need to seek approval and respect from. Some of us may grow up with pretty good fathers and they try to teach good things but there is only one father that matters to make proud. God is the beginning and the end, he will guide us and teach us everything we need to know to make it to his home someday.

Don't blame him for your troubles either, he put you here and has given you everything you need to succeed, but he has this funny thing that people just don't get, is that he will give to you what you give away. If you don't give away then he just assumes you have everything you need and stops giving so much. So if you find your self in a time that it just seems that he's not helping you, then step back and see who you have helped lately. You might just see a whole lot of nothing which is then what your going to get. Up your ante by giving to others more than you have then just maybe you can get back more than you need.

Goals in life are set for a reason, by us not our pasts, to have something to look forward to, but they are not set in stone, so if what you think you wanted to do with your life isn't working out, then maybe you picked the wrong goal, try something else, we all have something in this world we are put here to do and sometimes its way more than one. Lives go through cycles and some cycles of life don't require the same goals.

Keep you eyes peeled and your mind open more, there are things out there for you to do that is good and enjoyable, and don't let your family history or even lack there of define who you are.

Blood is thicker than water but water is much more enjoyable to drink, family is who make of them and God's bloodline connects us all regardless of color, race, or country.

Be all you can be in me,

GOD

" What are you doing to your children??"

Why are you teaching incorrectly or not teaching at all your children things about God and Church?

Children learn from you and form their values and futures from what they are taught or not taught from their parents.

"COME AS YOU ARE"

A song, a motto, a lesson in the bible. The Lord doesn't care about your back grounds, your clothes, your money situations, your roots or bloodlines as long as you love Him, worship Him, follow Him.

Religious backgrounds can show themselves in what we teach our children.

If you need a point to all this it could be to not teach our children to resent God or the church, because of what you forced on them as children. The goal here is to keep them connected to Him after you are not in control of their lives anymore.

A very sad thing was told to me one day. This lady who was talking to me, told how she forced her children to dress to the "nines" and go through a pomp routine every time they went to church. Her statement was that "we have the clothes and we are going to look good to go to church. We don't live in the slums and we are not going to dress as such." Well, she didn't but she didn't have it all either. To me right there cut off all listening to this bull and set in motion this blog and a better than thou attitude from her or more likely someone so lost in her faith that she needed to be and show more than she was to be able to worship the Lord.

If you go to church just to go or to show off, then don't go at all. The ones who are truly searching for his grace and love don't need false images to guide them and get them even more lost.

Same with our children, if you raise then up to put on false images for others and a holy place then your just sending them backwards down the path of grace. The pathway to grace is long and hard enough as it is, without teaching unnecessary ideas and false teachings.

In the end if going to church is made to be such a hassle for children, then they are surely not going to keep going when they leave home, and the ones who do will only carry on the wrong and false teachings that have been melded into their brains all their lives.

Stop the false images and teachings NOW!

Learn the truth and seek the Light, it will be the only way to guarantee the future of your children's connection with God.

Teach your children to dress properly(i.e.: pants that fit, shirts that don't reveal) everyday and they are all set for church.

"Get the Message 2"

THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH THE DOOR OF CHRIST..

"Get the Message"

IF YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE ANYONE HAPPY BEFORE GOD'S HAPPINESS, STOP AND START OVER AND RETHINK THAT STRATEGY.

"Count YOUR Blessings"

Being able to see what God has done for us is somewhat difficult for allot of people and not really because they aren't taking time, slowing to smell the roses but they are too busy worrying and looking at others and their blessing to keep eyes and focus on their own.

Focusing on the blessings that God has given to you and building your life on this to grow in abundance is worth far more than worrying about how someone else spends or treats the blessings God has given them.

Building up your own could and would open up an abundance of doors to help people who haven't been blessed or need to be. When you build up your blessing pool then you have placed yourself in a better position to do God's will when you allow all possible ways for you to help his children are open and available or doable.

Keeping up with the Jones' is a perfect example of this problem. What others have or how they treat or apply themselves is none of your concern and having or wanting what others have is a sure fire way to not have anything. What others have isn't usually what you need anyway.

Patience and giving more and wanting less, pays out way more and you end up with something out of it much better than you could have ever imagined.

Give when you don't have it, and you will. People have a lot of trouble tithing to the church these days because they think they can't afford to, well you can't afford not to. If you don't have a church to give to, find a legitimate charity or local organization to give to. To give to God in the bible demands a tenth of your earnings give as close as possible. Round up not down or you might as well not bother. I feel that if you give to somewhere, be it a church or the less fortunate, your giving to God as long as your helping the children of God and not yourself. He will take care of you if you take care of others first, and this does not include immediate family.

Being a care giver is defined by someone who cares for a child or an invalid, your independent adult children do not count in this. Being a giver doesn't count when the recipients are in the same house or on the same plot of land, they can take care of them selves.

To be a care giver or a giver of yourself, you must project these attributes on the helpless or the ones just needing a little step up. If your family can take care of them selves because you have raised them well and they are grown, you must realize this and let go, your job there is done.
Your gifts and generosities are needed elsewhere.

Count your own blessings not everyone else's, give till it hurts, and love what God has done and given you to be able to do his will.

GO DO IT!

"Martyrdom"

Martyrdom,

A word I've used recently to describe someone close to me.

The definition of the root word "martyr" is: the willingness to suffer or die for a reason or cause. Martyrdom then is the act there of.

The question that raised in my mind when i looked this up was the "willingness" aspect. Martyrs who kill themselves for a cause, for example kamikaze pilots or suicide bombers are just lost souls who need way more guidance than what we could ever come close to giving them and they do without respect for themselves or others willingly do these acts to harm or kill.

Martyrs who chose not to go the death route, want to suffer or put themselves through such torment for something or reason are usually victims of their own unrealistic, destructive self and ideas, or not strong enough to stand alone against someone trying to destroy them for the their own cause and not the cause or respect for the sufferer(the one performing th task/s) or the ones who have to deal with or be around the sufferer.

My martyrdom issues and questions stem from people who play the martyr either for attention or because its all they allow themselves to know.

The one person in a group who has to be the heavy, the one out front, the blues man, the stick in the mud, causing discomfort and unhappiness to all around especially when in a group has gathered for a fun or joyous occasion.

Nothing makes this type of person happy when they are like this and it seems that they are not happy unless they are unhappy. No matter what anyone does to make things better or to cheer them up is not enough, cause then of course they get more attention when they are acting this way than they think they do when they are being civil and on the same keel as all around them.

Is this a conscious act or do they even know they do it due to life practices and or habits?

A person who stays in the negative of things and life are bound to have adverse affects from this after a certain length of time. Self depressions, negative/dark attitudes, harshness towards others, paranoia toward others and self, self destructive thinking are all link to why people lose loved ones and friends in their life to the point that no one wants to be around this type person.
No one in any right mind wants to be around a negative person or one who presents with any of these qualities, especially when they are happy and would like to truly enjoy it or spread it around. A martyr would not allow the happiness to be spread or would at least attempt to throw some kind of wrench in the mood.

A martyr can bust happy bubbles faster than anything and the bad thing is that they usually do not do it intentionally and are unaware they held the "pin" that spoiled the whole mood or event.

So what causes this type of person, life issues, habits, other people's influences, or self destruction. Probably a whole lot of all of it is the cause of these attitudes and personalities, but the key to it all though is that it's the fault of the person doing these things that they are not better people. Sure you may not have a choice in who you hang around with, live with or certain situations that happen, allot of things in life are not controlled by us, but the way we receive these situations and deal with them till they are gone IS our problem and responsibility.

there is no one to blame for the things about and in your life that you don't like or cause you to do things that aren't right. It's YOUR life not theirs and the only one thats going to make things the way you want them is God and YOU not anyone else.

If you don't like something CHANGE it, if you want something WORK for it, all things are possible with God and you can do all things through God and only God and yourself. He's not going to hand it to you and no one else will either, a nudge here and there, a hand here and there but YOU have to WORK to get done what needs to be done. Do it for yourself and only for yourself, no one else matters when it comes to being who YOU and God want you to be.

Stop sulking, stop depressing yourself and everyone around you and get off your butt and GO. Go do what God wants you to, not what your family wants you to, or what you think people want you to.

Stop using others, events or losses as your crutch to life. Live life as God and the ones who've gone on before want you to do, especially the ones who didn't get to live to fullness here on earth. They live where they are now, but God put us here to LIVE first.

GIVE, LOVE, LIVE

"Gods Grace"

God does not take what you or anyone else thinks about him personally, so why should you?

God gives his grace to all people no matter what they have said or done to him. we are made in his image and that doesn't mean that we are going to be walking around with long white beards and large hands that could rule the world.

Gods image is inside and unseen, unless it's shown to the world by your own grace through him.
The "Holy spirit", ever heard of it? Well, that is what God gave us when he made us and reinforced by sending his unfailing love to us in his Son who died so that we could live in spiritual freedom.

Gods grace flows all over and needs to be spread even further. Giving Gods grace is not a simple task to do for him, but it's one that MUST be performed in order to turn people around and put them on a right track of following the Lord Jesus.

Grace MUST fall on people who are negative, hateful, mean, less understanding or stubborn, full of evil. Even the most dreadful person to be around can be turned by the grace of God, but it has to be given by us in order to help them see what grace that God gives to them everyday in life.

A person who lived in solitude or in less than perfect conditions growing up is going to be the hardest ones to turn unless they are grabbed at an early age to know and trust in the love of God. This type of person is going to try to lead a normal life despite their upbringing but will not stray to far from what they know and are comfortable with. Then, sometimes this type of person tries to lead their life down a path that is better and what they think they want their life to be like, then it can all of a sudden not be a comfortable place to be for them because they don't understand feelings that happen or situations that they get them selves into. So they lash out in certain ways that may end up being put offish and mean to others, especially others that are trying to care about them.

This is where the grace of God is the only thing thats going to work to make things better, because if that person has never known grace, then they need to learn to live with it. Love of family is a strong bond and a perfect example of Gods grace. We love unconditionally and blood has no lines, where then someone who has never received the true love of family or grace will not have any comprehension or relativity to understand, which makes them uncomfortable with receiving the love. Which usually results in hurt feelings, pushing ones away and the lack of understanding by the ones serving the grace.

Beware though that this could take a long time, depending on the time that person has spent with out grace and love. It can be a long haul and very frustrating to the ones who serve. Brick walls pave the way and we just need to arm ourselves with a sledge hammer of Gods Grace to break them down has they happen.

Never take negativity and hatefulness personally because you may not be the only one who is treated this way, most times if we get ourselves caught in the line of fire during their bad moment it would appear that its personally directed, but in reality everyone would be treated this way by the negative person because its all they know. Why do we get caught in the cross fire by them, its probably because we are the best suited to give Gods grace to that person at that time and we should never turn down a chance to say "I LOVE YOU!" to someone who has in no certain words just said "I Hate You!"..

Love thy friend and neighbor but LOVE you enemy more(they need it)..

"Finding yourself."

Our lord holds us, carries us, takes care of us. We do all things in God and God alone. Finding yourself when your lost is not an easy task but one we must do from time to time. The problem is that when we get lost of ourselves sometimes and most tines God is the one who is lost to us and not ourselves. If we feel lost and dismembered at times, we need to look to our hearts and see what is really missing, is it myself and things around me or am I missing the lord?

Pretty sure the answer is going to be the lord and not having a truly close and as humanly possible fully understanding what the lord does for us and what we need to do for him. He died so that we may live, so we have a lot of catching up to do the full fill the things that the lord never got to in his human form. Live life to the fullest..

Keeping this in mind we must start thinking like him and doing as he would do, cause what we think he would do is exactly what he wants us to do. Live for him, love for him, always think of others before yourself, take care of ourselves but to the minimum and over abundance to others.

Keeping negative and stinky thinking thoughts and ideas in your head is a sure fire way to mess things up. Nothing is ever as bad as we make it to be, there can always be worse. Look at where you are in your life and what you have been blessed with, and I know that there are going to be at least 5 other people in your life or that you have ever met that have it way worse or just not as good. Count your blessings everyday and thank god for what you have and stop downing yourself with things you don’t.

If you don’t have it, get it, make it happen, it won’t fall in your lap like magic and never give up on God’s love and his son’s life he gave for us.

He will always be there and never leave, keep him closer than anything in the world cause with him the world is a wonderful place.

"suicide IS NOT THE ANSWER"

It's not time to give up!!

Listen to me and what the Lord has to tell you..

The Lord sent me here to tell you that it's not the end and that with him everything will be just fine.

So you blame God for all your problems or you think he has abandoned you, well knock it off.


!!!!THE LORD WOULD NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU, SO YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO GIVE UP ON HIM OR YOURSELF...!!!!!


Tough love the most difficult thing that anyone has to deal with, but to get through to someone they love or care about, then sometimes there are things that need to be said or done to get your attention. I don't know you, but I care and for goodness sakes the Lord Loves you and he wants you to love him and believe that he will fix what ever it is that is causing the downer feelings.

You have fallen so into yourself that you feel like you are six feet under and even possibly wishing you were there. Well let me tell you, that, is the furthest place you need to be.
God put you on this earth and he will be the one to take you off it.

Keep in mind that where you are could very well only be temporary and if not then why are you not seeking help from a doctor or someone who could listen to whats bothering you. Depression itself can take a while to get over and get adjusted but doesn't mean that your stuck with it forever.

Depression is a disease of sorts, a chemical imbalance in the brain that disturbs our thought processes and causes stinky thinking. There is far from anything to be ashamed of, millions of people deal with this everyday and function wonderful full lives with medication(if needed) or counseling(cause sometimes you just need someone to talk to).

Then there are ones like me who went through a bout of depression for about a year or more. I went to the doctors and the counselors, tried the medication that didn't work and talking wasn't a strong suit of mine but the counselor couldn't figure it out either plus I didn't feel that he "got me". Feelings of non purpose, gloom and doom, totally unhappy with anything and everything.
Thoughts of offing myself were there very frequently, but fortunately I loved the Lord too much to disappoint him with a stupid action of my own doing. But believe me everyday I prayed to him to do it for me, to leave me on the side of the road driving back and forth to work. I traveled far to work at that time and my only form of transportation was a motorcycle. The last thing a person with suicidal notions needs to be driving. A deer or another car or even a slick spot at the right time would have suited me just fine.

After months of wanting to give up, crying and praying all the time for the help i needed or the end to come. the feelings and the bad thoughts seemed to just slip away just as slowly as they crept up on me to begin with.

Not a depression drug on board or a psychiatrist to over pay the depression left and never returned.

A God thing? Definitely..

Truly depression, probably not. Time, new love and theories have profoundly opened my eyes to exactly what I was going through. Because less than a year after I was feeling better, I found my sole mate and turns out that it was him that I was hurting for not myself. The exact same time that I was hurting so badly for no apparent reason, he was hurting tremendously over a very apparent reason he was going through.

Depression comes on slow and goes away seemingly slower, but not any of it isn't fixable.

God and his son fixes it better than any doctor and he is the highest counselor of all, but do not go untreated if what you are feeling could be medical. Get the depression meds if needed, but continue to draw yourself closer to the Lord and pray to him to heel you and maybe you won't need the drugs to cope.(don't stop the drugs tho without doc approval, there are weaning thing that have to happen for the chemical aspects)

Always seek the Lord for any problem you have, you'd be amazed how he heals.

Seek professional help, as i did, and if this is just temporary and the Lord intends to take control then what the doc's have won't work, but don't give up on any of it or think it all fails you.

Find a pastor of a church, preferably a non denominational one, that way there aren't any traps of falling into bad religion rules and ideas. These guys are very good listeners and they especially can answer questions concerning God and his son and how they have not abandoned you, that they are carrying you.

If you think you have tried and nothing has worked, try again.

DON'T GIVE UP ON YOURSELF CAUSE GOD DOESN'T GIVE UP ON YOU!!!!!!!

"Why am I here?"

Everyone asks the question sometime in there life, "why am I here?." "What is my purpose in life?" etc...

Some of us find out the answers to these and many similar questions, but most of us are just muddling through hoping we are getting it right.

Only God knows our purpose and works that we are meant to do, and sometimes its only after we have done the works that we realize that we didn't do it for ourselves, that there was a higher purpose or "power" involved with making it happen.

"Hind sight is better than 20/20 with the Lord leading the way!"

If you think that you are stuck in some kind of rut and aren't really sure why your here or what your purpose in life is, Look Back-Forward.

Looking Back-Forward means that if you really take the time to look at your life and where you have been and done, you can probably figure out where your life is headed forward.

Even the littlest thing that you have done in your life served some kind of purpose and most likely the Lord and his Father put you there to do it. Finding a task or good work that you have done before over and over may have been trying to tell you something. The task could have seemed the most mundane and something you've done a thousand times, but who's to say that maybe one day that you did this task, someone or something wasn't affected in a positive and good way.

I myself have been seriously wondering why I'm at my current employment. Its a job that has gone down the toilet for me, I started there with the prospects of staying for a long time and even thought at one point I could do it till I retired, but now, times have changed and the business has changed and they keeping "updating" things to the point that it's driving people away from the position, which is there goal because they eventually want to get rid of my job. Granted unless the whole world just up and starts only using plastic for spending all of a sudden, then there will always be someone needed to do what I do. Things are getting almost ridiculous to the point that its driving me mad and I am hating what the job does to me when I'm there.

The hardship that I face at work is probably more put upon by myself than the actual work place, but that I think is because I'm bored with the bureaucracy junkola that I'm faced with everyday and with co-workers who do nothing they don't absolutely have to and don't willingly learn anything to know anything more about their own job.

My purpose there I thought was coming to an end soon and I could move on to something else the Lord needed me to do, but I'm still stuck there. This job has served multiple purposes and to me has nothing left for me but heartache and big hook for the devil to keep hold on me.

This job came when I really needed one and it has been a link to people that I have helped in many ways outside the realm of the workplace. I met people that needed spiritual help and was very aware after the fact, what I had done was the Lord's work through me. This job has also enabled me to move to different locations that led me to living with the most wonderful man God could have ever dropped in my lap to marry.

The past though is why I feel that I need to move on, because looking back all the jobs and places I've been were for reasons and I performed my duty and He led me on to something else. He put me in jobs that I never would have chosen for myself without Him putting the idea in my head, but He needed me there for something or someone and He gave me what I needed to accomplish his goal.

I guess that is why I feel that this can't be it, He has used me in so many capacities that served others that I just can't believe that I'm through. There are things I do outside of work that I truly enjoy giving myself or what ever is needed to, but for some reason I feel there could be something I could do all the time to do more for the Lord and his Father.

Looking Back-Forward for me, is trying to find the next place I'm needed to help someone else, the people at my current work won't help themselves much less be available for help from anyone else.

So I guess I have shown you that your not alone in the pondering questions that probably keep people up most nights. We are all here for a reason and we are all needed for different jobs and works for God. The littlest thing can make a big difference in so many lives.

Don't get discouraged, even though its very easy to do so, especially if you don't feel that you have done anything with you life for him or yourself. You have probably done great things and our stinky thinking that we put on ourselves prevent you from seeing the good parts and chapters of your life. If, there really aren't any good chapter, then you only have yourself to blame if you don't break out and make things better the way God intended.

No good work or act of kindness toward the sourest, unappreciative or even grateful creature goes unseen and unrewarded by our Father.

"Do Not Fear God"

"God fearing people", "Put the fear of God in you."

Some common things that people and preachers have said for age and ages. Scare tactics through fire and brimstone teachings to try and get God's people to live the right and straight way that they demand of you, but what Gods expects with of course less harshness if you don't get it right the first time, second time and guess what the third time, 4th, 5th, 6th and on and on and on.

A phrase on a church's sign one day really disturbed me, I felt it was misleading people in a way to make them want to run away from God rather than go to that church and seek him. The phrase was "Fear God and fear nothing else." Now, with me, dealing with simple minded people on a daily basis, this did not set well with me to the point that I could see many people getting the wrong idea about what it may be asking.

People in general are a cowardice bunch and run away from things that they are afraid of or fear. Since I read that sign I have heard many people say this similar thing, but they were meaning a totally different thing than what came from literally from their mouths.

It is so totally mis understood and misinterpreted by many people who have heard or read this type of teaching in their lives. Its no wonder that people feel like they are not good enough to seek his love or even just run from it because they are afraid of the repercussions to them if they "don't meet his standards", according to others. God doesn't have standards he has his rules that he set down in the beginning, very simple ones at that, and his love for all of us, no matter what.

I envision God as a wise grandfather type, gray hair, long beard to run your fingers through as a child while your sitting in his lap listening to his stories and tales and very wise advise. God is calm and patient speaks few words to drive a point, yet gets disappointed when we stray, but will always guide us back without judgment or punishment. We punish ourselves enough, he doesn't have to.

The teachings that we have always heard and read are mostly translations from versions of the bible where the word "fear" was chosen because it seemed to be the only one that fit to the original wording. Unfortunately when this word meant to revere or respect in the original books, when it was translated later it didn't really fit anymore once the English language got going good with its own definitions. With most people taking the readings of the bible literally and to gospel, the word fear was misinterpreted my many to actually mean to be afraid of.

This is a big way that different churches get their starts, because someone read the bible and took the meanings to mean differently than what they were being taught and they didn't agree most times and left to build their own religion.

The Bible can mean many things to many different people but to get the true truth that comes from it, everyone must agree on the basics and be open minded enough to know that what you read into a verse or chapter, might and most likely be different than someone else.

There is nothing in the bible that says we are to fear them, in contrary when they came around to the ones they spoke with, usually the first words out were "fear not".

We just all need to believe in God, and praise his holy Son. Know that they have our best interest at their hearts and that no matter what we do, we must try to do our best to do what's right by everyone and everything around us.

Do not Fear God, or Jesus. They are our father, our friends and that there is nothing to fear with them in our lives.

The sign should have said "Trust in God and fear nothing." Then maybe they might get a few more pew seats filled.

Love Him and cause He already Loves YOU!!

"Worries"

Worries, Worries....


NO Worries...


Why do we worry about everything? Don't deny it: you worry about everything, whether you know it or not. Are you cranky? Do you have headaches, stomach aches, or indigestion which split you in two? Then trust me, you’re worrying too much. Even one worry is too many to have and not allow the Lord to take care of, especially those things you can't control.

I'm guilty of it too. "Once daily Prylosec OTC(rtm)" is the only thing that keeps this body functioning, and fighting against what my mind is doing to it consciously and sub-consciously.

The worries of the world aren't ours to deal with, nor are the worries of our own lives.

I try and try to leave things in the hands of God and his son, but there always seems to be something I let slip through which I end up worrying about.

I hate my job. I worry and wonder every day why am I still there, despite everything I attempt to move on to something I will hopefully like (or preferably love) better. Questions flood my mind always: Am I missing the Lords message to leave or stay? What if I leave and hate the new Job, or make the mistake of taking a new job that will put a financial strain on my family?

I daily wonder and worry and get extremely frustrated with my job. Because of that, I have to constantly remind myself to look at the situation and see if I can learn why I'm still there and what purpose am I fulfilling for the Lord, if any. For my whole life the Lord led me to my careers and jobs and there was always a purpose and it showed itself at some point. It usually showed itself right about the time I left, but, sometimes I kind of saw the reasons before I knew to go there or needed to leave.

This job, also, has served many purposes and I thought I had come to the end of my time with this job when I married and it allowed me to move and stay employed.

But, I worry about it all the time and I don't allow myself to be patient enough to let him show me that I'm either stuck there forever or if the next job I need to do for him hasn't showed up yet.

We are all placed where we are needed. Sometimes it's early and we need to wait until the rest of the world catches up to the point where we can do our purpose. Sometimes we may get there do what we need to do and then have to wait patiently till our next job for God shows up.(this is the hardest part for me)

Worry, too, about my family. I try not to because I don't live close enough to them to take care of them. I also worry because even if I were close enough where I could fix "it", I really can't fix "it" at all. Sometimes we are not supposed to fix things because the ones who need help and things fixed may need to figure out how to help themselves and not depend on others to do it for them. If it was up to me I would take care of all of them; let them worry about nothing because that would be my job. The Lord, however, did not put me here to worry about others' problems even though it's in my will to do so.

I'm also guilty of doing things myself so I know its done and done right, and also because it's just easier to do something myself than to explain the how's and whys.
However, this habit has become a curse with my current job. This is because even though I try not to do the others jobs, I end up having to because they won't do or think for themselves. This is very, very sad and frustrating. We are perfectly capable, smart people working in a place together and only a couple of us seem to know or want to know anything. The others seem to feel that learning is not necessary so long as there is someone there to either do or tell them how every time.

So worries come and go, we just have to learn to let them GO!!

My life would be one of great peace and no worries, except every day I go to work and screw the whole thing up.

Worry if you must, but I really don't recommend it and the Lord doesn't, either.

Do you have money problems? No problem. Take care of the things that are important and forget the things that are wasteful and not necessary. Give, Give, Give! If you don't think you have enough to give to the needy, a church, or just to show someone that your thinking of them, then your going to have even less to take care of the important things. What you give unto the Lord will return 10 times over (Note 1). It will also make you feel very good at the same time. Your return may not come back monetarily or right away, but rather, when you need something it will usually show up just at the right time.

Do You have marital problems? Then talk to each other, respect each other, LISTEN to each other.

Women: stop expecting too much from your husbands/boyfriend. They are heading down the same road you are, so if something bothers you it probably bothers him, too. Men often don't know how to express things. It's not in their nature to be able to express things and you can't change it. Be patient. Stop complaining about everything. If you don't like it, change it. Don't spend all the money doing it. If you need more money, GET A JOB!

Men: women are complicated enough without trying to figure them out. God either gave you more patience than he gave women or he could have just given you the great ability to ignore small things that are bothersome. So, keep being patient. Listen, and watch. Paying a little attention to your significant other could save and/or change a lot. If she cries, hold her. If she seems cranky, just hold on. Buy her some flowers to say "I Love You" and maybe her crankiness will pass more quickly. If you want to, ask her what's wrong. If you do this, though, be prepared to listen. Try to at least remember the important parts of the story, there could be a pop quiz later.

Do you have problems at work? I have no advice because this is my worry, too. Try to be patient and to be open to when or if the Lord needs you to move on. If you need a job, be very patient; and, don't be picky if your rent and bills needs to be paid. Pray.

Do you have problems with your children? Children are often the hardest to not worry about. You want to protect them and teach them all you know, but at some point they stop listening to you and they are harder to protect. Locking them in their room is not an option. You have to let them experience the world outside your door or they will never truly learn anything. Street smarts and common sense count for a lot. Book smarts can get you Ivy League, but not learning things about the real world leaves them vulnerable to really being shell-shocked or hurt when they have to enter the real world without you.

Teach the important things from the beginning so when they seem to have stopped listening, what you have already planted will continue to grow until they need it and remember to use it. Discipline is a must. Children cannot be allowed to run your life and be out of control. Children left with no boundaries or accountability are the ones who expect the world to cater to them and they will not be ready to work for their share of the world. Highly disciplined(though not abused) children turn out to have a better head about them and are more inclined to do for others more than think of themselves first all the time. Our children are Gods, too. We (whether we like it or not) have to put them in his hands as well. Worry if you will, but keep doing your job as a parent and leave their outcome up to the Lord. If you do those two things, then there really isn't anything to worry about.

Our lesson today: Worries and worrying.....


Our solution for this lesson: STOP IT!!!!!!

Thats God's job.....


Note 1: Matthew 19:28-29, Mark 10:29-30

"Self Attitudes"

Why are we so hard on ourselves? Why do we insist on letting our inside monsters and demons overpower the love we have for the Lord and the love he has for us.

Judging is something we know we shouldn't do to others, yet we are the first to judge ourselves before anyone else has a chance. When we do, we are harder and harsher than any stranger.

The Lord does not judge us so why should we. There is only one time in our life that judgment comes into play and that is at the end of days. Even then there won't be much to judge if we accept God's salvation through Christ.

The Lord and his Father love us and stand beside us, waiting for us to rise up and stand beside them.

We need to stand up and step out of the ruts we put ourselves in.

All the judgments we put on ourselves usually stem from deeper emotions. Those deeper emotions stem from guilt, shame, self hatred from past hurts, experiences, trials and tribulations. We fail to come to terms with all this past stuff and it turns into self-judgmental attitudes which do us no good at all.

Someone who has been hurt by others can rise up out of this self destruction by coming to realize they did nothing to deserve what has been done to them. You should never be ashamed of someone else's wrong actions against you if you did nothing to provoke it. To hide and be ashamed of another's actions means they(and the devil) are winning the spiritual battle to bring you down, down, down, to a level they think you can't get out of to reach the Father's love. Keeping quiet about someone's wrong doings toward you or someone else gives power to evil forces and doesn't stop them from doing those things anymore. Never feel you are responsible for being mistreated or abused. No one ever deserves that and if you don't put a stop to it, then things might only get worse and usually do.

Only one person in creation was abused for a reason, and he died for that reason.

Abused for us and died for us... For What?

Our Freedom!

We are free. We are free from abuse, sin, guilt, shame, and any bad emotion that the devil could try to cast upon us. We are free.

Stand up and free yourself from the evils that drag you down, because you are.............

FREE!!!!!!!


Perfectionist attitudes lead to perfect self destruction.

If everything must be done right or just so, to be able to gain the Lord's love and faith in him, then you might as well hang up your hat , because nothing is perfect, you're not perfect, and you don't have to be perfect to love or be loved by the Father.

Jesus did not expect perfection when he lived here the 1st time. Although sinless, he was human and very open to making mistakes, just as we are. Even more, he didn't need or want everything perfect or done completely right except only having faith in him.

Whether at a party or a gathering, for example, with lots of people, he did not worry that everything was just so. He did not worry if there was enough food, good decorations, or if everything was clean, mowed, or straightened. There were some gatherings where he even took a nap.

No Worries! He's the ultimate Aussie because he let everything come as it did and dealt with it as it came.

Negative attitudes toward ourselves are just as bad and powerful as someone else's negative attitudes toward us. A child growing up with someone constantly telling them that there is something wrong with them, they are bad, no good, will never amount to anything, or even silence (no words good or bad are just as harmful) will eventually start to believe those things and it is then set in there own mind that it's true and that's the way they are.

So if a child can start believing lies from people who are close to them, then what would stop us from not believing our own lies?

Eventually, your negative thoughts and words spread to others and can bring down the whole mood or situation. It doesn't seem to matter how much the people around you tell you otherwise, you refuse to believe how good a person you are or how well you can do what you do.

The person who doesn't do anything because they don't feel that they are capable of achieving it is the one who loses out on finding out just how wonderful a person God made.

You can only blame yourself if you let other people's opinions get the better of you and control your every move in life. They don't know you, only God and his son know you and they think that you are a wonderful and unique person who can do all things in them.

Nothing good happens in this world without God. We must all take him with us, if there is anything we want to do or it will surely fail.

Just remember - bad moods and attitudes spread like wild fires and rub off on others like a common cold and with no cure but our Lord.

No one's perfect. Only God and his risen Son are the perfect ones. Perfection is the farthest thing from their mind for you. They only want you to know and love them. They love you as you are.

Finally, you who are abused or have been are to rise up and meet the Lord to let him fight your battles for you. You must make the first step against the spiritual warfare the devil is setting on you and remove yourself from the place he attacks. Turn back to them what they have done to you through love and faith in the Father to take care of them for you. Bring light to the ones who do wrong and the Light of Life will shine forever, wiping out all evil that surrounds the innocent.

"Knowing our Lord as a Father"

Knowing our lord as a father

Finding ourselves in the spirit of our Lord and having faith enough to love and believe in him, take some people long enough to, or too long to, accomplish without throwing in the title of Father. Calling him that and truly feeling as if he is our father, one and only Father.

Especially if we don’t truly know what a “father” is, or what you’re supposed to feel or think about him in that way.

I feel like that most people who are trying seek god as our “Father”, barrel into this task expecting to be able to instantly or instinctively feel and call this person(practically a stranger) “father”,”dad”,”daddy”,”papa”.

This route I feel is the longest way around, to move through the walls that completely keep us from bonding with God this way.

If there are walls between you and something you want with all your heart, like seeing the Lord’s face. Would you just stand there talking to the wall and praying that the wall would just miraculously fall down, disappear or would you try to find away around it?

Going through the walls isn’t an option, because you’ve already been through what put the walls there to begin with, and that wasn’t much fun. Was it?

So the next option is to go around. The wall has an opening some where; it has to, the only walls with no end, in or out, is the walls we’ll see in heaven around our new home. Our walls aren’t anything compared to those, so getting to the other side of our walls to talk to Jesus should be simple as pie.

Now, the walls we have are blocking our view of Jesus as our “father”.

What do we do about that?

We lose the “father” part of our idea or our Lord.

"WHAT!!! Jesus not as our “father”? Stop believing that way?"

"Your crazy, wrong and why should I listen to you?"

Thoughts that might have just gone through your mind, unless you’re truly opened minded.

Don’t jump to any conclusions yet.

Did I say to lose that idea “forever”? NOOO!

It’s only a temporary fix to get back to where you really want to be.

Refer back to when I called the Lord Jesus,”practically a stranger”.

To most of us he is. All we really know about him is what we read in the bible or hear from others, but until we can truly speak to him ourselves or really feel him and be in his presence we will not truly know him.

So, how do you come to know a stranger? You befriend them.

The two of you become friends and you talk, you share plans, ideas, and dreams. You both start on the same level, getting to know each other over & over.

You wouldn’t walk up to a perfect stranger and call him “dad” or “father”. Even an earthly father, who has done wrong by you and or been out of your life for years, could not walk back into your life, after being rehabilitated or born again and expect you to call him “dad”. (He could but he would also be insane.)

It would take time and a lot of trust building, some getting to truly know one another again. You would have to be friends first and work up to the “father” "daddy” part.

This same idea applies to knowing or relearning, and loving the Lord and being able to call him Father.

The 1^st step is to bring Jesus back down to our level. He is already on our level and has been from the first day he stepped on this earth, but we have to start viewing him there. People try to raise him up to a place we can never reach. We put him high up out of reach and its no wonder people struggle their whole life and never truly know him.

Sure we need to exalt him and praise him because he’s great and mighty but we need to bring him back down here where we are. Back to earth so you can talk to him face to face. Become his friend and let him be your best friend in the whole world ever.

To try and trudge through and insist on calling him father before you are even friends, makes things much harder and difficult than they really need to be.

“Father” figures here on earth are always made out to be larger men, powerful, authoritative, in charge and dominating. We perceive them in these and other similar ways from when we are children. We are small, they are big and when they are bad to us that makes them even bigger and more powerful, so if we have grown up with this perception of our earthly fathers in this way, then how are we expected to view God as our Father in the respect and manner he deserves and we deserve. When these bad ideals are all you have to go by, if you have any ideals to begin with. Some don’t have a clue what a father is or should be to even be able to start to comprehend how we are able to feel about God.

Stop looking at his knees and look at his face.

Just for a while stop trying to force the “father” figure aspect into your relationship with him and just be his friend.

He wants so badly to be your friend, so reciprocate back to him. He’s been here, he knows what it’s like to live here and deal with such things that torment us daily.

Sure he’s the greatest thing in all creation and he has power beyond belief, but just like a humble rich man or a famous person, they all just want to be treated like every one else, when they are just hanging out with a friend. Especially a cool friend as yourself.

If I were guessing the Lord would give his power and fame back to his Father for one day, just to be closer to you and become your bestest friend forever.

There is so much you could share with him and so much he wants to share with you and he’s “dying” to be with you and spend lots and lots of time with you. He longs to be your friend and grow with you not ahead of you.

He doesn’t get bigger as we grow up only we grow bigger in size and he remains the same. We are his Father’s children but we are adult children looking for a good father that will never hurt us or grow old and die.

So to have a good father on earth, when one is available, biological or step, you too must 1^st be friends and pals, sharing and confiding.

Same goes for our heavenly father.

Take a good close look at how you want to end up relationally with Jesus and maybe write it down, put it in a safe place like your bible and forget it.

Now, clear your mind.

Stop looking up and start looking straight ahead. Straight into the face of Jesus and say,

HELLO FRIEND…

"How to talk to God"

Being a loner most all my life has had one grand advantage. When I was a child I had my imaginary friends who I talked to, but when I out grew my imaginary friends I still found that I talked to myself still. One day I asked myself why I was talking to myself when I could be talking to the greatest imaginary friend ever. The coolest part about this idea though was that he wasn’t imaginary at all. He was a true friend, the true friend I had been searching for so many years to find, and he would actually talk back if I shut up long enough to listen.

"Talking to yourself is o.k., as long as you don’t answer yourself.”

That’s what people have said about talking to yourself almost as if there was something wrong with it or they just needed an excuse not to appear nuts.

Probably like the people we have all seen walking down the street talking and having a full blown conversation with no one. At least no one we could see.

Who do you think they were talking to? Only they know for sure but who’s to say they weren’t talking to our Father God? Maybe not knowing that they were or maybe they did, cause they have been the few that have not grown up in there heads and hearts and lost their vision of what knowing the Father hold for us.

I have talked to myself my whole life. Talking and working out problems or just to better learn or understand something I see or hear. Asking myself questions so that I make sure I know the answer just in case someone else asks me the same one, to be prepared.

I found myself one day wishing I was more disciplined at praying more often, being more with him, letting the Lord in more. Then I thought about prayer and wondered why we said “amen” after. It started to not make much sense anymore. If we were and are supposed to keep the Father involved and active in our life at all times, then why do we say goodbye at the end of all our prayers. Even though “amen” means to approve of, why do we need to approve of what we just said? Most people don’t even know what it means, but because they have heard it put at the end of prayers and songs, most use it as an ending, a stopping point for talking to God.

The word “amen” needs to be done away with, if you want to continually connect with our Lord. A redoing of everything you thought you knew about talking to God is in order as well.

That’s when I decided to talk to the Lord without end, I try not to use the word amen at all unless I need to agree with someone else or to let someone know that I'm through talking when i pray for a group.

The key is to talk to him continually about anything and everything, it doesn’t matter, just talk to him. He’s the greatest and best friend a person could ever have. He’s with us all the time so why not talk to him like he’s standing right in front of you or walking beside you.

Because you want to know a little thing that’s not a secret? HE IS……

…..standing right in front of you.

…..walking beside you.

…..carrying you when needed.

…..right behind you, nudging you along to get you through something you don’t want to do or feel you cant.

He’s your friend, your confidant, your father, your counselor, buddy and pal.

It doesn’t have to be out loud, it can be in your head, but why not be loud. At least you have a name to give when someone asks who your talking to.

Prayer without end, its pretty cool. It's like an open phone line to probably the only person that will ever listen to everything that you say. He will never ignore you. Pretend that he heard you or change the subject just because he didn't hear what you said.

He wants to be so near you and be involved in your life that he hurts when you do the latter to him. We do ignore him and pretend to listen or just never bring the subject (him) up so you don't have to feel bad that your not involving him. But what makes him the greatest friend ever is that he will never ever never do anything to us that we do to him.

He doesn't follow the "golden rule" he is the golden rule. No matter how badly we treat him, he will always treat us a trillion times better than we want to be treated.

It sure is a good thing that we can change all that, by just talking to him without end. Know he's always beside you, in front of you, behind you,,, inside of you and you will never feel alone and your best friend will always be there when you need him.


Just talk to him.... He's waiting

"Working too hard for his love"

Why do we work so hard?

Searching and learning how to find our father’s love in this world is like being on a diet. We try for a day, we know what we need to do and what we need to feel, say and be, but we cheat and cut corners, fudge on our love and faith like the, “I’ll only have one”, whole pie we eat after supper.

There are thousands of self help books, videos, you name it, out there for people on a diet or wanting to control their weight. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between the diet and exercise section of the book store is from the Christian/religious section.

Nothing …

Absolutely nothing…

Most items in these sections are possibly paved with good intentions, wanting to spread the good news and to teach us the way and path to our God, but others done by people looking to make a dollar off people’s losses, desires for finding God or to steer our ignorance and unknowing toward the wrong way to worship and praise. Would not surprise me if there were not books out there published by the red angel himself to mislead us from what is right.

False prophets of love and/or fitness? Who knows?

Which one do I choose or believe? Who knows?

Who will tell me the truth and be straight forward in their writings? Who knows?

Who knows? .... The only one who knows the answers to all these questions and many more questions we haven’t even thought of yet.

So why do we shop and spend our money, that we could give back to him, for answers we don't know if we'll find or possibly suggestions that may or may not fit what we are struggling with?

All the various media types that are out there to "give us the answer to everything" are maybe good guides, if you can trust the source, but such a better source that is out there that can be trusted beyond all others.

The Lord himself.......

and guess what? it's free! Thats right, FREE! just like us.

This now is where people tend to make this concept more difficult than it actually is.

God speaks to us so why do we not speak to him?

If your struggling with finding him or his love then just ask him to help you.

If you want to know the truths about his life or what to do with your own life, ask him to guide you.

What ever it is that you seem to think that you don't have, to be close to him, ask him for it.
I'll bet you have it and you just don't know how to use it or have never thought about what to do with it.

Talk to him, don’t just pray to him. Talk with him, don’t just pray at him. Learning how to just talk to the Lord could and probably will be worth millions more than all the self non help books that you could spend his money on.

Do keep the bible around for reference cause he may give homework and you don't want to fail this class..

"Anti Religion"

"Anti religion"

Everyone has there own approach to trying to find the love and comfort of the Father. Is one way more right or wrong than another, only our Father knows, but why must people make it so difficult for others and themselves to find the proper path to follow?

Organized religion confuses people more than most things. Lies and manipulations about having or knowing the Fathers love. Religion leaders don’t tell people that they can have the fathers love without cost or effort. They force people to spend their lives thinking they have to earn his love or that they are not worthy if they don’t do this or that.

Religions and organizations draw people in with the hope and belief of great things, but only if you come to their gatherings. This is so untrue, all that anyone has to do is talk to the father and ask him for what the organizations promise. A lot of church goers don’t even know that they can talk to the Lord all by themselves, without assistance from anyone or anything.

Simplicity, the common denomination of all it takes to find what many search and long for. They search for so very long through life and sadly few ever figure it out till the very end. (we hope)

Why do religions and organizations have to make things so difficult for those who seek to know the truth and find the most perfect love or just a place to feel needed or apart of? So many rules and regulations that are put on the members that its almost ridiculous. Growing up baptist i can talk all about things that are ridiculous. Dancing and drinking just to name a couple rules that were prominent, you didn't dare get caught doing either one but of course everyone knew that you did cause they did too, but don't talk about it or admit it and its o.k.(sort of). and as long as you showed up to church on Sunday wearing your Sunday best best, then all was forgiven, for acting all the sinner the rest of the week.

Unfortunately this was and is a common trap and stinky thinking that most religious people fall into. "You gotta go to church or you go to hell," pretty much sums up most peoples thought on going to church. Then there are those who don't go to church, and because they have been introduced to this bad idea that they are bad for not going, then they are so weighted down with unnecessary guilt about not going they don't go even more. To keep from facing the ones who might shun or look down on them for not going.

Shunning is real and there are churches and groups out there who would shun and dislike you if you break there "Rules". Now, is this anyway to run a church or group, when they are supposed to be for love? To instill in your members that you have to be better than others because you follow some rules that some old guy made up 100 years ago when he started the church or group. But then no one in the 100 years has had the courage to stand up and say that things need to change because times have changed. Or maybe someone in the church could have read the bible himself and said "hey, you know the bible doesn't say that so why are we doing it".

The only rules and rule book anyone of us have to follow is the bible, but we wont know what the rules are if we don't read it for ourselves.

We as a human race do not need to be drawn in with the lazy ones who just want to believe someone else's interpretation of what the good book says. The bible is almost like a horoscope column. It is written in such a way that know matter who or how your read it, or how many times that you read it. The meanings and messages in the scripture is always different and fits to the person reading it as needed, not as a literal black and white here's how it is, do it or die type of reading. Sure there are the commandments and other rules set by God that are black and white do or die, but the bible tells you what they are. It's the rest of the bible that people read that gets all blown out of proportion in its interpretation.

So I suggest if you really want to know the truth about whats going on, then read the Bible yourself. It even comes on tape and c.d. for those who can't or have time to read. Go for the New International Version. This version is taken from the original translations and is in plain English, don't try to bury yourself in the King James version if you haven't ever read Shakespeare and understood it. The writings are just that way and can lead you around in circles only to get frustrated and give up on your mission to finding what you need.

Now, for an end note.... don't get the the impression that churches and organizations who follow the Lord are all bad and that not going is the best thing. For some it maybe, but the bible does say that we need community and to be around like minded people who help us through our journey and keep us on right tracks. The trick is to find a place that has a good belief and faith system and no rule book besides the holy rule book. Find a place that is not stuck on what you wear, where you live, how much money you have(thats a whole other subject, churches and money for later) , but with people who love and care about you just for showing up and being you, even if it is in your p.j.s.


Nondenominational churches are your best bet, just stay clear of the snakes and chicken ones. Test them out, it wont hurt to go for a Sunday and not feel right about it, you don't have to go back and they won't hunt you down to bring you back next Sunday.(give them an alias if they insist:-D)


god bless and get to knowing God right.....

"Love"

“Love”

The simplest, yet most made complicated thing God ever gave us.

It seems to me that the simplest things or tasks are the ones people make the most complicated. Simplicity is not understood, its child’s play, if there isn’t a 100 page manual or a toll free number to call for service or support we don’t get it. I almost envy a child or the simple minded because they seem to reach the Lord so easily and the stuff we worry about that should be left to him they do leave to him.

I have been blessed enough not to be made to grow up to the harshness of this world that most have to go through, which leaves them like a child who doesn’t believe in Santa any more. Same concept with Christ, seeing is not believing, believing is seeing. So that leaves me in a position that I feel as if I can reach him, see him and believe in him, in ways that others don’t. lately though I have been having to pray that I haven’t grown up, and that I don’t want to because I don’t want to lose the connection that I feel with him, struggles and junk that I have been allowing to jumble my brain has left me feeling that I might be losing this and so I pray that I’m not growing up. Turns out that I just have not been resting enough in the lord to be able to be connected and I need to get out of that rut to get my connection back.

God’s love, so many search for it and long for the closeness with him as if he was a physical being.

The longing for the love of our Father is everywhere with very little understanding of how to receive it, obtain it, own it.

The problem I see mostly is with people’s approach to finding God’s love and the extreme complexity and lengths they go to find something this wonderful, when there doesn’t need to be any searching or hunting for it at all.

Our Fathers love is the last complicated thing on the face of the earth and all of heaven and creation. Somehow though the complexity is that “to love”, “be loved by”, or “spread the love” of our Father is so simple, so not hard that most people just don’t get it.

Which brings up the question to me, why on earth would people feel that God has made something he is willing to give so freely and to allow us to spread freely and unconditionally so complicated.

He wouldn’t, it has to be simple enough that even that simplest of minds understand and can give and receive without fail.

A baby knows the Lord, his love and how to give it before they even know what it’s called or know words or to be able to think for themselves.

An adult who wasn’t developed properly in the womb, with no concept of this world making sense to them, lost but found, they don’t know or retain information to function completely on their own, but yet they love and God our Father is in every one of them, to protect, to love , to guide.

These two examples of innocence, with sin all around them, influencing them and even possibly steering them into places and situations that are wrong or bad for them, still completely and wholly understand and work the love of our Father in every part of their lives and others who are blessed to come in contact with them.