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What Going The Extra Mile Can Do For Someone

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:14 PST

blessings2you posted:

Of all the teachers I had in my twelve years of school, there are only three who stood out from the rest and who will forever have their own monuments in my heart. Two of them I will never forget their names (Mrs. Kaiser my sixth grade teacher and Mr. Holman my seventh grade history teacher), and in the past I have written about both of them. But, there is one teacher who perhaps had the most lasting impact on me of all, and I dont have a clue what her name was.After my miraculous encounter with God in New Mexico in August of 1969, I started back to school a couple weeks later. I was a junior in High School at the time and my life was full of such joy and excitement I could hardly contain myself. I now had tons of friends (including my first girlfriend in...

Integrity And Charcter Personified In Mr. Compton

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:43 PST

blessings2you posted:

The first person to truly have a profound impact on my life was a man named Mr. Compton. This man was the leader of the Boy Scout troop I belonged to for a few years. I am very thankful that my parents more or less demanded that I become a Boy Scout, for I did learn many things and enjoyed the fellowship of the guys. Somewhere in my archives are my merit badges that I earned as a Scout. I have no clue which ones I earned, nor do I care. What is important is that at that dark time of my young life, I was able to work on things and achieve success in them. I was able to prove to myself that I wasnt a total failure. I was able to see that if I just applied myself, I COULD do something constructive with my talents.Way back at...

Monuments Of Remembrance In Our Hearts

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:15 PST

blessings2you posted:

In the journey of life, we spend time in all sorts of places and meet all sorts of people. Put together, we end up with a wide variety of experiences upon which we lean on the rest of our lives. In the course of living, there are people who cross our paths who cause us great harm and at times come close to actually ruining our lives. Although no person has the literal ability to do such a thing, there are people who through the evil of their words or actions are intent on destroying us.Only a fool would believe it is possible to live this life and not pick up a few enemies along the way. No person who ever lived, including our Lord Jesus, managed to succeed in having everyone love and adore him. In Jesus case, the vast majority of people ended up hating Him for only...

Sometimes We Just Know What God Wants Of Us And For Us

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:08 PST

blessings2you posted:

I trust my relationship with God enough to believe that when I sit down to write my real blog (as opposed to just ideas), that what I write will be from Him and to His glory. I dont have to huddle in prayer for hours before writing and I dont have to ask anyone else if what I wrote is OK. Perhaps I did that long ago when this blogging thing was brand new, but I have done it so many times now that I know when it is the Lord and when it is just me talking.I hate it when the Lord places something on my heart, I try my best to put it into words and then it falls flat. It is like a comic on stage whose jokes are not funny. It is always a very awkward moment when it is obvious the comic should just slowly...

Who Is The Real You?

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:56 PST

blessings2you posted:

Way back in the early days of television there was a popular game show called To tell the truth. On the show, three people would all claim to be someone special or have a unique talent or occupation. The celebrity panel would ask questions trying to figure out which one of the three was telling the truth. The two imposters could lie, but the one who was for real had to tell the truth. At the end of the round, the host said the famous line: Will the real [persons name] please stand up?I feel most people live their lives as if they were all three contestants on To Tell the Truth. Long gone are the days when people were twofaced. People now days act out three or more characters on a regular basis. It is very difficult to establish which one is the real person and which ones are...

Jesus LEADS Us Home

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:26 PST

blessings2you posted:

This morning as I was returning home from driving my wife to work it was still dark as I got back on the Interstate highway. I always look at the half hour drive home as my reward for getting up at 4:00 am and doing an hour of driving before 6:00 am. I usually listen to my worship music and give my God His praise and pray for various people during the drive home.This morning as I got back on the Interstate I noticed in quite a ways behind me an interesting thing which I had never seen before. There was an illuminated cross on the front grill of a semi truck. From a distance it looked very beautiful and I thought of what a nice idea it was to do such a thing.Within a couple of minutes all warm and fuzzy feelings were replaced by the irritation I feel...

The True Definition Of A Lock Box

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:36 PST

blessings2you posted:

A few years ago someone who I knew and worked with in the ministry back in the 1970s wanted me to attend a function where many people I knew from the past would be there. I wrestled with the idea and ended up sending the following to the person as my response:Memories are like treasures found in a shipwreck.Their worth may be great, but so may be their pain.Some things are better left hid in the blur of the past. Other things are pleasant and wonderful to remember.Some things open wounds and cause injury once again.Other things bring healing with the light of a new day.Some things will always be exactly as we remember.Other things look nothing like they once appeared.As for me, I would rather leave the past behind me.To go back there now would not be a blessing.It took years to undo what a few months produced.A day...

God Really Does Speak To His Children

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:11 PST

blessings2you posted:

Anybody who doesnt believe God speaks directly to His childrens hearts at times needs to have their spiritual head examined. What kind of a Father would never take the time to speak words of comfort, exhortation, reproof and encouragement? What kind of a Father would never stoop down and communicate directly with His son or daughter?I believe with all my heart that God does in fact communicate with us via His Holy Spirit within us. This communication doesnt necessarily mean loud trumpets and huge jumbo movie screens; it can (and usually is) but a still small voice speaking directly to our hearts. This morning I was doing some work outside and all of a sudden the pain in my toe alerted me to the fact that I had dropped a gate on it. It hurt for a few minutes and then subsided. A short time later as I was putting...

The Curse Of Materialism

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:15 PST

blessings2you posted:

Back in the days when the ministry I worked for was my sufficiency, I never thought much about the world or decisions made by politicians. I would love to say it was because I trusted God to meet our needs, but in reality it was because the ministry did that. The fine line of trusting your employer to be your sufficiency verses God being your sufficiency is thin indeed and most people miss it including me.In so many ways, we have all fallen into the trap of learned helplessness due to our dependence upon government programs, employment, savings or pensions to meet our needs. Gone, for most, is the ability to believe God can continue to meet our NEEDS even if the government ceased to provide funding, we lost our jobs or the stock market crashed wiping out all our IRAs and savings accounts.The problem is that long ago in...

Distractions And Addictions

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:24 PST

blessings2you posted:

The world is one big distraction. At every turn there is someone or something demanding our attention. Look at me and Listen to me are repeated by everyone trying to pry some of your money out of your wallet. Whether entertainers, salespeople or thugs, they all want the same things, which are your time, attention and money.It totally blows me away how many Christians have been lured into spending their time and money on worthless activities that have nothing to do with God or helping anyone. It is astounding to witness the changes that have overtaken culture just in the past 20 years. It is scary to see what people do and how they think now who were just little kids in 1990. It is even scarier to think of what todays little kids will grow up being and doing.Why do we feel such a need to be entertained? Why...

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