Unprepared

We as humans are ill prepared for death.  Unless your Elijah, Enoch, or Moses, we will all perish from life as we know it.  I believe, with all that I hold dear, that when it's my time to leave this earth, I will go to heaven.  I think the first sentence is more about wrestling with those times when we lose a loved one.  Our hearts cry out in anguish because of the love we hold for them and death removes the opportunity to see them, hear them, and tell them we love them.  As a Christian I should be celebrating the life of my loved ones, particularly if they are Christ followers.  Based on my beliefs I know where they are going.

Why fight?

All week long I've been hearing messages of victory.  Joel Osteen keeps saying we are victors not victims.  I can only speak for myself when I say for much too long I've felt like I have to fight all the negativity in life and those attacks seem to come from everywhere and seemingly non-stop.  

I have failed to realize that all the promises are true.  The battle has been won and it's not our fight.  As a kid when a large bully was after me I would run to my big brother and get behind him.  I knew he would protect me and I felt safe.  As Christians, we have that same protection behind the love and power of Jesus.  I think it's because I can't see it with my human senses and struggle to not stand and fight on my own.

I'm done fighting since I have the greatest power in the universe fighting my battles for me. 

Don't miss the boat!

I have lived most of my life believing something that isn't the truth and I have missed out on so much love. I've always heard that it's never to late for this or that.  That's fine if you haven't missed out on the truth of being loved. But the fact of the matter is is that if you're on the "other side" it's never too late you don't know what it's like to have regrets about being loved or feeling like you aren't loved. I know my family loves me and I wish from the depths of my heart that knowing that I am loved is how I lived the past 56 years. 

It's always the same

What I realized in church today is that the Holy Spirit that first came to us in the Acts of the Apostles is the same today as when the friend first came to earth. It helped me realize that we get the same gift of the spirit and the same love of Jesus and of God the the first disciples received. #GodNeverChanges

Cinco de quatro

Keep on keeping on...

Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light. ~ Rick Warren

Take 1

This life we are living is 1 frame in a movie that lasts forever once we are gone.