Good morning and happy Thursday. I love the twilight zone shows. I like the way they take ordinary stuff and see it from a whole different angle. I grew up being drug to church and not liking it much as I got older. But what I realize now is that I was given one mans view of things. Our preacher could put the most wired up ten cups of coffee in ya person to sleep in ten minutes. I like knowing how vast God is. I see how we've kept Him in a box so that we can relate to Him. We try to make it all black and white when the only thing that is are the pages it's written on. It's nice to know that God can't be fully understood yet. But that we are given just enough to keep going. I see His love now like never before and it's because of other views and digging deeper in the word instead of having it talked to me on a Sunday morning. It's about allowing God to lead us to those places and grow us in our maturity. You just can't eat on Sunday and expect to be healthy when you're hungry every Friday and Saturday. It's up to us to find our way to that personal relationship with Him so that it is personal and not someone's else's way. When you're feeling kinda blah in your time with God, you're probably in a rut and need to back up and regroup and get a fresh look at the direction you're going. It's hard to follow with your head down. Look up to Him and see Him in a whole new light and follow where He leads. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Monday. A very dear friend of mine had to have his leg amputated yesterday because of an infection to his artificial knee. This would've been the fourth time he's undergone the replacement only to have it return. He could've gotten very sick and died from the infection, and I'm not so sure he wasn't close the last time, to just that. It got me to thinking about what Jesus said about sin and poking out the eye or cutting off the hand that is causing one to sin. Delbert is going to be better off without his knee problems in the long run, but for now he's sad and confused and didn't really want to lose it. How much do we hang on to our things that cause us to sin? How bad do we want to not give it up? How big of a hold does it have on us? I would say that its about as bad as losing a leg. Sometimes we really don't realize how bad it is until it nearly kills us and we have to get rid of it. And by killing us I mean removing us from God. Delbert made a huge decision to let go of some thing that could and probably would kill him. His life will be different now. So will ours when we make the same hard choice in our lives. In love always. <><