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. <>< 

Good morning and happy Friday. Busy busy busy. No time this morning to talk to God. Slept in and took a long shower. Played a game on phone and just let time slip by. My day is going ok so far but I can feel the difference. Now I have taken some time to at least stop and listen and let myself go to Him and already better. He is awesome. Why are we not in utter awe of Him daily? How am I letting these moments with Him slip by? I'm lazy in my devotion to Him. We are studying Revelation on Wednesday nights and it has finally sunk in that He is the Sovereign Lord and as I see John describe Him on His throne, it just gets to the core of me. Even still, feeling that power, I still slip. My humanness is weak. The more and faster I see it, the closer I will get to Him. John saw a glimpse of Heaven and the Lord in all His Glory. He then relays the message of that visit to us today so we can get ourselves to that place. It is real and it is coming. God is all that is written of Him. Prepare the way home now and don't let time with Him slip by. Thank you God for loving us all. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Thursday. How do you squeeze the the tube of tooth paste? From the end or the middle? How does your toilet paper go on the holder? Over or under?  Does it matter? Not really. The business gets handled and the day moves on without much more thought of it. We are all different and have a different way of seeing things. The problems in this world and in our lives are that we focus too much on the minor things and forget or lose sight of the major ones. So do we have God out front as a major and not squabble over how someone worships Him? There are a lot of ways of interpreting the Bible into our lives. The one thing to count on is that the Word of God has not nor ever will change. It's the same for us today as it was for those you wrote it down so many years ago. But we have divided ourselves over the minor things and lost our vision of the major. I don't think God had in mind all the different denominations that man has put up. When this is all over there will be only one church, just like it should be now. In life and in God, discuss the minor hang-ups, but don't let them be the cause of decisions you make about the bigger picture. Go to the Major, ask Him to lead you and then follow His direction. The teeth still get brushed no matter how the tube is squeezed, but the tube has to be bought to be squeezed in the first place. Give your heart to God and stop worrying about the small stuff. In love always <>< 

Good morning and happy Wednesday. You ever try and listen to a conversation you're not a part of? Aka eavesdropping. You will tune out everything and and hold your breath and be quiet and not move a muscle. Even to hear something faint in a recording or movie or what not. The point is, the extremes we go to listen to something we want to hear or know. How about when God speaks to us? What about that conversation? How much do we lean in to hear from Him? How often do you stop what you're doing and just be still with Him. It really is that easy. When I think that He's just not talking to me today, it's my reminder I've gotten to busy for Him and not paying Him any attention. Busy can't be the excuse. That's the devils tool against us. That's giving him power over our lives and our time with our Father. Take back what is yours from him and give your time to God. Hear Him speak and guide you through all this mess in life. He's the one that can see what's ahead for you and lead you to the place He needs you to be so you can then serve Him by serving the ones He's brought you to. Be still and know that He is God. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Monday. Heard a great skit/sermon Saturday that still has my brain spinning with thought. You've heard the phrase waiting on the Lord. What does it mean to you? Think about it for a minute before reading on. Are  you passive or active in waiting?  Well if you're waiting aren't you then a waiter?  What if God is at your table and you're His waiter/ waitress? How often do you check on Him and see what you can do for Him or get Him? What kind of tip will you get for the service you rendered? Think about how you tip your waiter if the service is bad and how well you tip if it's been good. What a beautiful picture of our dedication to Him. Jesus came, not to be served, but to serve. Everything He did was for God and His glory. When you go to eat out next, think about your waiter and how well they serve you and then ask if your serving the Lord in the same manner or not. Will He be satisfied with your service or not? Do your best to self evaluate and be honest in what you do for Him. By the way, He's a great tipper. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Friday. I had a really bad day yesterday. I mean the worst in a while. All work stuff and just a bunch of mess. To the point of just leaving and calling it a day and if it was more than that then so be it. After I got home and got some things done at home and away from the problems of work, my day got better. Watched the Heat win and it got great. Came in today and feel better and moving on. But it got me thinking about how as I got away from the thing causing my problem the better I felt. And even to a point of facing it again. What if we do this with all our worldly problems and dealings with God. Move away from what pulls us down and closer to what picks us up. I hate that I keep losing the sight of that and fell into the traps of this world. I acted horrible yesterday and am making amends today to those who saw me act very un-Christian like. Satan won a match and I chose to let him. I know God is there with me all the time, but like the good Father He is, He is allowing me to grow through my mistakes. Learning to move closer to Him when the world moves in on me. Thank you God for all you do for me. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Thursday. How come we're so amazed by stuff that happens?  That when something seems so coincidental and the toast landed butter side up so you can still eat it, we just stand in amazement. "How cool is that"? "How great is that"?  When the right person with the right tools shows up to put the radiator hose back on. Why are we surprised?  We'll say something like, "Man I can't believe you came by just now as I needed some help. Must be my lucky day". You know you've said it in some form or another at some point. When do we get to the point of saying, "Thank you God for sending this person at this time to help me". And say it out loud so the person helping knows it too. They may be the reason you broke down in the first place. It may be you they needed to run into. Thank God always. For all the things good and what we might see as bad. You just know what work He is up to your life and someone else's. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Wednesday. I met a lady yesterday that really put  thoughts in my head about who and what God brings into our lives. She is a very bitter woman about her divorce and what the "Protestant" church said to her about it. She grew up and has gone back to being Catholic. Nothing wrong either way. It has nothing to do with it. The point is she is blaming everything and everyone for her suffering and too proud to take a job of anything below what she "wants". She's been divorced since 1989. Now you can feel my frustration as she would not hear the advise she was asking me to give her. So if she is not listening to me when asking, do you think she is hearing God when He talks to her. It's really a sad state and would ask that you pray for her, Geraldine. But the point is, how many of us are not hearing God and looking for the other answer we know He'll give us? She has been bitter and unhappy and unforgiving for a long time and missing the fact she has been all over this country and seen a lot of things and met a lot of people. Missing her blessings while in her misery. It doesn't mean the blessings come only when you're going through something. It's when we let the something rule our lives instead of God. Seek first His Kingdom. Be still and hear Him lead you to the next place He has for you. Go there or do that with a grateful and loving heart that serves Him. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Tuesday. I love the end of a sports season. When the finals are on and those who's teams didn't make pick one to root for in the end. Then all the fans of the two teams start calling them "bandwagoner's". The hard part is when you've been a fan and they just catch you up in it and you're a bandwagoner too. But wait I've been a Heat fan for a while now. My daughters little dribblers team was the Amarillo Heat. Maybe it's because I haven't shown I'm a fan all year long. Maybe I haven't been living the Heat fan way. Hows your spiritual team doing this year?  What team, of the final two, are you pulling for? Do people see you as a bandwagoner because it's the thing to do now? Are you living your teams fan way?  You get what I mean? We choose sides sometimes when it's down to a smaller choice. We really like one more than the other and God is who we want to be with, but people who haven't decided yet see you as a bandwagon fan of His because you're not really wearing a team jersey or acting like that's your team. We are all guilty of it. That's why there is grace in a true loving God. There's always a place on His team for all of us. We have to decide to join. And by the way, God's team wins. Should be an easy pick. Go live like your team is in the super bowl and everyone knows you've been a fan a long time. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Monday I hope that everyone had a great day with their dads or being a dad or remembering a dad. I hope also that we all remembered all of ours Dad. He never goes without thinking of us. It's easy to not think of anyone from time to time when we are as busy as we let ourselves get. But to be a dad; strong and proud of his family. Quietly soft as butter on the inside and wouldn't be able to stand it if his kids didn't at least call to say hey. But to spend the day with them and their kids if they have em is beyond anything for the big tough guy. Now how do you think God feels when we ignore Him?  Maybe ignore is too strong, how bout forget?  He loves us so much that He forgives us, but one day He will not and all those times we wished we could have back to make it right. Just make it right now. Just surrender. Let it go and follow Him now and have no regrets later. Let go of the doubt. Let go of the lack of trust. He's your dad, trust Him the way you do your Earthly dad. I love you Dad; both of you. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Friday. Well I I think I know how Moses and the people of Israel felt in that desert for all those years. Some of you know about my job situation and the four year wait to see if I get it back. Well just as we were topping the last mountain, it seemed, we find it's just the top of another in line. The hearing is now put off until September after really feeling like it was happening this month. I've learned now, after this long, to not ask why any more and just keep moving. I've learned some perseverance that I thought I already had. No, I have some now and have found a very content place in all this. I am frustrated a bit and would just like the answer, yes or no, so I can move on to the next thing He has for me. But right now this  may be the next thing He has for me. I'm just coming to realize it. When they walked around not knowing where or when, it had to be frustrating to trust. And there's the point. I'm really learning to trust that He has a plan for me and I need to follow Him to get there. Making choices on my own without His council will prove to be unfulfilling. Trust is a hard thing to learn. It's even harder to give into. Thank you all for walking it with me. Just like Moses, he didn't go alone into the desert, but he may have felt like it. Trust God to lead you to the best place you've ever been. He will take to the Promised Land. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Thursday.  Ever notice how you can talk to your friends or people you know from work about stuff and even offer advise? Ever wonder why you can't seem to do that as easily with your family? It's because they know you. They know your past and that stuff you're saying to them seems hypocritical to them because they know what you did. We say we don't hold someone's past against them but try as we might we do. As they walk away we mention something from way back to the person standing next to us. I am so glad that God does not do that with me. He loves me in spite of my past choices. He guides me to use my past to be able to use it to help someone else. Because we know someone's past is the reason why we should be able to hear them speak to us. They've been there and know the way out. Accepting help and the Grace of God are the most foundational things to a new, better and peaceful life with God and our families. Just because of your past, don't be afraid to share what you know of Him and how a day on the cross saved you. In love always. <><

Good morning and happy Wednesday. "So how's things going? Everything good? Yeah just workin and getting by. Doin the family thing and stuff, you know". Sound familiar? Are our lives really making a difference to anyone outside our home? What will be said of you when you're just a memory? Who will know you when your gone and who will care?  It's not that it's important to leave a legacy, it's the kind of one you left. Tyrants have a legacy and people still talk about them. Mother Theresa was about the love of her Lord and we'll be talking about her for years. But the people she helped have felt her love for them and the compassion she had from Jesus to give of herself to them. When Jesus comes to get us I hope that He asks, "Where's Bryan?" and then I'm found over some place doing His work, right up to the end. I don't wanna be at the front of the line with eyes bugged out at the Glory coming. I want someone to know Jesus because I knew Him and He led me to them. As soon as we can focus our lives on Him, we will live for Him. When the trumpet sounds be in the field working for Him and the sound of His voice is your call to be done and go Home. I wanna live like that. In love always. <>< 

Good morning and happy Tuesday. We always seem to have to have proof of something. Archeologist dig to prove where we come from and how the Earth was formed. Scientist work in labs to prove a cure, disease, or other problems of the world. Yet we all love a good mystery and I think that's why God made us that way. So we would fall in love with the mystery who is God. He reveals just enough of Himself so we can know Him, but keeps us from some things so we dig into it and discover how deep His love for us really is. There is good in a mystery of not knowing everything about something. Sometimes God is simply protecting us from things or even ourselves. I love a good mystery and I love God. I love that I don't know everything about Him or about what is coming for me. It helps me trust Him more and to want to know Him more. I want my life to be proof of His love. It's come a long way already but there is still a ways to go. I can't wait to see what's around he next corner. Thanks for the mystery God. In love always. <><