Enjoy, Celebrate, Live

Cool breeze, open windows in the car.
my best friend and I ride, listen to music.
going to eat; wait, it's Sunday. How times have changed for us.

What we did for so long, today we remember with fondness. There is new growth, maybe it is our way of escape. God is healing, wait, He has healed. New friends, new readings...today i find this:
"when life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate.
when life is bitter, say thank you and grow".

So true, have had both, SWEET and BITTER...but I realize that it is all good. I have celebrated, LIVED, now the process of growing has been a bit painful but growing indeed.

Daily, besides the Prayer of Fire, is a great THANK YOU. for that which has come, that which has gone... for what I learn today!!!

Enjoy, Celebrate, Live!!!

Called to Change but is there really??

Life continued in this journey. Ups, downs, good days and bad ones. Makes you wonder what people think of this journey called "Christianity"

Too bad so many continue to give it a bad face, called to forgive, but only conditional. called to give, but only with the hook behind your back. called to bring others to the gospel, but we prefer our own kind in the place of worship. called to lead but only if you do it my way.

Makes you wonder why more people don't want to come to a relationship with Christ, Ghandi was probably right.

So, we continue forward, with a double check of my own life to live...

Too bad Jesus has a untrustworthy bride.....

The words printed on the pages of my Bible give witness to the living and active revelation of the God of creation and salvation, the God of love who became the Word made flesh in Jesus, and I had better not forget it. If in my Bible reading I lose touch with this livingness, if I fail to listen to this living Jesus, submit to this sovereignty, and respond to this love, I become arrogant in my knowing and impersonal in my behavior. An enormous amount of damage is done in the name of Christian living by bad Bible reading. Caveat lector, let the reader beware. —Eugene Peterson

As today is celebrated in our country "Valentine's Day", "Love Day" I am struck of the reality of Mr Peterson's words, how many fail to listen to the LOVE JESUS and only respond in accordance to our OWN definition of Love. Christian or not, knowing His UNCONDITIONAL Love by action or words, if you do not know HIM, do not measure His love by what is given by those who "proclaim it"

HIS is ULTIMATE LOVE!!! LOVE ALL, each and every day!

Love Came Down

If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice
I hold onto what is true, though I cannot see
If the storms of life they come, and the road ahead gets steep
I will lift these hands in faith, I will believe

I remind myself of all that you’ve done
And the life I have because of your son

Love came down and rescued me
Love came down and set me free
I am yours; I am forever yours
Mountain high or valley low
I sing out and remind my soul
I am yours; I am forever yours

When my heart is filled with hope, and every promise comes my way
When I feel your hands of grace, rest upon me
Staying desperate for you God, Staying humbled at your feet
I will lift these hands and praise, I will believe

HOW TRUE THIS SONG HAS BEEN; THE DAILY REMINDER OF WHAT HE HAS DONE.
MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, STORMS, AND WHO THESE REPRESENT...NOT ALWAYS AS IT SEEMS.
SARCASM TRIES TO SET, HIS GRACE RESTS UPON ME, NOT OF THOSE WHO REPRESENT HIM.
I STAY DESPERATE, STAY HUMBLE...

LIFT YOUR HANDS, LIFT YOUR PRAISE, JUST BELIEVE.