For the single who wish to be couple - May cupids arrow shoot straight and true
For the couple who loves where they are - Cupid got you good enjoy it for all it's worth
For the single who is fine being single - May u be everyones valentine from your heart
For all those who are human - A simple I love you means more then money... - Frank Sinatra
Ronald Reagan put it this way, "You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans." - 40th U.S. president (b. 1911).
This thing we call life, taken so for granted yet the biggest part of who we are. It determines our emotions at times, our hopes and dreams at times,and causes us to believe that it shapes our future. Life is not who we are but something we must participate in. A calling for all who breath, who dare, a challenge for those who wish to maximize it's full potential. Life is the potential to be great, to be wise, to gain credibility. To say when you died, if you could write your own eulogy, that life was full. Full of great achievements, losses and gains, love, fun and giving. So say that you were loyal, honorable, trustworthy, and had a heart of gold. Life, the biggest part of who we are, used to our advantage, to make us the better people we should be.
I know that some of this makes no sense, Justunderstand this, be as a little child in faith and love, not maturity.
This song is my romantice dream, if you want to call it that. I LOVE this song! I dream of this, God, family, love and memeories that go on forever. What I love about Sundays and life!
Life, people, relationships are so very complex. Individuals who feels that you can "just stop" or that you can just handle it, I believe, are very naive and small worlded (not a word I KNOW, please forgive me). If the world that you live has no complicated people, then tell me this. According to Wikipedia, "Brains can be extremely complex. For example, the human brain contains more than 100 billion neurons, each linked to as many as 10,000 other neurons." With each of those processing, the thoughts that cycle and are never claimed into your memory or current thoughts but are still processed and moved along. One way that I heard it described was that the mind has a three chamber levels of filtering. As thoughts pass the mind kinda like visitors, there are filtered unconsciously and an immediate decision is made whether to allow them into the foyer. This approved thought or memory is then passed to the sitting room until announced and acknowledged, and then to the library to entertain. All this happens in nanoseconds without you even being aware it has taken place. This is a complex mind at work in it's lowest abilities. For more cool information on the brain follow this link... and don't ever think that we are not complex. We are too cool a specimen to be simple. LOL!
The lens through which we view was something said to me in a time when I felt that I had been misjudged and misread. What I mean is that basically some people said somethings about me that to begin with, I felt they knew nothing about, and/or never hung out with me at all to even know. It becomes more apparent to me that we as a "loving family", the Church can be very judgemental and forget that we as the scriptures say, must first remove the moat from thine own eye before you can aid your brother in removing the beam from his. Not the exact words but you get the meaning. Do we or are we viewing others in a way that we would want to be viewed or portraying the wrong image. Everyone has a different interpretation of things, but does that mean your version is correct? No, it is simply how you see it. There are two different kinds of lenses through which we view. "Every lens has a focal point, where all the light directed at that lens converges or diverges and the distance between the lens and that point is called the focal length. The radius of the curvature of a lens is exactly twice the focal length. Lenses can create both real and virtual images, real being images that are actually there, virtual images only being able to be seen by looking into the lens. Images are also either inverted or erect, upside down or right side up respectively".
A girlfriend of mine asked me this today, "Why do they (men) have to be so complicated? Or are we the ones that are complicated?" Now you may not find that funny but I did and had to post it... So think and and enjoy this little thought.
Stampede quickly approaches and Youth Conference is here. The long weekend has ended (had a four day weekend), and I valiantly searching for a car, blah! My car rental ends on Friday, blah again! We went camping, the weather was gorgeous and we all got a little burnt. Which for some of us us thankfully turns to a tan. I will post pics at a later date. Speaking of pics, I have more to post of Tabor and Alana's wedding but will also do that later. So keep watching for them... The weather is supposed to be beautiful this week with Thursday forecasted as 29 degrees. Busy, busy. busy. The summer fun of BBQ's, fireworks, rafting, tennis, ice cream, and soooo much more! Yeeha!
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me but there are times that God does not need my help and does a better job alone. When I gave him my broken dreams and hopes and tried to helped, my fingers were simply in the way. He needed complete control to make it right. There are times when he needs to help me and there are times when he needs to fix me alone.
What is love? The dictionary defines love as: a strong positive emotion of regard and affection, being enamored, having a great affection or devotion. When you look at the definitions given in the bible, they somewhat differ, and not only that but there are also different kinds of "love". The most common one that everyone has and is not very hard to feel is, phileo. Phileo is the love based on "familiarity and direct interaction". When you know someone it is not hard to love them. You love them for who they are, and then there are those that "do not deserve" to be loved or there is no connection on which to love them. This is where God asks us to dig deep and show the agape love that is only possible through Christ. Agape is described as, non partial, self sacrificing, regardless of our circumstances. Can we still follow God's commandment love thy neighbor as yourself if we have a different kind of love for each person? What did God mean when he said love thy neighbor as thyself? When I asked what it means to love thy neighbor as thy self, I think we have to first examine how we love ourselves. People generally love themselves regardless of the stupid things that they do. There are some who have such a hard time with this concept of self love and I believe that this is where they make the decision to end there lives. If you cannot love yourself for you are, you cannot love another. Not even through Christ, simply because Christ is love, and them that are in Christ have the love of Christ in them, by this shall all men know that you are his. If you love yourself, you will respect the body you live in. By loving yourself you can then love others, through Christ with agape. What kind of love? The love of Christ that cause us to love, as an action not a noun, agape, self sacrificing and non partial.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver. May my words and my thoughts be edifying, for your thoughts become words and your words actions. Your actions speak louder then your words so you are confirming your thoughts. Whether they be good or bad is all up to you. "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things". Philippians 4:8. Think on these things!
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. - Michael Nolan
How do we become the people that God's needs to be without losing who we are as person? What I mean is how do we balance the being human, living, loving, and still be ever doing God's work. Hopefully that makes sense what I am trying to say. How do we make the changes necessary to live a full and complete life with God? How do we make a difference in this ever changing world where we are just another sale being pushed? How do we show the love and care that we so often talk about? All these questions I think of often, and it was once gain brought to my attention. How can we say that we love, but have yet to learn the lesson that " love is a verb, an action, something that we do" (thanks Dave). Love is shaking that person's hand, giving them a hug or genuinely caring about them as a person not another seat filled. They have dreams, desires and feelings. How do we change those feeling of familiarity with our surroundings and where we are in life. Can we really say that we are content when we we have the overpowering feeling that there is more out there. I know that we are whole in Christ, but why is there still this pressing feeling that we can and are better then where we currently rest. Why am I not content? Is it cause I know that that there is more but I am too lazy or scared to get and move? I am afraid of the changes and what they will bring? Can our small mind not comprehend the possibilities? Are as loving as we think we are? Are we as open and vulnerable as we should be? I know that these are alot questions, and I as I said I think of these alot. I feel in a constant state of unrest, almost burden like, but unsure of what for. I fell restless and unsettled, but to what end? God help!
Just to let everyone know that I will be taking a small repreive from faithfully blogging due to the loss of time. My sincere apologies and I wil start again June 12th. I know that you will all be dying for me to come back, NOT! See you all soon, same time same place.... and hopefully I will have a small suprise for you all. Haha, now you will all be waiting will baited breath I hope.
Wedding plans have been on my mind a lot lately with Alana's wedding date quickly approaching and so much to do. But then as I sit to write this I am reminded of a much more important wedding day that is also quickly coming. As I hope you all know, I am referring to the coming of the Lord. The day when we shall be caught up to meet him in the sky. The bridegroom cometh! This has been on my mind recently for some reason, the bible says no man knoweth when the son of man cometh, but I do know this, it is soon. It seems the thought keeps coming to me, make haste, make right the way, reach for those, seek. I must remember to keep myself ever ready. Remembering and praying to always love, forgive, seek repentance, keeping your oil full. I know that this was a slight digression from my original beginning and some what heavy, so my sincere apologies.
Well, for once you can all rejoice, I have nothing to say. And, yes you may crack all the jokes you would like right now, I can't hear you anyway. Seriously though, I have no great words of wisdom, no moving thoughts, or great revelations, just this....
There are so many words and tidbits that you can take away with you everyday and use it for own encouragement or pass it on. So here you are, I am passing on some that I thought very cool. My favorite is the last one, but you have to start from the top!
Well, it I had to write today to say that it is a wonderful life. The temperature is supposed to be 22 degrees, and sunny. I promised that I would never do this (use it as a personal newspaper) but here is a quick update on some of the things in my life that I am happy about.
This is my mom and one of my sister's. 
I want the world to know that I am in love! Now before you draw anymore conclusions then you already have, I must explain. I cannot help myself, I am so happy, giddy, hyper and I feel like I am on cloud nine. I am so happy, so blessed, and loved by the most important person ever, things are coming together in so many areas. The one and only explanation that I have is, God. There is no other explanation for all the wonderful things and feelings. As my favorite song says, "I am a friend of God". These intense feelings of ecstatic joy make me want to squeal, I cannot stop grinning, and wish that I could portray better. Oh Well! I am elated and no one can stop me..... pphhhtttttt!
"Pray and let God worry." - Martin Luther King
Well, it is Tuesday , a long weekend is coming up and today is going to be BEAUTIFUL! What more can you ask for? Except maybe some writing inspiration. Oh Well! It is gorgeous out and God is good! That is be inspiration enough. This beautiful day was created just for me. Selfish I know, but Thank you, God!
Bitterness, generally thought of as an adult disease, is something that we have a hard time with and that small little concept called forgiveness. We feel that we are justified in the feelings that we have. As the good ole saying goes if you drink poison the person you hate is sure to die, right? Okay, so I am a little sarcastic but only to prove a point. Why is that we seem to be “justified” in today's society for bitterness? And how do we deal with or manage these “justified” feelings? Through love, which conquers all. I know that I have written about this somewhat before. But as the greatest and most important commandment I think that it bears some weight. Why is that we hold on to that which is detrimental to our physical, mental and spiritual well being? Do we choose battles, over love? Hatred or bitterness over peace with all? Originally when I started this article I questioned and asked how, why, and the solution. I had pages of information. But when all is said and done does all that matter? No, because you can know everything about it, how many times the bible mentions it, and the definition, but if you wish to get rid of it there is only one thing you need to know. Love conquers all. I am not saying that it is going to be easy, but a weeded garden is a place that all want to come. You shall bear witness by the fruit that you bear.
