At this time I believe I am on a quest to find a new direction for the ministry placed before me. Sometimes God takes us through places we don't really want to go to show us things we do not really want to see. At times I believe God gives us a new vision from the ashes of an old one like Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up. Although Isaiah was ( Read more... )

You know I am going back to college now after about twenty years out.The instructors seem fairly adamant about doing our homework and getting our assignments in on time.Let us consider a simple math problem as our homework today ( Read more... )

The last thing anyone ever wants to be is inprisoned.To be held captive against ones will is a fear that can wake one up in the middle of the night in cold sweats. How dissappointed many people would be to find out they are just that. Not only dissappoining but also painful.What if you spent your whole life thinking you were pursuing your dreams ( Read more... )

Do you know what juneteenth is? It is the oldest known celebration of the freedom of the slaves following the civil war.The celebration is marked by the date of June 19th,1865 when union soldiers,led by Major General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston,Texas with news that the war had ended and all slaves were now free.Note that this was two and a ( Read more... )

What if a bicycle chain decided it wanted to be free from the sprockets of the wheels?What if a locomotive decided it wanted to be free from those constricting railroad tracks?One more,what if you were driving down the road with your friends or your family say at sixty miles an hour and the lug nuts holding a wheel to your car suddenly decided they ( Read more... )

How truly free are you?How truly free am I? Is anyone in our country or in the world truly free?Are we free the way we have been designed to be free?What is freedom? So many people struggle so hard to be free for independence but in that struggle do we truly hold ourselves in bondage? I just have to be me! Really who are you O'man and who are you O ( Read more... )

I'am journeying toward eternity like the rest of you.We all have an appointment to keep with our maker.No one knows when that day will come it could be as early as today for any one of us.I don't think everyone thinks about that very often unfortunately ( Read more... )

Serving Him for others to praise Him.Serving Him to hear well done good and faithful servant.Treating others in a way that they will praise God.Working at our jobs for God to be praised.Praying for God to be praised.Living for His praise.Loving for His praise. GOD BE PRAISED

A friend of mine sent me an E-mail yesterday refering to the ocean of God and it struck me as a direction I was headed in this journal up until a few weeks ago but since in a journal we don't work on any specific time table here I'am going to go back to 5/30/03 if you have been following along at all with me please go back and read that entry and ( Read more... )

I'am going to Spoon River College now my summer class is monday thru thursday 12-2:00.The class is speech.It has been pretty demanding since I work third shift and just get a couple of hours of sleep then get up to go sit in a class room for two hours,but it has been well worth it.I'am taking such a new outlook on everything lately.That is what the ( Read more... )