God's help

I like working on cars unless it is because I have too. I seem to always have a very difficult time when it is a have to job and not a want to job. Well, I realized that I am forgetting one important thing. I need to open my heart up in these times and let God be in control. I was just struggling and not allowing the peace of God to rest on me. So, I began to pray before I started these projects and things went much smoother. I mean a real difference. This afternoon I had a flat tire and instead of getting all upset I realized that I had God's guidance and with His help, I had options. Being a child of God has it's privileges. :-) Be blessed.

New Stuff

My apologies for anyone who may be looking for new or rather, any info. I have been really busy and I have began to do more journaling and I realize I need to get this blog moving along better. We had a great service in church last night. It was about Christ being the center of our focus. What I realize, praise God, is this: Because Christ is the center of all creation and fullness of God then He must be our center focus if we are to find and have peace. When we take Christ out of the center of our focus, that doesn't take Him out of center, it just makes us off center.

Mission accomplished!!

I just finished a paper for school on shinto. Facinating but not very enlightening. I will stick to Christianity. This paper is due tomorrow...well, I guess that would actually be today!! I am glad to know Jesus.

Where is this going?

I am starting to wonder what my purpose of this blog is. I have a vision for it but it is not taking shape as I thought. Time to revaluate and redirect. Check back soon for more.

Proud of suffering??

So how about those Liberty Insurance commercials that show families preparing for hardship because of the economy. Poppy** Obama is crashing this country and people seem to be sitting back and saying, "OH WELL...Poppy is in Washington now. Everything will be just fine now. I am so saddened by the state of America. it seems that people are just sitting back and letting this man bring this country to her knees! It is ridiculous! I don't want to see people with hats turned inside out and families embracing hardship, I want to see Americans rallying for one another! Rally for success. We complain because the Republicans are supposed to be responsible for the economy but it is Poppy who is spending the money!! Open your eyes!


**The name, Poppy is used because many Americans look at this man like he is their Poppy and he is going to take care of us all. Sorry, I disagree.

Importance of Blogging

I pose the following questions: Is blogging important?
Is blogging different from facebook/myspace?
What is the main purpose of a blog?

My answers:
Yes.
Yes because it is intended to be a presentation of thought not pics and "what i'm dong now" stuff.
To inform , enlighten and entertain!

Now your turn>

A small thought tonight.

I am sitting at my computer at 12:30 in the morning and I have work tomorrow. I need to go to sleep but I have found interesting things to do and read and listen to. What do you think? Go to bed or just enjoy the night?

Early morning thoughts

I have been having a bit of difficulty lately getting a good rest. I have been off work for a couple of days and I just can't rest when I do that. I think it is because I can't do anything fun when I'm off because I have so much to do with school and all. But I was thinking...a person real begins to focus on something when he enjoys it. I have had a lot of hobbies that I used to enjoy but with all the stuff I have going on, I find that I put off what needs to be done while I search for that moment of fun. The problem with that is that when I spend most of my time grasping at moments of fun, I miss finishing project until the last minute and that robs me of my fun. So, here's the solution: I need to realize that the things that I have filled my life up with are really things I enjoy. This is not to try to convince myself of that, it is the truth. I really like going to school and I really like my job and my church. So why don't I put the joy effort into them like I want? Because I forgot my joy. King David wrote, "Create within me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10 (ESV). This is about God removing the sin from David's life and making his heart pure again. Maybe that is part of the problem. We let our hearts get full of junk and when we try to put the stuff in there that we love doing, it seems to be pushed out. I don't think all the stuff we fill our time with is bad but sometimes maybe it is too much. Simply too much. I am going to pray about this and I will let you know what happens.