Reality in a world of illusion

How many times do you experience that sense that you have been in a situation or faced an event that you are sure you' ve experienced previously, it used to happen to me fairly often but not in the last few years, I wonder if has you get old it ceases because not much seems new anymore. In the last few days I got re-aquinted with work that I had performed almost twenty years ago janitorial work does not change just the location. My wife studied fiction writing for some years and learned that there were only 26 basic plots and that all stories revolved arround those basic story lines. Nothing is new under the sun, declares the bible and we often face events stranger then fiction. Most if not all aboriginal people recognize the existence of a spiritual world surrounding us or parallel to our world and they dont think twice about it. These people often regulate their lives according to that spiritual world, and most of our world would not dare to question them. But often today if you profess being a christian it may well be ridiculed, and viewed as something totally irrational, simplistic and absolutely unscientific. At this time of the year though, when the world gets busy with preparations for the holidays, it is ok to believe in Santa and to give him all attention. We know Christ was not born on Christmas day, we know that a lot of the imagerie of the season find it's ruths in folk tales and traditions, and even pagan religion, but nevertheless, it is not when, where, or how,without going to extremes of course, we celebrate it is who it's always about who we celebrate, the only reason people focus on the surrounding, it is because the are afraid to face Jesus and have to deal with him with the meaning of his coming. As Christians we don't need Christmas to celebrate Jesus we should celebrate him everyday of or lives but why could we not choose a day we all agree on and celebrate Him in unison for the particular reason of his coming, even if it's not on the day He was truly born. For me everyday is Christmas because I have to live every day in celebration of His life.
John 1:14 NIV

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus came to us, and that is truth

Meanwhile back at the ranch

I haven't blog for a few days now, my mind otherwise occupied by the growing pressures of our situation and my undeterred desire to rest all my hope in God my maker.This week was the week I would go trough the last requirement for my qualification as a custodian for the city and it came and gone and I still do not know if I'll get the approval that the city needs. All that is looming in front of me is the desperate so state of our finances, the growing stress in my wife, and the financial miracle we need for the coming month. I dont know what is going to take place, all I know is we would need a thousand dollar to keep us afloat for another month for food, gas, bus money for Sherry and to pay partial on our bills essential and non. Now I've been saying all along on this blog that God is the solution for our world's unrest and that if there is to be true changes in our society, we have to return to God wholeheartedly with no agenda for our wellbeing but the sole understanding that God is good, love, pure, gentle, merciful, kind, caring, and that His entire desire is to have a relationship with us and to care for us as a people, and as individuals. The truth is that God does not need to do anything, He deserve worship and adoration for who he is, I sure would like if he helped us right now in this time of need like he's done before that is not the issue, the issue is will I still love him in five; minutes, hours, days, months, years, will I?

Christ will be preached one way or another

I love how God does things, not always nice and clean and when we try to organize too much He sometimes disrupt our intent to pursue His goal. As I continue to grasp the unfolding of destiny in our world the closer I want to come  to simplicity. What we see happening is simple , the global occupy movement has been deemed one of the most significant democratic move of our society for some decades, but it lacks the dept of what shook eastern europe in the 80's where the power of the people was realy felt. Though it was on a smaller scale it impacted the whole world and ushered the fall of communism.Ideology of freedom was at stakes, what we see now is very different and change would require a total overall of society's philosophy. The democratic process was not the communism forte and the move that started in Poland found support easily in the western world. But the movement we see now, goes much deeper, it examine this whole ideology of freedom that democracy has bought for our society, freedom to pursue the western dream, self determination of pursuing your dream to comfort and prosperity. The fact that  some are better at it then others and the sad realty that some use immoral ways to achieve their dreams, is a sher consequence of man's fall. Though it is not wrong to desire and pursue the dream, once again it prove the saying of John true, the love of money is the ruth of many evil, wether they be intentional or not intended. Our world's philosophy needs an upgrade and that program already exist, but to those who crave powerful reform, miraculous transformation, and those who are in power and have the means of wisdom, it is foolishness. The truth is this the words of Paul in 1Corinthian 1 are just as true as then.

22-25 While Jews clamor for miraculous demonstrations and Greeks go in for philosophical wisdom,we go right on proclaiming Christ,the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle—and Greeks pass it off as absurd. But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks —Christ is God's ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. Human wisdom is so tinny,so impotent,next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can't begin to compete with God's "weakness."

26-31 Take a good look,friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you,not many influential,not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses,chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living,a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the saying,"If you're going to blow a horn,blow a trumpet for God." 1Corinthian 1:22-31
That is truth.

Not much grace

Maybe one day I' ll continue my series on the staging of the end of time, but right now I do have pain on my heart.

Matthew 11:28-30 MSG

"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me-watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

For the last couple of days I was following a comment blog on a letter in the Lethbridge Herald about the Gideon a well  known group doing bible distribution in a school, in the area, parents were offended because the required authorization process was not fol lowed. I can understand the frustration of the parents, but soon the comments turned into an argument on religion and  how the christians are imposing their ideas on others and worse on children. Now I drop out after two comments because it became personal between some of the respondant and did not want part of their vendetta. But  it is a sad reality that religion will  devide our society possibly more and more in the years to come, but again it's not a new thing, Jesus and the disciples talked about it. Religion has been a devisive force forever, but with Jesus it's different, you walk with him like a friend. Thats why the passage earlier is important, being a christian, is not are religion, it's being like Christ. That is truth

A stage is being set up part 2

¹¹ I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. ¹² His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. ¹³ He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. ¹⁴ The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”^[a]He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶ On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

   KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

 ¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, ¹⁸ so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.”

 ¹⁹ Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. ²⁰ But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. ²¹ The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. Revelation 19:11-21

The stage is being set up the back drop good and evil, the actors God and the world,,the plot;as old as creation. Christ is coming back the bible is quite clear about that but he will come only in His time it is a promise of God the father that one day things as we know them will pass away.It is quite clear according to scriptures that a series of event will usher that day and as far as I understand it will be an era of babylonesque type actualy even earlier as the era of the tower of Babel. Now this story is crucial in the development of the ends of time , why because i beleive the goal of the spirit of inequity is to return to that era and proclaim to God that mankind does not need him. As mankind elevated itself in that long ago era and wanted to throw back in God's face is judgment of Adam and Eve and declare his independence there will be a return to this philosophie and an attempt at proclaiming the uselessness of God, it is not new but it will grow in proportion that will mimic the power of Babel.This is why when we witness more and more the globalization of our world , it relates directly to the past and to the future of mankind. More to come, but as for the truth in this post, here; only God truly knows all we can see is signs leeding to .  
 ³⁶ “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,^[f] but only the Father. ³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 

A stage his being set up...

As a bible student, not scholar or critic just one who takes it as it is and believes it is the actual revelation of God, the actual account of the unfolding of His relationship with mankind, the display of his passion and of his love in the creation process, the heartbreaking disappointment of mans betrayal and the continuing saga of God's attempt at restoring man's right relationship with himself, I often find myself as an actor/spectator on a much larger stage. At times I get so caught up in daily living, like right now with our financial situation I would rather crawl under a rock and not have to face the whoe's of our modern society where our lives are controlled by our power to consume. When that power is slowly striped away there is inevitably that sense of failure and despondency that wants to fill that gap , even has a believer you may experience these feelings. Many believers in the bible had episodes like that, most famous coming to mind is David , in many psalms he expound on his despair but in the majority of cases if not in all he will always remember God's benevolence toward him and then his countenance restored. It is his belief in the goodness of God that keeps him going. Goodness we could say is an attribute of God, it is what He is, but more then that it is the very fabric of who he is. It is His intrinsic goodness that commands God to not destroy mankind completely in two occasion though he knew exactly the evil he could do to it. It is against that goodness of God that I believe that stage is being set, it is being set against His self-determination of using all His attributes weaved in goodness toward mankind, which has enraged Satan, the stage is being set and it is against good an evil, it's always been about good and evil, man just knew good before Eve was tempted and tempted Adam. The centre of the garden the centre of life itself, good and evil , choose well my friend because that is truth, God is all good.

What is the focus on?

So much for writing a post every day, for a year it's to much work, plus I wanted to look at truths in the light of our world and refocus them in light of the bible. The best subject was the occupy move that spread globally and though it is a real concern and many lives are represented in the protest it lacks a true global approach. If we start to look at world events we quickly realize that the financial aspect is only the tip of the iceberg. Our world is tired of having it's focus on the $€¥£. But frankly it is what drives and destroy's it. But that to is not new it is as old as creation almost

1 John 2:15-17 MSG

Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world-wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important-has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out-but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

The disciples of Christ knew that already two thousand years ago, our supposedly christian society knew that years ago but again we forget fast. You see in the last few weeks I lived in tension between my needs, my faith, and my desire to draw close to God while I waited to hear some positive from all my job search, and now that I' ve heard and that there is a position for me, the tension is gone , and though I was not approaching God mainly for the purposes of securing employment I find myself in a restful state and would almost prefer being back st square 1 where our relationship seemed more vital. We are humans and fickle we are but thank God he knows us and loves us despite of what we are and as Paul writes we are being transformed.
2 Cor3
16-18 Whenever,though,they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living,personal presence,not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present,a living Spirit,that old,constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We're free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God,our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah,our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.
That is truth

How convenient

Romans 1:21-23 MSG

What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn't treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.

How convenient to ignore God to ignore that He exist that He made the universe, that He created everything even you and me. At the moment both my daughter and daughter in law are pregnant, and both had ultrasound, saw their babies,once you see a baby in these early stage it is very hard not to  believe in creation, to not see the design and order in this integral part of our lives, one has to be blind or just willfully decide to ignore what has been given in plain view for us to see. Paul in that same book makes the point.

Romans 1:19-20 MSG

But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse.

It is time we stop kidding ourselves God created the world and that's the truth

9/365 Believing in God's relentless joy

Joy and God, may to many people feel like they do not go together very well.
Nehemiah 8:10 NIV
Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."
People who are close to God are  not so convinced, they might even believe that that joy can be empowering, that knowing how much God loves us and cares for us, how He delights in us  how we bring Him great joy . But more then that God is joy, like He is love, and peace, and justice and all good and honorable qualities we can think of.God is passionate pure passion, clean passion,undiluted passion. He is passionate about us we are His creation he exclaimed it is very good when he was done creating man.
Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing."
When God is ecstatic over us He sings.
I like that and it's true

7-8/365 A great day to celebrate

Now that it is getting late I try to come up with something to say , something clever, smart and with a bit of humor and with obviously some meaning. If you follow this post, you know by now that I like to look at the reality of life and balance it with the revealed truth of God, and hope to change the common perspective into a Godly one. Because I am biased I believe that the perspective we can obtain from a relationship with God is the most desirable place we could want to be. More then that I believe that it is truly the only perspective that will make sense in all situation and for an extended period of time because it keeps us connected to someone bigger then ourselves.
Today we had new friends over for cake
because it is my birthday, so after having desert we just spent the afternoon chatting , one inspiring thing that came out was pointing at the benevolent desire of God to keep a relationship going with Adam and Eve and how despite the judgement required for the disobedience He designed a way to keep an open door.
God being perfectly understanding as he is kept in his sight th the justice and the love. He had to banish His creation out of the garden but he equipped them for that life, though God's gracious provision continued outside eden, man had to work for it. At that time, man and woman became master of their own destiny, and the seed of rebellion was allowed to grow in mankind. Rebelious spirit has always been at the center of mankind's relationship with God. That's why it is hard for mankind to understand it's need for redemption.

Has I finish the last sentence I just realize how much of a mouth full all this his and how only God's perspective make sense. We can try to explain we can attempt to understand but without God's spirit it will be incomplete.

6/365 No subject

Truth can be hard to accept, it can be unwelcome it is definitely disturbing but like it's meaning it is the only thing worth living for. Now of course many claim to have truth,and many say truth is what is true to you, that there is not an absolute truth, but like there is absolute laws that rule the natural universe and that these laws or truths like I call them are essential they can not be tempered with or modified without great consequences,truth has a life of itself. Now of course you know my purpose, bringing God in every nook and crany of my life. And as truth go there is an absolute, Jesus claimed not to know, not to speak, not to understand, but to be the truth. And one has to be crazy out of their right mind to claim something like that or to be God.Then if Jesus is God and the truth, he is the life we need to live.
John 14:6 New International Version (NIV)
6 Jesus answered,"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
That is the truth

5/365 Watch "We Could Change The World - Matt Redman - Lyrics" on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01MlphnGcgI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I wanted to share this song with you because it says a lot of what on my heart these day and how I want to live my life. Enjoy

4/365 Help is on the way

I have been out of work now for almost two months mind you it is by choice so no one to blame but me, though I have been looking for work it has not been easy to find something that I would consider as a long time job, but the last few weeks have been more promising with a job secured but that starts only in november and today a good interview with the city, and again though it is the more desirable position I won't know for a couple of weeks so basically the same situation. How do one move in a situation like that. Unrest will come  in our lives wether we cause it or not, it will come and what ever way it presents itself  it will challenge us and it will push us, and if we decide to include God in the equation it will  or can push  us into extreme faith.In a world that seems so full of injustice or inequalities and suffering, extreme faith is the perfect response for a desilusioned world. Understanding and believing that there is a God omniscient and omnipotent, that really cares about us  is the foundation that will bring stability in the unrest. The concept that government catered solution can bring a lasting peace is flawed and demonstrate a poor understanding of human nature.. So for me help is on the way, I don't know exactly in what form it will be but I know my God cares for me and when I read the bible I am constantly reminded of that fact. On this note good night

3/365 A life different

After a busy morning I got inspired by a discussion with a friend and a few things in the paper here in Lethbridge. Some letters or comments on the occupy movement and even a caricature addressing some potential outcome. The unrest caused by the inequalities found in modern world are not new. They stem from the early beginning of civilization , and I dont consider myself an history buff or anything close to it. An example I'm thinking about is found in an historical book found in the bible. Imagine a people displaced by war and famine who return home and has to rebuild their city. Some residents left behind made a life for themselves and are not keen on helping the new comers. It took hard work from a diplomatic leaders to convince the resident to help This story found in the book of Nehemiah chapter 5, shows how a persons committed to God's law and justice was able to change the life of his people. The truth here is that man has a choice, living by God's principles or not whether you are rich or not the solution is the same, honoring God has the giver of all thing.

2/365 Life giver lived life

It has been hard to pin point a real subject or purpose for todays post, not that it is essential that there would be one just that today I had a day where the fullness of God's presence in my life was so intense that it really overshadowed every thing else , the fact that I am still unemployed and that our finances are in a poor state if not unexisting at all. You see I was able to take part in a small group meeting , prayer, discussion bible study this morning for the first time in a long time,and what has stayed with me all day is that God loves mankind, he really loves us he cares about us and when I say us I mean you I mean all of us I mean not just special people but anybody, dont get me wrong, he loves His own more but to say this does not mean he loves anyone less. Actually we dont have any standard by which we measure that love
One of the way we can know that love is what he did for us by his coming, hence the title.

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life,and have it to the full.
Now Jesus was not talking about our physiological life because he was talking to living people but something much greater,a life that fills you so much it spills out and that is truth. So live life like it's given by the life giver

1/365 Chicken bones for the soup

I know it's a pretty lame title but better then Unrest is a fact  part I I. Our world has been in a state of unrest since we walked out of the garden in the genes of Adam and Eve, and it's longing for paradise. These last few days, with the attention of the  media piqued by the occupy revolution, there has been the emerging of a sort of global philosophy and the stage continue to being set.
The world is hungry and thirsty for truth for justice for fairness, hunger and thirst are words that are used in the imagery of the bible all the time. One of the passage that occupies up my thaughts right  now is this
But my people have traded my Glory for empty god-dreams and silly god-schemes.
12-13 "Stand in shock,heavens, at what you see! Throw up your hands in disbelief—this can't be!" God's Decree. "My people have committed a compound sin: they've walked out on me, the fountain Of fresh flowing waters,and then dug cisterns—cisterns that leak,cisterns that are no better than sieves. 
Jeremiah 2:11-13
It is a true picture of our world today,hungry thirsty but not going to the right source. That is a fact.

A post a day a year!

Well let see if you read these post from the beginning, you know Imade two promise in my life, one to my wife, that I would love her cherish her and honor her till death do us part, that was 26 years ago and I will keep that promise will all the fibers of my being and one day I will explain how important it is to me and why.  The other one and the first was to God, and if you read psalm 116 I promised I would serve him and honor him and lift up his name and give him glory before all the world and this is what this later part of my life is all about. God blessed me, gave me,an awesome family and he gave me good years and freedom to see them grow and to be there for them and I have served God in many ways,helping in all kinds of parts of the body, but the world has not seen much of it, hence this blog at the moment to attempt at becoming more public, with this call of my heart to keep this promise I made. We ought to be salt and light to this world and though I have no clue who will reed this blog it is just meant to be that salt and light. I know some believers will reed it I hope unbelievers will too. Well enough for the lengthy explanation, hope you'll enjoy if you choose to follow.

Unrest is a fact

Now it is quite sobering to consider what makes the news globally, the thing on my mind today is the occupy movement reading in the paper, on the news last night even here in Lethbridge there will be a protest march for that solidarity movement. Now there is nothing wrong in the public expression off the serious concern of a huge part of the population of the globe for a situation that is obviously much deeper then what could be fixed even by a global movement of that scope. The concern is real, the division is real, the unrest is real and as Paul the apostle wrote many centuries ago the world continues to increase in it's obscenity. The rich are getting richer the poor getting poorer, but the world keeps on demanding fairness, to continue to indulge in it's comfort, lust and greed, and that is whether you are poor or rich. Wants, haves, cheated,entitled ,angry, protective, jealous, unconcerned, are feelings that have slipped so far from God's desire for his creation. There is a deep devide between His will and the way the world is progressing and the only bridge is through Him, sorry not in a protest that resemble the scene Moses faced when he came down mount Ararat. After sept 2001,the churches started to fill up, now the world forgot again who is the source off living water , and that is the truth.

It has been a long day, today, mostly spent in my head. Such ups and downs right now and not much I can do about it. You see if one make a promise it is honorable to fulfill it, and despite the struggle at this time of my life I rather be here then still at Innovata Foods. It is a challenging time, an exiting time, that brings me right back at the root of that first covenant. Pastor Phil always said that there is no coincidence with God, so it was no coincidence that a guest speaker a few weeks ago spoke about covenant, especially at this critical time. The truth of the matter; I believe  I've gone full circle I have no more excuses . From full time studies to ministry to out of ministry to back in part time volunteer to a lot of confuse thoughts here I am again stripped of all distractions and the only thing that resound like truth is my covenant with God.

Isaiah 55:10-11
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don't go back until they've watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry, So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They'll do the work I sent them to do, they'll complete the assignment I gave them.

God is truthful to himself and to his word and to his covenant to us.the only true fulfillment for our lives is to walk in the fullness of our covenant with Him. And that's what make sense. On these words good night

I can't get tired of that sight.

Well here I am again one of my favorite spot right now, uninterrupted views and the sunrise an ode to creation. I'm getting my full of it drinking deeply on my morning outings of the glory of God's created world, yes created.It is way to magnificent to be an accident, a big bang accident. Or if it is an accident, maybe the Mona Lisa is an accident or the GG bridge or the Eifel tower. Imagination and order are seen in how the natural world works from the molecules to the deepest confine of space,that's the truth

Just wait now ...

On my previous and first post I promised to include a passage of the bible which is psalm 116, here it is.            

Psalm 116

    I love God because he listened to me, listened as I begged for mercy.
   He listened so intently
      as I laid out my case before him.
   Death stared me in the face,
      hell was hard on my heels.
   Up against it, I didn't know which way to turn;
      then I called out to God for help:
   "Please, God!" I cried out.
      "Save my life!"
   God is gracious—it is he who makes things right,
      our most compassionate God.
   God takes the side of the helpless;
      when I was at the end of my rope, he saved me.

 ^7-8 I said to myself, "Relax and rest.
      God has showered you with blessings.
      Soul, you've been rescued from death;
      Eye, you've been rescued from tears;
      And you, Foot, were kept from stumbling."

 ^9-11 I'm striding in the presence of God,
      alive in the land of the living!
   I stayed faithful, though bedeviled,
      and despite a ton of bad luck,
   Despite giving up on the human race,
      saying, "They're all liars and cheats."

 ^12-19 What can I give back to God
      for the blessings he's poured out on me?
   I'll lift high the cup of salvation—a toast to God!
      I'll pray in the name of God;
   I'll complete what I promised God I'd do,
      and I'll do it together with his people.
   When they arrive at the gates of death,
      God welcomes those who love him.
   Oh, God, here I am, your servant,
      your faithful servant: set me free for your service!
   I'm ready to offer the thanksgiving sacrifice
      and pray in the name of God.
   I'll complete what I promised God I'd do,
      and I'll do it in company with his people,
   In the place of worship, in God's house,
      in Jerusalem, God's city.
   Hallelujah!




Just wait now don't go thinking another religious blog ,moralizing and telling people they are bad. You see I was bad I was facing death, in my mind and heart every day and i would abuse drugs and alcohol and my soul was in anguish and pain continuously.I was so hungry for love and peace, but it was coming out in the wrong way.  Ok just wait now I know you might be thinking , there we go again the same story has those other people who find religion, and you are right and you know why? It is because that is what people are looking for that's true plain and simple and God's love is the only love that will fully fill that essential emptiness that we all seek to fill. And that is a truth     

great idea at 3:00 am

What a great idea  at 3am to make a promise to start a blog , to answer a question that only my wife would ask after a comment I made on FB about everything making sense. Now I have to back pedal about 26 years to explain everything.Maybe it is a bit more then 26 years because i made a vow , before i spoke the marrying vows with my wife, who is awesome by the way, proof she is still married to me which highlite her particular smart and keen mind. I've always said she is the brain of this family. Anyway while I expand on this particular virtue of my loving wife, i keep thinking of the reason for this blog ,like we really need another blog or maybe I need a blog. Well we will see now as i am thinking of the greater picture i keep thinking of something I saw in the Lethbridge Herald this morning about morality and health care, and how the two should not mix or something of that jist or like it's immoral to mix morality and health care together in the same sentance . Now I'm not for refusing health care to people who need it and now it comes back to me it was all about the shooting clinic in Vancouver. Now of course it all make sense. I believe we should not try to camouflage the truth addiction is a moral issue, it is not solely a health issue .But it is our moral duty as a christian society to love our neighbour and to take care of the widows and orphans . Now I'm not going to dig for all the historical facts but I believe it is well know that health care ,caring for the sick  and the unwell even because of their own doing has been linked with christian morals for as long as it had that name. Lets not be afraid of truth and moral absolute because lets face it we all do it but what root of truth will we choose , the one that tells me that there's  a God that designed a plan for humanity to live by that promises the best chance of a fulfilling life, or the shifting plan of a confused humanity that keeps changing what is moral or not. Well that said lets get back to that vow i made , but i will make you look for it , the ones who know me will understand if you want to know read Psalm 116 .I do not want these post to get to lengthy, maybe I will paste it next time meanwhile good reading.