Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Luke 6:27-28

But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Interesting that todays thought of scripture is what we just read and learned via I Samuel on Sunday morning.

Maybe the Lord is trying to say something. ;-D

How about it? Why not LOVE!!!!

Friends ;-)

Fun with Friends. You simply cannot beat that! I went on some "training appointments" this past week and stopped by a couple of friends homes that have been in my life for minimums of eighteen years give or take five years. Friends through ministry, friends through Camps, friends through children rearing, ahhhh it warms my heart that through the years it has been wonderful to know them all. At one home, we laughed so hard - mind you while I was training, that it brought back many memories of pleasure to call them "Family Friends"! I truly LOVE a good laugh in many areas of life even when it can be "serious" in the atmosphere of a training yet light hearted enough to take one another serious while laughing together. Thank You to those of you who are assisting me in training, and allowing me to laugh as I learn, also to feel like I am at "home" and the essense to smell the PINE of the ROCKIES (awwww refreshing).

Fun with Friends in each stage of our life is stupendous, especially when the bond is through Jesus Christ! No regrets! And it made me remember In Christ, there are no absentees in time just sweet fond fun that binds us together no matter what! :-) And when we do reconnect time feels like it stood still and we picked up where we left off - SWEET! Fun with Friends . . . that are really "FAMILY".

That is the joy of FUN with FRIENDS!

Monday, August 30, 2010

check the attitude


Step by step it is all about our attitude. Some are the most positive, some the dreary of dreary negative, some in between but it is all up to us. I have really been thinking quite a bit lately and it has come to me that there are those that can rain on any parade no matter what. You know the attitude. Maybe it comes from being related to "GRUMPY" from the Snow white and the seven dwarfs, or Eore from Winnie the Pooh. Okay so those are fictitious characters but you get the point.
Who can make a difference? YOU and ME with the right ATTITUDE! Yes our attitude determines every thing. Which is the outcome we desire? The pain of CHANGE of the pain of REGRET? With deep thought and a wake up call, I know which I desire. WAKE UP!!!! Do a check up for the neck up! OKAY, Maybe a Heart stress test from the bowels of who we are inwardly. There are so many outcomes that lie in our paths because of OUR ATTITUDE.

So I ask, as Art Williams once said, "Are you a Dud or are you a STUD?" He has a wonderful attitude, a heart check up with the LORD and is a wonderful Leader! When you run into an ongoing pessimistic, negative attitude of a person - LEAVE. If it is YOU - CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE. The Lord gave a wonderful example in so many ways through his Son, Jesus Christ. Many can not stand Him, because it requires change of life for the here and now, only to create the BEST IN YOU to really be one that attracts light and POSITIVE change.

You CAN DO IT! Everybody wants to BE somebody! EVERYBODY! Somebody to LOVE! Somebody to LEAD! Somebody to Change! Somebody to LISTEN! Somebody to CARE! Somebody to REACH the LOST! Somebody to CURE! Somebody to invent the REAL CURE FOR CANCER - Without being GREEDY of the MONEY! Somebody to RESCUE the weary! Somebody to be a GREAT MAMA or DADDY! Somebody to Touch the UNTOUCHABLES! Somebody to ENCOURAGE! Somebody to SACRIFICE! Somebody to SERVE!
It's all attainable!
ATTITUDE.
Positive.
Negative.
Where is MINE, Where is YOURS?
Attractive?
Repelling?
hummmmmmmmm.


So take the attitude check and "Be a Stud!" It's all up to you. Go do it!

Friday, August 27, 2010

communication via a call

It's so sweet to hear and discover that her "Daddy" has been calling her. He has contacted her more than I realized. :-) Yes He also misses his little girl. When we left last week before he joined us on the weekend he had called her each day. He also called her the morning he was going to "see her." Since our return home he has called her quite a bit. ;-) The conversations, sweet (and will be left private) and catching up.Me? I've desired to call her yet give her some room to just get acclimated to the environment and the studies and the social life, which I know is NOT hard for her whatsoever. Now maybe it's time for me to call her and not just "write" her via technology. Here is to a phone call and communicating. Not texting. ;-)

Daddy's little girl is getting to hear his voice and I believe it warms them both!

When we think of someone; we need to pick up the phone and call them.
It is good for both.