Just an Average Day

It's been quite a while since I last posted. Much goes on in the day to day life.....and that's the problem with life....indeed it is so daily (can't remember where I heard this, but there is a ring of truth in it). Of course what is meant by this is that there is so much to occupy our time that life itself seems somehow to be an exercise in the mundane. But the mundane is what we see if our focus is inward, narrow, and forgetful.....we forget that even the mundane is a work of God in our lives, that we take the ordinary or stability of everyday life for granted. Maybe this is why we are confounded by the abrupt occurrances in life, until we are brought round about again to the One who ordains all things. We are transformed when the "non-ordinary" things cause us to seek the One who surgically places them into our lives. Indeed we are creatures of habit, and perhaps that is why we view the common everyday experiences as ho-hum, rather than to see them as a gift of God, each day a new opportunity for being thankful. Not only should we be thankful in these "daily" things, but thankful that our God continually calls us back to His reality, that is, that when we need Him most, He lets us know it by interrupting our complaints about the mundane to remind us that there is ultimately nothing ordinary about the ordinary. After all, the words "ordinary" and "ordain" share the same root.

Links Added

I've added a few links to my blog tonight. It was easier than actually writing a new blog. Sometimes I'm a bit lazy......perhaps a good reason to add these links. We all tend to be a bit lazy at times, especially when it comes to exploring theological issues. Anyway, I hope these links will be a help to you......maybe they will encourage you to dig deeper than you have before. Just scroll down.

No Smoking

Political Correctness

I got this definition from a grouchy old cripple:

Political Correctness

"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional illogical liberal minority & rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous liberal press which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." ---This definition has been attributed to students at Texas A&M University.

The Problem of Christmas

here's another one I composed....................hope you like it

The Problem of Christmas

A needy race that does not know
The depth of need or what they owe
To One so perfect, holy, good,
Once face to face with Him they stood,
Who through the fall, did curse and bless
And set the course for righteousness.
Though curse was swift in hobbled man
At selfsame time revealed His plan,
In sweat and toil, pain in birth
The Son of man would restore worth.
So many silent years have passed,
The promised one had come at last,
The woman’s seed, yet born of God
Had come to tread the cursed sod.
Now where He walked and what He said,
And where He died and how He bled,
Fulfilled the promise and the curse
And gave the gift for which no verse
Could ever fully comprehend
How everlasting is the end
Of One whose promise is to bring
The glory back unto the king.

Truth Gauge

Love

Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, it always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1Cor. 13:4-7