MY JOURNEY HOME

He never ceases to amaze me. How could He? He's in control of everything and with everything in His hands and on His heart He chose to seek after me. He has called me His beloved, His precious, His chosen, and His son. Nichole and I decided to follow God's tugging and start a new Life Group. It became overly apparent that God wanted us to look at His love and the calling, no commanding, of us to love and be loved. Be loved Beloved WOW!! So in preparing I wanted to look back into Leviticus and Deuteronomy and see what Jesus was quoting when He said "Love the Lord your God with all you heart, soul and mind... and love others as yourself." In doing so I was again amazed that it was the same. Why you ask? Simple, I've always been taught there's the Old Testament of God as a wrathful, God of War, and the New Covenant where He is a God of love and reconciliation. The simple truth is it's all a love story. We were made to love Him and in doing so we will love oth...

Has your mind been blown lately? Have you learned something that has stretched you so far you've had to even change the way you eat? I recently heard and further studied about Blessings. The Church today asks God to bless everything. Bless our meeting, bless our trip, bless America, bless this bless that. How small is our thinking? As Christians we know we have been given all the blessings. We don't need a sacrifice for Jesus fulfilled the debt and beyond that has overflowed to us all heavenly blessings. OK, so what? We want God to bless our time. He already has, how bout we use our time to Bless God? Let's ask Him how we can and then follow through. Oh that America would Bless God. Take some time and research what all blessings you've been given and then think about how small your mindset of God really is. I have been so challenged that even saying "grace" before meals have changed. I'm now asking that the food nourish my body so that I might be able to b...

Over the past few weeks questions have arose over our oldest future and whether people truly deserve second chances. Legally she is my step-daughter but there is nothing step about it. She is my daughter and a socially acceptable title is not emotionally acceptable. Unfortunately, a man that has had less then very little contact with her is now trying to disrupt our family. I've never met the man and I am struggling to forgive him for the transgressions not to me but my family members. Christ teaches to love and accept others even those that have hurt you, a lesson that is much easier taught then followed and practiced. Now we will spend time in a court system wasting tax payer money, not even a note or a phone call of intentions to bridge the divide. So what's right what's wrong? When is what's best for our kids, best for our kids. When did a judge gain the ability to know what's best? How much bad does someone have to do to be labeled as bad? Prayers have been rai...

LOVE IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU ALWAYS THINK YOU KNOW UNTIL YOU KNOW. EVEN GETTING MARRIED... AT THAT POINT I WAS SURE I KNEW LOVE, BUT EVEN THAT WAS A SMALL PIECE OF WHAT LOVE REALLY IS. TRUE LOVE IS THE MORNING YOUR LITTLE GIRL IS BORN AND YOU REALIZE SOMETHING HAS BEEN MISSING FOR ALL YOUR LIFE. LOVE IS REALIZING THROUGH THIS YOUR WIFE COULD NEVER BE ANY MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN HOW SHE IS RIGHT THEN. IT'S THE OVERWHELMING THOUGHTS THAT YOU HAVEN'T PREPARED TO GIVE THEM EVERYTHING THEY WILL NEED. IT'S KNOWING THEN THAT EVERYTHING YOU DO FROM THIS POINT FORWARD AFFECTS MUCH MORE THAN JUST YOURSELF. IT'S A YEAR LATER HEARING "HIYA DADDY" WHEN YOU GET HER OUT OF BED AND IT NO LONGER MATTERS WHAT TIME IT IS. THEN LATE ONE NIGHT YOU REALIZE THAT ALL THE LOVE YOU HAVE IT'S NOT CONDITIONAL, IT'S NOT MARGINAL, IT JUST HADN'T EVER MANIFESTED ITSELF TO THIS POINT. THEN IT'S THE FURTHER REALIZATION THAT EVEN THROUGH ALL THE YEARS OF SELFISHNESS THAT AN UNCO...