Somebody is praying...

Can life actually be a vignette and not a novel?
It always fascinates me to hear the responses of those who
claim they don't believe in God when someone says that
they will pray for them.  Especially in the midst of tragic
moments, momentous events such as births and deaths,
and life changing events; the mention of someone who
says they will pray for you, simmers the most anti-
of anti God types.  Ever notice that?  Sure you have,
but was it a vignette or the beginning of a novel?
You were expecting, something else?  Do you think
God expects something else?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFl1VgNfU8w

Royalty - Oh My it appears...you are indeed...Royalty

Watching this massive movie, "The Kings Speech," only

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served to remind me of so much that I take for granted,
which this great man could not.  My wife has always
loved the Royal's, and, I've always thought she was silly
for carrying on about them.  Now, as has become my
custom this last decade, yet another heaping helping of
"Crow."  One can only hope it's not an insult to an
otherwise noble bird.

You on the other hand, shall not get off so easily,
as it appears that the words of this King, no not
George the VI'th, but the King, Jesus, of Nazareth,
shall call you to a duty that is in line with what the
King called his noble subjects of England into when
resisting the Hitler move to encompass the world
in a nightmare of his creation.

This great movie of the struggles of one who was
very challenged to speak in public, who stammered,
is yet another reminder of how powerfully we are
set into motion by what our King, Christ, left for
us to do.  How paramountly important the task is,
and how dark the forces against such path of faith
are.  They are formidable, they are precise, they
are appearing to be scientific, and they make no
small use of diminishing the truth of their foe;
so that you will have to overcome their sad lack
of manners in almost every engagement in which
you seek to dispel into their beleagured souls
the majesty of love.

Consider yourself, as one of my faithful readers,
so charged.  Consider the prayer which Christ
answered in this charge, and consider very carefully
what it means to encourage one another in love.
You are, it appears, Royalty- and as such, you have
an enormous responsibility that somehow we must
encourage you not to shirk.  Can we rise to the
occasion together?  Can we prevent the forces of
doom and darkness from prevailing?  Jesus
made it abundantly clear that this was the reason
that He chose the cross! 

2Cr 3:12

Seeing then that we have such hope,
 we use great plainness of speech:

You Can Meditate and Meditation Can Help You

Five minutes, it isn't a long time, it's an elevator ride in an
enormous building downtown, it's a brief parking garage
ride, it's a transit of the park - five minutes isn't very long
at all.  Five minutes can be, however, the longest and most
important minutes of your day, if, you spend those five
minutes in meditation.  Five minutes can change your life,
make your life better, happier, more fulfilled, five
minutes.  Five minutes isn't a long time.

If you look at your watch or a clock on the wall,
choose a time to start, and literally time out five
minutes; you'll discover it's longer than you
might believe.  Separated time is different,
dedicated time is different; the time in length
is the same, always will be, set by the atomic
clock, a second is a second and minutes have
60 of them, and that's just the way it is.  When
you stop your life, for five of them, though,
something changes.

Meditation sits in the family of concentration,
thinking, and relating, they are all members of
the function of your mind that strengthens it.
Because the mental strength which is provided
by meditation is very much akin to the physical
strength gained by lifting weights, the process
is very similar as you gain mental strength.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK4rgveVkVA

Our Pastor at Cental Baptist Church in Springhill
Louisiana is such an outrageously gutsy man of
prayer, that the faith which meditation shows you
through insights becomes easy to pray about.  So
we began this brief time with each other about
five minutes, won't you consider giving it
a try?

Power and Truth DO Change - Us

The most remarkable thing about the truth of the power of God
is that, when God wants to get your attention, God does. 

http://www.informedfaith.com/cac/singlesermon/10010

Customized Crazy for the New Year

About The Ball

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For some reason this year, it seems we're not hearing as much about the New Year's wish or plans for the New Year, or, what are you going to look back on as being really cool and what not to try again. Remember how big that used to be, and here we are about one day away from the big ball in New York, and the Eiffel Tower getting laser nuts in Paris and all over the planet everybody going "whoo hoo," we made it! Right about now you may be wondering that this really doesn't sound like what a devotional is supposed to sound like? Gee whiz, is it possible that, we're going to climb outside the typical- and here we really don't want to use the word boring, because, devotionals, from the past, are hardly that, are they? But in writing a devotional for the time we're in, do we need to change gears a bit? It's a question that I want to put out there, because some of my online buds, some of whom are pretty powerful network marketers, (note: the some...not all, some...) have told me to "lay off the devotionals"- and that's just bizarre advice, because devotionals have picked me up at times, and really given me so much perspective, but the key seems to be, does anyone read it, and then, does anyone drop a dime (comment) that they've been there?  So Happy New Year, BUT, how about letting folks know some of your ideas about what the years has been like, what you'd like to do next year...mine?  Oh, you wanna hear a few of mine...O.K.  Like the politician say's  "you first..."  ;-) <---smiley face?  Wow old fashioned but still in fashion...wouldn't you say? 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Every year we have the friends over for a little party, about
six of them, think it is, anywho, it's nice to see how they
have changed and how the world has changed, together,
every year; it's a nice measuring stick.  What do you use?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTYIAp0GrLA

The 100th Monkey

See this documentary soon...

What an incredible story from the documentary "Collapse,"
that scientists around 1940 or 1950 tried an above
ground nuclear test on a Pacific island.  Going back
years later, they discovered about 10,000 monkeys
on the island, where, everything seemed to have
grown back, but, the monkeys were eating the
coconuts which had radiation in their shells.
So the scientists took ten monkeys and taught
them to wash the coconuts in a fresh water
stream, cleaning the radiation. 

As they monitored the monkeys they found
after a short period of time that twelve monkeys
were washing their coconuts.  Then a few more
as time progressed, some months in, 47 were
washing them.  After about a year or more,
they noticed that nearly a hundred monkeys
were washing  their coconuts, then it happened
when the 100th monkey washed the coconut
the 10,000 began washing theirs!  This is a
phenomenon that had been noticed before,
but it gives us remarkable hope for surviving
the hard times which may be ahead.

Hope this takes root with you, don't give
up on folks learning, just keep looking for
that 100th monkey.