LAMININ!!

This morning while having my quiet time I was reading in Matthew 6 about how I was supposed to do things quietly.  My time was almost complete when "for some reason" I picked up my laptop and went to FACEBOOK!  Now, FACEBOOK is not the most spiritual of venues to finish your quiet time with!  But, GOD has a way of being SOVEREIGN!
One of my friends had posted a video of Louie Giglio delivering a message.  It was 8:43 seconds long which is about 7:43 longer than my attention span!  But just about the time I was getting ready to move on to something else I was intrigued by what he said.  Louie Giglio was talking about LAMININ!
Dictionary.com states that Laminin is " a glycoprotein that is a component of connective tissue basement membrane and that promotes cell adhesion"!  It is the STUFF that makes our skin hold together and our teeth remain in our head, and everything in our bodies NOT just float around!  LAMININ is the glue that makes everyone be a person.  That was pretty neat until Louie Giglio displayed on the screen a MOLECULAR drawing of LAMININ!

This is AWSOME!

Now, some may say that this is coincedence or a fluke!  But GOD is no fluke and HE does not operate in coincedence  or circumstance. GOD has everything, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING, under HIS control and held together by HIS glue!  Sometimes WE do not understand HIS workings, but we are HUMAN!  HE IS GOD!!!
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JUST SAYIN!!

Today, as I was pondering an issue, GOD brought to my memory a saying that was on a wall poster in my little sister’s room when we were growing up.  Now that was 40 years ago!  So I “googled” the saying and it gave me a list of 10 sayings.  Some of them were not as gripping as others to me, but I share them all as others may need to see them.  It is AMAZING how a SOVERIEGN GOD can use something I saw 40 years ago to bring comfort so much later in life.  I leave it to you to figure out which “saying” I speak of!


1. Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
2. Richard Bach
If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
3. Cinderella
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
4. Joan Crawford
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
5. Theodore M. Hesburgh
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
6. Lisa Hoffman
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
7. Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
8. Philip Barry
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
9. Albert Einstein
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
10. Mark Twain
Love: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

CONFESSIONS of a TOOL!

Today I am relishing in the fact that we serve a GOD who is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and closer than a brother.  Too many times we get caught up with in our daily lives and what we PERCEIVE as being important and fail to give GOD his due.  Your family and friends can and WILL dissappoint and do things that we do not approve of.

GOD gives us a limited amount of intelligence (I think mine is more limited than most) to get through life.  Sometimes others intelligence leads them in ways I do not understand.  I WANT to be able to help, but GOD does not need my help most of the time.  Sometimes HE allows me to be used of HIM, but the hardest thing HE has taught me is to give HIM time to work.  If HE leads someone down a road that seems to be one that is "NOT THE BEST", then HE may be teaching them a lesson!  GOD has enough to do without overcoming my good intentions.

Sometimes a yard rake can be GREAT to sweep up leaves.  Most of the time it hangs in the shed.  We only pull it down when it is needed.

Dear Lord, help me to be more sensitive to YOUR leadership and direction when I desire to intervene in other's lives.  Help me to realize that YOU do not need my help.  And when YOU are ready for me to be used of YOU that I will be AVAILABLE for what YOU intend and nothing more.  AMEN!

Just TALKIN!!!

This weekend I had the privilige of spending time with a VERY dear friend of mine.  We just sit and talked mainly.  I LOVED the guidance and wisdom he shared with me.  You see, he is 20 years my senior and he has already traveled many of the roads I will travel in the next few years.
Many things he shared with me has stayed on my heart, but one I cannot shake.  "We want to be BIGGER than what GOD intended us to be"!  Man, I have been meditating that one all weekend!  I cannot get past it!
I ALWAYS am wanting to help!  I want to help start a foundation for students to go to college.  I want to help the elderly with fixing up their houses.  I want to go help sick people get past their illness.

GOD calls us for a PURPOSE!  The apostle Paul was used to lead MANY Christians to a saving knowlege of Christ.  But he says in 1 Corinthians 1:17 "For Christ sent me not to baptize; but to preach the gospel.....".  Baptizing was NOT what Paul was called to to!  GOD calls us to fulfill different tasks.  Just as Paul was sent to preach the Gospel, GOD's purpose for us may be different.  Make sure of what GOD purpose for your life is, then FULFILL that purpose to the fullest.  Don't be led into NOBLE endeavors without GOD's blessing.  My desire is too be used for JUST what GOD has intended for me! 

Just TALKIN!!!

This weekend I had the privilige of spending time with a VERY dear friend of mine.  We just sit and talked mainly.  I LOVED the guidance and wisdom he shared with me.  You see, he is 20 years my senior and he has already traveled many of the roads I will travel in the next few years.
Many things he shared with me has stayed on my heart, but one I cannot shake.  "We want to be BIGGER than what GOD intended us to be"!  Man, I have been meditating that one all weekend!  I cannot get past it!
I ALWAYS am wanting to help!  I want to help start a foundation for students to go to college.  I want to help the elderly with fixing up their houses.  I want to go help sick people get past their illness.

GOD calls us for a PURPOSE!  The apostle Paul was used to lead MANY Christians to a saving knowlege of Christ.  But he says in 1 Corinthians 1:17 "For Christ sent me not to baptize; but to preach the gospel.....".  Baptizing was NOT what Paul was called to to!  GOD calls us to fulfill different tasks.  Just as Paul was sent to preach the Gospel, GOD's purpose for us may be different.  Make sure of what GOD purpose for your life is, then FULFILL that purpose to the fullest.  Don't be led into NOBLE endeavors without GOD's blessing.  My desire is too be used for JUST what GOD has intended for me! 

DIPERVAN! The Amnesia Drug!

July 09, 2007 I experienced a stroke.  A blood vessel in the top of my brain broke and caused me to be put into a drug induced COMA for 20 days.  The drug used to out me into the COMA was called DIPERVAN.  DIPERVAN is called the amnesia drug because it removes EVERYTHING from your memory!  It was like going to sleep one day and waking up the next morning......only it was 20 days later.  I remember NOTHING from those 20 days.  Everything that happended during that time I now have to get told to me from my wife.

GOD calls us to lives this way!  Philipians 3:13-14 says "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, FORGETTING those things which are behind, and reaching forth those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

We are not to glory in past achievements!  We are not to wallow in defeat over past failures!  Do not concern yourself with things of the past.  "PRESS on toward the mark" and do your best to make a difference in TODAY! 

PERSPECTIVE!

Today I was reading the obituaries in the local newspaper!  It is sad when that is the only thing in the newspaper worth reading.  But, that is for another blog!

I was noticing the ages of the deceased......92, 84, 69, 31, 63, 56, 51.....wait, I am 50!  50 is not old!  At least it is not from my perspective!  PERSPECTIVE is: the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship according to Dictionary.com.  The way we see things is our perspective.  Can our perspective change?  Can the FACTS as we see them change? 

After reading the newspaper I got up to look at FACEBOOK.  One of my friends posted this: Worry is negative meditation. Think about it. You just keep going over and over in your mind about the problem you're worrying about. The problem is your focus. The Bible tells us to meditate upon His Word both day and night so we will obey it. This puts the focus on the solution (God) rather than dwelling on the problem. 

Man, was that sobering!  The fact GOD instructs us to MEDITATE on HIS word is not so we can be WISE and know HIS word!  It is for our own good!  It is so we will not be focused on the problem!Depression is RAMPANT in today's society.  So many people, including me at times, tend to look at how BAD our problems are instead of putting my  "focus on the solution (God)" and trusting HIM rather than "meditate upon His Word both day and night".  I have meditated this since reading it and am of the opinion that the way we see things may be "just the way we see things"! 

92 is old to a 21 year old.  It is not that old to someone who is 85 years old!  How we perceive something does not make them FACT!  What GOD says is fact!  What GOD does is fact!  GOD does not change.