Canada...Desires of Your Heart.

Last week me & Ashton had the trip of a life time.

We went to a place in Canada called Green Lake (its in Saskatchewan) and deer hunted for a week.

For me - it's a dream that started when I was probably about 12 or 13.  So, the trip of a life time is really true for me.  It's a trip that I worked on for the last 3 years to make happen...it's his 18th birthday present.

The hunt part of the trip was successful - but it was more than a hunt.  It was a hi-lite in many ways for us both.

I told Shawn that if I had scripted the trip before hand - there's not 1 thing I would have hoped for to have gone any different...not the travel..the hunt...weather...deer...people...any of it - but especially my time with my son...not one thing would i have done differently...that's incredible to be able to say!

The Bible says "God gives the desires of your heart"... you can believe it - not always on some quick fix thing...but I guess sometimes you find out what the real desires of your heart are when they are challenged in so many ways & yet remain...they are desires that God will somehow make happen in your life.

Peace

Whatever You're Doing

As you might have figured out by now - I'm big into songs/lyrics.  Music has always been a powerful mover in my life...


Shawn told me to check out the lyrics to a song by Sanctus Real - titled "Whatever You're Doing".  It's a great song - but even greater for my journey...It's now part of my Ipod mix...


Check it out - then if the lyrics hit ya like they did me - go buy the song...you'll be glad ya did...


Here are the lyrics


It's time for healing time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time to make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
And all I can do is surrender

(Chorus)
Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something Heavenly

Time for a milestone
Time to begin again
Reevaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow Your will
Or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is You want from me
I give everything I surrender...
To...

Time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to release all my held back tears

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life something Heavenly

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but now I can see
This is something bigger than me
Larger than life something Heavenly
Something Heavenly




Peace


bob

A Song You Need to Listen to From Time to Time

Here's an old song's lyrics that everyone needs to listen to from time to time...

It's "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong - absolutely wonderful & helps remind us about the real things of life...

if you don't own it - do yourself a favor...go get a cup of coffee - go to itunes...buy it & listen to it a few times over & over...let it really sink in...

Lyrics -

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world. 



Peace


bob

Genesis

Hey all...

I've been asked by a few people where we can now be found...

As of June, 2011 - Genesis is now meeting in Regal 13 Greenbrier...Sundays at 10:00

Peace

Dinners...

Have you ever eaten with someone you’d rather not be eating with?

They might chew with their mouth open...smack lips as they chew...talk with mouth full...have food on their face...etc...

OR

Linen table cloth...plate on a charger...2” from table edge...equidistant...folded linen napkin in the plate center...3 forks on the left (fish...dinner...salad)...2 knives...spoon...blades facing certain way...They bring something you’re not even sure what it is - not sure what to eat with...

Have you ever had someone ask “Mind if I JOIN ya?” and your answer was yes in your head - but you said no...

Jesus ran into the SAME thing...having to eat with some people - he would rather not have eaten with...

In Luke, Jesus ends up at 2 very different tables...

1 - With People that JUST Don’t KNOW HOW to ACT...

The Other - With the People that have all the Right Silverware...Servers...

The dinner wasn't the big deal - Spiritually is where their Greatest Difference was FOUND

1st Table - SINNERS...

2nd - RELIGIOUS...

1st Table - The SINNERS Table 

Religious (Are not at the Table - but) Can’t Believe that JESUS would do such a thing...

DISTURBED = Good Word to Describe their Reaction...

2nd Table - The RELIGIOUS’S Table

Sinners are NOT Welcome

A Sinner Joins - 

DISTURBED = Good Word to Describe their Reaction...

Messes it all up - in the religious’ opinion...

So 

We have 2 

Very Different Table Settings

Very Different TABLE GUESTS 

Very Different Outcomes

Jesus takes them BOTH as TEACHING MOMENTS

READ 

Luke 5:27 - 32

"Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"...Jesus answered and said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick...

32   

"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

Jesus - Eating WITH Sinners...

SINNERS

Yuk!

Nasty Word - STING to it...

SINNER...

Sinners =

Those devoted to sin...A Sinner...

Not free from Sin...

Preeminently Sinful...Especially wicked...

STAINED - with certain vices...

See their problem?

Jesus eating with STAINED People...

Obviously Marred by their Lifestyle...

WHY?

The healthy don’t need the doctor - it’s the sick that need him...

Matt. 9 (Same story)

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

SICK - Miserable...

Go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

Then read Luke 7:36 - 39

.37 - BEHOLD

A Sinner (268)...

...this man - if he were a prophet - would know WHO & WHAT Type of person she is...For she is a SINNER (268)...

Stained person...

Marred...Still not yet free...

.47

Her SINS - which are many - are forgiven...

.48

Your sins are forgiven...(50) Your faith has saved you - go in peace...

Luke 14

Then He also said to him who invited Him, "When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.  "But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.  You will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

Where did summer go? Fall is coming...

Tomorrow kids go back to school...

Where does time go - really?  It seems to just be on a treadmill on high speed & you can't turn it down...

Yet, with summer over - fall is coming, my favorite time of the year...

Jeans & a long sleeve tee, nothing better than that...Coffee on the deck with out flies flying...Fall colors on the trees - awesome...Dew on the ground in the morning...Great holidays...The woods w/Stik & friends...A fire - preferably not my house...Less sweating...Grass stops growing - yes!...The beach - only different than August...

I love fall...

Yet - about the time we get into it...it too is over...

Seasons of life...

Peace

Random Stuff in My Head

Just some random junk rolling around in my head...

Baseball is a great game.  

Red Sox - just can't get it done this year.  I still hate the Yankees as a team, like some of the players - hate the team.


Redskins will probably look a lot like they have the last several years.


Inception - a great movie.


Droid Incredible - A computer - not a phone.

I hate the hazy hot humid summer stuff.  Give me fall/winter - jeans & a long sleeve t.

It's harder than it looks.


It's not as hard as you might think it is.


My kids are great kids.  No matter how many times people tell you - they will still grow up faster than you think.  I am extremely proud of each of my kids..I hope they know how much I love them.


Reading really does make you a better person.  You can learn from simply reading a book.


Watching your parents "grow old" comes with a lot of mixed thoughts for them.  I'm glad they are both around but I hate seeing all they have to go through in being here.  I pray that they really enjoy this part of their journey.

I have a great wife.  I have a great home.  I have a great family.  I am loved.  I am blessed.

Singing really does make you feel better.  Except when you are in the gym with you IPOD on & the guys can hear you - that look they give you doesn't make you feel that good...


Sunsets have to be of God.

We all have something to do that will be great.

There are 2 sides to the story.

My dogs have never quit liking me.


Silent Library is too funny.  The funniest one ever - the bird feeding the guy in the nest.  I watch it all the time - over & over & over & still laugh til my side hurts.  My family says I'm weird.


The globe has a lot of strife on it.


The new Camaro has to be one of the best looking cars on the road.  I owned 2 back in the day - wrapped 1 around a pole.  Grace met me there...


God keeps good records.


I'm not going to miss Larry King.


Why do I always wake up at 4 in the morning?  


The way we view success is quite different than the people in a 3rd world country.


The oil spill was gross.  


Vacation.  Off shore.  Hunting.  Coffee.  Waves.  Frost.  


Dinner with friends is still great.  So is dinner with my family.


Everyone needs whatever their cup of coffee is in life from time to time.


"I tried" is really a great thing to say in life.  It's much better than having a life full of "I wonder" when you get older.


I know too many people with cancer.


These are great lyrics - If everyone cared and nobody cried.  If everyone loved and nobody lied.  If everyone shared and swallowed their pride.  Then we'd see the day when nobody died...And I'm singing...Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive...Amen I, Amen I, Amen I (I'm alive).


There really is a better day.  I hate that one of my friends didn't know he had one coming.


Hurt people - hurt people.  So do angry people...There's still only 1 heaven to go to.

Grace really is sufficient.  Love is better than life.  Mercy is renewed daily.  Peace can pass comprehension.  Joy can be full of glory.  God is with me & you.

Peace.