Do I Have the Guts ?
This last couple of months have been a dozy. As I reflect on them I wonder in my lower moments “Is what I’m doing going to make a difference”. The answer is yes it does. All I have to do is look at life around me. I’m a guy that uses sayings and inspirational thoughts to lift up and motivate myself and those around me. I was in a meeting a while ago and Jeff one of my co workers asked me if I stayed up nights and thought up sayings to say. He also has asked me if I have a book that I get these things from. The answer is yes I do. As I hear or read something, and think wow that’s positive I write in in a book that I keep to refer back to and or to read when I need inspiration. (it works try it).
I received from the owners of the company I work for, (as an aside Matt & Kim are over the top as far as owners go Thank you Matt & Kim). Anyway back to reality I received for Christmas a picture with a great inspiration written under it. It has a picture of a tall tall tree growing up between 2 high rock walls reaching for the sunlight at the top, with a shaft of sunlight shining between the 2 walls and illuminating the tree clear to the ground. The inspirational phase below is “Faith Doesn’t Get Us Around Adversity, It Gets Us Through It”
God has been teaching me as of late that faith isn’t something you read in a book, it’s something that takes action, and you act on it and live it. In the bible James 2; 26B tells us “So faith without deeds is dead”. I know that I’m hearing and know what God has me to do, but it’s imperative that I act on my faith. After faith is confirmed in my heart, it takes action for the faith to bear fruit or see the result.
But the questions is how will I act on my faith, doing nothing is an action by itself. Will I do nothing or will I have the GUTS to act and do what I know faith dictates I’m supposed to do?
Do I Have the GUTS ?
12.11.2007
12.09.2007
What Are Your Eyes Seeing ?
I was driving to work last week on Saturday. I don’t work every Saturday but I still was in a funk and didn’t want to be at work on a Saturday. Just like when you have a day off in the middle of the week and everyone you knows are working, you seem to enjoy the day off more because while everyone is working you’re not. Are you with me? I was just the opposite while what is normally my day off and most of the people I know have the day off, I was on my way to work.
When I’m in the car going somewhere my station of choice is NPR, Nation Public Radio. Today it wasn’t working for me, I was getting worse and worse. So I did what every American does, I started punching buttons on the radio. I found a station; the song playing was “Black Magic Woman”. I cranked up the volume and enjoyed the song. The next song was Peter Frampton “Do You Feel like We Do”. I turned the music up a little louder. It went like that for 8 or 9 songs. I was late to work; I sat in my car and listened to the set that was playing. When the dreaded commercial came on I got out and went into work. My step had a bounce and I was felling better, you could even say I was happy.
I determined to listen to music more and less NPR. I need music in my life. While at work the owner of our company called and said there were 2 tickets to a concert tonight the she had set aside for a client. Our client had called and said they couldn’t go, so Kim said try and find a client to give them to, if I could find anyone take my bride. Can you guess how much work went into trying to find someone to take the tickets. NONE I had asked my wife if she had wanted to go, and when I went to get tickets the show was sold out. Long story short I took my wife and she and I had a great time.
The bible tells us in Matthew 6:22-23"Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have!
That’s been me, I’ve been seeing with my eyes the wrong things. Not the greatness of God and his blessings in my life. My wife, children, my great job. friends, and my new bike.(it’s a work of beautiful art). I’m pulling up the blinds in my eyes and letting the light shine in with a new prespective God’s work and blessings in my life.
What are your eyes seeing?
When I’m in the car going somewhere my station of choice is NPR, Nation Public Radio. Today it wasn’t working for me, I was getting worse and worse. So I did what every American does, I started punching buttons on the radio. I found a station; the song playing was “Black Magic Woman”. I cranked up the volume and enjoyed the song. The next song was Peter Frampton “Do You Feel like We Do”. I turned the music up a little louder. It went like that for 8 or 9 songs. I was late to work; I sat in my car and listened to the set that was playing. When the dreaded commercial came on I got out and went into work. My step had a bounce and I was felling better, you could even say I was happy.
I determined to listen to music more and less NPR. I need music in my life. While at work the owner of our company called and said there were 2 tickets to a concert tonight the she had set aside for a client. Our client had called and said they couldn’t go, so Kim said try and find a client to give them to, if I could find anyone take my bride. Can you guess how much work went into trying to find someone to take the tickets. NONE I had asked my wife if she had wanted to go, and when I went to get tickets the show was sold out. Long story short I took my wife and she and I had a great time.
The bible tells us in Matthew 6:22-23"Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have!
That’s been me, I’ve been seeing with my eyes the wrong things. Not the greatness of God and his blessings in my life. My wife, children, my great job. friends, and my new bike.(it’s a work of beautiful art). I’m pulling up the blinds in my eyes and letting the light shine in with a new prespective God’s work and blessings in my life.
What are your eyes seeing?
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