Don't be stupid.....

do not be foolish, don’t act thoughtlessly. Instead, understand what the Lord's will is, understand, find out what the Lord wants you to do.
Ephesians 5:17 (combination of Contemporary English Version, New International Version and New Living Translation)

Back in the olden days when I worked as an engineer, the early eighties, the new thing was for companies, organizations and soon individuals to have a mission and\or vision statement. Everything that you considered doing was to be filtered through the mission statement. If it did not fulfill the mission you were not to do it. Hmmm, should we as Christians have a mission statement and filter our actions through it? Should we be open to do any and all good works? Should each of us adopt an orphan or take in a foster child? Should we all be involved in prison ministry? Should we all visit nursing homes and hospitals to encourage those who need encouragement? Should we all be involved in building homes for the homeless? We are being stupid, foolish and act thoughtlessly when we think we can do everything or when we think that we can not do anything. I think we should be open to any and all good works but we need to filter it through how God designed us to be. God has gifted us and equipped us differently so that when everyone does what he or she is gifted to do, all the good works are done.

If things had gone differently......

You would have been invited to my 50th birthday party. I had written a twenty minute monologue for the event. Over time I may share with you portions of it in my blog. The following is from the monologue.

Now that I am 50, considered by most to be older, I want to be a Titus 2 woman.
I want to be reverent in the way I live, to live in a way that honors God, to behave as those who love the Lord should. I do not want to be a slanderer, gossip or addicted to much wine, heavy drinker, drunk, but to teach what is proper, what is good, be a model of goodness, to give good counsel Then I can guide the younger women or By looking at me, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous self-controlled to live wisely and pure, be sensible and kind, to be ]sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) be a good homemaker, be a good wife. and to be subject to their husbands, to be submissive to their husbands, one who puts her own husband first. I want to be such that no one will malign the word of God because of me, that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited) because of me. Then no one can say insulting things about God's message because of me. Then I will not bring shame on the word of God. I don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of my behavior.

Titus 2:3-5 NIV MSG NLT CEV AMP

I AM LOVED

I have always been loved, from the womb to now. In addition to the usual suspects of my immediate family, I have been loved by extended family and by my church family, past and present. My church family and small group look out for me, regular calls, meals, whatever I need. I text my pastor, do you? My life time partner's pastor is good too, we do the email thing and the cell number is in my cell phone. My friends from back in day, high school, are there for me too. I am especially blessed to have people at Central who love me, after all I spend a lot of time there. I know who to go to when I need loving.

You know what all these people have in common? They know Jesus and since they know Jesus they know God and God is love. The Bible tells us that we will know Christ followers because of their love.

My family needs loving right now. My oldest beloved is not well (fluid inside and outside of the right lung and a blood clot is there too), but we know that God loves him a lot more than we do and He is in control. God is good and demonstrates His love by providing Christ followers to love us on His behalf.

I do not agree with Stevie Wonder.......

In his song Superstitious he says, “When you believe in things that you don’t understand then you suffer”. I believe in prayer and honestly I really do not understand it and I do not think that I am suffering. God knows the future right? So does my pray change the future. I don’t know. Since He knows my thoughts, why do I have to pray? I don’t know. But I will say this, if Jesus prayed and He is God, for sure I need to pray.

Some people say you should ask God for exactly the thing that you want. For example: do not pray for a car, pray for a 2009 Chevy Colbalt in blue. I have found that I do not always know what is best for me, so my prayers are more like “God, this is my concern or problem. Please fix it or change my attitude about it so that I will have peace.” Last year I had a prayer answered in a way that was WAY BETTER, let me type that again, WAY BETTER than I had hoped. Even as a child of God, I would not have been so presumptuous as to ask for such a blessing.

I would like to thank all who have been standing in the gap for me (praying for me). Since January 20th I have had all sorts of emotions. Some brought on by medication perhaps, some by being perimenopausal perhaps, and some because I was just being a big baby about not being able to have my party.

I went to see the doctor today, he is very pleased with how my wound is healing. He said if healing continues at the same pace, the wound vac may come off in two weeks and for now, he thinks no skin graft will be needed. He said that I would able to return to work without restrictions if I wear some special knee high sock.

Keep up with the prayers, the prayers of a righteous one avails much.

Welcome to my blog

Just because I am fifty years old does not mean that I am not in tune to the things of the day. I will now be a blogger. Every now and then I will blog and will notify my loved ones and friends of new blog entires.