HAIL LORD!!!!

We are investing in our lives every day. We earn money, and how we save or spend determines the length of time or value of our investment in us; we eat hopefully healthily but whatever calories we do eat will burn and we can continue for a little bit until our bodies tell us that we need real nourishment and our investment will either last a while or not; we sleep and our cells become restored so that we can be recharged to gather and hunt and cry and laugh and read and write another day. But all of this is transitory. It doesn't last. Will never last. Can never last. Money loses its value over time no matter how we try to hold on to it. The food we eat sometimes causes our arteries to close and become crunchy. Sometimes our bodies don't respond to the food we put in it. Sometimes our bodies overcompensate...sometimes...well sometimes we can watch our weight, eat healthy, exercise, and still contract cancer, MS, heart disease...we invest but we really have no control over the development of that investment. Whatever path our lives take is under the control of the Creator...and He chose to place 250,000 genes on the human genome. Some of those genes are spot on for living a long healthy life. Some of those are nonsense genes. Some genes are fatal. And some express in disease. Not exactly as planned at creation but God knew we would need something to ask Him, "Why would you do this?" Just so He could answer, "You forget, this earth is not where it's at. It may be beautiful, but I have a much more fulfilling place for you. And if you make it you will never cry again, never go hungry, never sniffle...I'll take good care of you forever." The investment that lasts forever is not here. It is in God. And the house He has prepared for us.

School's in!!!

A good summer was had by all I hope. Mine was busy and trying at times but hey my favorite time of year is here...football, cooler weather, daylight savings time being put to bed. Getting ready for Christmas...My hope is that the lessons learned over the summer carry into fall and winter and that we grow, particularly in God!!!

Pre-season

Pre-season in the NFL means a chance to get with a team and prove you can do what your resume said you could. God doesn't ask us to prove anything but that we love Him and trust Him. And if we love Him we will obey Him. He wants us, He wants us on His team, But we must walk as His Son did in order to show we love Him. Are we up to it? God is hopeful in that way....

Smile

What puts someone off the most? Smiling probably makes a person take stock more than any other body language. Do you love it when someone smiles? Does it make you wonder what they have? Next time instead of wondering why not try smiling?

Getting hands slapped!!!

Having my hand slap is no fun. So much so that for a time I have to be by myself and think and internalize and take it personally and just bloody feel like getting rip roaring drunk and calling in sick the next day... because I have yet to learn the key to survival is a rough skin... bend but don't break... but don't boing back either... the worst part about recovery from a severe tongue lashing is the self esteem is lowered a notch or two and then I get angry because no one should ever do that to anyone. And manipulators make me angry too...

May God bless all of those people who have had to endure bullies because of jobs, or bad governments or whatever reason...