Louder Than the Voices

1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11 5  1-3  I don’t think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master’s coming can’t be posted on our calendars. He won’t call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody’s walking around complacently, congratulating each other—“We’ve sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!”—suddenly everything will fall apart. It’s going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman. 4-8  But friends, you’re not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this? You’re sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let’s not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let’s keep our eyes open and be smart. People sleep at night and get drunk at night. But not us! Since we’re creatures of Day, let’s act like it. Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed...

As I was getting around this morning and checking the news, I saw one of the headlines concerning Melania Trump's education. Apparently, she started college but then dropped out. Her bio says she graduated. It saddens me that people feel pressured into lying about who they are and where they come from. I am not going into anything political on this blog, it just got me to thinking about how I feel about this. A few years ago, my mom was asked to speak at a work function of mine. All of my coworkers were there and I knew, because the whole speech was to be about how our Weatherization crew had worked on her house, that some of my childhood would be brought to light. I was not ashamed of the things that happened, but I hated that they happened. I knew my mom, being who she is, would be very real. She was. One particular thing she told about was the fact that in the winter, we absolutely would not turn the heat up in or house, if we were the only ones there, we kept things warm enou...

So, since I took my little hiatus, I thought I would share what has happened in my walk with God. First off, the week I declared vacation, I was upset, and to be very honest, I was upset with God. It had been a very heart wrenching week for many people I know. Thing is, by the end of that weekend, it got so much worse. I found my self trapped in a spot where I didn't want to even speak to God and at the same time, I needed to cling to Him. By the morning of July 4th, our community was mourning the loss of two babies to a couple that everyone just cherishes, and two young men that, it seems everyone who knew them loved. Andrew and I had one of the young men in our youth group. He was always making people laugh, it was his gift, it was so unbelievable that he was gone and just 25. I made the statement on facebook that it was probably time I stood myself in a corner, because that was probably what God was thinking I needed, a good ole time-out. One of my best friends tex...

Hey all, decided to take a couple weeks off from the blog- doing some studying and regrouping - see everyone in a couple of weeks!