Only need to know where I've been

I see that our Lord has blessed us with good weather today when those that are supposed to know how to forcast the weather seemed to have thought it was going to rain. Reminds me of a bumper sticker you may have seen: "If you want to tell God a joke, tell him your plans". No matter how much we try to plan or forcast our future it always seems that God may have other plans. This is one of the key points I've been getting out of the Sun Stand Still book that some of us are reading. Not so much in planning for your future but aligning your life with what God may have planned for you.


I have to laugh when I think about Joshua and most of the Bible, my life and some of the event in it because as a father of young kids I can somehow relate it to a phrase that (tow) Mater says in the movie Cars when he's showing Lightning how to drive backwards. His last comment in the scene is "Don't need to know where I'm going. Only need to know where I've been." Dwelling on it for a while I thought, isn't it nice to know that the war is already won, He's only going to give me what I can handle and that He will lead me to still pastures when my soul grows weary. Joshua and others in the Bible had seen miricles and knew that God could in fact do anything their minds could think of. In today's world how much harder is it for us to know, believe or even think that God could counque things like our enemies, illnesses, ourselves? You know my life has been hectic in the last month or so and I know I'm not through the "fun" quite yet but just knowing about some of these things keep me moving forward with Him leading the way.

If You Just Believe: Why

Every Christmas season it always seams like a new sense of calm or urgency sets in. I see it in those around me and even in myself. The gift exchanges coming sooner than we expected or as Dave Ramsey likes to say,"Christmas Sneaking up on us". Yes we all know that Christmas is the 25th day of December and most of us know the truthful meaning of why we have Christmas but as I replayed a song that was placed in my head this morning I ask the questions: Do we truely know the meaning of Christmas, why is it only for a short part of the year and do you think things need to change? These go with a couple of other questions in that do you think your life is good now, do you think it can get better, do you Have Christ in your life, Why or Why Not?

Being done with thanksgiving I have to take time and truely be thankful for everything God has given me. I know it is probably 1 million times better than what some people have in their lives and that taking this gift and sharing it is probably the most imporant job I have in life. Sharing what little insights you receive from a song, movie or event in your life is a great way to start conversation and getting to know a little more.

In the next couple of days/weeks I'll be dwelling on each verse of the song "Believe" by Josh Groban. If you listen with the intent to learn and to teach you get a lot out of things that you normally do not. First learning how each portion of an item, in this case a song, reacts when it is subjected to your past and then taking it and realizing that I was or am now flawed in some or most of my actions. After I've delt with some of these thoughts I then try to take what I have learned I reteach myself and then teach my children not in my ways but the ways that I've been shown through God's mercy. Am I the only one that does this? I hope not but I do think reflection, meditiation and adaptation in one's life is vital to living and having a sustainable relationship with Him or anyone. And I do think that a lot of people don't take enough time to do these actions. What I do think, is that He put that one star, His Son, in the sky to reset our compasses to every year. But how many of us do that.

Reflect, Meditate and Adapt...

For today I leave you with the entire list of lyrics of the song and when I return I'll start with my line by line reflections.

Believe by Josh Groban:

Children sleeping, snow is softly falling
Dreams are calling like bells in the distance
We were dreamers not so long ago
But one by one we all had to grow up
When it seems the magic's slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas day

Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe

Trains move quickly to their journey's end
Destinations are where we begin again
Ships go sailing far across the sea
Trusting starlight to get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas day

Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe [x4]

Just believe