A Christ Follower: The Journey

Hello To Anyone That Knows A Veteran: This is a shout out to everyone, anywhere regarding any Vets that you may know.  PLEASE ask your Veteran friends to sign up with the VA.  Fill out those forms.  (Yes, I know this can be a challenge) It can even be a headache, with all the paper work and bureaucracy .  But  This is important!  The VA is opening its doors to ALL vets to "get their names in the hat" so to speak. Will you notice any difference, immediately??? NO... not immediately; however, we are expanding the playing field because we are learning that, as Vets age, they have complications or illnesses that are indeed attached to their lives as  soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines.   The problem is that many will never know until it is way too late; however,  if they are all ready in the system, then it will be much easier for them to get help.  My Dad was at the tip of this spear and he had been out of the military since WW2.  He is now getting significant assistance that ...

STINKING THINKING.... It can fowl up your life.  It can cause you strife. It can allow toxic emotions to send you down into a spiral of unnecessary pain, shame, guilt and disdain.  STINKING THINKING can bust up a fellowship, trip up a friendship, destroy a beautiful relationship, and make your life a fragmented trip to a point of NO return.  So PLEASE spurn STINKING THINKING!  Now its one thing to say don't let STINKING THINKING  be your guide.  It is quite another to figure out how you can do anything about it... NO JIVE!  Yet, I think you can make a plan that will help you gain the upper hand over ST you see.  So you say to me, "Man What's the plan?  I have allowed ST to really hurt me and I wanna know what I gotta know to be a person of grace and put 'STINKING THINKING' in its place." Well, let me tell you friend, I have had my share of STINKING THINKING on my end of life, and I have had my share of the strife... and all the  stuff  that keeps me from being...

Before reading this blog entry, be sure to read the previous "part one."    So how do we begin to help a Vet, others who have been traumatized or, even you the reader, begin to gain a healthy spirituality.  A beginning would be to help the person re-frame who God is to them.  I call this  spiritual cognitive behavior.  Let's replace the "unholy" unhealthy scripts (scriptures) in an individuals soul with more "holy" or healthy scripts (Scriptures)   First let's mention a few of the views of God a traumatized person might have :   God is not dependable.  God just let's things happen no matter what the consequences.  God to this person could be viewed as  unkind, uncaring and unreliable.  It would be difficult for a traumatized person to see God as "love."   God certainly would not be someone that would care about the individual or keep the individual safe.   God might be considered a being who abandons "you."  And God would...

Over the years I have learned that America is jam packed loaded with people who are dysfunctional out the wazoo.  This is largely due to the abuse and pain that has been passed on from one generation to the next; for example all kinds of dysfunction results from the following stuff: Verbal abuse: This is where a child is cursed at, sworn at and called a less than gentle version of what use to be called an illegitimate child.  This also includes the child being told "you will never amount to anything!"  Or "Why can't you be like your brother/sister?"  In other words derogatory words were pounded on the child and into the child as the parent's (or parent type) pain was unleashed on an innocent.  (BTW.. a parent type is a coach, teacher, scout leader, church leader.... any adult in authority over the child who influenced various areas of the child's life.) Physical abuse:  What the words did not do, the fist,  and other utilized objects did.   Emotional ab...

May the LORD bless you.   May the LORD's hand be with you as HE favors you as you live out each daily act.  May HE increase your ability to be favored by those with  whom you interact....  May this favor be for a fact... Not to make you a people pleaser;  But so you can make someone's life a little easier. May He Bless You Through and Through As you touch the lives of others in all you are, say and do. AMEN!

I pray the LORD will bless you  indeed and favor you so you can be FREE: I pray HE will enlarge your capacity ...that you have the tenacity... To be emotionally solid, serene ...  emotionally germane.  No matter whom you intersect... no matter what life interjects,   May HE keep you from ALL evil, the evil one and all harm:   May your emotive life contain no alarm  Because you are sure that GOD is greater than any threatening harm.    May you find victory through all emotional grieving as you overcome the  evil one and all his deceiving.  May GOD give you a peaceful victory over struggling and pain.  Because you know that trust in the ALMIGHTY will give you victory over fear and all shame.   May God do for you what HE has done for the ancients of old.   Or Am I to bold to believe HE  is in control? And that HE will INDEED this prayer heed? Giving victory after hearing this prayerful plead? Now live by faith as if the ALMIGHTY GOD beside you is standing. Live as if this prayer is all re...

May the LORD bless the reader of this blog as HE blesses you indeed and  expands your capacity to be filled with Love, Joy, Peace, LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNg suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith and self control, the ability to shine HIS light, make the living water flow and causes the bread of life to grow.  May HE keep you from the evil one, all evil and all harm that you may not be harmed or cause harm  IN Jesus Holy Name... AMEN!