A Christ Follower: The Journey

Is it really true that, "It is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you?"  Let me say that it is not easy trying to live up to this ideal, but giving up is not an option.   Spend time in prayer. Figure out your resources and  develop a plan. (People who do not plan are planning to fail.)  Implement the plan by stepping out in faith as you put one foot in front of the other... one step at a time... one day at a time. Keep on stepping until some thing happens as you P-U-S-H: Pray Until Something Happens. Evaluate your circumstances as you journey out the plan.  Pray some more, and adapt your plan so that it will be more effective an efficient. Prayers with plans that are given faith filled legs to the prayers usually make something happen.  Please do not give up... I am praying you will be... Blessed 2-day... Especially 2-day SoJourner

Hope {especially for those who do not have a whole lot of it in their "hope chest" }  is a motivating spiritual empowerment that helps a person keep putting one foot in front of the other... even when they do not feel like it. One of the Advent Candles is  The Candle of Hope.  Being an acrostic wonk, cause I wanna be and it helps me, I have a "Hope" acrostic for my fellow Christ Following SoJourners. H olding  O n to... P romises that are ... E ternal  You can find a whole bunch of  H-O-P-E in The Word, and if you would like me to share some of these promises with you, just let me know. Reading these promises, remembering them (as in memorizing them) and reflecting on them will help you to be filled with HOPE and it will help you to ... Be Blessed 2-day ... Especially 2-day :o) SoJourner

Yup! Today begins the first day of the Christian New Year:   Advent!   Sadly all too many folks  have focused the locus of their focus on stuff that misses the point entirely.   Advent=Coming! Christ Jesus Has Come! Christ Jesus Came to take away the sins of the world! Christ Jesus Came to take away your sins! Christ Jesus Came So You Will NOT Be Condemned For Your Sins! THIS IS GOOD NEWS! Christ Jesus Want's To Come Into Relationship With You! He Comes To Give You New and Eternal Life! He Comes Establishing A New Covenant With You! He Comes Conquering Hell Death And The Grave! He Comes So You Too Will Conquer Hell, Death And The Grave! Whether or Not You Do So Is Determined By You Letting Him Into Your Life as LORD of Your Life! Christ Jesus Will Come AGAIN! Ready or NOT!  Here HE Comes!!!!! It Is Up To You.   I Hope You Choose Wisely So You Can... Be Blessed 2-day ... Especially 2-day SoJourner

Something to consider: Season's of unhappiness are not the barometer of a good or bad marriage... as some modernist psychologist preach. Seasons of unhappiness say more about the unhappy people and coping skills each has acquired when pain is injected into their lives.   Learning skills to demonstrate love to your spouse or others,  even in the midst of pain, is the better option. When people receive Agape type love from a relationship with the Creator, and then they learn skills of demonstrating love to each other, (rather than running from each other) the backward view (40 years into the marriage), causes joy. I am talking empirically and experientially. There is a reason the Bible says "God hates divorce;" otherwise, those who run repeat multi-generational pain and pass it onto their children and grandchildren. Someone has o break this chain of insanity. Please understand:  This post is NOT about when someone is verbally, emotionally, physically, sexually or s...

Living one day at a time, taking one step at a time,  Living by the grace of God:  Works most of the time...  So long as non God focused living Does not interfere with God's Daily ... Rhythm and Rhyme. Works For Me :o) Be Blessed 2-Day...  Especially 2-Day SoJourner

There are many people who cannot see any reason why they need to gather and be a part of worship or listen to a sermon.  The following story (though its been around a while,  and the author unknown) answers their concerns quite well.  Matter of fact, these  concerns say more about the one asking the question than they will ever be able to discern.  Anyway... Check this oldie but good. If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If not... not so much :o) Why Be Involved In A Community of Faith? A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all." This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the ...

Indeed... there are a lot of people struggling "out there."  But if they learn the miracle of intimacy with God and prayer, they will experience the power that enables them to overcome every trouble and every care."  Al McGowen. I have done a whole lot of living. I have seen and experiened some of the most wonderful sights in the world, and I am not exaggerating. Then too... I have seen and experienced things no human being should ever have to see or experience.  Some of these have been, shall we say, challenging:  I have lost my job, thus my identity, my dignity, and I have experienced more pain than I can write about in this frame. Some of this trauma is related to military experiences and have been in the form nightmarish dreams. Some "challenges" have come as the fruit of vicious religious people inflicting pain,  and some of it  has been in the form of debilitating physical shock to my various somatic systems. Now I don't say this to whine or say ...