Prayer

Thank you Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for my existence. My experience of it in this world is a mixture of pain, pleasure, anxiety, hope as the corrupted exists side by side with the holy. I pray that my children, and their children and their children's children would have the knowledge of the wisdom that comes from you. Discerning right from wrong, holy from desecrated and posses a faith rooted and strong in You, your Word and the Good News of the Gospel, until you return to take your children home.

Until that great day I pray for strength, for those who love you (all my relatives), to persevere in the face of opposition to your name. May they be a light in a darkening world, that is never extinguished.

Kids, this past week has been extremely difficult for me. My work has felt like it has collapsed and my business, not as useful to clients as I thought. When life is hard and you want to quit, persevere. Yes, I know what it feels like to want to flee or fight but God has called us to be light and salt not just in good times but when everything goes wrong, yes even when you are the one to blame. Don't think you are the only one with troubles you perceive are insurmountable obstacles. Just because you are the creator of the troubles (and shoot why would God save you if you deserve the consequences) doesn't mean that God will let you wallow in them. That is not the message behind His love. When we were yet sinners, the Bible says, Christ died for us. So exchange wallowing for worshiping Jesus.

Memory Verse

For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chron 16:9a

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deut 4:29

One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. -- Psalm 27:4

Great Quote from Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt