Take some notes, you not going to want to miss this one!!

One thing for sure that this whole Tiger woods extravaganza has made me realize. Rich, or poor, black, white or Native American, man is fallible, regardless of the pedestal we put him on. With that said, let me clear the air. Take today and make it a good one. Yesterday is gone. Don't spend your energy on being mad. All being mad does is stress you out and wear you down. Get over it. Expect that people are going to disappoint you, and rise above it. Don't live in yesterday's garbage either. Nothing destroys a life and vigor more than wallowing in past garbage. Also, try to laugh today. Find someone who makes you laugh and hang out with them. Laughter is medicine to the soul. I guarantee a life that isn't laughing is a life that's hallow of life and bitter. Don't be that person. Lastly, forgive someone today. This extends to other emotions including jealousy, unforgiving, greed, selfishness etc. If you feel any of that today, take notice, get rid of it and get on with living. Clean up that soul of yours today and make you life a good one. God bless!!

Just taking a minute to vent...

Let's just stop for a minute and evaluate our lives!! We continue to either be in a state of such stress and high blood pressure or we are lulling ourselves to sleep with mediocrity. I sometimes picture the earth spinning like a top and I can see the world moving just as fast. We fly to this country, drive over to this destination, continuing the rat race. Let's just stop for minute!! We are thinking about bills. We are thinking about this or that. Never stopping and enjoying today. We are unhappy because we don't get our way. We are unhappy because we don't have the biggest TV or the newest set of clothes. We are failing and moving forward everyday. For Christ's sake stop it for a minute!! Take a look out the window and enjoy the sunshine. Enjoy a minute and take a deep breathe of fresh air. Enjoy the swaying of the trees. Listen to the kids playing off in the distance. For whatever it is that you haven't done in awhile. Do it!! Get your butt back on track and live life like it should be. Believe it or not, you were meant to enjoy life. How the story is written is up to you. Make it the best today!!

Hello Blogger World!!

Just about to sign off for the day. I'm taking a step back in my life. Hopefully I'm not taking a step backwards in my life, but just taking a moment to take a look at the painting I've created thus far. I sometimes look at the choices I've made and "wonder what I was thinking"? Have you ever just up and left all you have loved and known for some sort of divine purpose? I have. Because of that choice, many fruits were born of it. Some good, some bad. But overall, I experience much that I would not have, had I stayed put. Well, I suppose that's not all true. I suppose I could have experience something else had I remained. Anyway, we continue to choose and live. Day in and day out. Choose, then live. In those years I've flown the world. Climbed some of the highest mountains and been in some of the lowest valley's. Hopefully, I'd like to experience another ten years, see what it has in store for me. Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Make it a great one!!

Perfect Ending...

There is a song today, that took me back and I wanted to share it with you today. It a song called Red light by David Nail. I've shared this story with my wife, and thought it to be an experience that seems to be story book. I had made one last ditch effort to span the already widened gap between my relationship with her. My world was falling apart in front of my face, so the only thing I knew to do, was to go see her. It was a spur of the moment decision, and I made it. I took off 150 miles to go see her, but not before buying her a couple gifts to lighten the mood. Maybe she would be happy at least about the gifts. So when I got there, she was very uninterested that I was there. In fact, she was darn right rude. My heart was broken, but I tried not to show it. I was scratching and clawing to keep the ember burning. Little had I known it was already out. We sat around and I asked her what she wanted to do, she shrugged her shoulders. Any idea I came up with was not to her approval. So, I knew I was alone there at her house. She was cold, I was there, I knew things were over. I wasn't sure what to do, so, I did what any man would do. I left. I didn't say goodbye to anyone. I got in my car, and drove off. It started raining and I thought what a long drive it would be back home. I got down the road a bit and looked down and there were her gifts sitting next to me. I paused for a minute. Still holding on, hoping. I thought for a moment, turned the car around and pulled back into the driveway. Her dad and her were standing in the garage. This was it, I thought. I grabbed her gifts and opened up the car door. As I got out, the rain fell on my face and I thought, "what a perfect ending." She ran out to me and asked me where I went. I said I'm leaving. She hugged me and said she was sorry. Not the sorry come back in, but sorry I hurt you. I'm sorry this is over. That kind of sorry. The rain steadily fell on the both of us. This was the end. I grinned the best I could, gave her the gifts, turned and got in the car. As I was pulling away, I looked into the rear view, I saw her and her father standing in the garage as the rain continued to fall. It was surreal. If you have never had your heart broken, you might not know what I'm speaking of. That moment when what you held to for so long, the person that your heart longed after, was gone from your life. That's the moment I'm speaking of, and to have the rain pouring down on the two of us, as we said goodbye, was story book. As I look back at such an experience, I am so glad I got a chance to experience that. Yes it was so hard at the time, but wow, what's a life look like not lived? Not getting the chance to experience that at all. I wouldn't trade any of that. Especially when I have everyone and everything I want now. Anyway, I just felt nostalgic today and thought I would share that with you. Have a great day!!

Stepping back...

I'm not sure why we do it, but we do. Especially in an age where we are always busy with our cell phones, computers, TV. video games etc. We become unaware of our surroundings. We don't ever stop to ask why I am doing this or that. Or why am I here at this very instance for? I sat in my friends car today as he was cashing his check and the first thing I grabbed was my phone. I was trying to see who I could call to fill the dead space. After a second of thumbing through the contact list, I closed the phone, stopped and looked out the widow. Yes, I was surround by concrete and asphalt, people running in and out of their cars. But off in the distance I saw a line of trees swaying in the wind. While I am not a green peace freak or one that stares into nature for insight. I found myself coming back to planet earth. The stillness of the trees, swaying back and forth brought me into some sort of focus. I took a minute from my business, and it felt great. It felt peaceful. Maybe it would not hurt us to take a minute and get away from our cell phones, radios, computers, TVs. Because in all reality, in 50 more years, more than likely ,I will no longer be hear on this planet. So why fill up my time with stuff that is unnecessary, insignificant? Anyway, you get the picture. Take some time today to pursue some peace in your life. Unplug for a little while. Make it a great day!!

Piling Up

Lord, I can sense things building up in my life, and their not good. I truly believe this is a test from you. I ask that you help me through this time. I also know things could be worse, much worse. I thank you also for your grace and mercy. I thank you for not being mad at me. I thank you for your Spirit which lives inside of me. Father, I ask you to strengthen me when another dart comes me why. Help me stand firm in love. Help me to love when I am wronged. I am at your mercy concerning all things godly. Fill me with your Spirit that I may act the way you want me to act. Change my heart, my Lord. Cleanse me of my sins, those that I know about, and those that I am ignorant of. Create in me a clean heart that I may see you. Already I can sense your peace as I type each letter of this. Thank you. Help me keep that peace as the day progresses and the trials continue. I love you Lord.

Clearing the Clutter

I have never understood the term Spring cleaning. I suppose it is a time to put away the winter clothes or something to that extent, I'm not really sure. Obviously, it is a term that means an intense time of cleaning and sorting. One of the main ideas that came across me today is how often we neglect to spring clean our lives, minds etc. Sometimes, we just need to go through our life and get rid of the junk that just doesn't need to be there. Items that sit and mold in the corner's of our hearts. Many times we let these items inside the walls of our heart. Item's that stink and rot our inner man. We know they are their but we keep them anyway. Maybe someday to use them for whatever reason. So as this stuff just sits and rots in our hearts, we just sit around and look at it. Pointing at it, saying look at such and such and so forth. When in all reality, it needs to be put out of our lives and where it belongs, in a trash can. So, today, I have decided to not let certain "bags" of garbage in my heart house. Stuff I know that is nothing more than that. I have had friends who try to share and ask me to store their "bags" in my home, today, I gladly decline. Maybe it would do us some good to say no more garbage today. I have plenty to deal with on my own, that I need to throw away. So, may the Lord help us today, to get rid of the garbage and help us to enjoy one of the main purposes of life. To enjoy it with our creator. Amen

Reality Wheel

I've had this idea in my head for some time now, but I haven't really put it into any kind of format. I was actually thinking about it last night as my family and I were taking a walk in the park. I was thinking about former times when I use to have the time to be more active and in turn be more physically fit. I thought about how I wished I could dedicate more time to my physical fitness and that's when a picture popped into my head. I have a saying on my office wall that says; "Remember to keep your life in balance. Too much of anything can typically be a bad thing". I saw a picture of a wheel, and in that wheel it contained several aspects in life that were very important and necessary to my existence. I did not have them lay ed out proportionately but I had a start of what to put into the wheel. To start off, I pictured exercise as one of the proportioned pieces , being that is what started this whole process. The remainder of the pieces would be split up into vital parts of one's existance in his/her life. Such as, faith, family, friends, extra curricular activities, work etc. Now, with a proportioned wheel set, if you took a pencil and poked it directly in the middle, in a perfect world you would have a life perfectly balanced and spinning correctly. But, that is not the way our life's always spin. Let's say for instance that I am spending more time in my work section of the pie, then I would have to move my center up into the work section slightly. Thus making the wheel spin slightly off proportion. Almost like an unbalanced tire would spin. If I kept this up for a while, the other portions would have to grow smaller, thus suffocating part of my time with them. Anyway, the image is this; if we were to take our life now and try to put it into portions of the "reality wheel" how would it spin? Would it be extremely off kilter? Would the center of our wheel be in work? Our family? Our faith? Our friends? You get the point. Maybe this reality wheel while not a perfect gauge, may give us some insight to how in balance or out of balance our life really is. I have some more thinking to do on this matter, but I feel I have a good start on something. What do you think?

UNTITLED...

On the drive in this morning, many thoughts crossed my mind and I wanted to write about them, but as I came into work I wasn't so sure that is what I wanted pouring out of my fingertips. I thought about my life, when I was in my late teens. I thought about how I was such a drifter. A young man with no direction in life. I had so longed to be free to explore the world and see what it had to offer. What I found was I was a young man adrift life's ocean with no oars or paddles. I was drifting atop each wave and letting life's waves push me where it willed. Have you ever felt like that? I'd be curious to hear where some people were when they were in such a state. How old they were, what circumstances put them there and maybe some of the experiences they had. As I look back and remember that state and sense of drifting I had I recall a lonely state, unsure, I felt small in stature while the world seemed to swallow me whole. Anyway, as I look out my office window today, those feelings are all but memories. As if it were all a bad dream. Yet, I am thankful for such a time. For how would I have known how delightful life can be if I had not tasted the darker side of life? How would I have tasted the sweetness if not for the bitter? So, I would ask you reader, where are you today? Where is your life? Are you tasting the bitter side of life today? Or are you enjoying the sweetness of life's pleasantries?

I'm for real this time....

I've started several blogs in several locations, and I have decided to make this one for real. Haha. Why blog you say? Why write down your thoughts in such a format? Well, I'm just to lazy to use a pen or pencil. :) Let's just say that I can type much faster than I can write. Hopefully, the whole world wide web doesn't have some kind of massive meltdown and all my thoughts and inspiring moments go with it. Haha, oh well, I guess I suppose if my life doesn't correspond with any of my ramblings on this blasted Internet thing, than I really just wasted my time. I suppose wisdom can be written down, but if it isn't applied in life, what good has it really done? Anyway, I'm sure you will see many questions coming from my blogs. I have found that the only way to glean any kind of wisdom or answers, you must ask questions. Well enough for right now, I'll be talking with you later. Shalom.