I don’t get it!…. I mean how do we/they know? Most public restrooms will boast this ridiculous sign that says “Employees Must Wash Hands”. This one to the left is even more knee slapping. Not only does it tell you that all the employees wash their hands, they even give a six step instruction on the “how to”. Check it out…..
Step 1 – Wet
Step 2 – Soap
Step 3 – Wash for 20 seconds (this is very important…)
Step 4 – Rinse
Step 5 – Dry
Step 6 – Turn off Water With Paper Towel (also very important…)
Every time I see this kind of sign I think… Yeah Right. Employees are going to do what they want to do, and I doubt you could “make” them wash their hands. Have you ever tried to make someone wash their hands (besides kids I mean). It ain’t gonna happen. People wash their hands when they feel like washing their hands. I really think public establishments should GET REAL and change the sign. The sign should read something like this….
Have to give a shout out to Bobby Lepinay for turning me on to this clip. I think the producers have church “shopped” before and have brought it to light in the humorous rendition. It really shouldn’t be this way, but we are America… and it seems that the many options we have in this country helps to cater to the “feeling” anomaly. If it “feels right” it must be right. So many of us take this mentality as we choose things like groceries, clothes… even our spouses… Yikes!!! What if our “feeler” is wrong… then what do we do? I am glad that it’s possible to have the Holy Spirit living inside of us to help us make these life decisions… even with the food we fill our bodies with. Make no mistake. Your “feeler” don’t always work. If the Holy Spirit ain’t helpin ya. Yur just lost. Well… though I don’t endorse King of the Hill, or the way they choose a church. I do have to say it’s funny. So take this on the lighter side…. and enjoy.
As I was preparing to write the greatest birthday blog ever I was reminded of something a friend wrote not too long ago about relentless love.(Metromom, I hope you don�t mind that I am going to borrower some of your words as I don�t think that I can say it any better).Thank you, Lee, for letting me borrow your blog for the day.
Relentless Love – Are you familiar with it? It’s hard to put it into words, but I’ll try. It is the kind of love that pursues you with a determined force. It’s a selfless kind of love; the kind of love that empties its pockets to fill yours, the sacrificing love that never expects anything in return. The kind of love that empowers you and makes you believe that you’re worthy enough, capable enough to do anything you want to do.A love you can’t shake no matter what you do.It’s there accepting, welcoming, forgiving. It’s a love that makes you believe you deserve to be loved like that, even when you know you don’t. It’s the kind of love that comforts; you can relax and let out a sigh of relief just by being in its presence. It finds true joy in your success and true compassion in your sorrow. I hope that each one of you experience this kind of love in your life at some point.If you never have, let me introduce you to God (because I’m pretty sure that’s where she gets it).If I dedicated every success or accomplishment, every day to the woman who shows me this relentless love…it wouldn’t tell the half. I love you mom. I’ll never be able to tell you how much.
You are the greatest woman I have ever known and I am so blessed to have your influence in my life.HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Have you ever been under pressure? I think we have all felt the �pressure experience�. It’s not fun, nor do we go around praying for it. So why did God design us to feel pressure? When pressure comes in our life we normally ooze out all the nasties that are inside of us. These nasties usually come in the form of biting someone�s head off or like me in my earlier days� just throwing something. In moments like these we find out who we are� the real us. We are being �pressured� into knowing ourselves.
I heard this quote a long time ago that stuck with me. It goes like this� �You only have what you can hold under pressure�. This is a great quote and absolutely has meaning for all of us. You know� when a plumber puts together all his piping and steps back to observe the layout he knows that the job is not finished. It may look finished. All the piping may seem to be connected and in the right place. But is it really right? The purpose of the piping is not to �look� right or to �look� like it can hold water. Looking like it can hold water is not good enough. The only way to know if the piping will hold the water is to apply pressure to it. The plumber proceeds to turn on the water and checks for leaks or in some cases�gushes.Without turning on the water and building pressure in the line, there is just no way of knowing how strong the structure is.
God is piping you and I for His will� a people that will prosper� a people that will flourish� a people that will be strong. The pressure situations in our lives are just checks that reveal where our leaks and gushes are. If you notice a leak… just ask God to help fix those leaks and hold on. The “season” of pressure will subside� and what you will be left with� is a thing of beauty.
I know that you could have lived seventy years without seeing this… but I just had to post it. The photo is one of many on the web of the nasty stuff that comes out of your colon during a detox cycle. I am happy to say, that I have never seen this come out of me during any of my detox experiences. I have had three colonic sessions and though uncomfortable all came out well… enough said on that. Maybe I will post those experiences another time.
This past year I changed my eating habits drastically. I have been off sugar and sweets for just about a year now, along with tons of other things. (I will post more about this later I promise.) It has been a great detox for my body and has aided in my overall health. Somewhere last summer in the middle of the detox and diet changes, I was given a thought (this is how God speaks to me). The thought was, I needed to take the same measures that I was taking to detox my physical body and apply them to my spiritual body. WHAT AN IDEA! I needed to detox my soul. Since the soul is made up of your mind, will, and emotions. I was going to detox my mind, my will, and my emotions. How do you do that….? Well… when detoxing my physical body I had to limit the negative things that I ate and substitute them with the positive things, like organic foods etc… I had gotten so used to eating Reese’s and Oreo’s that this was a difficult thing and I was not aware of how far those negatives had taken my physical body. It’s a simple parallel. I had to limit the negatives that were going into my mind and for me this was words, TV, movies, the news, books. Once I limited the negatives going into my mind it cleaned up the rest of my soul. Negatives are simply anything that is contrary to the life that Jesus desires for us. Next time you decide to detox your body, maybe try adding a little extra detox for the soul as well… It does the body good.
Just a side note… Detoxing the soul takes forever. Literally
This is one of the rare images from the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz”. I have always loved this movie, and remember as a child sitting as close as I could to the TV. The intensity of the movie made me feel like I was right there with them. The Wicked Witch and her flying monkeys scared the crap out of me! If you click on this photo it will enlarge for you to see that the Cowardly Lion has a spray pump thing called, “Witch Removal” in his arms.
Here is a journey of friends all pitching in to help the other find what is missing in their lives. Sounds a lot like the world. Hmmmmm….. Here’s the twist. They weren’t missing anything at all. Everything they needed they already had. They just didn’t know it. Now that sounds a lot like Christians. Hmmmmm…. Here’s the thought. When Jesus gave his life, he gave us everything we need to make it in this journey, even “Witch Removal”. Dorothy and friends had the shoes, the brain, the courage, and the heart. We have our feet clothed with the gospel of peace, the mind of Christ, we fear not, and we have God’s heart. The question is do we know it. You don’t need the “Great and Powerful Oz” to tell you what you already have… just crack open the Word and see for yourself.
Take a real close look at this photo… see if you see something you have never seen before. This is not a trick photo or an illusion as you may think. The fruit is hanging out on the limb. The fruit is out on the limb!
OK… let me show you what i see. I was looking at a tree one day and thought about where the fruit was. The strongest part of the tree was its trunk… but no fruit was there, next came the main branches…still no fruit. The fruit was on this small little limb connected to the branch, that was connected to the trunk, that of course was planted in the ground. The small little limb was the most vulnerable place on the tree. The weakest part. The weakest part was the avenue to which the greatest results took place.
The actual purpose of the tree was being manifested through the weakest part. AMAZING!!!!! God is so awesome!! Jesus tells us that, John 15:5 �I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. God is not bearing fruit… You are!
Jesus is the trunk and we are the branches with limbs. Weak limbs at that, sometimes. Yet our purpose can be manifested in the things we deem “weak”. Other scriptures for this is 2 Corinthians 12:9 And He said to me, �My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.� and in 1 Corinthians 15:43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
The next time you have a “weak” moment try to remember God has some fruit for you to bear, and he will do it even in your weakness. And by the way…. it’s scary sometimes out on the limb!
He said, “Come”. Have you ever wondered why Jesus told Peter to come out of the boat and walk on water? This story has always been taught and gave the analogy that we must keep our eyes on Jesus in the midst of the storms. While that’s all well and good, we may want to take a look at this popular and often told “Sunday School” story from another angle.
What was Jesus doing telling Peter to “Come” in the first place? IT’S STORMY! Winds were thrashing and the waves were beating against the boat. And on top of that they were physically weak and tired from straining at rowing trying to get their boat to work right. This has got to be the worst time for Jesus to be teaching someone to “walk on water”. Yet Jesus said, “Come”.
When we think about this from inside the boat we realize that Jesus was trying to tell Peter, the disciples, and ultimately us something. It only takes “one word” from God to overcome the raging storms. When Jesus told Peter to come, Peter not only walked on water but he was overcoming the raging storm. No sea spray in the face, no water splashing on his clothes, no wind blowing his hair around. Just perfect peace… It was only when Peter saw that the wind was boisterous and feared that he began to sink. One word brought peace to an unbearable situation. There are 791,328 words in the bible. Pick One! One more thought… Jesus also had enough confidence in Peter to say to him,”Come”. That’s an awesome thought knowing that Peter was not much different than you and I. You know… Walking on water is simply trusting the unknown, the future, and the risks of life to God, and staying true to the God who loves you more than you can ever imagine. Let us all here the words…”Come”
Just wanted to shout out a big thank you to my wife Missy. We have been married 18 years and she has been a trooper. She’s been faithful, fun, steady, and just flat out a pleasure to be with. So here’s to you my love. THANK YOU!
Four old ladies sitting across the table from me throwing peanut shells wildly on the floor and having a big time. My co-worker Josh Onstott and I were grabbing a quick lunch at our local Logan’s Roadhouse Restaurant when suddenly our waitress came up to me and said, “Sorry, but I’m gonna get loud!”
She then proceeded to pull up a stool and stand on top of it. She got everyone’s attention in the place and said, “We don’t sing happy birthday around here, but we have a young woman that just turned 21 and on the count of 3, lets all give a big “who ya”.
Of course when she hit 3 we all gave the big “who ya”. These women were late, late, late twenties. More like pushing 80. This made me think. Why are we so ashamed of our ages. There comes a time, and I suppose it is different for all of us, when we start lying about how old we are. We also teach our children that it is not polite to ask old people how old they are. Why? Isn’t old age a thing to celebrate. These crusaders have made it through the trials, ups and downs, pain etc… of life and they are still journeying on. Old age is awesome and reveals strength, endurance, and determination. We should be proud to say we have made it 80 years in this life and are still smiling, throwing peanut shells frivously on the floor, and shouting out “who ya” to the top of our lungs. We should honor those we call “blue hairs” instead of complaining about them driving 30 miles an hour down the highway. It’s the BIG COVER UP! I just turned 40 and I could use some of their endurance. How about this, on the count of three we should all give a big “who ya” to those that are passing the wisdom down to us and help us realize “what really matters”. OK ready… one… two…three… “WHO YA!!!!”
Have you ever been under pressure? I think we have all felt the �pressure experience�. It’s not fun, nor do we go around praying for it. So why did God design us to feel pressure? When pressure comes in our life we normally ooze out all the nasties that are inside of us. These nasties usually come in the form of biting someone�s head off or like me in my earlier days� just throwing something. In moments like these we find out who we are� the real us. We are being �pressured� into knowing ourselves.
I know that you could have lived seventy years without seeing this… but I just had to post it. The photo is one of many on the web of the nasty stuff that comes out of your colon during a detox cycle. I am happy to say, that I have never seen this come out of me during any of my detox experiences. I have had three colonic sessions and though uncomfortable all came out well… enough said on that. Maybe I will post those experiences another time.
Take a real close look at this photo… see if you see something you have never seen before. This is not a trick photo or an illusion as you may think. The fruit is hanging out on the limb. The fruit is out on the limb!
. The small little limb was the most vulnerable place on the tree. The weakest part. The weakest part was the avenue to which the greatest results took place.
He said, “Come”. Have you ever wondered why Jesus told Peter to come out of the boat and walk on water? This story has always been taught and gave the analogy that we must keep our eyes on Jesus in the midst of the storms. While that’s all well and good, we may want to take a look at this popular and often told “Sunday School” story from another angle.
Four old ladies sitting across the table from me throwing peanut shells wildly on the floor and having a big time. My co-worker Josh Onstott and I were grabbing a quick lunch at our local Logan’s Roadhouse Restaurant when suddenly our waitress came up to me and said, “Sorry, but I’m gonna get loud!”