Beautiful Creation

Today i ran to the park. Under blue skies, through my tree lined neighborhood until i got to ford middle school. I walked through the parking lot over a basketball court and sat down at a picnic table between two medium sized, but wonderfully green oak trees. I sat, and i read 1st and 2nd Thessalonians wrote down my thoughts and i watched. In the shade of the trees in the cool breeze i watched kids play tennis, i watched a squirrel climb the trees to avoid little kids, I watched creation, beautiful creation. One of my favorite things to do is listen, i love to listen to the music of creation. The way the wind blows through the leaves, the sound of the squirrel running from limb to limb. It is beautiful. I walked the whole way back home thanking the Lord for what he has given us and singing aloud wavorly's praise and adore you.



So i'll praise and adore you lay it all down before you

in every way your beautiful from my heart

i'll praise and adore you, you made the world so beautiful

i can not stand and deny you created life and some live without it



every breath i take there's no way

accident created this place



Today was a great day i saw my Father's work and listened to the most beautiful sounds in the world. The love that he put into all this that he made for us is so evident that i am saddened every time someone talks of evolution or denies what stands before them proclaiming His works.

Lord, thank you for entrusting me with your wonderful world.

a delorean would be nice

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I went to see the wedding last night. While i was there i saw joey who played in the band fusco while i was in ftl. He has joined a new band called don't wake aislin. Watching him play last night made me wish that i was playing again on big stages in front of small crowds that sang back the lyrics and watched my fingers move over the neck of my 5 string. The only thing is that the music we played would have been awesome 15 years ago and if we were from southern california. So i need a delorean with a working flux capacitor so i can go back in time to be wicked good at punk rawk.

But, thats ok i don't need to be good at punk rawk. I have all that i need and the One who would make me good took it all away. Which i am greatful because i know i wouldn't be any where as close to Him as i am now and definatley not on the road to being as close as i want to be.

The Great Comforter The Great Provider

One of my struggles is to be a good husband to my wife and to be a good father to my daughter. I know it is my job and my duty as head of the household to provide for them both. I believe the Lord has called me to do this but until now i was unsure of the way. So, i made the way myself. I have attempted and done many things in just the past few months. I have sought a degree in what ever came my way, i seek a job that will put food on the table, and i thought i was doing what my Lord required of me. I was providing.

On sunday in bible study we spoke of security from Hosea. In the service we spoke of loyalty in John. After this it was brought to my attention that all places i've worked at have closed for that specific reason. I was looking for security in the wrong places and by that proving my loyalty to those places. I have made myself available to be at those jobs, at that school for all the wrong reasons. I was providing.

The latest one was to work at a book store. I went and applied three weeks ago for what ever they chose to give me, and while i was doing this i decided that it would be in my best interest to keep attending school so i could get that coveted degree. After sunday i came to this realization that i must first focus on Him and make my loyalty lie with Him and He will give me the job that i am meant to have or go to get the degree i am meant to have for His ultimate glory. I have been to busy "providing" for my family that i have been ignoring the one truly doing all the providing.

The Father, the Head of my household showed me this today in Hebrews ch13 vs 5 and 6. "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. So we say with confidence, the Lord is my helper i will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" I finished reading this passage to get a phone call from the book store saying that i didn't get the job. I was greatly comforted by my true provider even before i needed it.

The Great Romance

I have been conversing with a friend who has been reading fictional books about love; the love that is from us to a huge God and from that same God to us. the author calls this love the great romance because the God pursues these characters to the ends of the earth to the depths of the sea, even into the darkest shadow. The love that is portrayed in these books through these fictional characters is real. It is a love portrayed to be powerful beyond any human means, yet is so infinitesimal compared to the real thing.



There is a God who we call Father that does pursue us He is the King of all kings who's love is so large that it could not be contained in the star filled sky. He seeks us out when we are lost and pursues us until we come home to him. I love this time that i live in when my love is fulfilled in Him who comes for me. This time i call The Great Romance. He shows me things of love i can and can not yet comprehend, but those things that i can not yet understand i long for, and those that i do understand make me laugh and joyous and excited for others to understand. His love is amazing. It is an intoxicating thing. To be surrounded by this love is to be drowned in true joy. I long to breathe in the love, deeply breathe in and out so that it fills me and overflows for others to see and drown in.