Hello everyone,
It has been a long time. I do not think anyone even follows this any more but I have been thinking about this blog quite a bit. First I feel as though I need to let you know why I stopped blogging. I begin a bible tour which in the moment I thought was a great idea for everyone to read along, and for many reasons I chose to stop. I am sorry for giving no warning and not posting for five months, but I felt as if I where trying to be some online pastor and it just did not feel right. So in turn I have come back to blog some more on Christian parenting in this currect crazy world, if anyone even still follows me lol.
I want to give a update on my life today to catch you all up to speed. I have fully recovered from my knee surgery and I am back to work. Katie is starting her own daycare business, and Troy and Braiden are growing up so fast, O and we now have a dog, Sophie. So that's caught up, life has been good, busy and eventful but good. God has shown me many things this past five months, I have learned how short of time we really have to spend with our families, I have learned how to handle major amounts of stress and deal with other people's stress and how to react to the affects of their such stress. Peace I am stil learning, I would say I have come to grasshopper level. I wanted to touch on some of those topics this evening first begin others people's stress, my company has decided to upgrade their computer system and if any of you have been with a company through a upgrade in systems you under stand the amount of stress that can have on everyone involved. Well I have been learning on how to let things that hAve been said to me understress just go in one ear and out the other. I learned that getting upset does nothing but make the whole thing worse. If you just let it go, I've found that the person normally comes to later and says that they where sorry that they have been under so much stres and etc.... You see what I mean. My theory is that if you can let something go for 2 hours and not get upset, that person will come to you feeling sorry.
Hopefully that will help you in the future I know it has helped me alot at work.
Well I am going to head off to bed, I hope some of you readers are out there still. Have a great holiday weekend, God Bless.
Eric
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
A Guided Tour; Wk 1 Part 4
Hello Everyone,
As you may have noticed I have no posted in two days, I spend Sunday's with my family and I did not want to leave them for an hour to read and post. As for Monday, I spent the day hanging out with a close friend, so I am sorry for skipping a day, but it was much needed.
Moving on, Today was in our fourth section of our reading which is; Mark Chapter Nine, A day in the Life of Jesus.
This is kind of a short chapter, but I did find some small things to talk about. In this chapter, Jesus takes Peter, James and John to the top of a mountain. At the top of the mountain Moses and Elijah show up, and Jesus' clothes turn to pure white, and then a loud voice comes from the clouds and say's "This is my son, Listen to him."
When they left the mountain, Jesus told Peter, James and John to not tell anyone of what they saw, until the son of man rose from the dead. Peter, James and John, agreed but they had no idea what Jesus was talking about, but they were scared to ask.
I find that a interesting part of the story, That Peter, James and John where to scared to ask Jesus what he was talking about. I mean, out of all the things they see Jesus do, They are to scared to ask him, but I guess when you think about it, Jesus is talking about a man rising from the dead, I would have to admit, if someone started to me about that I would give them that look like "Do you need help?" It just sticks out to me, I thought they would be ready for anything.
I am going to leave you with a question today:
In mark Nine, The stories includes both high and lows in the disciples experience. What would a graph of your spiritual journey look like?
Mine would start at age 10. A giant spike in the chart at age 10, then it would slowly drop until age 13, when I gave my life over to him again, then it would spike up again. Between age 14 and 17.5 in would be dropping to almost zero. At age 17.5 I began to go to church because my wonderful girl friend (now wife) really wanted me to come. And ever since then I have been walking faster and faster to find Christ.
Explain your to me in the comments below, I'd love to hear about your journey.
God Bless,
Eric
As you may have noticed I have no posted in two days, I spend Sunday's with my family and I did not want to leave them for an hour to read and post. As for Monday, I spent the day hanging out with a close friend, so I am sorry for skipping a day, but it was much needed.
Moving on, Today was in our fourth section of our reading which is; Mark Chapter Nine, A day in the Life of Jesus.
This is kind of a short chapter, but I did find some small things to talk about. In this chapter, Jesus takes Peter, James and John to the top of a mountain. At the top of the mountain Moses and Elijah show up, and Jesus' clothes turn to pure white, and then a loud voice comes from the clouds and say's "This is my son, Listen to him."
When they left the mountain, Jesus told Peter, James and John to not tell anyone of what they saw, until the son of man rose from the dead. Peter, James and John, agreed but they had no idea what Jesus was talking about, but they were scared to ask.
I find that a interesting part of the story, That Peter, James and John where to scared to ask Jesus what he was talking about. I mean, out of all the things they see Jesus do, They are to scared to ask him, but I guess when you think about it, Jesus is talking about a man rising from the dead, I would have to admit, if someone started to me about that I would give them that look like "Do you need help?" It just sticks out to me, I thought they would be ready for anything.
I am going to leave you with a question today:
In mark Nine, The stories includes both high and lows in the disciples experience. What would a graph of your spiritual journey look like?
Mine would start at age 10. A giant spike in the chart at age 10, then it would slowly drop until age 13, when I gave my life over to him again, then it would spike up again. Between age 14 and 17.5 in would be dropping to almost zero. At age 17.5 I began to go to church because my wonderful girl friend (now wife) really wanted me to come. And ever since then I have been walking faster and faster to find Christ.
Explain your to me in the comments below, I'd love to hear about your journey.
God Bless,
Eric
Saturday, December 11, 2010
A Guided Tour; Wk 1 Part 3
Brief introductory credits flash on the screen, Then the camera pans across an expanse of bleached sand, inhabited mostly by scorpions, lizards and tarantulas. At last, through the shimmering heat a tone figure appears: an eccentric wearing camel's hair and crying somthing in the think desert air. So begins Mark.
I think Mark, to be like a action movie, He is very direct with his stories, very little dialogue but tones of action. I love it. Mark spills out four maraicles in the first chapter and covers the important parts and leaves out small details. Not saying the small details are not important, just not for Mark. I think of his as a modern, reading a book on the go kind of guy.
In this chapter, we hear about John preparing the way for the coming on the Lord, Short and sweet from Mark, moves onto "The Calling of the First Disciples" We get a small short story on how Jesus found his crew. I think it is so cool, that he is just walking down the road, call's out to these guys and is like, Hey! Leave you stuff, Come hang with me. I'll make you fishers of men. To cool, talk about any awesome way to pick friends. After this we read about Jesus driving out an evil spirit, He was in Capernaum and on Sunday he went into the synagogue and begin to teach. (DAD NOTE; Notice, Jesus was always teaching, not preaching. Think about that.) The bible says he would teach with authority, not of law. That was different to the people and it stuck out to them. A man, possessed by an evil spirit, then cried out, "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are - The Holy One of God!" (Mark 1:24) Jesus, replied "Be quiet!" "Come out of him!" (Mark 1:25) The evil spirit shook the man violently and then came out of him with a shriek. Mark then says the people were all so amazed that they asked each, "What is This? A new teaching and wit authority!"
Once again, I feel that emotions are let out, I do not know what your beliefs are, but I believe that there are people right now today who God has chosen to do those type of things. If you have ever seen anything like this, Amazed is not the right word at all! I saw some thing just like this, once, and I'll never forget it. I was speechless for about an hour, I could not believe what I just saw, actually I did not really believe it till about 2 years later.
Jesus then heals Mary, Not his mother, but Simon's mother in law. She was in bed with a fever, his crew informed him about her. Jesus then went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them. After that, the town came to the door and brought the sick and demon possessed. Mark states in verse 34 that Jesus held many, and cast out many demons, not letting them speak.
This scene reminds me of the transporter movie, when he is in the garage fighting off like 25 "evil" guys sliding threw the oil with the peddle bike peddles on his feet. It's an awesome fight scene, that last's a total of 50 seconds. Much like this story. Mark, leaves out all details of Jesus' work in this story except for what he did for Simon's mother-in-law. I find it odd, but yet it is still practiced today with famous writers and movie makers, the "hero" does so much cool stuff in the movie or book, they can not explain everything, or else the movie would be 3 days long, and the book would make the dictionary look like a child's bedtime story.
My favorite story in this chapter is when Jesus goes to pray in a solitary place, first off, I love solitary places. I am blessed right now to have a lot of free time, and time for me to reflect on my life, and become closer with God. But yet, I still find myself leaving my house and going to a quite place. Even though I bring my puppy with me, There is just some thing about getting out, and going some where to be with God. In this story, Jesus leaves his crew and heads off to his place to pray to God. After some time, his crew started to worry so they went looking for him, and when they found him they stated; "Everyone is looking for you!" Jesus did not answer him, instead he said, Lets go to other towns so I can do this everywhere.
I find it very awesome that he did not feel the need to explain himself to anyone. I think back to Luke, when his parents found him after 3 days of looking, and he stated; Well, where else did you think I would be. Again same case, Well, where else did you think I would be. I think that is so cool.
I was upstairs in my bedroom a few days ago, and my oldest son was playing in his room across the hall, He plays with his toys cars and calls them Mommy and Daddy and Braiden, and Papa and Caleb and so on. Well one evening, I kept hearing him yell, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" So of course I come running into his room yelling "What! What! What's wrong, Are you O.K." and he looked right at me, with eyes wide open and a shocked look on his face, then he looks behind him, see's no one then points to his chest and says "Me? I not talking to you Daddy, I talking to him (pointing to Doc, his toy car) Daddy!" I think of that when I think of Jesus' crew, or his parents, coming to find him. I can see the reaction in my son's face to be the same.
In reading this chapter, I learned some more information about Jesus but I was thinking today of how I could take some thing from this chapter and apply it to my life, and I think one of the biggest points in this chapter is that Jesus, was always teaching his followers, he was not commanding laws and rules, he was offering a way to God through him, but only if you wanted it. I want to have that skill in begin a father, I want to be able to show my kids everything they need to know, but yet give them the choice no matter which way they will go. I am finding that is the hardest thing to do, even though I know, pulling the dogs tail will make her bark, I still have to still here and watch Bam get scared when it happens. I feel the sooner I start to teach rather than rule the better.
May God bless you this weekend,
Eric
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I think Mark, to be like a action movie, He is very direct with his stories, very little dialogue but tones of action. I love it. Mark spills out four maraicles in the first chapter and covers the important parts and leaves out small details. Not saying the small details are not important, just not for Mark. I think of his as a modern, reading a book on the go kind of guy.
In this chapter, we hear about John preparing the way for the coming on the Lord, Short and sweet from Mark, moves onto "The Calling of the First Disciples" We get a small short story on how Jesus found his crew. I think it is so cool, that he is just walking down the road, call's out to these guys and is like, Hey! Leave you stuff, Come hang with me. I'll make you fishers of men. To cool, talk about any awesome way to pick friends. After this we read about Jesus driving out an evil spirit, He was in Capernaum and on Sunday he went into the synagogue and begin to teach. (DAD NOTE; Notice, Jesus was always teaching, not preaching. Think about that.) The bible says he would teach with authority, not of law. That was different to the people and it stuck out to them. A man, possessed by an evil spirit, then cried out, "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are - The Holy One of God!" (Mark 1:24) Jesus, replied "Be quiet!" "Come out of him!" (Mark 1:25) The evil spirit shook the man violently and then came out of him with a shriek. Mark then says the people were all so amazed that they asked each, "What is This? A new teaching and wit authority!"
Once again, I feel that emotions are let out, I do not know what your beliefs are, but I believe that there are people right now today who God has chosen to do those type of things. If you have ever seen anything like this, Amazed is not the right word at all! I saw some thing just like this, once, and I'll never forget it. I was speechless for about an hour, I could not believe what I just saw, actually I did not really believe it till about 2 years later.
Jesus then heals Mary, Not his mother, but Simon's mother in law. She was in bed with a fever, his crew informed him about her. Jesus then went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them. After that, the town came to the door and brought the sick and demon possessed. Mark states in verse 34 that Jesus held many, and cast out many demons, not letting them speak.
This scene reminds me of the transporter movie, when he is in the garage fighting off like 25 "evil" guys sliding threw the oil with the peddle bike peddles on his feet. It's an awesome fight scene, that last's a total of 50 seconds. Much like this story. Mark, leaves out all details of Jesus' work in this story except for what he did for Simon's mother-in-law. I find it odd, but yet it is still practiced today with famous writers and movie makers, the "hero" does so much cool stuff in the movie or book, they can not explain everything, or else the movie would be 3 days long, and the book would make the dictionary look like a child's bedtime story.
My favorite story in this chapter is when Jesus goes to pray in a solitary place, first off, I love solitary places. I am blessed right now to have a lot of free time, and time for me to reflect on my life, and become closer with God. But yet, I still find myself leaving my house and going to a quite place. Even though I bring my puppy with me, There is just some thing about getting out, and going some where to be with God. In this story, Jesus leaves his crew and heads off to his place to pray to God. After some time, his crew started to worry so they went looking for him, and when they found him they stated; "Everyone is looking for you!" Jesus did not answer him, instead he said, Lets go to other towns so I can do this everywhere.
I find it very awesome that he did not feel the need to explain himself to anyone. I think back to Luke, when his parents found him after 3 days of looking, and he stated; Well, where else did you think I would be. Again same case, Well, where else did you think I would be. I think that is so cool.
I was upstairs in my bedroom a few days ago, and my oldest son was playing in his room across the hall, He plays with his toys cars and calls them Mommy and Daddy and Braiden, and Papa and Caleb and so on. Well one evening, I kept hearing him yell, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" So of course I come running into his room yelling "What! What! What's wrong, Are you O.K." and he looked right at me, with eyes wide open and a shocked look on his face, then he looks behind him, see's no one then points to his chest and says "Me? I not talking to you Daddy, I talking to him (pointing to Doc, his toy car) Daddy!" I think of that when I think of Jesus' crew, or his parents, coming to find him. I can see the reaction in my son's face to be the same.
In reading this chapter, I learned some more information about Jesus but I was thinking today of how I could take some thing from this chapter and apply it to my life, and I think one of the biggest points in this chapter is that Jesus, was always teaching his followers, he was not commanding laws and rules, he was offering a way to God through him, but only if you wanted it. I want to have that skill in begin a father, I want to be able to show my kids everything they need to know, but yet give them the choice no matter which way they will go. I am finding that is the hardest thing to do, even though I know, pulling the dogs tail will make her bark, I still have to still here and watch Bam get scared when it happens. I feel the sooner I start to teach rather than rule the better.
May God bless you this weekend,
Eric
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Friday, December 10, 2010
A Guided Tour; Wk 1 Part 2
Welcome back, I hope you enjoyed yesterdays reading. Today we will be continuing in Luke, Chapter 2. The Birth of Jesus. The introduction, is fit for this time of the year, We all know the Christmas Story, Mary and Joesph had to go to Bethlehem for a census and Mary gave birth to her firstborn son, Jesus. Since we all know this story so well I am going to move onto the next, which is Jesus begin presented in the Temple.
On the Eight day, it was time to circumcise Jesus, So Mary and Joesph took Jesus to the Temple, there at the Temple they were informed by two people, That their son would do great works. First was a man named, Simeon, The Bible states that he had been revealed to him that he would not die before he saw the Lord's Christ. Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts, He took Jesus into his arms and said: "Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the sight of all people. A light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel. " (Luke 2:29-32)
Ok lets think about this, So you just have your child, you take him to Church 8 days later, and a old and wise man comes into Church and picks up your child and tells you he is a the Lord's salvation, and He is going to save the world. Umm, ok, If I some one told me that when Troy or Braiden was born, I would be freaking out, but no, Mary and Joesph are marveled at what is send about there son. Marveled? Marveled? I think that may be a understatement. Although, from the get go they have been told that he is the son of God, so maybe that has something to do with how they reacted, but I try to put myself in place of Joesph, I would be scared to death, or I would be so excited jumping up and down. Maybe Luke did not want to take up 30 pages with how the parents felt, but I think he could of used a better word choice than marveled. Moving on.
The next time we hear about Jesus' childhood from Luke is in verse 41. Every year they went to Temple to celebrate Passover, one year was different. Jesus is now 12 years old, and they go to celebrate, and when they are leaving, Jesus stays at the temple without his parents knowing. A full day later, they realize that Jesus is no longer with them and they return to the Temple. 3 days later, they get back to the Temple to find their son, a 12 year old, sitting among older men talking and asking questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding.
I have been to discussions with my Dad at younger ages like that, and I can think of how I felt. I was bored to tears, I did not understand half of the things they where talking about. But yet, Jesus is holding conversations with men in the Temple, and not your average 12 year old conversations, no the Bible says everyone was amazed at his understanding. Meaning he was holding amazing conversations and asking questions that made people turn heads and listen themselves. That is pretty amazing. I have conversations with my 3 year old sometimes where I'm like, "Where did you learn that?"
Mary and Joesph, finally got back to the Temple 3 days later, and asked Jesus, why he did that to them, they were worried sick, and all he had to say was "Why where you searching for me?" "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?"
Take a second and read that again. Now think about this, You are in Walmart, and your child runs off to the toy section without you knowing. If that has ever happened to you, you know that first feeling that hits you like a Mac Truck. Image, not begin able to find your child for three days. Ok so know you know how Mary and Joesph felt, then put in his remark to them asking why he did it. Think of your child saying, "Well why where you searching all over, you should of know I would be with the Toys." Yeah O.K. My son would be in a world of trouble. A world. That just sounds like a smart remark to me, but there is nothing to support that his parents where upset, What it does say is that Mary treasured all of these things in her heart.
What do you think that means? She treasured all of these things in her heart. Leave your comments below. :)
God Bless,
Eric
On the Eight day, it was time to circumcise Jesus, So Mary and Joesph took Jesus to the Temple, there at the Temple they were informed by two people, That their son would do great works. First was a man named, Simeon, The Bible states that he had been revealed to him that he would not die before he saw the Lord's Christ. Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts, He took Jesus into his arms and said: "Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the sight of all people. A light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel. " (Luke 2:29-32)
Ok lets think about this, So you just have your child, you take him to Church 8 days later, and a old and wise man comes into Church and picks up your child and tells you he is a the Lord's salvation, and He is going to save the world. Umm, ok, If I some one told me that when Troy or Braiden was born, I would be freaking out, but no, Mary and Joesph are marveled at what is send about there son. Marveled? Marveled? I think that may be a understatement. Although, from the get go they have been told that he is the son of God, so maybe that has something to do with how they reacted, but I try to put myself in place of Joesph, I would be scared to death, or I would be so excited jumping up and down. Maybe Luke did not want to take up 30 pages with how the parents felt, but I think he could of used a better word choice than marveled. Moving on.
The next time we hear about Jesus' childhood from Luke is in verse 41. Every year they went to Temple to celebrate Passover, one year was different. Jesus is now 12 years old, and they go to celebrate, and when they are leaving, Jesus stays at the temple without his parents knowing. A full day later, they realize that Jesus is no longer with them and they return to the Temple. 3 days later, they get back to the Temple to find their son, a 12 year old, sitting among older men talking and asking questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding.
I have been to discussions with my Dad at younger ages like that, and I can think of how I felt. I was bored to tears, I did not understand half of the things they where talking about. But yet, Jesus is holding conversations with men in the Temple, and not your average 12 year old conversations, no the Bible says everyone was amazed at his understanding. Meaning he was holding amazing conversations and asking questions that made people turn heads and listen themselves. That is pretty amazing. I have conversations with my 3 year old sometimes where I'm like, "Where did you learn that?"
Mary and Joesph, finally got back to the Temple 3 days later, and asked Jesus, why he did that to them, they were worried sick, and all he had to say was "Why where you searching for me?" "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?"
Take a second and read that again. Now think about this, You are in Walmart, and your child runs off to the toy section without you knowing. If that has ever happened to you, you know that first feeling that hits you like a Mac Truck. Image, not begin able to find your child for three days. Ok so know you know how Mary and Joesph felt, then put in his remark to them asking why he did it. Think of your child saying, "Well why where you searching all over, you should of know I would be with the Toys." Yeah O.K. My son would be in a world of trouble. A world. That just sounds like a smart remark to me, but there is nothing to support that his parents where upset, What it does say is that Mary treasured all of these things in her heart.
What do you think that means? She treasured all of these things in her heart. Leave your comments below. :)
God Bless,
Eric
Thursday, December 9, 2010
A Guided Tour
Today, December, 09 2010 I started a tour of the bible. The tour is 20 weeks long, broken down into two week sections. I start in Luke 1, chapter 1. I am reading a NIV Student Bible, and todays reading is on Preparing for Jesus's arrival.
If you have never read Luke before, it is a interesting book of the Bible, Luke decided to go around and talk to eye witness' about what they saw and hear. He compiled all of his research into these chapters for us to know in great detail. I personally enjoy reading Luke, simply because I am a history buff, and I love to know how the little details.
Well I want to inform you all, that as most of you know, I am not a pastor, and what I discuss after reading the Bible is my own thoughts, I do not want to lead anyone in the wrong direction. Also, all this discussed, are a discussion, please feel free to post replies in the comments below of your thoughts. Moving on.
Luke 1 Chapter starts off with the birth of John The Baptist (foretold). Herod was the king of Judea and there was a priest name Zechariah, He was married to Elizabeth (who is Mary's sister), they wanted to have children, but Elizabeth was barren, and both where in there old age. Zechariah had been praying for a son, and God had answered his prayer. When Zechariah went into the temple, God sent the angel Gabriel down to tell Zech, that he would have a son. Zech did not believe the angel, which made the angel upset. Gabriel then made it so Zech could not speak until his son was born.
Hold the phone, Ok. Guys think about when you found out that you where going to have a child. What did you do? Who did you talk to? I can remember when I found out. I talked with my best friend for 6 hours at deans dinner, let alone all the talking you do with your wife. Informing friends and family, talking about how you are going to raise him, this and that. Zechariah could not speak, for 6 months. That is crazy! Moving on.
Later in the chapter, We find out that Elizabeth's sister Mary has been blessed with a baby as well. She will be giving birth to a son as well, whom she will name Jesus. Although bought Zech and Mary where scared when the angel came and spoke to them, Mary did not argue with the angel, instead she said that she is the servent of the Lord.
So think about this for a second, A women does all the work in giving birth, she carries the baby, deals with the pains of growing the baby, and Mary just says, I am the Lords servant. But yet Zechariah, does not believe the angel? Wouldn't you think it would be the other way around, Mary's should be been, Wait! Hold on a min. I'm going what? You are who again? Are you sure? Why me? Nope. Not a single thing, just Ok. Sure. No problem. WOW. Ok, that is awesome in it self. Moving on.
We do not learn to much more in the chapter, other than Mary goes visit Elizabeth and that John grows to be a strong man who lives in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel.
So I have been thinking about this, and trying to think how I could take anything from this passage. I think one of the biggest things pointed out in this chapter is listening. Listen to Giod, or in this case his angels, but Listening is a hard thing to do. These days it is even harder, With everything that we have going on, but everything that we want to do, it is very hard to listen to God. I met with a small group this pass Tuesday, and we spoke about Peace, and how to get inner peace. One of the biggest points made, was prayer, and that is the same here. The more you pray and talk to God, the more youyou will be able to hear what God is saying, and sometimes showing.
This chapter was a short one, and not full of a whole lot of discussion points, but You have to start some hwere, so I hope you choose to read and follow along with my tour that I am on. Tomorrow, we will be reading Luke 2; The stor of Jesus' Birth.
God's Blessings,
Eric
If you have never read Luke before, it is a interesting book of the Bible, Luke decided to go around and talk to eye witness' about what they saw and hear. He compiled all of his research into these chapters for us to know in great detail. I personally enjoy reading Luke, simply because I am a history buff, and I love to know how the little details.
Well I want to inform you all, that as most of you know, I am not a pastor, and what I discuss after reading the Bible is my own thoughts, I do not want to lead anyone in the wrong direction. Also, all this discussed, are a discussion, please feel free to post replies in the comments below of your thoughts. Moving on.
Luke 1 Chapter starts off with the birth of John The Baptist (foretold). Herod was the king of Judea and there was a priest name Zechariah, He was married to Elizabeth (who is Mary's sister), they wanted to have children, but Elizabeth was barren, and both where in there old age. Zechariah had been praying for a son, and God had answered his prayer. When Zechariah went into the temple, God sent the angel Gabriel down to tell Zech, that he would have a son. Zech did not believe the angel, which made the angel upset. Gabriel then made it so Zech could not speak until his son was born.
Hold the phone, Ok. Guys think about when you found out that you where going to have a child. What did you do? Who did you talk to? I can remember when I found out. I talked with my best friend for 6 hours at deans dinner, let alone all the talking you do with your wife. Informing friends and family, talking about how you are going to raise him, this and that. Zechariah could not speak, for 6 months. That is crazy! Moving on.
Later in the chapter, We find out that Elizabeth's sister Mary has been blessed with a baby as well. She will be giving birth to a son as well, whom she will name Jesus. Although bought Zech and Mary where scared when the angel came and spoke to them, Mary did not argue with the angel, instead she said that she is the servent of the Lord.
So think about this for a second, A women does all the work in giving birth, she carries the baby, deals with the pains of growing the baby, and Mary just says, I am the Lords servant. But yet Zechariah, does not believe the angel? Wouldn't you think it would be the other way around, Mary's should be been, Wait! Hold on a min. I'm going what? You are who again? Are you sure? Why me? Nope. Not a single thing, just Ok. Sure. No problem. WOW. Ok, that is awesome in it self. Moving on.
We do not learn to much more in the chapter, other than Mary goes visit Elizabeth and that John grows to be a strong man who lives in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel.
So I have been thinking about this, and trying to think how I could take anything from this passage. I think one of the biggest things pointed out in this chapter is listening. Listen to Giod, or in this case his angels, but Listening is a hard thing to do. These days it is even harder, With everything that we have going on, but everything that we want to do, it is very hard to listen to God. I met with a small group this pass Tuesday, and we spoke about Peace, and how to get inner peace. One of the biggest points made, was prayer, and that is the same here. The more you pray and talk to God, the more youyou will be able to hear what God is saying, and sometimes showing.
This chapter was a short one, and not full of a whole lot of discussion points, but You have to start some hwere, so I hope you choose to read and follow along with my tour that I am on. Tomorrow, we will be reading Luke 2; The stor of Jesus' Birth.
God's Blessings,
Eric
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
My Best Friend
If you would of told me ten years ago that my best friend would be a three foot tall, four year old. I would of thought you where nuts. But turns out you would of been right, if you where the one to say it.
Today, I kept Troy home from daycare and spent the day with him, we made waffles for breakfast, ran to the store to pick up some stuff, we watched "Merry Madagascar" and played with his toys, had lunch together and had such a good time together. While we where sitting together eating lunch, I looked over at my son, and started to remember when he was born, and how I would sit and feed him baby food, and he is eating chicken nuggets all his own and spooning pudding in after every nugget. Gross I know, but still he grew up so fast under my eyes. Everyday he comes home knowing how to say more things, and to watch him play with his toys, and talk to him, you can tell he just loves to make believe.
I began to think about God this afternoon while I am patting Troy's back to put him to sleep, how awesome it must be to be him. Each one of us are his children, I think of all the stuff I missed while I was at work that Troy and Braiden have done, but God, he has never missed a single thing. I think to myself, it would be so cool that when I get to heaven, God has a video camera for me that he recorded things that I have missed from my children's lives. It is times like this that I really think it would be cool to be God. I wish there was some thing more that we as parents could do, but I think it is just a way of life. Every person, I have ever met that has had children, has told me, "Do not take this time for granted, they grow up fast." I can say that I did not believe a single person that told me that until today. I was always looking at it like, "yeah, it will be so cool when he sleeps through the night." "yeah, I can't wait till he talks, crawls, walks, runs,..." next thing I know, he has all of those things done, and I am stilling here looking back going, wait wait wait, I wasn't ready, Start over, I missed that, I missed this, wait... but it's done, he has grown up passed those points. The only thing that I can do now, is spend as much time as I can with my children, and stop wishing for them to complete this stage and move on. It goes fast enough, just enjoy it, even though you hate getting up in the middle of the night, you love the fact that they rest their head into your chest and are comforted, and they fall to sleep in your arms. I miss holding Troy like that, Thankfully I have Braiden to hold, but do not wish things went fast, because I did, and even though it did not make time go after faster, it did make me wish and look passed what he was doing to what he could be doing, and I missed so much.
I did not give much advice today, but I just figured it out for myself a few hours ago, so I'm sorry if it is not that much help. I hope you listen to me when I say, "Do not time this time for granted, they grow up quickly." Because I did not listen to the ones who told me, and I wish I did.
With God's Love,
Eric
Today, I kept Troy home from daycare and spent the day with him, we made waffles for breakfast, ran to the store to pick up some stuff, we watched "Merry Madagascar" and played with his toys, had lunch together and had such a good time together. While we where sitting together eating lunch, I looked over at my son, and started to remember when he was born, and how I would sit and feed him baby food, and he is eating chicken nuggets all his own and spooning pudding in after every nugget. Gross I know, but still he grew up so fast under my eyes. Everyday he comes home knowing how to say more things, and to watch him play with his toys, and talk to him, you can tell he just loves to make believe.
I began to think about God this afternoon while I am patting Troy's back to put him to sleep, how awesome it must be to be him. Each one of us are his children, I think of all the stuff I missed while I was at work that Troy and Braiden have done, but God, he has never missed a single thing. I think to myself, it would be so cool that when I get to heaven, God has a video camera for me that he recorded things that I have missed from my children's lives. It is times like this that I really think it would be cool to be God. I wish there was some thing more that we as parents could do, but I think it is just a way of life. Every person, I have ever met that has had children, has told me, "Do not take this time for granted, they grow up fast." I can say that I did not believe a single person that told me that until today. I was always looking at it like, "yeah, it will be so cool when he sleeps through the night." "yeah, I can't wait till he talks, crawls, walks, runs,..." next thing I know, he has all of those things done, and I am stilling here looking back going, wait wait wait, I wasn't ready, Start over, I missed that, I missed this, wait... but it's done, he has grown up passed those points. The only thing that I can do now, is spend as much time as I can with my children, and stop wishing for them to complete this stage and move on. It goes fast enough, just enjoy it, even though you hate getting up in the middle of the night, you love the fact that they rest their head into your chest and are comforted, and they fall to sleep in your arms. I miss holding Troy like that, Thankfully I have Braiden to hold, but do not wish things went fast, because I did, and even though it did not make time go after faster, it did make me wish and look passed what he was doing to what he could be doing, and I missed so much.
I did not give much advice today, but I just figured it out for myself a few hours ago, so I'm sorry if it is not that much help. I hope you listen to me when I say, "Do not time this time for granted, they grow up quickly." Because I did not listen to the ones who told me, and I wish I did.
With God's Love,
Eric
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Managing
(November 18th, 2010)
At times we as Dad's ( Mom's) find it very hard to complete everything that we need to do. Between the simple task's of waking up the kids, getting lunch's ready for everyone, taking the dog out, going to work, coming home making dinner, playing with the kids & dog, the list goes on. We get caught up in everything, but the worst part of that whole list is that there was no YOU time, let alone God time. I am at a point in my life where I am home all day and Katie is at work with the boys. I have plenty of me time, and even with all of this me time, I am finding myself still going no time to God. I wish I had an answer for everyone out there looking for a way to make the days & nights longer, but I do not. What I do know, is that God can help in so many ways. He can do more than heal a broken heart or give you that raise you have been working so hard for. God can help you with the stress of everyday life. Go to the Lord, in time of need, He will answer your prayer. If you need just five minutes to yourself without the dog barking, or the kids wanting a freeze pop or to watch one more movie. Pray to God in the middle of all the rush, Just say "Lord, Help me, Please, Give me five minutes." You will be surprised as to what will happen, The Lord will answer your prayer.
As for all the other times, non-rush hour, I suggest you find five minutes of your day to speak to God by your self. When I was working I used the time that I would walk from my lunch room to my car to speak to him about my day and to pray for different things going on in my life. I found myself finding all kinds of five minutes gaps in my day, Let alone the 30 minute drive home. The more I talk with God, the move I understand and feel like I am in right with him. I try to talk to him now, when I am on walks with Sophie, and while I am doing work around the house. (since it is very quite with no one hear)
I have a challenge for all of you; I challenge you to put down the computer, that means put down the blog, put down the facebook, put down youtube, put down myspace, for 10 minutes of time that you would normally be on the computer. If your using a laptop and your sitting on your couch, sit down close the laptop put in our your lap just as if you where going to be on the net, and pray. If you use a desktop, sit down turn off the monitor and pray. Pray for 10 minutes, if you thinking, well I don't have anything to pray about, well first off you wrong, but second, talk to God like a friend, Tell him about your day, Tell him about your problems, your joys, your thoughts, your dreams. Talk to him like a very close friend. Ok so here is the rest of the challenge, 10 minutes, for 10 days. After each 10 minute prayer, Open you laptop, or turn on your monitor, go to my facebook page and post, I just spoke to God for 10 minutes. Do that for 10 days in a row. Post it whenever, 7am or 7pm, whenever you can find time. Everyone that completes the challenge will be listed here on my blog as winners. I know it's not much of a prize, but hopefully you will get more from this challenge than that.
God Bless you all, and remember 10 for 10 on my page, starts today!!!
-Eric
At times we as Dad's ( Mom's) find it very hard to complete everything that we need to do. Between the simple task's of waking up the kids, getting lunch's ready for everyone, taking the dog out, going to work, coming home making dinner, playing with the kids & dog, the list goes on. We get caught up in everything, but the worst part of that whole list is that there was no YOU time, let alone God time. I am at a point in my life where I am home all day and Katie is at work with the boys. I have plenty of me time, and even with all of this me time, I am finding myself still going no time to God. I wish I had an answer for everyone out there looking for a way to make the days & nights longer, but I do not. What I do know, is that God can help in so many ways. He can do more than heal a broken heart or give you that raise you have been working so hard for. God can help you with the stress of everyday life. Go to the Lord, in time of need, He will answer your prayer. If you need just five minutes to yourself without the dog barking, or the kids wanting a freeze pop or to watch one more movie. Pray to God in the middle of all the rush, Just say "Lord, Help me, Please, Give me five minutes." You will be surprised as to what will happen, The Lord will answer your prayer.
As for all the other times, non-rush hour, I suggest you find five minutes of your day to speak to God by your self. When I was working I used the time that I would walk from my lunch room to my car to speak to him about my day and to pray for different things going on in my life. I found myself finding all kinds of five minutes gaps in my day, Let alone the 30 minute drive home. The more I talk with God, the move I understand and feel like I am in right with him. I try to talk to him now, when I am on walks with Sophie, and while I am doing work around the house. (since it is very quite with no one hear)
I have a challenge for all of you; I challenge you to put down the computer, that means put down the blog, put down the facebook, put down youtube, put down myspace, for 10 minutes of time that you would normally be on the computer. If your using a laptop and your sitting on your couch, sit down close the laptop put in our your lap just as if you where going to be on the net, and pray. If you use a desktop, sit down turn off the monitor and pray. Pray for 10 minutes, if you thinking, well I don't have anything to pray about, well first off you wrong, but second, talk to God like a friend, Tell him about your day, Tell him about your problems, your joys, your thoughts, your dreams. Talk to him like a very close friend. Ok so here is the rest of the challenge, 10 minutes, for 10 days. After each 10 minute prayer, Open you laptop, or turn on your monitor, go to my facebook page and post, I just spoke to God for 10 minutes. Do that for 10 days in a row. Post it whenever, 7am or 7pm, whenever you can find time. Everyone that completes the challenge will be listed here on my blog as winners. I know it's not much of a prize, but hopefully you will get more from this challenge than that.
God Bless you all, and remember 10 for 10 on my page, starts today!!!
-Eric
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