listening to "Beauty Will Rise" by Steven Curtis Chapman.. I know its not his new album but this is usually how I do it.. a couple years after a album comes out.I buy it on the cheap in the markdown bin or on sale..
This one though I have had for a while and have actually refused to listen to it..
my reasoning.. I know where this album comes from.. the darkness of death.. the death of a child.. if there is a fear that I have it is that..that I will lose a child before I am gone..
I cannot imagine the pain.. even though I have seen it enough.. two of my siblings have lost children and my wife lost her brother shortly after we were married... It is hard enough from the outside.. I cannot imagine the pain...
but listen to it i have.. and I'm listening to the title track right now...
the thought has occurred to me.. GOD thinks much of Steven and his family.. He would not have given them a story as painful to tell if He wasn't sure that they would be able to live it out..
God promises that he will not give us more than we can bear.. He also promises that He will be beside us..
cliches.. I know.. but it is true.. He loves us so much... Even in the storm he is beside us..
none of us are immune to pain.. hurt. death..even after we become Christians.. Remember this..It is not that we will not have troubles, pain, death, hurt, people who lie about us, gossip and things that just aren't right happen but the key is.. We know that everything that happens has a purpose.. either for us or for someone else and the purpose is to promote the Kingdom of God.
see as Believers our life is not our own.. it is used by God to show who he is and what he is like.. WE are the reflection of GOD..
God said that he was like us in all respects that he knew what we went through.. He was like us..
Consider this God the Father allowed his Son to die on the Cross.. So he understands the pain of losing a son/daughter.. it wasn't easy I'm sure.
and Yet if he didn't do this we would not be able to spend eternity with him..
Its not always in the easy things that we see God.. It is in the Hard things..
God find me faithful to accept the hard things..even when I don't understand..
For you are GOD and i am not.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
light in the tunnel
It's been a month since I wrote... lots of stuff keeping me away.. not much of it real important other than it needed to be done...
anyhoo.. as some of you know we are following a modified Dave Ramsey plan to get out of debt... Modified in this manner.. we take vacations.. or getaways.. weekend or otherwise. one of those is coming up this weekend.. really need it.. it's been a long 3 months since Soulfest..
I/we are at the point in this journey that we can see the end of the tunnel.. the light is dim at the end but it is there. And that is causing some frustration on my part... I can see that with an additional small sum of money I could be where the light is bright.. not dim..
I know I need the weekend away.. my wife and I have promised ourselves we will go away for a weekend every two to three months.. just us.. no kids. we spent a lot of years doing nothing for our relationship.. no time for us.. going from one event or need of the kids to another. We finally realized a few years ago that in doing that we were headed for a large strain when the kids left.. We have decided that it isn't going to happen.. I refuse to be the guy in the divorce section of the paper where it says married 1989 divorced finalized 2015.. And everyone that reads it goes..WOW is that sad.. wonder what happened.? I can tell you what happened... He spent that last 25 years raising the kids..paying the bills.. and forgot about the lady that he married and wanted to spend the rest of his life with.. Consider this.. We have our Children in our home for 18-25 years each.. We will be married to our spouses for over 50 years.. You have a lot longer time with the spouse than the child.. take care of the spouse too... your children will appreciate it...
So if all goes as planned.. I will have removed two to three large bills(payments) by the end of December.. Freeing up cash to pay the other bills quicker.. WE are in the acceleration phase.. I cannot wait to eliminate those payments.. with 9 months I should only have the truck and the house.. :)
if you haven't checked him out check out http://www.davereamsey.com/
anyhoo.. as some of you know we are following a modified Dave Ramsey plan to get out of debt... Modified in this manner.. we take vacations.. or getaways.. weekend or otherwise. one of those is coming up this weekend.. really need it.. it's been a long 3 months since Soulfest..
I/we are at the point in this journey that we can see the end of the tunnel.. the light is dim at the end but it is there. And that is causing some frustration on my part... I can see that with an additional small sum of money I could be where the light is bright.. not dim..
I know I need the weekend away.. my wife and I have promised ourselves we will go away for a weekend every two to three months.. just us.. no kids. we spent a lot of years doing nothing for our relationship.. no time for us.. going from one event or need of the kids to another. We finally realized a few years ago that in doing that we were headed for a large strain when the kids left.. We have decided that it isn't going to happen.. I refuse to be the guy in the divorce section of the paper where it says married 1989 divorced finalized 2015.. And everyone that reads it goes..WOW is that sad.. wonder what happened.? I can tell you what happened... He spent that last 25 years raising the kids..paying the bills.. and forgot about the lady that he married and wanted to spend the rest of his life with.. Consider this.. We have our Children in our home for 18-25 years each.. We will be married to our spouses for over 50 years.. You have a lot longer time with the spouse than the child.. take care of the spouse too... your children will appreciate it...
So if all goes as planned.. I will have removed two to three large bills(payments) by the end of December.. Freeing up cash to pay the other bills quicker.. WE are in the acceleration phase.. I cannot wait to eliminate those payments.. with 9 months I should only have the truck and the house.. :)
if you haven't checked him out check out http://www.davereamsey.com/
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