The moment the clock struck 12:00 I became 780 months or 3,391. weeks or 23,741 days or 569,778 hours or 34,186,698 minutes or 2,051,201,880 seconds... Or in simpler terms, 65 years old! Yikes! I now qualify for medicare! Not that is a lot of TICK, TICK,TICKS. But ONCE UPON A TIME AGO I was 21 years old and I wish I was 65 at 21. For if I was, I would have not taken offense, not taken defense, not carried worries, not searched for the meaning of life in the wrong places, not

I read a sign with the words LIFE IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL! As I thought about these words I believe the opposite that LIFE IS A DRESS REHEARSAL. Think about it. A DRESS REHEARSAL is about making REAL CHANGE. because A DRESS REHEARSAL is defined as PRACTICE~ " Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the GOD of peace will be with you" (Philippians 4:9) And as a TRIAL RUN~ "Blessed is a man who persev

FEAR~ it grabs you when you least expect it. FEAR~ it stops you in your tracks. FEAR is a monster~ the monster that blocks the door to JOY. The monster the stands with its whole body, smashed against the door, staring you in the face, giving you the message that there is no way that you are touching that doorknob, and there is no way that you would even think that there is a way out. Isn’t that what FEAR does? Paralyz

GOD IS FOREVER FAITHFUL, even when circumstances rob you of what is GOOD . What is  GOOD ? LIFE. What is not so  GOOD ? When LIFE  robs you of a LIFE  of someone you know or  a LIFE  of someone you have never met. There is a great SADNESS  in the air, but there is  GOD'S FAITHFULNESS  that never dies. As we are told, "Consider it nothing but joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials.  Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] pro

The   UNKNOWNS   are  before you. You look at them, and wonder what can they be. You stand paralyzed just WAITING for something to happen, because all you see are the  UNKNOWNS. You create what you would like them to be. But no matter how you look at it they are still the UNKNOWNS. You have three choices. TICK. TICK. TICK. You just stand still WAITING  for the UNKNOWNS to become KNOWN. Or You take a step backwards into the past, because that is what you  KNOW Or You FACE THE

TICK. TICK. TICK. LET GOD BE GOD! What FREEING WORDS, because GOD  doesn't need  PERMISSION  to BE HIMSELF.   But don't we treat GOD  as someone who we can control, who needs our permission for GOD  to be HE  who HE  already is? LET GOD BE GOD are the words of SURRENDER, when you SURRENDER TO GOD'S WORDS~ "BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"  (Psalm 46:10). GOD  never said~ BE STILL AND KNOW THAT  you are GOD or  BE STILL AND KNOW THAT your relationships are GOD or BE STILL AND

GOD  never STOPS  being GOD, even if you feel like your LIFE is at a STANDSTILL. You WAIT. You  TRUST. You BELIEVE. BUT  all your hear is TICK. TICK. TICK. Tears stream down my face now, as I remember so many moments when I was so tired of THE WAIT, but now I am experiencing BLESSINGS because of THE WAIT. Oh GOD does HIS best work in THE WAIT, when you are WAITING WITH GOD. because GOD never tires of THE WAIT. TICK. TICK. TICK. BE STILL AND KNOW GOD IS GOD, because GOD KNOWS

We have been to many places and have seen many faces, yet one thing has always been the same~ WHO I BELIEVE. I take HIM wherever I go, because I wouldn't know what to do with myself without HIM. It brings me to tears to just think about it. What if you weren't allowed to BELIEVE GOD ? Really think about. You aren't allowed to BELIEVE that "the LORD your GOD is with you wherever you go" (Joshua 1:9). You aren't allowed to BELIEVE that GOD "knitted you together in your mot

TICK. TICK. TICK. Just stop. Inhale. Exhale. Repeat. And before you know it you are breathing like you have never breathed before as you are becoming so S T I L L as if time has stopped. And then you start to notice things around you that were always there, yet you are seeing them as it is for the first time. A sunrise. A sunset. A child. A smile. A tear. Your breath. You are alive. BUT is being alive enough to keep you breathing. Because then you start thinking about thing

AND WE KNOW THAT... Tick. Tick. Tick. IN ALL THINGS... Tick. Tick. Tick. GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD... Tick. Tick. Tick. OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM   (Romans 8:28). Because GOD'S PROMISE is a  PROMISE, and GOD  always keeps  HIS PROMISES IN ALL THINGS Tick. Tick. Tick. IN ALL THINGS~ the GOOD and the not-so- GOOD, GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD. Tick. Tick. Tick. Because GOD IS GOOD and that is all HE  knows how to be. Tick. Tick. Tick. Is GOD GOOD  when things are not going so GOOD in your l