Friday, September 21, 2012
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
This is Where We Are
Hey everyone, I know it has been a very long time since I have written a post for you, but the Sutter family has been extremely busy this summer. To bring everyone up to speed on what we have been up to I will backtrack a few months.
June:
In June Renee and I met with my parents (Jim and Mary Sutter) and we became marketing executives for Melaleuca The Wellness Company. We have been working to build our business and we aren't doing to bad with it. So far we have made just over $50 with the company. I know that seems low, but if you consider that we spend only a few hours a month on it, we aren't doing too bad. I was also promoted to store manager at Gift and Bible Center in Lansing, MI.
July:
The month of July was a much busier month for us. We signed up our first customer with Melaleuca and we also purchased our first home. Up until this point we have always rented. We just didn't have the money to purchase a home, but with Renee getting a raise from her job and me getting a raise from my promotion we were able to save just enough to purchase a really nice home in downtown Lansing. We love owning our own home. I (Aaron) have already started working on a few things that needed fixing around the house. My friend James and I worked on getting some doors to latch, and I have been working on resealing the glass panes in our wooden windows on the first floor. I love being able to do whatever I want to the house. If I want to paint a room a different color I can do it without having to ask a landlord for permission. We want to give a big thank you to all of the people that helped us move from Grand Ledge to the big city!! You all are the bomb!!
Renee and I also ran in our first ever 5k race at our church. Renee and I have both lost about the same amount of weight which is about 40 lbs each. Running is our exercise of choice.
August:
In August we enrolled another two customers to Melaleuca our friends Mike and Faith Fischer and my cousins Nathan and Rebecca Sutter. We are so excited for them to start using the best products known to man.
September:
And this brings us to the month of September; and what a month it has been so far. The first weekend in September Renee found herself in the ER with an unknown pain in her side. Nothing came of the pain, but it does seem to be gone. We are so thankful for that. The next weekend we took a family vacation to Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island. We had a wonderful time. It was a week of complete bliss and relaxation. We had been there before when Marcus was just 9 months old, but we had horrible weather and Marcus was too little to enjoy it. This time Marcus had a blast. We took our bikes up with us so we could ride around the island. We actually rode around the island twice in one day. Once when we arrived on the island and again when Marcus needed a nap. It is 8 1/2 miles around the island so you can imagine that we slept great that night.
We took Marcus to a lumber jack show while in Mackinaw City. He loved it! Ever since all he wants to be is a clain saw. We also visited a working water powered saw mill that has been fully restored. I really enjoyed that one. It was amazing to see how people figured out how to harness the power of water to power such a huge operation.
We also visited the U.S Coast Guard Ice Breaker Mackinaw Museum in Mackinaw City. When we arrived on the icebreaker we ran into a man who Renee works with at Jackson National Life who lived on the Icebreaker Mackinaw back in the 80s. I really enjoyed this museum and the history of the ice breaker.
While in Mackinaw we stayed at a campground called Mill Creak Campground. They had wonderful cabins to stay in which is what we chose to do. The only drawback was that the bed's were so hard that after the first night I had a pretty sore back and eventually needed icehot to help with the stiffness.
All of this brings us to this week. On Thursday September 12th I woke up with half of my tongue feeling numb and one side of my lips loosing some of their feeling. I didn't really think much of it. I thought maybe it had something to do with the way I slept the night before or something I ate. Thursday night after the numbness getting worse (and at the urging of Renee) I decided to go to urgent care to see what was wrong. I went in having a pretty good idea of what was wrong, but I wanted to be sure. After seeing the doctor my thoughts were confirmed, I have Bell's Palsy.
It is affecting the right side of my face. Bell's Palsy is basically nerve damage and is usually not permanent. In fact 80% of those who have Bell's Palsy make a complete recovery. So a few days into my diagnosis and there really hasn't been any change other than it seems to have gotten slightly worse. It seems that the paralysis is worse in the morning and slowly relaxes a bit as the day goes on, but when I say slightly I do mean very, very slightly, hardly noticeable in fact. I am optimistic however that I will make a full recovery. I am doing some exercises and things to stimulate the nerves on the right side of my face to help with the paralysis. I am hoping that it will be healed quickly because it is rather annoying. My right eye waters almost constantly because my eyelid doesn't completely close when I blink. I also have frequent stabbing pains in the back of my head behind my right ear. Today when we went to church it was super sunny out and I could hardly see my way into the church because I can't squint my right eye and consequently both of my eye started watering as though I was crying.
I will be tracking my progress with BP on youtube to hopefully help others who are struggling with it.
The following in the first video I did. Also I will be doing another post with pictures we took while on our vacation.
So, I hope everyone has a great day and keep our family in your prayers. God Bless
June:
In June Renee and I met with my parents (Jim and Mary Sutter) and we became marketing executives for Melaleuca The Wellness Company. We have been working to build our business and we aren't doing to bad with it. So far we have made just over $50 with the company. I know that seems low, but if you consider that we spend only a few hours a month on it, we aren't doing too bad. I was also promoted to store manager at Gift and Bible Center in Lansing, MI.
July:
The month of July was a much busier month for us. We signed up our first customer with Melaleuca and we also purchased our first home. Up until this point we have always rented. We just didn't have the money to purchase a home, but with Renee getting a raise from her job and me getting a raise from my promotion we were able to save just enough to purchase a really nice home in downtown Lansing. We love owning our own home. I (Aaron) have already started working on a few things that needed fixing around the house. My friend James and I worked on getting some doors to latch, and I have been working on resealing the glass panes in our wooden windows on the first floor. I love being able to do whatever I want to the house. If I want to paint a room a different color I can do it without having to ask a landlord for permission. We want to give a big thank you to all of the people that helped us move from Grand Ledge to the big city!! You all are the bomb!!
Renee and I also ran in our first ever 5k race at our church. Renee and I have both lost about the same amount of weight which is about 40 lbs each. Running is our exercise of choice.
August:
In August we enrolled another two customers to Melaleuca our friends Mike and Faith Fischer and my cousins Nathan and Rebecca Sutter. We are so excited for them to start using the best products known to man.
September:
And this brings us to the month of September; and what a month it has been so far. The first weekend in September Renee found herself in the ER with an unknown pain in her side. Nothing came of the pain, but it does seem to be gone. We are so thankful for that. The next weekend we took a family vacation to Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island. We had a wonderful time. It was a week of complete bliss and relaxation. We had been there before when Marcus was just 9 months old, but we had horrible weather and Marcus was too little to enjoy it. This time Marcus had a blast. We took our bikes up with us so we could ride around the island. We actually rode around the island twice in one day. Once when we arrived on the island and again when Marcus needed a nap. It is 8 1/2 miles around the island so you can imagine that we slept great that night.
We took Marcus to a lumber jack show while in Mackinaw City. He loved it! Ever since all he wants to be is a clain saw. We also visited a working water powered saw mill that has been fully restored. I really enjoyed that one. It was amazing to see how people figured out how to harness the power of water to power such a huge operation.
We also visited the U.S Coast Guard Ice Breaker Mackinaw Museum in Mackinaw City. When we arrived on the icebreaker we ran into a man who Renee works with at Jackson National Life who lived on the Icebreaker Mackinaw back in the 80s. I really enjoyed this museum and the history of the ice breaker.
While in Mackinaw we stayed at a campground called Mill Creak Campground. They had wonderful cabins to stay in which is what we chose to do. The only drawback was that the bed's were so hard that after the first night I had a pretty sore back and eventually needed icehot to help with the stiffness.
All of this brings us to this week. On Thursday September 12th I woke up with half of my tongue feeling numb and one side of my lips loosing some of their feeling. I didn't really think much of it. I thought maybe it had something to do with the way I slept the night before or something I ate. Thursday night after the numbness getting worse (and at the urging of Renee) I decided to go to urgent care to see what was wrong. I went in having a pretty good idea of what was wrong, but I wanted to be sure. After seeing the doctor my thoughts were confirmed, I have Bell's Palsy.
It is affecting the right side of my face. Bell's Palsy is basically nerve damage and is usually not permanent. In fact 80% of those who have Bell's Palsy make a complete recovery. So a few days into my diagnosis and there really hasn't been any change other than it seems to have gotten slightly worse. It seems that the paralysis is worse in the morning and slowly relaxes a bit as the day goes on, but when I say slightly I do mean very, very slightly, hardly noticeable in fact. I am optimistic however that I will make a full recovery. I am doing some exercises and things to stimulate the nerves on the right side of my face to help with the paralysis. I am hoping that it will be healed quickly because it is rather annoying. My right eye waters almost constantly because my eyelid doesn't completely close when I blink. I also have frequent stabbing pains in the back of my head behind my right ear. Today when we went to church it was super sunny out and I could hardly see my way into the church because I can't squint my right eye and consequently both of my eye started watering as though I was crying.
I will be tracking my progress with BP on youtube to hopefully help others who are struggling with it.
The following in the first video I did. Also I will be doing another post with pictures we took while on our vacation.
So, I hope everyone has a great day and keep our family in your prayers. God Bless
Friday, June 01, 2012
This is How the Church Should Work
Yesterday as I was leaving work I checked my email one last time and happened to see a video about a little boy with cerebral palsy who had the courage to run in a race with his classmates. I was so blessed by this home video of this amazing young man that I had to write about it, but first, here is the video I saw…
As the race got to about the half way point tears began streaming down my face. This little boy was running with all the strength on legs that didn’t seem to work right and with arms that couldn’t seem to flow in motion with his body. He struggled against the exhaustion of a mind that had the will but a body that seemed to fail him.
Then something amazing happens! Matt’s coach runs up and tries to help him along. If you listen closely to the video you can hear Matt’s mother say “Matt really looks up to his coach”. Them when all his other classmates have finished the race they gather around Matt, who is still running, and begin to cheer him on. Matt finished the race that he started with the encouragement of his friends and his coach.
After watching this video I got a picture of the way the church should work. You see, Matt is like a Christian. He started the race strong, like any Christian, but he quickly slows his pace as he starts to struggle. Our sin nature slows us down, just like cerebral palsy slows Matt down. Just like Matt who’s mind is normal, but who’s body doesn’t quite work the way it should, our minds and hearts are being transformed, but our body’s still don’t work the way they were intended too.
However, here is the cool part; God is like Matt’s coach. He comes up alongside of us and encourages us. God tells us over and over again that we can do it. That we are doing great, “you’re almost there”. Then, if the church is working the way it should, its people filter in behind and around God (the coach) and surround the one who is struggling and they all start cheering us on to help us finish the race.
What a great picture of how the church should work.
Way to go Matt; for teach us how to never give up and thank you to his classmates for teaching us how to encourage the people around us who are struggling.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Fall of a Superstar (The Rise of the Broken)
So I am rereading a book on leading worship and it is a phenomenal book. But as I continue to read it I see more and more things that as a worship leader I have fallen short on. I wish I would have read it closer the first time. There are so many things that can get in the way of our relationship with Christ. My biggest stumbling block is myself. For a long time I thought I was something that everyone needed to see, like a side show at the Ionia Free Fair, or the circus or something. I have come to the realization that while I am a side show I am one of those side shows that you have to pay a small amount of money to see the really simple, ridiculous acts, and them pay more money to see the really amazing stuff like driving nails through my nose or eating a handful of honey bees, things like that.
The truth is, that even on my best days I cannot measure up to the standards set before me. I try and try, but at the end of the day all I have left is a pile of wreckage and ash in my wake.
But as the song says that I am listening to right now, “All I need is You Lord, All I need is You”. That is all any of us needs. God is our life's Avenger! He alone can save and He alone can rescue us from a life of self.
Back to this book I am reading, if God has called you to lead worship like He has me, then you know the struggle to which I am writing. There is such a fine line between worship and performance. We can mix the two, but for us as worship leader it is an extremely fine line. It is so easy to get caught up in the performing aspect of music that we lose the heart of worship that God planted in us. This happened to me recently. I simply got caught up in the music and lost my focus on who it was I was playing the music for.
The business of life took a toll and it became a crushing weight that I could no longer stand up under. I felt like a Mini Cooper at a monster truck rally and the monster truck stopped right on top of me. I wasn't turning to God to bring relief, but rather to myself. I looked to my own strength to stand up underneath the weight and I was just not strong enough to handle it on my own.
I lost perspective on Who I should have been focusing and the vision and purpose behind the worship ministry. By the time I left the church I was so crushed a tired that I had to take three months away from church just to recover from the mental and spiritual exhaustion. My biggest mistake was that I was trying to make the vision of the ministry come to pass, but that wasn't my job. My job was simply to follow Christ and He would make the vision happen. There is nothing that I can do to make God “do” anything. I stepped out of the passenger seat and stepped into the driver seat and that is when I fell apart.
I was driving hard to reach the ultimate goal which wasn't to lead people in worship, but rather to land a full time worship leader position in the church. I even landed an interview in Frankenmuth, MI with one of the most predominate churches in that area. I didn't make the cut, but when I landed the interview I was on cloud nine. I thought I was somebody, I thought I had arrived. Who knew that it was the beginning of God breaking me.
Pride, it is one of the most, if not the most, destructive sin known to man. The bible says that “pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before the fall.” (Proverbs 16:18) As worship leaders we have to be so careful not to fall into the trap of destructive pride.
I wish I could go back to the beginning and start again, but God doesn't work like that. He allows us to walk through the valleys so that we grow stronger in Him.
I feel that I am finally getting stronger, but it is a slow and painful process. There is a lot of self examination in the healing process. I have to spend a lot of time going through the painful process of being striped away till only Christ remains. It is like I was telling my son last night when he asked about the scar I have on my knee. I told him that “the doctor had to give daddy an owy so that his knee would feel better, and now it feels allot better”. The recovery process was miserable not only for me, but for Renee as well, because she had to get up every four hours for weeks to change the ice water that surrounded my leg, and she was pregnant at the time.
It is the same with a broken life. It is miserable for everyone involved until healing comes. So it is my prayer for very broken worship leader, pastor, husband, father, anyone, that you would hold on through the healing process, because there is a better life on the other side of the pain and healing.
The truth is, that even on my best days I cannot measure up to the standards set before me. I try and try, but at the end of the day all I have left is a pile of wreckage and ash in my wake.
But as the song says that I am listening to right now, “All I need is You Lord, All I need is You”. That is all any of us needs. God is our life's Avenger! He alone can save and He alone can rescue us from a life of self.
Back to this book I am reading, if God has called you to lead worship like He has me, then you know the struggle to which I am writing. There is such a fine line between worship and performance. We can mix the two, but for us as worship leader it is an extremely fine line. It is so easy to get caught up in the performing aspect of music that we lose the heart of worship that God planted in us. This happened to me recently. I simply got caught up in the music and lost my focus on who it was I was playing the music for.
The business of life took a toll and it became a crushing weight that I could no longer stand up under. I felt like a Mini Cooper at a monster truck rally and the monster truck stopped right on top of me. I wasn't turning to God to bring relief, but rather to myself. I looked to my own strength to stand up underneath the weight and I was just not strong enough to handle it on my own.
I lost perspective on Who I should have been focusing and the vision and purpose behind the worship ministry. By the time I left the church I was so crushed a tired that I had to take three months away from church just to recover from the mental and spiritual exhaustion. My biggest mistake was that I was trying to make the vision of the ministry come to pass, but that wasn't my job. My job was simply to follow Christ and He would make the vision happen. There is nothing that I can do to make God “do” anything. I stepped out of the passenger seat and stepped into the driver seat and that is when I fell apart.
I was driving hard to reach the ultimate goal which wasn't to lead people in worship, but rather to land a full time worship leader position in the church. I even landed an interview in Frankenmuth, MI with one of the most predominate churches in that area. I didn't make the cut, but when I landed the interview I was on cloud nine. I thought I was somebody, I thought I had arrived. Who knew that it was the beginning of God breaking me.
Pride, it is one of the most, if not the most, destructive sin known to man. The bible says that “pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before the fall.” (Proverbs 16:18) As worship leaders we have to be so careful not to fall into the trap of destructive pride.
I wish I could go back to the beginning and start again, but God doesn't work like that. He allows us to walk through the valleys so that we grow stronger in Him.
I feel that I am finally getting stronger, but it is a slow and painful process. There is a lot of self examination in the healing process. I have to spend a lot of time going through the painful process of being striped away till only Christ remains. It is like I was telling my son last night when he asked about the scar I have on my knee. I told him that “the doctor had to give daddy an owy so that his knee would feel better, and now it feels allot better”. The recovery process was miserable not only for me, but for Renee as well, because she had to get up every four hours for weeks to change the ice water that surrounded my leg, and she was pregnant at the time.
It is the same with a broken life. It is miserable for everyone involved until healing comes. So it is my prayer for very broken worship leader, pastor, husband, father, anyone, that you would hold on through the healing process, because there is a better life on the other side of the pain and healing.
Monday, April 09, 2012
How Blessed Are We?
It has been a few weeks since the last time I posted. I apologize for that, but it is for good reason. Our family has been very busy. I myself have been reaching toward a new career in the medical field and I have finally chosen where to start. I have been struggling for months with this life altering decision. I have chosen to start the steps needed to enter nursing.
To some this may come as a surprise and for others this may be old hat. I have talk with several friends about their experiences in the nursing field and also their experiences as a CNA (Certified Nurses Aid). After weighing all of the options and mulling over all of the career and educational requirements I have chosen to start with becoming a CNA/PCT (Patient Care Technician).
However, this is not the only thing that has kept me away from writing to my readers. My son, Marcus and his cousin, Isaiah, were running around our house last weekend and having loads of fun, but the fun never lasts forever. The boys were, as I said, running around the house screaming, laughing, and simply having loads of fun. Fun, until they decided to jump off the couch. They found their new found base jumping adventure to be very exciting, but the last time Marcus jumped his Superman cape failed to co-operate and he fell and broke his leg.
Now hold on, this still isn't all! The weather in Michigan was so beautiful a few weeks ago that we went out as a family and bought bikes for everyone. I have been doing my best to get out in the nice weather and get some exercisize and have done pretty well. In the last month and a half I have lost a total of 18 lbs. Renee has also been doing her best and she has lost a total of 13 lbs in the same amount of time. We have not only been biking but also running, and getting our butts kicked by Jillian Michaels with her 30 day Shred.
So as you can see things have been very crazy around the Sutter household for the last few weeks. Oh, but we are so excited. It is looking like Marcus will be able to get his cast off after just two weeks, and the weight loss is still on the rise, or decline (not sure which word to use there) and I will be starting at community college in the fall for my CNA/PCT training.
What a wild ride!! God has been so good. We are so glad that is was Marcus who took the infamous fall rather than his cousin Isaiah (who's family were five hours from home), not that we wished it on Marcus, but if it had to be one of them, that it was Marcus. We are happy that we are losing weight at such an amazing pace, even though it has been so much work. Finally, I am so blessed to have a supportive family and friends who encourage me to run head long into my future rather than play it safe in a dead end career.
How blessed are we?!?!
To some this may come as a surprise and for others this may be old hat. I have talk with several friends about their experiences in the nursing field and also their experiences as a CNA (Certified Nurses Aid). After weighing all of the options and mulling over all of the career and educational requirements I have chosen to start with becoming a CNA/PCT (Patient Care Technician).
However, this is not the only thing that has kept me away from writing to my readers. My son, Marcus and his cousin, Isaiah, were running around our house last weekend and having loads of fun, but the fun never lasts forever. The boys were, as I said, running around the house screaming, laughing, and simply having loads of fun. Fun, until they decided to jump off the couch. They found their new found base jumping adventure to be very exciting, but the last time Marcus jumped his Superman cape failed to co-operate and he fell and broke his leg.
Now hold on, this still isn't all! The weather in Michigan was so beautiful a few weeks ago that we went out as a family and bought bikes for everyone. I have been doing my best to get out in the nice weather and get some exercisize and have done pretty well. In the last month and a half I have lost a total of 18 lbs. Renee has also been doing her best and she has lost a total of 13 lbs in the same amount of time. We have not only been biking but also running, and getting our butts kicked by Jillian Michaels with her 30 day Shred.
So as you can see things have been very crazy around the Sutter household for the last few weeks. Oh, but we are so excited. It is looking like Marcus will be able to get his cast off after just two weeks, and the weight loss is still on the rise, or decline (not sure which word to use there) and I will be starting at community college in the fall for my CNA/PCT training.
What a wild ride!! God has been so good. We are so glad that is was Marcus who took the infamous fall rather than his cousin Isaiah (who's family were five hours from home), not that we wished it on Marcus, but if it had to be one of them, that it was Marcus. We are happy that we are losing weight at such an amazing pace, even though it has been so much work. Finally, I am so blessed to have a supportive family and friends who encourage me to run head long into my future rather than play it safe in a dead end career.
How blessed are we?!?!
Friday, March 16, 2012
Blessings
The fog has fallen as a blanket across the Grand Ledge area this morning. As my wife and I were racing out the door off to another long day of work we realized that this was the first time our son Marcus has seen fog, or at least noticed the fog. He was so cute. My wife had the light of her car on and we could see the small particles of water slowly falling in the bright beams. Marcus was so excited! He would stand in the light and put his hand out as if to catch the dust like precipitation and shrieked with amazement and delight.
Driving into work I got to thinking about Marcus and how much of a blessing he is. I thank God for him every day, but it wasn’t always this way. Soon after we brought Marcus home, not being sure if it was the sheer exhaustion or not, but when Marcus would wake up every two hours there would be times when I just wanted to shake him to make him be quiet. It those moments I could see how someone could shake their baby. I never gave into this passing desire, and those days shortly past.
Being that I work in the music industry I always seem to have a song to illustrate a moment in life. The song that can to mind today was “Blessings” by Laura Story. Story just earned a Grammy award for her latest album entitled “Blessings”.
Here is the song that has meant so much to me over the last few months.
Driving into work I got to thinking about Marcus and how much of a blessing he is. I thank God for him every day, but it wasn’t always this way. Soon after we brought Marcus home, not being sure if it was the sheer exhaustion or not, but when Marcus would wake up every two hours there would be times when I just wanted to shake him to make him be quiet. It those moments I could see how someone could shake their baby. I never gave into this passing desire, and those days shortly past.
Being that I work in the music industry I always seem to have a song to illustrate a moment in life. The song that can to mind today was “Blessings” by Laura Story. Story just earned a Grammy award for her latest album entitled “Blessings”.
Here is the song that has meant so much to me over the last few months.
Friday, March 09, 2012
Solar Flare
Yesterday as I was getting ready for the heat wave we were suppose to have from the solar blast of the sun I had an amazing thought. “What if this solar blast is Jesus coming back?” I know it sounds pretty far fetched, but the bible does say that He will come like a “thief in the night”.
I was thinking about this wonderful possibility and playing out how it would look through my minds eye. I listened to the news cast in the morning and no one else was saying “its the Apocalypse, we're all gonna die”!! No, what I heard was some lame news anchor talking about “a cloud of “magnetic material” heading toward earth. My first thought here was “a cloud coming at the earth, from the sun. Hum, that's interesting.” The sun (being a big ball of fire) shooting off a cloud toward the earth made me think of Jesus coming on the clouds. Then I also thought, the bible also says that God will destroy the earth with fire. So, “big ball of fire” launches “big cloud at earth”. Caught up? OK, good.
The news cast also stated that this “magnetic cloud” was suppose to interfere with radio signals, GPS systems, satellites, and airplane navigation systems. Hello, sounds like the possibility of some major havoc here on earth with all these systems going haywire. Sounds like a scene from “Left Behind”.
Well, needless to say, none of this stuff ever transpired. The magnetic cloud seemingly missed our little planet and didn't even mess with our radio frequencies. I wasn't really disappointed because, after all, I like living here. I mean, I have a nice house, a great family, and great friends. Why would I want to leave?
So just in case we aren't going to know our wives, husbands, or children, in heaven, spend as much time as you can with them now. So that when we get to heaven, maybe, just maybe, we will all meet again, and once more be a happy family.
I was thinking about this wonderful possibility and playing out how it would look through my minds eye. I listened to the news cast in the morning and no one else was saying “its the Apocalypse, we're all gonna die”!! No, what I heard was some lame news anchor talking about “a cloud of “magnetic material” heading toward earth. My first thought here was “a cloud coming at the earth, from the sun. Hum, that's interesting.” The sun (being a big ball of fire) shooting off a cloud toward the earth made me think of Jesus coming on the clouds. Then I also thought, the bible also says that God will destroy the earth with fire. So, “big ball of fire” launches “big cloud at earth”. Caught up? OK, good.
The news cast also stated that this “magnetic cloud” was suppose to interfere with radio signals, GPS systems, satellites, and airplane navigation systems. Hello, sounds like the possibility of some major havoc here on earth with all these systems going haywire. Sounds like a scene from “Left Behind”.
Well, needless to say, none of this stuff ever transpired. The magnetic cloud seemingly missed our little planet and didn't even mess with our radio frequencies. I wasn't really disappointed because, after all, I like living here. I mean, I have a nice house, a great family, and great friends. Why would I want to leave?
I got to thinking about that last thought the most. “I like living here.” The truth is I do. I know I shouldn't. I know that this place is full of nastiness and filth, but I guess I can look past it. My mind continued to race with all different kinds of thoughts about Jesus return and I asked myself, “why do I like living on this planet”? It really has nothing to offer me except pain and death. Everyday I'm getting older. In fact I have been dying since the day I was born. I thought about the reasons I like living here and I only came up with one answer that I could actually say that I would miss. That one thing is my family. The reason I would miss them is because I don't know if I will know them when I get to heaven. I don't know if there will be marriage in heaven or whether my son will know me. That really kind of makes me sad. Everything else in this old world could go away and I wouldn't care, but my family, that I don't think I could forget about.
Friday, March 02, 2012
Rich Mullins
I feel that I am an old soul sometimes when I listen to Rich Mullins, but I love his music. I am so sorry that he is not still living today for me to go see him live in concert. Here are just a few of my favorite songs by Rich. I hope you come to love them as much as I do.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Did You Vote in the Primary?
This morning I got up a little early and got the family around to get to the poles. I was undecided right up until I stepped into the voting booth. I'm not sure why, but it was a very difficult choice for me. I would have originally voted for Cain, but since he dropped out I have been undecided. In the end I had to go with my gut level feeling.
My wife and I were the third and four to vote in our district. It seemed to be a very low turnout. I encourage everyone to get out and vote for which ever candidate you find yourself pulled toward. The important thing is that you vote and let your voice be heard!!
If you voted today Feb. 28, 2012 let our readers know. Leave a comment a tell us that you voted. If you want you can even tell us who you voted for. Thanks for voting!!
My wife and I were the third and four to vote in our district. It seemed to be a very low turnout. I encourage everyone to get out and vote for which ever candidate you find yourself pulled toward. The important thing is that you vote and let your voice be heard!!
If you voted today Feb. 28, 2012 let our readers know. Leave a comment a tell us that you voted. If you want you can even tell us who you voted for. Thanks for voting!!
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