May 20 2012

Having a good time in Iowa

The drive to Iowa this week was a long, boring drive. But I made it!

On Saturday I took my new gun to the range with my dad.  We had a good time being out together, which is a nice change.  Usually when I come to visit he is too stressed by all the visitors to be any fun to be around.  We went to Cabela’s to buy some ammunition and they had a World War 2 display setup with some weapons and uniforms from the era and my dad taught me some things about the weapons and stuff.  It was pretty cool.

Malikai is having fun here as well.  He spends most of the time running and playing with a ball.

Saturday night we drove out to where my sister works and she made us a pizza.  Then my mom started to get a little freaked out by the severe thunderstorm warning so she wanted to get home quickly.  I tried to get her home quickly in the Mustang, but she got freaked out when the tires started to squeal on the highway entrance ramp.

Today the plans are to go to my mom’s RN pinning and then spend some time with my sisters who moved out.  It has been odd to not get to see them much, but family politics are what they are…

Last night I saw fireflies, which is pretty cool. I have not seen a firefly in years.  So I broke out my camera and all my stuff to get a picture, only to realize I FORGOT MY TRIPOD MOUNT! :-/  So much for me trying to get a photo of the ISS flying over tomorrow morning.

Hmm, anything else?  Oh yeah, my parents have a demonic evil cat that hates me and clawed me pretty good this morning.

That’s all.

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May 2 2012

Grieving God’s Heart…

Have you ever watched someone do something that you KNOW is going to hurt them? You know that the decisions they are making will break their spirits and break their hearts, yet there is nothing you can do about it because the person is so into the moment that they check their brain in at the door and don’t think, they just go with what they want at that moment.

It hurts to watch.  Especially if it is someone you care about and love a lot, it is painful for you to watch what they are going through because you know that if they would just stop and follow God with their lives then everything would be better.  They would avoid the pain and heartache and countless other possible consequences to their actions.

Watching this just makes me fall to my knees and cry out to God to show that person the light!

If you have felt this grief over another person in their actions, how much more so do you think God feels?

God loves us and wants us to follow Him, not because He is some kind of kill-joy dictator but because He knows what will make you happiest!  And He has to watch us make these decisions that reject Him and lead us to pain.  But those sins are also extra offensive to God because every sin we commit is against Him!

Everything you do that is against God offends Him and tears you further from Him.  When we get to the end of our life we will have no excuse, we will know that we deserve Hell because we will see how much we have offended a perfectly Holy God!

But God, even though He hates us for committing sins against Him He still died to free us!  He did not die to just get us out of hell but to free us now from the sin, the pain, and the heartache that our sin leads us to.

To those of you who are right now continuously living in rebellion against God, STOP!

Stop your lying to others, stop gossiping about others, stop committing adultery and fornicating, just stop!  Stop the drugs and the getting drunk, stop it all!  It will only lead to pain.  The pleasure, if there is any, is extremely temporary but the heartache and pain real, is deep, and is eternal.

God wants you to live a better way.  Those around you want you to live a better way. They do not want to see you living in a way that will cause you pain when you can have joy.  They do not want to see you living in a way that will bring eternal damnation on you when you could be at peace.

I know it is hard to choose to do that.  It requires living contrary to what you feel like you want now, to deny yourself, to deny your desires, but you must do it!  This is my plea to you all, and this is the plea of others who are watching and praying over you on a daily basis that they are just too scared to say to you because they know it will cause you to shut them out and ignore them because you want to just live the way you want.

Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:33

Above EVERYTHING ELSE, seek God and His kingdom!  Those who have lived that way will tell you that it is so much better than chasing after the pleasures of this world.

We cry to you, stop living a fake Christian life that ultimately denies God.  Stop looking for boyfriends or girlfriends to fill your bed.  Stop all of the running away from God.

Quit choosing to love people over God, or choosing to love your sin more than you love God.  If you are living with someone you shouldn’t be, or sleeping with someone you shouldn’t be, you are saying that you enjoy and love those things more than you love God and more than you care about what He wants.

If you are not a Christian that is not a big deal to you, but if you are someone who says they are a Christian, then it is time to seriously examine your relationship with God!  You cannot be a Christian and live in rebellion against God, it just can’t be done.  If you think you are doing it then you are deceived.  Tomorrow is too late to turn to God, do it today!

Above all things seek God.  It is so worth it. So worth it.

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May 2 2012

Rant Time!

I normally do not have ranting posts but I am going to rant today.  Not that I am in a bad mood at all or anything, just feel like getting some stuff off my chest…

1) If you work at the drive through window at a food place, how hard is it to make sure you include the proper necessities with the customers food?  Like a straw, do you know how annoying it is to get a drink with no straw so you have to drive and drink from a full cup without a lid?  How hard is it to include a straw?!?!

2) I know the times are tough and everyone is looking for ways to save some money, but do fast food places really need to make you ask for things like napkins and ketchup to get any?  I got fries, of course I want some ketchup with that.

3) Automated call systems.  Why do I get a call from a system saying “We are connecting your call” and then make me sit on hold for a minute just to get a message saying “All representatives are busy right now, we will try back later.”  -_-  Seriously?

4) Spouses that dig through the Cookies and Cream Ice Cream and dig all the cookie chunks out of it.  Really?  You don’t think I want some of those too?  Those giant cookie chunks are like mini treasures, don’t steal them all before I get a chance to get some!

5) Buffering!!!!  All this buffering is suffering!  I am paying for a fast enough broadband connection that I should be able to watch a 420p YouTube video with no buffering!  It always happens at the good parts of videos too.

Those were annoying things but are just in fun, the next few though are more serious issues.  They move beyond annoyances and into things that downright grieve my heart.

6) People who know the truth of God, have heard it all their life, yet they live in complete and total rebellion to God and you see how it is going to hurt them but they do not care and just continue on that course no matter how you try to help them.

7) Women who continuously return to guys that they know cheat on them, who get drunk and abuse them, and that take advantage of them in many ways…  If you are not married to the looser then dump him!  I know it is hard and you will feel guilty and lonely, but sometimes doing the right thing is hard and hurts.  But it doesn’t hurt as much as finding out someone you love has yet again slept with another woman and will not hurt as much as him hitting you or pushing you into a wall.

And along those lines, ladies, do not be so anxious to find someone right away.  Follow God first in your life and He will bring you an awesome guy who will take care of you and treat you like you should be treated.

So there you have it, the things that have been on my mind annoying me lately.

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