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Visit a park, enjoy what nature has to offer . . . no no no scratch that

That was my chinese fortune cookie today. . .

but I scratch that and change it to enjoy nature that God has created just for you. . .

just for me.

and I need it this week . . .

We now have over 200 temporary agents and Beaumont corporate employees for a displaced company in our offices. . .

That means lots and lots of work for me and all our staff. . . don’t get me wrong work is great, but wow. . .

It has been crazy around here. . . Hurricane Rita brought in a whole lot of crazy and its not supposed to get better for a couple more weeks. . .

cyl
C

PS big news you’ll see here soon. . .

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Too Good not to Steal. . .

From Ronnie Whitehead’s Blog
Brazos Pointe Fellowship

I don’t normally take complete posts from other bloggers, but this was really good. What do you think?

Need vs. Call

Is it a need? Or is it a call from God?

I was at a Small Groups Conference, not long ago, and a statement was made that, at that time, passed over my head and into a “I’ll look at that later” file. It’s one of those things that you hear, you shake your head, and say, “I knew that.” But the weight of it doesn’t hit until later on.

Here’s the statement that was made in context of seeing the vast numbers of needs around us every day:

“The NEED does not constitute the CALL. There are always way too many needs for me to meet.”

This really puts some pressure on me in one regard, but takes a lot of pressure off of me in others. I think we spend way too much time “accessing” needs, and way too little time “accessing” the call of God on our lives. The most recent opportunity has been all of this disaster relief from Hurricane Katrina. What an unbelievable amount of needs. Do those needs demand a true accessing? Yes! It’s a tragedy that has wrecked people’s lives. Do we need to be involved in it? Yes! Am I? Yes!

There’s a story that happened in the Bible surrounding Jesus, His disciples and a woman. This woman, in Matthew 26, came to Jesus and broke a very expensive vial of perfume over His feet and wiped it with her hair. The disciples tried to rebuke for wasting such a valuable commodity, but saying that the “need” was to sell that perfume and give the money to the poor. Jesus then turned and rebuked the disciples by making a shocking statement in vs. 10 when He said, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me… wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

Wow!

What did she do that was so amazing? I don’t want to steal any thunder from this weekend’s message at BPF, but let me end by saying this. The important thing is that we stay close to God and listen for His instructions; from His Word and from His Spirit that lives inside of us. Hearing Him, and obeying Him is the key. I have to continually ask myself, “Am I following the needs, or am I following the call of God on my life?” The good thing is, often times, those two intersect.

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Food –

So over the past 10 months or so my wife and I have lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 80lbs. It makes quite the difference, we feel better, look better and both recieve compliments.

On the down side we both need new clothes. . . 😉 fortunately I have a few new outfits from the w/e before last. . . It’s amazing how the weight has made a difference in people’s perceptions. . .
Now we have a goal to move to excercise and lose a few more pounds to keep an even keel.

This is the least we’ve weighed since College. ..

I thought about this after seeing an article link to Hardee’s Big Burger

wow, that does look good, doesn’t go in my new lifestyle diet at all, but perhaps just one. . .

nahh. . . too big, plus I have no idea where the nearest Hardee’s is. . .
🙂

later,
C

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Unspoken Prayer Request

Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note, asking for prayer. Some interesting things are afoot and I would appreciate you’re prayers for our family during this time:

Thanks,!
C

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Romans – Brings it On

Notice how Paul just lays it out in Romans 1: No fluffy fun stuff other than regular 1st Century greetings: Then in Romans 1:18-32 he just crashes down the boom and lays bare the truth.

God abandons those who abandon Him, when they choose to follow their wanton desires instead of Him, he gives them over to those desires, and thus we find ourselves in bondage, not to the freedom we so desire but to the feeling, the ecstasy, the sin. . . .and what a miserable place to be. . .

Thank you Father for 1 John 1:9 . . .and Rom 3:23 and Eph 2:8-10. . .

wow. . . go God. . .

later,
C

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Romans

Romans 1:8-9
I thank God through Jesus for every one of you. That’s first. People everywhere keep telling me about your lives of faith, and every time I hear them, I thank him. 9And God, whom I so love to worship and serve by spreading the good news of his Son–the Message!-knows that every time I think of you 10in my prayers, which is practically all the time, I ask him to clear the way for me to come and see you.

We are spending the next 2 quarters in Romans. . . time to get back to the basics.
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People need Jesus. . .
Paul loved them, we need to love all of them too. . .
If we love them we will tell them the Truth. . . John 14:6

later,
C

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Tragedies unfolding

Hurricane Katrina has devastated Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.

Pray for those trapped and those with family in the affected regions. . . Send aid if you can to those who are supporting the relief efforts including the American Red Cross and the Texas Baptist Men who respond in crisis like this one.

C

First Baptist Church of Gulfport gutted by Katrina
FBC Gulfport Mississippi gutted by Katrina 2005

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Grace Story

I’ve been thinking about this lately over the past couple of weeks. What’s my Grace Story?


Aside (The Doctors say Grandma may be able to come home Sat or Sun, please keep prayin’ and thanks!)

What’s a Grace Story? Good Question. . . A Grace Story is a personal story of God’s provision, plan, protection, patience, and or personal work in your life.

It can be as simple as the testimony of your salvation, to the daily paths He leads you on. It can be an interwoven thread of happen stances and aquaintances that working together lead you to the discovery of Truth. Whatever that story is that’s what I’m interested in. I think that’s what God is interested in. The more interested we are in how God is working and changing hearts and lives then the more desire we will have to share and to love those beautiful faces all around us. . .

So What’s your Grace Story?

later,
C

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Family

Families are a beautiful thing. . .

They give us our earliest images of hope and love if we are fortunate. They give us peace and security, saftey and provision. They love us when we are unlovable, they clean us up when we got dirty and the portrayed life daily poured out before us. . .

If we are fortunate, we live long and happy lives together. . .

Much of my life has been fortunate. . . I’m grateful for that.

Right now my Dad’s parent’s Grampy and Grandma have been married 60 years this year. They have lived in the same house on the outskirts of Dallas for nearly 20 years. They lived in the house before that for somewhere around 30 years.

The didn’t move much and have traveled very little in the past 10 years. In their earlier years they had a big RV that they drove around the country for vacations and the like. I liked the RV, especially when they took me out to the farm, I forget the name of it now, but Grandma and her sisters and the families would travel together in the RV’s and trailers and we would have a grand time swimming and such. . .

These past few years have been tough for Grampy and Grandma, struggles with various ailments, and such the passing of all but one of Grandma’s sisters, and the realization that she is one of only 2 left.

But what a life they have lived. . . a life of service and example. Not perfect just there. Grampy and Grandma have been there through every stage of my life. They were at some of my little league games, many of my soccer games and even one or two of my high school games, they were at Graduations, Birthdays and the like, they made it 3 hours east to see me when I graduated college, they were there when I said I do to my wife, they were there.

(just like Mom and Dad) 🙂

I’m grateful and fortunate to have such wonderful Grandparents. . .

Pray for my family, Grandma is in critical condition in Dallas and the doctors say she may not make it.

C