Archive for January, 2009
Amazed
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
I am continually amazed at how God works in people’s lives. Last week I had the opportunity of speaking to a group in Costa Mesa CA and after that I met with a host of other folks and at each juncture I was keenly aware that God was at work.
With the group, school age kids, God wanted to rally them to Him and the call that they heard was that God wanted to start a Revolution in their lives. Not based upon a political ideology but one based upon Spiritual transformation and an impartation. He wanted to intersect their lives in such a point that the course of their life was altered altogether. My prayer is that He will do that as each recognize His love and passion for them as unique individuals and in turn their response will be one of surrender.
I also had a chance to visit a couple of people who were very sick and are faced with some decisions that will affect their well being and longevity here on earth. What impressed me was that even in the face of their sickness, there was recognition that God was working and that the most important thing they could attend too was their health, their spiritual health. The reality that life is temporary and eternity is eternity was very real to them as well as the reality that eternity is shaped by actions and decisions made here on earth. Without Christ, eternity will literally be hell.
With each opportunity I have to speak and share about God, water, India and moving to Kansas, I come away with an appreciation and a greater awareness at how big God really is. The fact of the matter is He is huge and I(we) have really no idea how big He really is. The formation of creation is just a small facet of who He is and what He can accomplish with just a spoken word.
Just a spoken word is all we need from Him, because His words bring life and isn’t that what this whole thing is all about anyway? Life, and life more abundantly!
Until next time….keep the faith and revel in God being God and in His infinite love for You.
So What Happened?
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
If you are like me, you often wonder whatever happened especially if you didn’t stick around for the final result. Even if you did stick around, the end result may not have been what you anticipated.
I remember going to the Sun Bowl a long time ago, Texas was playing North Carolina and they were on the downswing while the football program at UNC was gaining new traction. I flew to El Paso from Los Angeles and met my parents at the airport as they drove down earlier that day from Santa Fe. The next day we drove to the stadium and here we were in the alumni section for UNC, my dad graduated there back in the 50’s, anyway it was a good game. My mom isn’t a huge football fan and many times I found myself explaining the game to her. By the 3rd quarter she caught on and about that time UNC had built a lead. The 4th quarter came and like most games the real game is played out in the last couple of minutes of regulation and sure enough that is what happened here. Before you knew it UNC lost the lead, there defense just ran out of gas and so Texas won.
This change of events, UNC squandering a lead due to a tired defense and Texas roaring back was much more than my mom could handle. She sat there on that cold December day looking deflated and verbalized what many in the alumni section were probably thinking “what just happened?”
Isn’t this the case in so many things?
I share all of this for no other reason than to share a football memory that includes my mom; an after all it’s her birthday so I thought I would recognize her in my own special way.
So whatever happened to my Christmas wish? Well, I didn’t receive a check for $25,000 like I hoped but I did get some donations which helped confirm the decision to go ahead and fund 21 new projects. Doing this brought our total of villages impacted this year with clean, safe drinking water to 54 which is 1 more than last year! By writing these checks our bank balance is very low, not on fumes but definitely an 1/8 of a tank but the reality is that we exist for no other purpose than to provide water so what use is the money in an account when it can be put to immediate use in India?
Think of it, I can keep this cash and earn 1% in interest or I can spend as much as possible so that hundreds of villagers in 21 different places won’t have to suffer from sickness or disease all because they don’t have water suitable for drinking. A no brainer in my mind.
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