Spiritual backbone

It comes time to pass on what was given to me. Time to teach my young child. Where do I start?
Respect or honor or obedience maybe trust. Well I think that I will be his servant and let him desire for himself.

                                          Marceaux

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Power & Action

It is the “how” of getting rid of sin if you are earnest about doing it at all: face it, snare it, surrender it. Hate it, forsake it confess it, and restore for it. Shoemaker was adamant that Christianity has a moral backbone. It is not, he said, about “good deeds” alone. It is not about “service” alone. It is not alone about the standards of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, or other rules for appropriate  moral conduct in the Bible. Nor is it just about the elimination of sin. It is about using the power of the spirit of God, received from on high in rebirth, in order to live and prosper according to God’s will as laid down in the Bible and as given to man by revelation from God."
Rev. Sam Shoemaker

Rev. Sam Shoemaker an Episcopalian minister who was a major influence  in the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous. Its  about that power. The power to do what my spirit wants and not my flesh. The power to keep on task when things are not going the way I think they should. The power to have relationship with those difficult people. The power to look at my failure as opportunity for growth. Power to get dirty with someone soul dealing with the sin in our lives. All this power is available all I have to do is ask Jesus and He will fulfill that need. Thank Jesus for that need because its that need that has given me purpose.

MARCEAUX

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Stop and Think

Job 37:14 NIRV
"Job, listen to me. Stop and think about the wonderful things God does.
What a simple request for me today. How difficult it is just to find some solitude and comfort from my own thinking. My desires I have let wander and my affections are always on the wrong things. My time is spend securing the things that I  need and whats left is given away grudgingly.
How great it is to stop and take it all in. My life is a whirl wind with a toddler then all of a sudden he slows down with you and those intimate embraces are the best. I wish I could live a million years in the embrace of my one and a half year old. The last diaper that I change will be a heart breaker because those days will never be again. Its "those days" that
I always want to live in but I am finding out with my son is that "those days" are now in the present. They are best celebrated slowly.

Moved by God

                Men run from your arguments about God, they will not listen to your elaborate explanations; but when you tell them what life was without God, and then tell them what it is with Him, their hearts,              as John Wesley said, are “ strangely warmed," and their minds also are strangely persuaded. . .        . Then Jesus gave them His answer to John. . . . He just gathered up in a cascade of living words the living deeds He and        they had been seeing, and said, “Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised , to the poor the gospel is preached”. It was proof by evidence. They had seen these people themselves.

                                                Sam Shoemaker, National Awakening, p. 28.

The friendship and communication that I experience with our brothers and sisters of Able Church require that things be easy or concrete. That's so great because I need that basic teaching more than anyone else. The basics is where its at. I am drilled by my friends in recovery a message of pragmatism, is what your doing working. The message is quite urgent because if what I do does not work then I take that huge leap in front of that old freight train called death.
I think that daily I am looking for that small little touch that will take me from my flesh or satisify my mind so that I can move in the right direction. The direction into Gods will. Its refreshing when simplicity match concrete practical action. In my life that happens when I open up my heart to a person with a disability. So in your travels today look for that situation and at that moment you will experience a little nudge from the maker himself Jesus Christ.

Important Stuff

Here goes another blog. I have the privilege of being with my family this week. They came from Montana with a missionary team from my church and my nephew. Healing and change was brought to the Bury family even sent ripples of healing through the generations. My father experienced what I have given my life to do. He was thrilled but agreed that it was tough work. I think my mother has settled deeper in the acceptance of disability as Gods divine plan and not a mistake, punishment or sin. Her friendship with Jesus is more clear than before. The interaction with the campers at Camp Daniel and sharing her life with her grandson at camp as a councilor has given her freedom and joy.

                     .Matthew 6:33 NIRV
But put Gods kingdom first. Do what he wants you to do.. Then all of those things will also be given to you.