Things of Life

Hello;

How are you all doing? How is the life you sweet people lead? And where is it going? Good questions. It seems that nothing eventful has happened, nor truly worth writing on this blog. Yet, simultaneously the undercurrents of life are occurring rapidly - that we have subconsciously put these occurances into the menial tasks of life.

...........What if we SAW GOD IN THOSE SMALL THINGS...The very dialect of our days that we spend fusterated, tired, over exerted, driving too fast, could be the moments that make our journeys shake the existence of our employers, customers, clients, friends, neighbors, and strangers.

What are we waiting for, a burning bush, a voice from heaven? Or have we become careless in our intentional caring of others, making us self centered, bored and non influential.

Go ahead make someone's day... Passionately pursue your day.. Let it stand for something you believe in, and have it worth writing on a blog.

I dare ya.

Candice

The Passion of our Christ

....This weekend, was the completion of the law, the fulfillment; moreover 2000 years ago! That we are bought by the precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This week is commonly known as the passion week around the world. The time where people remember and commemorate the road that Jesus traveled as He went to the cross. As you ponder the cross I want to leave you with words written by an author called Max Lucado and what he says about the cross . . .

It rests on the time line of history like a compelling diamond its tragedy summons all sufferers. Its absurdity attracts all cynics. Its hope lures all searchers. History has idolized and despised it, gold plated and burned it, worn and trashed it. History has done everything but ignore it. How could you? How could you ignore such a piece of lumber? Suspended on its beams is the greatest claim in history. A crucified carpenter claiming to be God on earth. Divine. Eternal. The death-slayer. Never has timber been regarded so sacred. No wonder the apostle Paul called the cross event the core of the gospel. Its bottom line is sobering; if the account is true, it is history hinge. Period. If not, the cross is history hoax. As you ponder Christ on the cross, what are your thoughts? Perhaps it's been a while since you looked at the cross. Perhaps you never have. May I urge you to do so? Allow yourself to trigger a turning of your heart until you stand face to feet with the one who claimed to come to save your soul.

With many Blessings;

Candice

Discussion Scripture for April 9th

James 1:19-27 (NIV)

Listening and Doing

19My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.

26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. 27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:19-27 (The Message)

Act on What You Hear

19Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. 20God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger. 21So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.22Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! 23Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, 24walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.

25But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God--the free life!-even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.

26Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. 27Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.