Christmas is Broken

Christmas is broken
It's a holiday fail
The reindeer got mad cow
And Santa's in jail
 
Let's call on our Savior
For healing we'll pray
So we can all wish Him
A Merry Birthday

Take

TAKE

What did it take to turn your cheek
When all around pronounced you weak?

What did it take to let them rip
Your back to shreds whip after whip?

What did it take to offer grace
When utter fools spat in your face?

What did it take to love the man
Who pounded nails into your hands?

What did it take to hang there nude
Upon a cross for all to view?

What did it take to offer prayer
Forgiving those who placed you there?

What will it take to make me see
That my sins put you on that tree? 

Who or What Do You Really Worship?

If you are a follower of Jesus, who or what would you say your daily actions show that you worship most?

At Alethia today they talked about how we were made to worship something by design.

I'll be honest and share that I struggle most days to truly worship God by my actions. I'm more gifted at worshiping ME. No, I don't have an altar set up with pictures of me that I bow before - nothing that obvious. But my actions often show I'm focused more on pleasing me than loving God by sacrificing  my free time to serve my wife, my children, or others. When I have free time it often becomes me-time.

That's not always bad as we all need time to ourselves. But God reminded me this morning I need to improve by practicing denying myself. Fore that means the discipline of looking outside myself by giving more of my time and my heart, my energy to my wife and children, loving them better, giving them more of me.

What ways do you need to learn to worship God better by worshiping someone or something less?

What plan will you put into place to improve on the days and weeks to come?

Head Held High

To dream, perchance to sleep
Knowin' what to keep
Is half the battle
I surely can't despise
The eternity found in your eyes
Keep your heart pure
and your head held high
The Man's got a plan
& this ain't goodbye
Its just a matter of time
Before the sunrise finds us again

The Purpose of Your Life on a Starbucks Cup!

Hopeful Fall Approaching

Late night

Summer nears its end

Whispers of fall around the bend

Sense of hope approaching

Changes rising higher

Embers of anticipation spark faith into fire

Heaven Is Taking Its Time

Feels like heaven is taking its time

And some days she just wants it now

She knows ten weeks really isn’t that long

But it feels like forever that you've been gone

Days keep marching and she’s getting by

But each morning she wakes up alone

She starts out each day on her own

Your love’s here and weeping
She’s missing your touch

Her sense of dread creeping

And she wants so much

Just to have you here right by her side

Life keeps spinning

But she wishes the ride was through

Feels like heaven is taking too long

And some days she just wants it now

She wants to be done

With the stress and the strain

Of this senseless tragedy

Its nagging pain

Your love’s here and weeping

She’s missing your touch

Her hope now is sleeping

And she wants so much

Just to have you right here by her side

Life keeps spinning

But she wishes the ride would stop

Feels like an eternity’s taken place here

Since you took your place in eternity