God Is Great And Compassionate

Nothing special is happening today  Yet there’s something to give God thanks for I say Did He protect you while in the bed you lay We’re you able to get out of bed okay Do you have what you need to start your day Did He bless you with good weather today  If the weather is bad, do you have shelter to stay Do you have a way to earn some pay Do you have people with you to spend your…

Whether with bread or leaves God takes care of all His beings He created food chains So that every creature can be sustained So whether it’s food or something else I have a God who cares And like the giraffe looking to the tree I know I can look to God to supply my needs.   Scripture reference – Matthew 6:11  

This thing has the audacity  To enter into my body And then proceed to block me By causing me pain and suffering  From enjoying everyday and special activities  How dare you,  Who invited you in? You wanna takeaway the foods I like eating  You wanna limit my activities and mobility  My quality of life you are diminishing I pray to God you won’t win Because imma keep on fighting  Until…

I once read an article entitled Where is God.  As I was reading it, I reminisced on how I never had to ask that question.   Since I met God decades ago,  He was always in my life.  I mean I not only felt His presence, but He has shown His miraculous ability to solve problems just in the nick of time, again and again.  He’s been very merciful and forgiving. I couldn’t help but just meditate and…

I really love technology.  I am truly grateful for the inventors who brought us technology that make tasks in our lives faster to do and more convenient.  Some of the things the cell phone can do really amaze me.  Now a days I find myself doing more texting than talking.  It really comes in handy if you want to convey a short message and don’t want to hold a conversation.  But the last time I…

My initial learning about Hell was that it was a place where you go to after you die if you have not been saved meaning you had not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior or repented of your sins.  Hell was a place of eternal fire and permanent separation from God.1  Just the thought of that makes me cringe as that is such misery and the thought of being in a fire is just unbearable.  But at one…

Why Buy It If It’s Bad For You?

I stare at the treats in the grocery store and debate; should I buy them or should I not? Then I look at the list of ingredients.  Usually they have a high percentage of at least one thing I know I shouldn’t put in my body.  So, why buy it if it’s bad for you?   Because my body still craves the treats.  I be afraid If I don’t buy them at all, then near the end of the night or at some…

Why didn’t they tell me?  I thought I was close enough and important enough to know.  These are the questions I used to ask when I tried to understand why some people didn’t even tell the ones they were close to the trouble they were going through.  But after going through some challenges of my own, I got a better understanding on why people suffer in silence or don’t disclose to even close ones…

I’ve been lamenting lately how things have changed and not for the best in my once beautiful community.  As quality of life issues are becoming a challenge.  Often I was talking about how thing can improve with good leadership and accountability.  I even talked about how I don’t hear community or religious leaders stress simple Godly principles or His Commandments as they will lead to better…

I’ve been lamenting lately how things have changed and not for the best in my once beautiful community.  As quality of life issues are becoming a challenge.  Often I was talking about how thing can improve with good leadership and accountability.  I even talked about how I don’t hear community or religious leaders stress simple Godly principles or His Commandments as they will lead to better…

Don’t Look At Them

How they were conducting themselves really got on my nerves.  I would see them do the same thing several times a day. It got to the point where I asked God why are they being so rude.  And He responded “don’t look at them.”  He was telling me the reality was that I was creating my own misery by placing myself in a position of making someone else’s business my business.  They were not making…

The Rage On The Roads

When I started driving it was not common to hear about road rage.  I was taught to let aggressive drivers have their space.  These days overly aggressive drivers enter your space as they don’t want to share the space that belongs to all of us.  In a recent incident there was plenty of room for me to merge in the left lane, but before getting there the driver blew horn and sped up so as to not let…

Pressure can be enormous not to follow the crowd.  I remember a work situation where the  supervisor gave out specific instructions to the group to go to a certain place off site and do some work there.  Along the way, someone in the group decided to deviate from the instructions and do something at a different site that was more personal than job related.  Everyone in the group went along not…

I reflect on the beginning of the 2020 pandemic when most recreational events were starting to close and I asked myself how am I going to keep my sanity when the very things that keep me going are no longer in existence?  As bad as I thought my situation was, I saw others that had it much worse.  Businesses in all industries had to close leaving employees suddenly without jobs.  I’m sure it was…

Is it easy to let someone’s wrongful actions go?  I say it’s not.  When you’ve been wronged, emotions are high to make yourself whole again and human nature seeks the best way of getting revenge.  Sometimes I look back at a situation I’ve been in and someone said something harsh to me and I couldn’t think of how to respond at that time so I stayed silent.  Later, when I could think of what to…

Telling Or Not Telling Something Sensitive

You know how it goes, somebody tells you something sensitive and tells you not to tell nobody.  It can be a hard situation to be in because if you tell someone then you break your word or lie.  But what if what they told you is so compelling that it almost requires you to tell someone?  For example, what if someone told you they would so something that jeopardizes their safety.  Would you say…

If faced with accepting tragedies or difficult outcomes At what point do you keep praying for a favorable outcome Or, realize this situation is God’s will and accept the unfortunate situation? I’ve seen situations where I thought folks should just say it’s God’s will A good example is praying for a person who is terminally ill I would factor in science, like the age of a person, overall…