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The Second Sunday in Advent

December 5, 2010 in Community, Faith with 1 Comment

Read Job 11: 7-12

Life sometimes gets the best of us. It is a rare person who has the gifts to be able to find the good in all bad situations.

My family has faced some obstacles recently. From my point of view we have two choices — Either we can see it has a stumbling block and become discouraged, frustrated and just give up. Or we can turn the stumbling block into stepping stones.

We do not know what God has planned for us. Sometimes we fail to listen to what God is calling us too in our life, we try and explain what God is trying to do. But it isn’t that easy….

God is much bigger than we can It doesn’t matter how bad a situation may seem at first, we are Now I don’t mean you should pretend things are wonderful when, in fact, they are bad. But, if you can accept pain and disappointment as a part of life, if you can see it for what it is and then move past it, if you can look disaster in the face and call it what it is — and then find a blessing in it — you’ll be making the best of bad times.

There are so many great people who have failed over and over again, they did so even before they made something great out of themselves. God tells us that we can do that too!

THE PRAYER: Thank you for being a big God. Thank you for being big enough that you can carry all our worries, hurts and burdens. Amen.

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Monday Morning Church

May 18, 2009 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Good Monday Morning!
It feels good to be someones personal hero. There are many kinds of hero’s out there both real and fictional.  What kind of hero are you?

I have been thinking about personal hero’s today and what it means to be one to someone, or to think about my personal hero’s.  I believe in some ways we are all personal hero’s to someone weather we know it or not.  But more importantly — who are our personal hero’s?  Who do we look up too in life?

There may be different people that we look up too in different areas of our lives.  For example, I would consider both of my parents personal hero’s especially when it comes to raising my children.  If I can be half the parent that my parents were for me I would be happy.  I have more personal hero’s or people that I look up too when it comes to music, writing, sports ect.

The question I would like to put before you today is who is your spiritual personal hero?  It might be easy to say Jesus – of course we would like to look to Jesus as our model for our Christian faith, but the reality is that no matter how much we might “try” to formulate our faith life like Jesus we will always fall short.  My question is, who can you go up too and say to someone “you are my spiritual personal hero” -  Who might we look toward to help us in our faith journey?

This question might be hard for some of us, including myself.  I have never really thought of a spiritual or faith journey personal hero but it might help me in my journey.  It might help me focus more on my faith and look at my faith in ways I never did before.

That is my challenge to you this week and my prayer for you this week.  To think about your faith in ways that you have not before, to in some ways find a personal hero for your faith life, your spiritual side and to let the personal hero’s in your life know that they are special in your life.

Prayer
Lord God, you are more of a hero to us than we could ever imagine.  Help us Lord to get to know the other hero’s here on Earth.  Guide us in our faith journey that we can find the spiritual hero’s among us.  Lead us in the directions that we need to go in.  Open our eyes to the world around us that we can see clearly the places that you are calling us too.  Amen.