It's all about trust!

This weekend I learned a very important lesson. One that is vital in my walk with Christ. I learned to fully trust him with my life!
I mean, I always trusted in him but there was always a part of me that questioned God's reasoning for me.
"Why is this happening?"
"What could I possibly learn from this?"

This weekend my father was planning to come to visit us from Michigan. I don't get to see him very often so when I do it's a big occasion. The morning he was supposed to arrive I recieved a call. He explained to me that there was a huge snowstorm that hit Ohio making his bus dicuss the possibility of cancelling. He said he would call me later to give me the results of the discussion.
The moment I got off the phone I prayed that I would get to see my father later that day. An hour had passed before I recived the verdict.
He couldn't make it!
I was crushed!
I then began to wonder why God didn't let my dad come to me. It wasn't till my father called me back later that day that I recieved that answer.
" I can come in two weeks." My dad stated while trying to make the situation better.
As he said this, I glanced at my calendar. Two weeks was Easter weekend!. My dad hadn't been with us for Easter in at least 3 years! That's when I knew that this was all in God's plan. He wanted my dad to be with his family on Easter.

At that moment, I hit my knees and gave him praise!

Changing the world....or is that possible?

You can be reading the newspaper, watching the news or even listen to the radio and you can see the devastation the world has come to. What if I told you a former Vietnam soldier stopped his own breath because he was ashamed of what he fought for? I mean do you blame him. I'm not saying it was a right move on his part but I at least have a slight understanding for the motive. Now we have to ask ourselves....What can we do? The answers to that questions are never ending, however are rarely put into action. It is one thing to say you can do it and another thing all together to do it. So in conclusion, I encourage all of you to go out and DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!
I don't care if it is something huge like dedicating all your time into volunteering at hospitals or homeless shelters, or if it is something small like giving an encouraging word to someone in need. I believe that it takes one person to start the rippling effect needed to change this entire world for the better.
So again I encourage you, Start making your effect now!..... Make this world something to be proud of, something worth fighting for!

Dealing with today

Dealing with Today, what a perfect way to describe not only my life (particularly the happenings of today), but the lives of society in general. Isn't that what we all do, is deal, get by. Well what if I'm done with simply dealing, simply getting by with my life. Today made me realize that life is not something to deal with, it's something to, well live and enjoy. If we simply Deal with life and forget to live it we've gone nowhere. And, I mean, I don't want you to think I'm trying to preach to you. I just wanted to give you something to think about. I'm just one of those people that believes everything happens for a reason and I hate to think that reason is for us to simply get by with life. Of course I am welcome to your thoughts and opinions and yes this very well could be all my emotions flooding into the computer at the moment. I just felt it was important to get that out and allow it to dwell in your mind for awhile so I could get it out of mine.