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So many questions

As I work towards getting back into my routine I can’t help but to be consumed by thoughts from my trip to Uganda, causing me to have numerous questions in which I cannot figure out.   I can’t help but to ask WHY so many children and woman have been abandoned by the very ones who love them.   They go from a since of stability to nothing in a day, from someone holding and comforting them to the darkness of lonely nights. I ask why Lord, this just does not make since.   Does this have to happen and more importantly why do You allow these kind of things to take place?   Then I realize these are questions I will probably not know the answer to until I get in Heaven. But what I do know, God is right and just in everything and that is something I will not question.   His reasons are not for my understanding no matter how cruel I may deem them to be because He is the only one who knows the outcome of these events.   So, I trust in Him as I come to awareness that these people regardless of
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I'm finally "OUT" of the closet

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Spring brings new growth, fresh smells, and many chores.   As the sun radiates throughout the house the drapes are drawn and windows open I set out to do spring cleaning.   This  regular ritual consists of loading the CD player with my favorite CD’s, gathering supplies, etc.   With music up, tools in hand my mission begins.   As I figure out a good starting point I thank the Lord for my many blessings through song. Then before I know it I am off and running, praising and glorifying His name as I move furniture, wash windows, and clean out closets.   Funny how quickly my list dwindles when I am singing and dancing before the Lord.   The tackling of the master closet has been the hardest task thus far.   For starters it took me five days only because it had not been cleaned out since October 2010 to be precise.    So, I really had no idea what was in there but what I did know it was stacked high and everything out of sight for others to see.   I knew this was not going to be easy
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Political Correctness Lethal Weapon of Choice

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Political Correctness: A trend that wants to make everything fair, equal and just to all by suppressing thought, speech and practice in order to achieve that goal. While I ponder what it means to be politically correct (P.C.), I have come to realize how powerful this terminology has become and the huge impact it has on our homes, our schools, and even in our churches. It is everywhere. It has changed how we view truth because of its frequent attempt to justify sin and its reckless behavior. If we allow political correctness to dictate our speech and/or belief we are undoubtedly opening the door to disobedience and will be establishing a watered down version of Truth just to avoid controversy. In all likelihood the realization is that many of us, including myself, have been fashioned into this way of thinking for the fear of being called a bigot. It is time for us to move past these fears and away from P. C. way of think to living a life that is spiritually correct no matter
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No More Shackles

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  Here is a post that I am sure will touch you as it did me.   It is a day I had with mother about a month just before her passing on August 15, 2012.   I found this day to start off as any other day with our typical going over and the preparing of papers, making sure everything was in order at the time of my mother's death.  This was something I never looked forwarded to but knew how important it was to her because she wanted to make it as easy as possible on all of her children.  It was just another way she could expressed  her love for us all.  But even with all the busyness I could sense there was something still troubling my mother.  As we began to talk I started to see a side of her I had never seen before.  A side in some ways took me by surprise but in others not so much.  You see my mom had always been known as strong female or a strong welled woman to say the least.  Undestandably you can see how she would have developed such characteristics due to hav
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A Healthier Me in More Ways than One

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Even though breakfast was stressed as being the most important meal of the day, I grew up bypassing it day after day and year after year. I believe it was mainly because I did not understand the full benefits of breakfast. Not to mention I did not like my family’s staple of eggs and sugary cereals nor the way these foods made me feel when I ate them. But truth to be known I thought I could function just as well without it. Can you say delusional? Now that I have found myself in my late forty’s and not getting any younger, I have come to understand the importance of this power meal as I start taking precautionary measures in order to prevent the onset of health issues as I age. While I try to change a lifelong habit I have found it to be not easy, somewhat difficult and rather frustrating at times while I work towards figuring out what foods will be the most beneficial for me. However, on the bright side, my body has become accustom to eating first thing in the morning. I no longer ge
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Thomas Nelson Book review: Couples Who Pray

My latest Book Sneeze book review for Thomas Nelson, Couples Who Pray: The Most Intimate Act between a Man and Woman, by husband and wife team Squire Rushnell and Louise Duart. In a time where many couples are looking for ways to have a more meaningful marriage it is nice to know the simple act of praying together can do just that. I found this book to be more encouraging than anything. Rushnell and Duart along with several high profile couples share their testimonies as they reveal the secret in keeping their marriage connected, strong and filled with intimacy while maintaining their busy lives through the act of daily prayer as a couple. Although I did not find this book to be filled with a lot of details in how to get started it does offer a five minutes a day, forty day challenge for couples who want to start in a prayer life together. It is nice to know through the simple act of praying together ones marriage can be strengthen and can/will cause a deeper level of intima
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A mother who loss her son way too soon

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Today I read a journal entry of a mother who lost her son way too early in life and as her heart is sadden by the loss of her child she also can’t help but to rejoice over the life he lived and the one he is now living. See, he had been raised to understand our Heavenly Father created and chose each of us to fulfill a purpose higher than our own. Michael came to recognize God’s calling and accepted the Lord as his Savior. He understood his life was no longer his to do with as he pleased but to do as God had willed. He sought the desires of his Savior instead of the many pleasures of the world. He showed God’s love, kindness, and mercy in everything he did, including the love of those who were hard to love, those who were just passing by, as well as those who loved him. He lived a life of selflessness and this is where I can’t help but to stop and ask myself, “Am I living a life that exemplifies Christ’s selflessness, compassion, and mercy. Or have I allowed the world’s pleasures t
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