Ya know, sometimes God just lets his children wander. Not to see if they will figure it out or find the answer or even get stronger. But, really just to see if they will come to him. Doing that incompasses all the above.
SRay
Oct
23
Participating in Tiger Tunes 2005 for Campus Ministries:
$40.00
Practicing more than 20 hours a week in the Tiger Den:
$25.00/week in food runs
Renting costume from Gayla’s in Benton:
$108.88
Spending time with my elves, having little kids run up to me and tell me what they want for Christmas, and hearing Sam Bushey exclaim, “THANTHA!” (Santa):
Priceless!
Oct
16
Seizing any opportunity he can, Satan tries to steal identity from Christ - followers (inherently, a Christian’s identity is in Christ). He then proceeds in making that person a slave to the depraved reality of which he is King; a reality that boasts great claims, yet in essence is nothing more than empty. Satan’s reality is like a child who gives all his allowance and savings and piggy bank money to a friend so that the friend will buy him a wonderful gift for the Holidays. Then, he sees a massive box under the tree just before Christmas. He has all kinds of dreams and hopes for what the huge gift would be. Maybe a bike. Maybe a fort. Maybe something he hasn’t even heard of. But, nevertheless, he imagines what glorious treasures lay inside. And then the Day comes and the child opens the box only to find it completely empty except for a small piece of paper. The paper reads: SUCKER! And I guess it wouldn’t be so bad, except that he spent everything he had on the big, empty box.
SRay
Oct
16
Helpless is when someone that you love deeply makes decisions that will horrendously handicap his future, decisions that he thinks are good, but knows are bad. And I, I can only stand aside as he rips his own future apart limb by limb. It’s his life.
SRay
Oct
9
Today was one of those days that only comes about once every four or five months. It was a day where I encountered God on a level that seemed to transcend time and space; a level where nothing else mattered. It was one of those experiences where no amount of explanation would come close to doing the experience justice. I just sat at the lake and watched and felt and loved and got loved. It’s experiences like those that help me to be confident about what I believe…an experience that was perhaps a small sample of far greater things to come. I could only imagine.
Oh yeah, then I went square dancing!
SRay
