Trusting God and Facebook

We have a tendency to not trust God with our problems. We are much like a child with a broken toy. We take it to our parent to fix, but we aren't willing to give him the time to fix it. We become impatient, quickly and demand the toy back so we can fix it ourselves. We usually make a bigger mess of the problem than it was to begin with. I think it has been part of the human experience since time began. We are an impatient race, anxious to get ahead but unwilling to wait for the experience to follow through. We don't really want God to "fix" our problems. We want Him to magically make us as good as new in the blink of an eye. That shortage of funds we have, that growth in our body that is going to kill us, the children that have started down the wrong path in life, we don't want to have to take ownership of those things. We pray to God for guidance, but we don't REALLY want guidance. We want Him to take the problems away. We are provided guidance, already. It's called THE BIBLE. Within its pages, lie the answers to ALL of life's problems. But, alas, we don't want to look up these answers. We want God to simply whisk them away with the wave of his hand. We are too used to fast food, fast cars, drive in banks, and constant cell phone communication. We don't have to wait for anything anymore. I can just see the people lined up to get through the pearly gates. Wait, no I can't. I can see them rushing the gates like Black Friday shoppers at Walmart. No one is willing to wait their turn to be examined by St. Peter. We have to stop rushing through life. We must learn to take a moment to figure out what we really want. And we must learn to actually work for it. God is always there to help us, but we have to actually help Him to help us. We can only pray, search the Bible and learn to wait for God's intervention. He wants us to ask him for help, but he doesn't want us to pray for Him to help us with the stuff we can do for ourselves. "Liking" and "Sharing" on social media is now a way to earn His favor. Not one child, not one parent, and not one pet can be saved by typing "Amen". We just want to feel as if we are helping Him do His will. Another shortcut to glory.

I'm Still Standing[

1 Chronicles 28:20 “David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished.” I DECLARE God is never surprised. Nothing in our life happens by accident. These things in our life that surprise us are meant to either strengthen us or to teach us a lesson. It is said, God never gives us more than we can handle. I know this to be true because I am 57 years old and I haven't crumpled yet. I have survived divorce, losing my kids, near poverty, emotional abuse and cancer and I'm still standing. I have lived in a van and washed up the in a McDonalds restroom before going to work. I know if I lose everything tomorrow that I will survive. I know God won't let Sstan take my life and everything else is just gravy. In the past few years, so many of my plans and schemes have come to nothing. You'd think in 57 years that I'd learn that MY plans and schemes aren't even worth the imaginary paper they are written on. Many of us don't chose a path to follow in our lives. Most of us just close our eyes and end up onto whatever path we happen. Instead of making a decision to better ourselves, We let the decisions be made for us. Indecision is a decision. We need to open our eyes, search ahead to see which path will lead us where we need to be. We cannot just let our lives happen. God doesn't make junk and if we continue to forge ahead without a plan we are destined to fail

Jeremiah 29:11-13 'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. 'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 'And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I DECLARE sometimes life is like a well-paved road, straight and smooth. When you're driving along with good tires, good brakes and plenty of gas, everything seems to be going your way. Other times, it feels more like a wet, muddy, winding stretch of goo that bogs your tires down or lets them spin aimlessly going nowhere. In those times when the road is smooth we tend to forget to pay attention. Sometimes we nod off or find ourselves to have traveled long distances without realizing it. These times are times of plenty. No worries, no cares, just free wheeling down life's road. Those times when we find ourselves bogged down, or slipping and sliding uncontrollably, we try harder to concentrate, remember our prayers and supplications to God. We fight for control of our vehicles and pray we make it home or at least to a safe place in one piece. Once we know we are out of danger, we thank God for his help and for his guidance and vow never again to take that road. But for some reason, we always end up on that road sooner or later. After driving many miles on those stretches of good roads, we forget what a trial the bad road was and decide to take the shortcut again. We never seem to learn from our mistakes. I have read the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Seems there are a LOT of insane people in this world. Why can't we learn from our mistakes and learn to follow Christ down the straight smooth road instead of trying to venture out on our own? Why can't we learn to ask him for guidance when times are good as well as when times are bad? Why do we insist on not paying attention and coasting along in life until something bad happens to force us to turn to Him for help?

Writing for the masses...

She sat quietly staring at the empty page before her. She had a deadline of midnight for the next installment of her blog and she had absolutely no idea of what to write. The holidays were over and the New Year had begun. Despite the fact that she was facing this deadline, nothing came to her to write about. She considered writing about politics or religion but decided against it. No one wanted to start a new year reading about that kind of thing. She wanted to write a "feel good" story but since she didn't "feel good" she opted to ignore that. She toyed with the idea of doing a DIY article but since she was not a do it yourself type of person, she thought it would be easily discounted by the readers as hogwash. Closing the laptop, she decided to make herself lunch, instead. After all--tomorrow was another day.

How We Overthrew Earth in Ten Easy Steps

The man stood at the lectern of the New United Nations and straightened his papers slowly. He addressed the assembly slowly and deliberately. “As you know, I have been elected the new leader of Planet Earth.” There was a murmur among the audience, but no protests. The people knew he was duly elected and had no qualms with his ideology. “We studied your planet for many years to find out the way to conquer you. We realized early on, that force would not work. Bombs, guns, tanks and mass destruction would not work. That seemed to cause you to band together in solidarity. Solidarity could destroy any enemy that attacked your people. We had to come up with another plan to defeat you. Eventually, we realized the best way to destroy you was from within. We had to learn to bide our time and work slowly to insinuate ourselves into your planet. (1) First, we realized that religion held your people together. There were many types of worship on Earth, but the power of religion was strong. We managed to get it thrown out of schools. We started with prayer, then we moved on to abolishing the Nativity plays and even the mention of a higher power in the classroom. This made it easier to convince the population that there was not going to be help from “above” to rescue them from the bad things in life. Then, we sowed dissention among the various religions and made them suspicious of each other. This encouraged them to give up hope. (2) We encouraged dissention between the classes by whispering of the differences in how each class was treated by the other. It didn’t matter that all had the same chances of success. It only mattered that we planted the idea and waited to watch it grow and take on a life of it’s on. We convinced the poor they were poor because the rich were conspiring against them. We convinced the rich the poor were lazy and unable to manage on their own. We convinced the races that all the other races were inferior. We marveled at how easy it was to manipulate the people of earth. (3) Convincing the poor they deserved what the rich had without working for it was a little harder, but we were able to bring them around with a new word we invented, called Entitlement. Little whispers were powerful things to you. For some reason, you listened to things said softly with much more acceptance than things said loudly. We never quite figured that one out, but none the less, it was effective. (4) Taking control of your children was our greatest accomplishment. We stopped the parent’s interference by enacting laws that gradually moved parenting from the home to the schools and the government. Children spent more and more time away from their parents and we were able to convince them the parents were interfering in their success. We enacted laws that kept parents from disciplining their children. We encouraged them to disrespect the parents and gradually to learn disdain for them. The children were our easiest conquest. We were most proud of that accomplishment. (5) Guns were probably the hardest to take from people. We had to convince them that guns were evil. We made sure that any accidents with guns were blown out of proportion. Enacting laws “for the protection” of children were fairly easy. Taking the guns from people was much harder. It had to be done slowly, quietly, and effectively. First we had the owners registered. Then we had certain guns restricted. Then we simply passed laws that made it illegal to own them. For the holdouts who didn’t register their weapons, we enacted laws to make sure their lives were no longer their own. We made sure the only people who could own guns were our people and our sympathizers. (6) We made it mandatory to vote. We couldn’t have people refusing to vote because they disagreed with candidates or laws being enacted. Since it was mandatory, we knew how everyone voted and we knew who the dissidents were and were able to delete their votes and replace them with our own. (7) Convincing people that abortion was a woman’s “right” took a little longer than we expected. At first we realized that there would be religious objections, but eventually we were able to work it out. Those abortions allowed us to further desensitize people to death. (8) Television shows and video games aided us in this death desensitization as well. We were able to introduce children to seeing death and destruction at a young age. By the time it took full effect, they were able to see actual death and destruction in real life and merely stand by and watch. Some even egged the offenders on or recorded the events for “posterity”. (9) Dissolving marriage took the longest. Making the family unit a thing of the past was almost a lost cause. First we convinced the people they didn’t need a “piece of paper” to make a family. That was easy enough. We made divorce easier for those who decided they weren’t compatible. Instead of working on a marriage to make stronger, we convinced them that they could just walk away and find an easier life. We convinced them the marriage license was useless. Then, we convinced them that living together was just as much of a commitment as being married. Being able to walk away from commitment with no strings was lauded as the best thing for everyone. Children were taught there was no such thing as a stable family. Grownups wandered in and out of their lives. They grew up believing relationships were never stable and family was disposable. (10) Computers and cell phones separated your people from each other. There became no personal interaction between friends or even family. Tweeting, Texting, Facebooking, and Snap Chatting took the place of looking people in the eyes and having actual conversations. People stopped caring what happened to others. That was the final straw in our takeover of your planet. When people stop caring about each other, they lost the empathy needed to resist us. All original inhabitants of earth will begin receiving draft notices by e-mail immediately. These numbers, are for registration in the newly formed Earth and Terrestrial Procurement Program. We are setting up transplant farms at this moment to enable us to provide organs for important people in the administration and in the population. People deemed not productive to society will be placed on these farms and used as needed for any needed medical procedures and experimentation we require. Plans are also underway to use some of these unwanted people to maintain a food supply for the ever growing population moving to this planet from other worlds. We trust there will continue to be no attempts to defy our possession of your planet. We have conquered other planets using the same formula as we have here and we continue to meet no resistance. We have other plans ahead for this planet and look forward to implementing them as soon as possible. There will be no questions answered. You should have asked them long before now. You have heard this edict. Please remain calm and carry on with your daily lives.