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Back to Church

Last night was a good night. It was GGB's 86th Birthday and a bunch of us went out to eat and then back to her place so hang out. It was good to see Aunt Betty, Aunt Wilma & Uncle Jack again. Dave and Sherri were there as well and we had a great time with them as well. We came home and ordered up a PPV. Went to bed about 1:30AM.

We got up for church this morning and I was beat and honestly didn't feel like going. For one reason or another we hadn't been since June 4th and it honestly felt like years since I had been. It's funny, my life used to be consumed by my involvment in actively participating in one way or another at church. Some of the best years of our lives was either working at a church, volunteering at a church and being able to minister to teens and impacting their lives. It has been a good 4 years since that has happened and I miss it. Unfortunately in the last 18 months or more it's not like I'm leading a life to be imitated. Am I drinking, smoking, etc. No I am not. My heart just hasn't been in it. It's not that Christ has left me, it's that I have neglected Him. He hasn't changed, I have.....which brings me to this morning.

Pastor Danny was out of town on vaction with his family and they had a guest speaker. They brought in the former youth pastor who in the last few years has planted a church of his own in Ft. Myers. I had only heard him 2-3 times in the previous years going to CC St. Pete and really enjoyed his perspective.

Today he opened up in Ephesian Chapter 4 and it really hit me. It's time to get back to Him. In someways I have lived as I desired and not honoring Him in all I do. I haven't put God first or prayed to Him unless I thought I was having a heart attack or was in some other need. I haven't sang praises to Him just because He Is. I don't want to be sure of my slavation, I NEED to be sure of my salvation. It's time to take John 3:16 up again and let the Holy Spirit reign in me.

Read the Bible.
Pray.
Do it again.

July 7, 2006

Well, it has been a long, long time since I have written here. Many things have changed since that last post. My walk isn't where I want it to be. My witness is hiding in the corner somewhere. It seems as if I am conflicted about my actions when I know without a doubt what I should be doing.

Writing for me is relaxing. I'll keep updating as I can.

and.....we're back.

How unfortunate for me that I have neglected writing in this thing. New post are soon to come.

Courtesy of Tongue Tied

November 30, 2004

High Irony



A Georgia principal who read a satirical ditty about how kids today can elect pregnant prom queens and dress like freaks but can’t mention God in school was accused of breaching that pesky line between church and state, reports the Associated Press.

Tommy Craft, principal of Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, apologized for reading a poem entitled called The New School Prayer over the school's intercom. He said he just wanted to provoke a little thought.

But because the poem sounded sorta like a prayer and mentioned God, some parents complained. “Basically, I found the poem offensive, but even if I didn't, I still would believe it crossed the line between church and state,'' said Ginger Smith, whose daughter is a junior at Cedar Shoals.

The poem has circulated on the Internet since at least 1992 and is written in the rhyming style of the children's prayer that begins Now I lay me down to sleep. It goes like this:

Now I sit me down in school

Where praying is against the rule

For this great nation under God

Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,

It violates the Bill of Rights.

And anytime my head I bow

Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,

That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.

The law is specific, the law is precise.

Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall

Might offend someone with no faith at all.

In silence alone we must meditate,

God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,

And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.

They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.

To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,

And the ``unwed daddy,'' our Senior King.

It's ``inappropriate'' to teach right from wrong,

We're taught that such ``judgments'' do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,

Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.

But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,

No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,

When chaos reigns the school's a mess.

So, Lord, this silent plea I make:

Should I be shot, my soul please take!