Praying for Katie Hugan

Pastor has updated Katie's health blog recently. She is having some symptoms that could either be serious or something to do with her eyes. So while you are checking out my new blog with Danielle, give that a good looking over as well. And remember to pray for Katie. I'm hoping God will give her the final victory in the long battle that shes fighting.

We're here for you Katie, get well soon!

New Blog

I've started a new blog for Danielle and I. You should check it out. Go now. Its over in "My Favorite Places To Visit" space. Go on, it'll be ok. Do it!!

CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT THE K IN 401K MEANS?

Its hard to turn on the news or listen to the radio without hearing of the "financial crisis" thats "gripping" the country into a "downward chaos" that will end with all of us living in cardboard boxes and eating shoe leather.

While I dont know much about the economy the little I do know is enough to comfort me that there is no way that it will go that far. But its sad to hear of housing prices dipping down lower and lower, investments disappearing and lay offs everywhere.

There is a couple in one of my Beginner classes who both had succesful jobs, by week two the husband lost his job to outsourcing. Dealerships are closing by the thousands everywhere, and the Canadia "Loony"(spelling?) is now worth more then the American dollar.

The big news on msn this morning was how the GOP paid something to the tune of $150,000 for a new wardrobe for Sarah Palin. While Obama is paying even more on equally silly things.

I'm sad for the world, and all the money its losing, I really am. However I can't help but smile a bit when I think of what little money I have. I dont invest in the market anymore, because to me its like gambling, easy come, easy go, I don't own a house and it will be a few years before I need to consider it. I dont play the lotto and I don't dabble in realestate.

There is only one thing I think that we should invest in as Christians, and thats our Heavanly Retirement policy.

Just like your retirement policy here on earth we need to be diligent, always thinking about it, always adding to it, always seeing what ways it can be protected. There is nothing like a life that is centered around the Lord. His service and His worship. To know that you are doing as much as you can one day, and then learning how to do more the next. the answer isnt in bears and bulls, I'm banking and putting all of my investments into the Lamb.

The world...its like road kill, I hate looking at it, but its everywhere you go.

My daily reading schedule has taken me back to Genesis 8. The part where Noah and the ark are floating through the flooded world. And we all know the story, of course, but what hit me as special today is the rainbow that God put up in the sky as a promise to Noah. God had just finished cleansing the world from its sin and the degradation that we caused, and in a promise to never flood it again, He changed the way light hit water so that it split the white light into the many colors it creates.

There are so many promises in the Bible, yet this one He reminds us of every time it rains. That never again will He use the rain, never again will he destroy the whole world in that manner again.

But think about the last time you saw a rainbow on the back of a car, or a rainbow flag in the beginning of a parade. It's become the symbol of Homosexuality not just in America but everywhere. When you see the rainbow bar on the back of a car, thats what it means. When you see a flag like that, sodomy is being promoted.

It is a sick reminder that the Devil is still out there and still working to pervert the things of God. That they would reject God in such a way is an abomination in and of itself, but to take that symbol and that promise and turn it into something God hates, well thats just taking sin to a higher playing field.

And lets not forget why God made it rain in the first place. They are using this symbol to herald the very thing that God destroyed in those 40 days. Tell me that the Devil's fingure prints aren't all over that!

When will we stop the world from taking these things from us? When will God's people stand up for His law? For His statutes? For His promises? It's true that God doesnt need us to stand up for Him. But that doesnt give us a pass to stay home and wait for the rapture.

It's just sad that now a days what you really find at the end of a rainbow is Ellen Degeneres and Rosie O'donnal

I'M STILL HERE, though my readers may have left

So its been a few weeks since my last update, but if you have been checking my blog with any sort of regularity you have come to expect this. It's kind of like a tradition, one sad apathetic tradition of procrastination.
Big words aside, I have been some resemblance of busy. Work is still going well. I'm the Head Dog Trainer at the Monroe Petsmart. Which is just like being a regular dog trainer but with more paper work, and phone calls. But over all its a great job, I've only been bit once, and so far I'm doubling qoutas and winning customers. Something the bosses in button up shirts appreciate.
I'm still battling with credit theft, I'm losing, but its been a great war.
We had a Champion class activity. Which you may see pictures of in a slide show somewhere over to the side.
Then on Monday (Labor Day) Danielle, Mrs. Thompson, Bindy, Lucy and I went for a walk at the Maumee State Park. Which was a blast that left everyone but Bindy tired. Apparently its hard to wear out a grey hound. Even if it is mixed with another breed.

That catepillar attacked us when we poked it with a stick. No I've poked many bugs with sticks in my day, and never have I had anything strike the stick snake style.

DBC started again which means another year of book devotions. Which I'm looking forward to, because on your own there are things that you avoid studying that the book makes you consider. And some how they find a way to adress a problem that you have every week.

continue to pray for those on the prayer list. Its something that I plan on memorizing every week. So quiz me the next time you see me just to keep me honest.

See you around

Update:And a picture of a duckie!!!!

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been staying out in a hotel in Northville for my Pet Trainer training. And let me tell you, my job must mean a lot to them… The first week, I walked into my room to see a big television, a king sized bed and enough room to run around in, if you do that sort of thing. I went down to the “concierge” (get a dictionary) to explain how much I would love to go for a dip in the pool, but I’m picky as to who I swim with. No women folk, and any dudes in there need to be in something larger then dental floss.
Without a frown they agreed to let me swim alone, and gave me a whole hour slot at 7am to swim in. Which was awesome, but I never did figure out why the gave me a bottle of chlorine and a large squeegee though.
The second week was just a great but with an added hot tub bonus. That’s right a three person bubbling pool of hot relaxation just for yours truly. Of course I shared it with one of my closest friends. Well two…..

But one early morning I was aroused by a large screech and a flashing light. Were it not for the flashing light, the alarm clock would have become just another notch on my belt. I couldn’t see a thing. I try to make a room as dark as possible when I sleep in it, no light whatsoever if possible. I find it more comfortable that way, but in the middle of a fire alarm that’s not as cool. Save for the flashing light I had no way of seeing, in a panic I tried to find my pants, and the door. In that order of course. I could only see in those brief moments of light, glimpses that I couldn’t be sure of until the next flash. I had to remember in the dark, what I had seen when the alarm on the wall lit up just a moment ago. It seemed like I took forever to get to the door, I got into the hallway and there were people just like me looking back and forth trying to see what was going on.
Turns out it was just some guy burning something in the microwave and the smoke turned on the alarm.
Sitting at breakfast later that morning I was thinking about it and I remember thinking to myself, “That would have been hilarious, had I known I was going to live through it.”
And it put me to mind about all the things happening in my life.
A new job


A wedding coming up to fast
A few financial things that are slowly getting fixed.
The Nehemiah book I’ve been writing
Life, where I’m going to live, my future with Belle, Studying, and trying to be a witness.

It’s odd how all of those things can be affected by sin. I’m walking in the light, when suddenly I choose sin and it plunges me into that darkness. It seems sometimes when I do things, like I don’t have any sense. I’ll work at something, and find myself blowing it all away by one click of the remote, or in a moment of weakness.
I like what Paul said when he wrote “I know whom I have believed.” He got to the end of his life and he knew who it was that all of his life, he had put his belief in. I’m waiting for that time, when I’m up in Heaven and I can truly say that I know who it was I believed. And relied on Him all the way.
I don’t know about you but sometimes my faith is as weak as that light that led me to the hallway last week. Rare flashes and I’m forced to move closer to the Lord, with only what I can remember of what I saw, when I was close enough to see in the light. And I’m so glad that no matter how many times I let Him down, and no matter how many times, I let His people down, I can still move into the light. And I know full well that I don’t deserve it. I know perfectly well, that I ought to be cast into the burning darkness. And I don’t know why He chose me for this, and I don’t care why He chose me, I’m just glad He did.
So I’m going to work, and I’m going to plan, and I’m going to pray. I’ll fail from time to time, I’ll make the wrong calls, but one day we’ll be free from our ignorance, and our selfish desires, and be home, right where we ought to be.

So what's the last five minutes at work for you like?