"How it's Done"?

Any skill requires certain amount of information, training, concentration, and commitment.

Twenty years ago I started playing guitar and never got very proficient at it. I have changed my attitude for wanting to be the next Clapton!, to just enjoying worship with God. Now I am an average rhythm player who can visit God in songs we sing together.

My original goal has changed somewhat but the end result is very comforting and enjoyable for me. With that said, Three things come to light, Be patient, Be flexible, Let God guide you!

Maybe we think we are going to actually climb and mountain and God wants us to cross a great sea?! Pray : God we need and desire your path for us. Help encourage and direct us in whatever that is. Verses: Psalm 25: 4-5 Psalm 37: 23-24 Isaiah 58: 11-14

How to climb a Mountain"

This weeks goal is to climb a mountain. Now, I will not define what a mountain is, necessarily. Let's just assume a mountain is any goal we set for ourselves and would like to accomplish. Actually climbing a mountain could be one of these goals!

I look out my window and see the Rockie mountain range. I think wouldn't it be cool to climb one of the peaks? I also look at what skills I have, ,mechanic, wood-worker, biker, parent, friend, writer?. I then wonder what else can I do?

The last few sermons I have heard are instructing us to be active and impactful christians. I need a new focus, don't we all?

Prayer: God, what would you have any of us do to make more of a difference in this broken world? Help us to explore and discover what we can learn and experience to that objective goal. Verses: Isaiah 2: 2-3 Daniel 1: 17-20 Phil 3: 12-21

"Days Off"

Oh how I like days off!!! I grow weary of getting up at 4:45am and not just hanging out at home. Off to work I go 5+ days a week.

A day with no concern for time of day or where we are is a nice refreshing change. Refueling us and cleansing us of all the demands of life is what a day off can do.

I love exploring and finding out more about the world around me. There are more things to see and do than can possibly be done in a lifetime. I believe that just the State I live in offers more than I could ever experience in a lifetime! The world is expansive beyond any human comprehension.

Thank you Lord for our days off, and the awesome world you have created! Thank you for providing us with more possibilities than we can imagine. Help guide us to places and people you would have us know!

Verses: Matt 11-28 Isaiah 40: 31 Deut 5: 12

Days in A Daze"

Whenever we face a major life change or event we can be quite lost in our own days/daze.

At any point in life we can be in a situation that is not desirable at all. Anyone that has been around divorce, death, injury, disease, disasters can attest to that.

Most of us have no idea the sheer impact of our days gone awry. We can read stories of human disaster, but unless we have experience with it, we are not able to understand the full depth of it.

My prayer is: God, somewhere someone is facing a day in a daze, I pray that the strength they need both from within and from others is there for them. God, use all of us to also be that help when and if we are ever needed!

Verses: Psalm 57 Prov 3: 23-35 Prov 17: 5 2Cor 2; 5-11

"Bad Days"

As much as I hate to admit it, sometimes I have bad days. Maybe I'll replace that and call them "not so good days".

I usually don't like negative thinking or dwelling in a negative way. Sometimes though things are not quite as nice and smooth as we would like them to be.

On my good day it was 90 degrees sunny and pleasant!! I commented to my eldest daughter that it could stay like that every day. On second thought I told her that with out the change of seasons we probably would not appreciate the warm lazy summer days.

Not so good days have often been outside of my ability to do much about them. In these times I find myself very drawn to God through prayer. There is a lot of good in that! In our worst days we know that God is there with us no matter what.

Verses: 2Cor 4 : 16-18 2Peter 3: 8-9 Psalm 121 Song: "I lift my eyes up"

"Good Days"

We all have had at least some really good days. Just last weekend , Saturday was one of mine.

I got some work done early in the morning for some friends of mine. I was glad to be of help. I also got my household chores done.( I am not that picky, just mostly wash clothes and stuff). Each of my daughters and I enjoyed a long motorcycle ride followed by icecream(Yum!!).

My eldest daughter and I biked to nearby Berthoud and had a Rootbeer float and pedaled home during a beautiful summer sunset!

Some potatoes and brats on the grill at 9pm was out of our ordinary meal time but nonetheless deliciious!

I then proceeded to win very comfortably at 500 Rummy with my two teen girls. (I don't often win anymore).

I would call that a very good day indeed!! Thank you God for all of our good Days!!

Verses: Luke 11: 2-4 Luke 6: 43-45 1Tim

"Regular Days"

Here we go again! Another beginning to another work week. We sure do a lot of working in our lives. All in all the days aren't that bad, they are always followed by Tuesday!

I like Monday mornings at my shop because I plan for all the work we want to get done. I also look at how well last weeks plans worked out. Sometimes we we are right on track, other times we seem to be going nowhere!

I am less and less bothered by obstacles that get in our way. As I get older I realize that obstacles are a part of our lives.

We also have accomplishments that we have done. The obstacles are just there to keep us thinking and growing. The successes are encouragement and fuel to go on each and every day.\

Pray: God, thanks for regular and not so regular days!

Verses: 2 Cor 6: 1-13 Psalm 118: 24-26 Prov 27: 1