Vines and Branches

Looking back, I should have prayed more while I was in Haiti. "Apart from me you can do nothing." I'm just a branch attached to the vine; how can I do anything if I don't stay attached to the vine?

If I pray ALOT everyday, then I don't have to worry about trying to bear fruit - it will happen automatically.

Not me, but HIM!

How will I remember that in the daily hubbub?

God help me remember that you are the source. Here I go, back to, "When I am weak, I am strong."

Momentous Day

For the last 38 years of my 58-year life, I have hated my mother. I have probably hated her for a longer time than that. She was a promiscuous drunk who destroyed everyone who got close to her: her husbands and her daughter...until I finally let Jesus pick me up.

Today, as I was reading Psalm 119, I remembered (God put into my mind?) a time when my mother really wanted God. She was hungry and she tried to come to the Lord. But she made a wrong turn, and while she remained hungry for God, she never figured out how to get to Him.

My heart softened toward her. I was so hungry for so long, but I did not know how to find Jesus. Then, in a flash, I suddenly realized that my God had let me forgive my mother, the woman I blamed for everything bad that ever happened to me, and even for evil I initiated.

This is the most important day of my life. This is by far the greatest gift our wonderous God has ever given me. I am finally free; truly free; free in Jesus; free in God.

Always procrastinate

I always procrastinate about keeping a Christian blog. I think I am afraid to keep a record of the miraculous.

Scriptures I have come across recently that have spoken to me:
1. Jesus will never let me go. The Father gave me to Jesus, and Jesus will never, never let me go. Thank you, God.
2. I am not from this planet. I am not its child. I am a child of God; I do not belong here. That is why I have always felt like a stranger in a strange land. Duh...I am. Still, it's sad; I am sure Jesus felt that way, too.

Home, bed, dogs. I'm going to hide from world for a while.

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The big door: will I get a passport?

My experience behind this door was not overwhelmingly positive. I know how my students feel, now, when they HONESTLY believe they are prepared for a test...and are not.

There are two irregularities in my documents. The passport lady was nice enough to send them through anyway... But she is not sure I will be given a passport.

Gotta luv the government in this post-9/11 world.

My fate - and trip - are totally in Gods hands. Of course, they always were.
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One Year MP3 Bible

Jan 1, 2010 Man created before Garden

Something I noticed for the first time was that man was created BEFORE the Garden of Eden. In fact, Genesis says God created man from the mud of the earth. THEN, God planted a Garden and put the man in it.

This accounts for how humans could have been created in Africa from the mud of the Earth and then TRANSFERRED to the Euphrates area.

Wow. Perhaps God led the migration from Africa. Adam wandered (led by God) into the Garden. There, the rest is (Bible) history.