Thanksgiving Time.

With only a couple of days left till we celebrate thanksgiving day here in America. Its time to reflect what I'm i thank full in my life or in this year. There is so much that has happen in my life in this year i dont even know where to start. Im thank full for my job, i went thru a change at work that has been interesting to say the least but at the end of the day im thank full that i have a job. Although my work hours have decline so much and that has brought financial challenges in our household we remain faithful that in the end things will work out the way Jesus Christ has it planned. Im Thank full for my family and i talking about my parents, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles and cousins that play such an important role in my life. My family inspires me to become a better person they remind me to stay humble and stay faithful in times of struggle and overall all they showed me they love me for who i am inside and that they don't want nothing for me in return. they just want to be apart of my life. Im thankful for the blessings in disguised that have come our way. this year we have been dealing with a situation at home with one of our children and that has resulted in having our granddaughters living with us. on one hand we are very sad, concern, not at peace and we pray that Gods will will be done and that soon our whole family will be reunited it again. In the meantime we have our granddaughters living with us and they are so great, so loving, so caring, so full or energy and laugh and giggles. they great me with all their heart when i come home from work and they want to be by my side all the time and that my friends that is the kind of love that you cannot buy with all the money in the world.... Im thank full for my wife she has been such a great inspiration for my life and a great supporter of mine. She has more faith than what i have and she can handle stress full issues better than i do sometimes. to my wife thank you i cannot repay you all that you do for me and all the you do that i dont see even if i want to see. I love you with all my heart. Im thankful to GOD for my kids altought a lot of time they are a pain in the you know what. because they are at the im soon to be an adult stage. so it gets pretty difficult to be able to reach them at their level. But deep down inside i see the good in all of them, despite what they show on the outside i know they have a good heart and that they are truly good kids all they have to do is allow God to work on their lives. Finally im so thankful to GOD for all the GOOD and BAD received this year. im thankful for the Good favors in my life BUT IM MORE THANKFUL FOR THE BAD. let me explained because yes it sounds crazy. i dont know what the purpose of the bad in my life is. i dont know what God is trying to tell me or teach me and i dont know that i will be ever know. But i have to put my trust in God that the knows what best for me and my family and man that is hard to do. All the bad some how will always teach me something i just need to know how to pick up on it. Plus going thru like financial difficulties will teach me to be a better Stuart of my money in the future. when there are difficulties that i dont have any control of  it is teaching me to turn around and put my trust in God and give the problem to him. i still have to make sure that i do what i can to make the situation better but when is out of my hand then i need to put it in GOD's hands and have that attitude in my life. But also during all the bad i can say that the is a great form of encouragement to drive me back to GOD and overtime i pray that i can find a way to stay closer to him and not to part ways all the time. P.S. Thank God for my bring to my life my brother Rick who is a great inspiration and a great example of where i want my life to lead me and the type of person i want to be. So in this thanksgiving  take time to recount your blessings and you will see how many you have and have bless you are...

obedience to Christ.

I started  a new chapter in my faith life. I am now being mentor in the faith by a wonderful man that is very inspiring. we just started it a couple of weeks ago but as he is mentoring me thru the scriptures there is something that keeps coming up. Obedience to Christ. there is a lot of this in the scriptures. However in our current world Obedience has become a second class citizen. Our mentality including mine is i am in control of my life and i don't need to surrender my self to none one especially God. However if one can take a step back and consider this. We do need God in our lives and we do need to become Obedient. But we have to do it because we want to do it and Not because we have to. Our heart has to be in it as well as our mind. This is the difficult task, to think that we have to relay on a super power that we don't know personally or meet or can see or touch or feel to know that is for real. Yet Christ said to st Thomas the apostle "blessed are those who believe and have not seen" or something like that. Think back to all those times that something happen in your live that you cannot explain or offer a logical explanation for. The time you had a close call in a near car accident or some other accident. That was the hand of God that deliver you from that harm of from worse harm. But yet we all say thanks God and move on to never think about Him again up until the time when we need Him then we remember that he is there and that he exist. So what it is to be obedient? john 14:21 said say so clear it. " he who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and i will love him and manifest my self to him." so not only are we to know what is good and wrong but God wants us to show that we can stay away from sins, from doing the wrong things to others, by coming closer to God, by raising our families with God in our home and in our hearts and by developing a special relationship with God and by doing so we are showing Obedience. Looking at it from that point it does not look so hard at all. Right!!!  Well then what are you wainting for, start today by doing something small and you will see that in a matter of time you will be doing bigger and better things and your faith will grow so much but overall You will feel the presence of God in your everyday life. So go on and make a change for the better after all your soul and your families souls are on the line!!!God Bless and God is GOOD.