Looking back.

I recently found some pictures from my youthful years. I have a few found memories of that period in life, but the thing I remember most about my younger years is the fact that my father was always out of town on business. He worked for a management company that had multiple properties in several states and he was the only employee from the home office that made the rounds of those properties, every property at least once a month. At one time there were as many as 8 or 9 properties scattered out over about 5 or 6 states. Yeah, dad was gone a lot.

I'm glad our other father is not that way, He will always be with arms reach, He doesn't leave us, we let go of him. God, in His infinite wisdom, designed each one of with the ability to chose whether we wanted to accept Him and live within the peace that comes from a relationship with Him or to reject Him and live life in turmoil and bitterness. I have for the past few months visited yet again the place of, not rejection of God, indifference toward God only to find myself missing out on the happiness and peace that I know comes from Him. With in that place there also creeps in a little indifference that invades the home life,between husband and wife, between parents and children, a sense of confusion that shows a lack of concern....AND IT HAS SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME...literally.

We got up this morning and started getting the kids ready for church and one of my daughters decided she wanted to fuss and cry about everything. I got frustrated with the situation and told my wife something to the effect "I'm not worried about church you just go, take the rest of the kids and I will stay home with her so she can go back to bed." Not a smart thing to do on my part. My wife popped back with one of those rhetorical comments that while the words are directed at me she wasn't directing the comment in my direction, "We never do any thing as a family anymore you need to just move out!"

I had some time this afternoon to my self as my kids went somewhere with g-ma and my wife went shopping, so I came back here and started reading some of my early posts here. I'm not sure what you think, but my reaction to those posts were something to the effect "Well at least I was smart at some point in my life."


I never thought about it quite like this in the past, but a relationship with Christ is just like any other relationship with any other person, they take work and communication, something I lost sight of, not just in my relationship with Christ but my relationship with my wife as well. Well I'm going to bed tonight with a different view of things...again.

I hope I have given you something to think about my good readers.

My dear readers it is time for me to retire for the night. God's phone is open and He would love to hear from you, I knew He is celebrating over me right now.