The Struggle

The struggle goes on daily. Flesh and Spirit. One person divided right down the middle. Crawling in the dust. Reaching for the clouds. I am a failure and the chief of sinners. A ragamuffin. One sorely in need of God's grace. Every single day.

It's Your Future

Resist negativity
Leave your past
Step into a whole new reality
Identify your stumbling area and
find a way
to walk around it
Move into your destiny.

Life is shuttling by! Step out into your destiny. Your past certainly is not your future. You are not locked into your old patterns of failure. All things are made new for you in Christ. His promises for you are YES and AMEN!

Appropriate God's power in your life by yielding to His prompts and obeying.

Seek Him hungrily; wholeheartedly and you will not be disappointed.

God's mercies are new every morning!

PARTY!

Boy I'm partying tonight! Two Advils and an iced-coffee. Maybe a good cigar .Woooooo Hoooooo! I'm gonna listen to some podcasts and RELAX!

MAJESTY

God is robed in majesty, yet we take Him so for granted. We think we know all about Him, but I dare say we hardly know Him at all. He is so beyond the scope of our thinking; our attention span spans cannot encompass His complexities. Yet there is also the danger of over-intellectualizing and thinking ourselves out of faith as well. Dichotomy? You bet! God is so above our human reasoning that some write Him off as unknowable. We who believe understand that that is not the case, but we tend to become too familiar, too smug. Even so, we abide. But if God were to manifest even the smallest portion of His glory we would be undone. We have cute little pigeonholes for everything we cannot understand. To admit that we doubt is not sin. We have become so conscious of our own sins and shortcomings that we are blinded to grace and the opportunity to walk in authenticity. God gives us immeasurably more freedom than we allow ourselves. The freedom to be human. That is, after all, what we are..

I've said this somewhere before but it bears repeating; To run God through the filter of our understanding is to look at a large object up close with our noses pressed against it, not realizing that it is a whole lot different if we would just step back and try to take it all in.

Sometimes the answer only comes when we're not trying. But sometimes it does.

GYM

Betsy and I finally went back to the gym today. We woke up early and headed out. All I have to say is that it's been a long time, almost a year, since we've been there. The sad thing is that the place is just around the corner!

Needless to say it was an eye-opening experience to my out of shape self.

They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step? I guess I'm steppin' out.

God's Answers

A new morning's meditation
Stillness breeds contemplation
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Sometime's God's answers are not what you'd expect. Occasionally they are downright baffling. Don't let that shake your trust in Him. Move on ahead. He knows the end from the beginning; you don't have to. Just trust. And obey. And move into realms of glory only hinted at. Jesus will prove to be all you ever really needed. All you could ever hope to desire is in His character, in His person. Mercy at the heart of justice.

Christ inhabits the very edges of the universe. He wraps the folds around Himself and yet cannot be contained. Motivated by endless love, He has as long as mankind has existed been wooing us and calling us to Himself. He bids us, come. I forgot who said it but, He bids us come and die. Get out of God's way and let Him make a symphony of your life.

A symphony
A dance of love
A tapestry
of vivid life-colors
A wondrous miracle
of restoration
and regeneration
Redemption
and grace

ABLE

The Lord is able to make all grace abound toward those who fear Him.

"When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought joy to my soul"
Ps.94:19

I'm gonna build my house on the Rock. I don't want to walk in the old ways anymore. God's in charge. I am more content than I have ever been and that has freed me up to live and work under God's provision. Oh, to get a glimpse of the things God has in mind for us.

Abba, I bask in your love. You are enough. I long to see your face; the face of eternal love. It amazes me that you seek us out, that you are proactive in your love for mankind.

Press into grace. You're gonna need it. Your tired soul needs refuge, ragamuffin man!

PODCAST

Hey guys,
Check out my Podcast page. This first one's just a quickie, but I hope you'll enjoy it, and consider subscribing or at least checking it out from time to time.

Rehearsals Improving

Roger and I are coming along well in rehearsal and will be ready to play out in a few weeks. It's cool to be playing with my brother again after such a long time. It seems we have put aside things in the past that have created tension in our relationship and we are way more at ease and comfortable around each other. I suppose it took a little while to get used to being around each other on a daily basis again.

It's going to be a fun season for the Yale Brothers. We're excited about getting back out there and sharing our music.

In The Quiet

In the quiet of the morning things come to light.
Time to reconsider.
Time to abide.
Time for grateful reflection.
Blessings are all around, and God longs to reveal Himself to the searching heart.
Availability of the seeker is key.
All too often I am blinded and befuddled by the dust of this age.
Shake the dust off my feet Lord, and off of the lenses of my soul.