Can you hear me now?

i lost my cell phone. Yep, it happened again, i lost it. Don’t know where it is. The truth is… it’s not the first time. i am a veteran at losing, crushing, maiming, destroying, hydroplodeing, and incinerating cell phones. Ok ‘hydroplodeing’ isn’t a word, but you get the picture. This is not new to me in the least bit. It’s happened many a time. i find that every time this happens, several things occur regularly.

Everyone needs to know right where it was last. Everyone needs to tell me how ill-fated i am, and how unfortunate my circumstances are, in their own way. Neither of these are my favorite effect of the lost cell phone.

A lot of people get riled up when trying to call me. Of course they didn’t know, and don’t know, that i lost it. By riled up i mean frustrated, even angry. Their response is directly proportionate to the surrounding circumstances of pre-lost-phone, combined with the circumstances of the reason they needed to call me.

They have this anger or frustration because they think i can’t hear, or they think i am ignoring them, or whatever. They just don’t know what’s really going on. In our day and age, people here in the USA have the mentality that ‘everyone needs to be at my beckon. Or at their least, MY CALL.’

It’s a shame, because people often act the same way in relation to hearing a word from God.

People pray and pray and pray…and then pray some more. Sometimes people think, ‘Wow, for being a “friend that sticks closer than a brother” this God guy really has a problem with returning missed calls.’ People sometimes assume God has a problem because they aren’t hearing his voice.

The truth is….people don’t always get the picture. People can’t always see what God is doing around them, through them, and with them to help answer their prayers. People can’t see always what’s ahead of them in the future, what God has in store. Let’s be honest, people don’t always know the mind of God. People sit around, making one way phone calls expecting two way conversation without real action and getting upset when they don’t hear anything. What i have found is that God loves to see ACTION. He loves it when people take His matters into their hands and work alongside Him to finish them.

Sometimes i get that person who actually cares that they can’t reach me. In fact, they care so much that they try another number i might be at. They might even try peoples’ numbers around me, who i hang with. They’ll ask those people if they know what’s up. Sometimes, yes even sometimes, somebody tries to physically track me down.

The truth is…when you can’t hear God there is nothing wrong with Him. That doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with you either, so don’t jump to that conclusion!

Have you tried other talking about your issue with other people who talk to God regularly? Have you tried the ones who might know more of what is going on because they hang around God a lot?

If not, i encourage you to.

Sometimes when people are asking God to do something they wait for him to respond, reactively. The problem is, God sometimes is waiting to see you do something proactively before he starts working. A lot of those times, He wants you to do something, so He can work through you. He could be waiting for your move to track down the solution to your prayer physically in conjunction with faith, so He can move spiritually.

When you are seeking God and wish for His will to be done in your life and when all you want is to do what he wants, any right choice you make is the right choice.

FACT: When you are tuned to his will, and you act, he moves through you.

Inaction is JUNK. Don’t be afraid to do something for God just because you never heard if it was cool or not. God Loves when people with his ideals in mind ACT on right choices. Don’t worry about thwarting God’s will when all you want is His will and all you strive for is reflecting Him toward others and all your focuses are on Him!

i lost my phone, i cant talk to some people when they want to talk to me. Sorry.

God never loses his phone. God always has reception. God is always listening. God always cares. God's line is always open. God always loves.

( P.S. i was drafting this blog, and just as i typed some finishing touches on it, security returned my phone to me. PRAISE GOD! )

Cut

i had a cut. It was right in the wrong place. You know that little space right between your fingers. Yep right there. Right between my fingers. Small cut, but painful. Its placement didn’t help at all. i couldn’t put a band aid on it, it just wouldn’t stick. Of course after some time i thought it was gone, healed, but then i’d do the wrong thing and it would tear back open, more painful than ever.

i felt angry. it was right in the wrong place. You know that space in your heart for the people you love. Yep right there, right with the people i loved. Small anger, but painful. It’s placement didn’t help at all. i couldn’t put a band aid on it, it just wouldn’t stick. Of course after some time i thought it was gone, healed, but then i’d hear, see, or say the wrong thing and it would well back up, more painful than ever.

What do you do, with a cut in the wrong spot, with a hurt that won’t go away. That pain in your heart. The one from that time somebody wronged you, and maybe it was even someone you loved, or respected, or cared for deeply. What are you supposed to do? The phrase ‘time heals all wounds’ seems callously contradictory to how you feel because the more time that wound is open, the more time it fills with pain and disease. i don’t know, maybe it’s a case where you feel over it or beyond it, but then you see that person or something that reminds you of them and it’s like it’s all torn back open again, and you don’t get why.

What do you do? It’s just right in the wrong place and a band aid just won’t stick.

To many itty bitty cuts and it gets hard for your body to heal them all. You could bleed out, slowly and painfully.
i once heard a speaker say, ‘Bitterness is like when you drink poison and then wait for the other person to die.’ It slowly and painfully drains your soul of life. Bitterness only drains and only keeps the wound open longer.

Open wounds fester with disease which causes infection. Yep, even the ones that you think are too small to notice.
i once heard another speaker say, ‘When you want to make those other people pay and you cant give that up to God, that is like telling God that you think that you can do His job better than Him. That, my friends, is revenge.’ Even the smallest hint of revenge infects your soul with disease.

What do you do? It’s just right in the wrong place and a band aid just won’t stick…

Forgiveness, however, means a little more than simply getting rid of the hurt and not feeling angry mad or bitter at another person. Forgiveness, True God-like Forgiveness, means you actually have to wish the best for that person. The kind of best you would wish any other person. No bias. The love you have for the person you like the least is the maximum amount of love you can have for God. This isn’t a new concept. If you think you can be mad at your brother, but be sold out for God, then you have another thing coming. 1 John 1:9, in the Bible, says, “Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness”

It takes more than a band aid because a band aid just won’t stick.

i went to the store the other day, and i found this stuff. It was called, ‘New Skin,’ or something like that. Anyways, you take this stuff and you spray it on your open cut. It does a few amazing things. It covers the open wound and protects it while it heals. It moves with the wound, like actual skin, so as not to tear the wound open again. Even if your wound is infected or diseased, this ‘New Skin’ stuff kills the bacteria. Through antibacterial chemicals, ‘New Skin’ cleans out your wound. All i had to do was go to the store, buy this stuff, and spray it on.

The Bible talks about this thing called Forgiveness. Forgiveness stops the bleeding. It covers your wound so you don’t bleed out. Forgiveness moves with the wound, like actual skin, so as not to tear the wound open again. Guess what…Even if your wound is infected or diseased, this Forgiveness stuff kills the infection that revenge spreads through your heart. Through Jesus, Forgiveness cleans out your wound. All you have to do is go to God, submit this to him, and forgive the other person.

Attempt #2

This is my second attempt!

Here we go! Ok, so i have been out and about, traveling the country. In my journey's i don’t always have internet. This leaves me with few options.

Here is what i have come too:
-Change the blog name (so as not to mislead)
-Writing on the road (of course i will upload when i get the chance)


So let's try this again.....
My second attempt on this venture becomes my first attempt at Intermittent Lucidity.

'Intermittent', of course, means 'alternately ceasing and beginning again.' ‘Lucidity’ still means ‘easily understood’, or ‘clarity.’

The NEW combination of words brings us to my new bloggy endeavor. To Share EVERY SO OFTEN Things in my life that have been made CLEARER to me.

As often as possible i plan to share my thoughts, feelings, and opinions on life. Life could be things as little as riding the bus and newspaper clippings, to things as big as God and the Meaning of Love. Now remember these are mere thoughts, opinions, and feelings. i might not share the whole story, or entire thought. i want to keep my blogs short, sweet, and to the point. What i post might only be a portion of what is really going through my mind, and may only be the little tidbit i wish to share.

YIKES, So here i go....AGAIN!
And here goes anyone who decides to share this exciting endeavor. On to Bears, Beats, Battlestar Gallactica, Life, Love, and Happiness .
A New Journey through my mind, coming every so often.......

Intermittent Lucidity




(please keep in mind this is a growing and learning experience for me, and helpful input would be so awesome)

Linens

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to get rid of something in your life but couldn’t? It isn’t even that it kept coming back, but like it was just still hanging around? Like there was something you wanted to give up and it never had really left you in the first place?

The other day i was staying at a hotel with my fellow summer travelers. i stayed on the pullout sofa in the room, which i don’t seem to find too strenuous on my back. i wake up twelve minutes before checkout because we were under the assumption that checkout was at noon but it was really at 11. i got everything ready and good to go and i start to put the mattress back in the sofa.
First i thought:
‘i wonder if they clean this everyday’
Then:
‘i would want it to be clean when i got here’ (which it was)
But Then i thought:
‘how can they really clean it, or know to clean it when it’s stuck inside the couch?

Sure they can pull the couch out, check if the sheets were used, and replace them, but this is a little harder when it comes to our lives.

Ya see, it’s kind of tough to get your life clean when you are constantly hanging on to all the dirty stuff. When you have it hidden away somewhere. God can’t pull it out of you, you have to open yourself up, and submit it to Him willingly. In fact, don’t stop there! You must submit your entire self to him. EVERYTHING! That way he not only gets the stains out that you wear on your person, but out of every nook and cranny that stains hide in.


Just to let you know…
…i left the Sofa Open and the Linens Out

A Few Thoughts on Love

Love, what is Love? When asked to write a short description of Love for a friend i started thinking a lot about this question. My first thought led me to God’s Love for us and the relationship between a Human and God. What can you do to impress God? NOTHING! You can’t do anything to impress the one who has seen it all, the best and the worst. You can only better yourself to be, i don’t think ‘worthy’ is the right word, but better for Him. God is Love, God is constant, His Love for you is so and thus He Loves you the same no matter what. Unconditionally. So, again, there’s no way to impress him. Love therefore, won’t make you strive to impress, but rather it is the stuff that stretches you, pulls you to be better. It is the catalyst that makes you do things beyond your own ability. It is what gives you purpose to do what you were created for. Love is what holds this fragile human existence together, it’s what binds us to The Creator, which is why it is what helps us be who we were created to be.

Now, in all these things my thoughts do not stop at Love being mutually exclusive between God and Human beings. God is Love, and any True Love is God’s Love. Humans are all made in His image. We reflect God’s characteristics. Even if they do not know their creator, Love is the greatest thing that any one human being has that reflects His image on them. True Love between two people, does not aim to impress. True Love, reflecting God’s Perfect Love, causes this growth or this “betterment of one’s self.” So in Short, What is Love? God is Love. Love is livelihood, is living, and is life. Love propels life, and propels us toward life and growth.

These are just some thoughts I wanted to share with whomever. i have really only scratched the surface.

Attempt #1

This is my first attempt!

Not first attempt at a blogging, but my first attempt at true Quotidian Lucidity.

‘Quotidian’ means ‘daily, occurring regularly, usual, customary, or commonplace’. i use ‘Lucidity’ as meaning ‘easily understood’, or ‘clarity.’

The combination of these two words brings us to my purpose for this blog: To Share Daily Things Made Clear to Me. As often as possible i plan to share my thoughts and feelings on things as little as riding the bus and newspaper clippings, to things as big as God and the Meaning of Love.

So here i go. And here goes anyone who decides to share my Endeavor.

On to Life, Love, and Happiness. On to…
Quotidian Lucidity