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heheheh.. I like that. "goo-goo, gaga, dada, mama…"

I know I often have my food (bible knowledge) drooling down my chin, in my hair, and all over everyone around me! OOOps... sorry 'bout that....

it's not WHAT we express, but HOW

AMEN!

Hey, I am just a babbling baby, how do you expect me to get out of my HIGH chair, and clean it up?

I have been in a running debate with a brother on mychurch for months now. We would go back and forth, forth and back. I even got so upset I blocked him, did not want to hear what he was saying. (I have unblocked him now)

This last weekend, while in prayer, the Lord hit me, it was like a building coming down on me. All the arguments we have had, I kept going over and over! I studied and studied, after the Lord hit me, trying to see what He was saying, I did not really want to admit that I was WRONG! How could I be so off.... I look back, and see so much judgmental attitude pouring out of me and my keyboard. 

I was sinless, or at least I thought I could be, but He was showing me, even the littlest sin, that I hide SO well, is still sin, no better and no worse that the most heinous sin out there.

I was being so HATEFUL, but I could back it all up in scripture, or at least I thought I could.....

Now I have such a HUGE burden off of me, but He has put an even bigger one on me, instead of shouting out at the sin, I can now shout out the LOVE.

I was like Job's friends, but with friends like me, who needed enemies?!!!!

The debates we were having, was about sin, primarily.

My side was, we can and are demanded to live sinless lives, that if we sin as a Christian, we are bound to hell. 

his side was that we are free, set totally free.

I could not except it, all my scriptures said we had to NOT sin,

his showed we were forgiven.

I wanted to "work" for my salvation, and make everyone around me "work" to.

he said there is nothing to "work" on, Christ has paid the full price.

I did not see it as work at the time of course, I saw it as an obligation we HAD to do, to please Christ.

Of course how he was saying what he did had a lot to do with it, as he can be very course.

Thank you Bren, Joe, Denise and Liz!!  Marcia, I appreciate that! (Is this really a "disturbing the peace kinda blog, or a creating the peace??" IDK!)

MarJay...what a really really really nice thing to say! You often say the nicest things!

Stevie, sometimes I fear it DOES mean me! Awesome to have you back! (And w/both barrels blasting, just tell me when to duck! lol)

Preston, you mean as you went from Job and his friends to Paul? Thx for your wonderful comment! :-)

Gary, ah. So the recent resuscitation of my "freedom" blog was timely, eh?

Mike, yes, I read your blog as I was digging out from the rubble.

It was testimony that what I was hearing, was in deed of the Lord.

Gary - sweet!

Rebel - prayed for your job this a.m. - hang in there sis. Your degree? The education is never-ending, like mine!

LOL...LOL

Mary, wonderful!! Reminds me of what John had to say:

Rebecca/Rebel...that's quite a stream of consciousness...God consciousness I presume!

Marcia...IDK = "I don't know" ...I'm still learning these things myself. :-)  My daughter taught me how to make like 2 dozen diff. kinds of smilies, lol. And theological curveballs are great, if they bump us out of a sedentary comfort zone!

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My four-year old thinks she is very good at negotiation. Recent conversation we had (shortened considerably):
"Mommy, I have an idea, when I finish eating my chips, THEN I can have a cupcake, okay?"
"No, sweetheart, you have to eat your lunch before you can have a cupcake".
"Mommy, I have an idea, if I am good in the car on the way home, THEN I can have a cupcake, okay?"
"No, sweetheart, you have to eat your lunch before you can have a cupcake."
"Mommy, you're not listening to me."
During these exchanges, I cannot help but smile. And I think, "Lord, is this what I sound like to you?"

Margo...HAHAHA!!! I can SO see/hear that! lol!

Denise,  hehe, guess we're shedding new light on being "children of God", aren't we? :-)

Thanks for reading, Maureen!!

Let's see now...one-to-three-hundred billion stars (suns) in our local spiral galaxy (milky way), which is one of the smallest galaxies in the known universe. The closest know stars to earth's sun is alpha centaure a & b which are twenty-two trillion miles away. There are at least one billion other know galaxies in the universe that are up to one billion times larger than our galaxy. Uh, can anybody out there tell me specifically how an old fashioned television does what it does? What really is electricity? Why does the ocean stop at the shore and not flood everything? Oh, Yeah, Now listen while 'I' tell 'You' ALL about God. What did You say is the explanation for the Higgs-Boson Elementary Particle? Please, Just give me a concise explanation of how matter/mass is materialized and becomes attached to light waves/particles. Thank You, Thank You very much!......{Bro-ken}

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 I chose.... compassion!!
Right on Mike good Post.
May I babble a bit?
My 17 year old daughter has been sharing some of her deepest thoughts,  lately,
Yeah, I do believe I have become her freind!! She has always had more intelect than I do in my little toenail. Did I ever see it. Yeah of course, but I was stuck on stupid, oh my bad, negative. OK now I've grown up some and I am able to sit and listen before busting out the Momma knows best routine or what does God think answer. The thought that came to me in one of her moments of " I think I'll tell Mom how I'm feeling, she's smarter now, I can trust her with what's going on with me" was.... {Thank God for the Holy Ghost} shus, listen with your heart. Don't say a word. Listen!!
And that's my babble for the day. Thank you very much for listening.
Love Sis Cece.
Oh and Hi Laura!!

Todd, I've heard that adage...and appreciate it!!

Megan (mike sweetheart) - so worries at all sister! :-)

Ken, HAHAHAHAA!!!  :)

Sis Cece, that babble is from your heart...I've got all day for that!  =)

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My friend, Steve C. in Richmond is a quadraplegic from a car accident. I used to go Sunday evenings to set him up with assisted care. I spoke of God as I normally do, whenever I am with anyone. He said when he was in his accident, a woman from a local church came to one of the fundraisers for his family. She said before she made a contribution, she wanted to know if he had been drinking at the time of his accident. He said he was forever turned off by church folks. He had been a passenger in a car and they were not drinking. It just sent him in a tail spin to know she clutched her purse until satisfied he didn't cause his plight.

Job's friends wondered if there was sin causing his situation. That just brought this memory to surface.

I often tell folks, I don't need all the details about something they want prayer over. Unnecessary and can get in the way if my natural thoughts intervene. I prefer to just pray and help where I can.

My new pal, Aaron was drinking. Does that mean I should have not helped or taken the gospel to him. It doesn' t matter how he got paralyzed. It only matters that I present God's love to him.

Sort of related...my daddy spent a year and a half in prison for buying stolen merchandise. Does that have a thing to do with ME? I obey the law in all things I know of. That was 22 years ago. Would I be a better person if instead my daddy were a missionary to Haiti? Don't know but I am responsible for me. When the fundraiser was set up for Steve it was because he had kids to support and insurance was failing him. Do we ever withhold compassion because of such thoughts? I hope not. 

Brilliance in these messages, Mike. I am fed everytime. Anchors me. ly juanita mae 

Terry, a MILLION stars for you, sister. You are the sweetest, nicest person I know! (except for Mrs Mike n Laura that is!)

Juanita (higherground) - thank you from the bottom of my heart for blessing me. :-)

Thanks so much Sis Cece, you blessed me immensely too!