A Day to Remember

Serving as a remembrance of a person or an event; commemorative.

In a few moments, Donna (may wife) and I will be sitting down to a BBQ with some friends. I would think that a lot of family and friends are doing something very similar today all across this country, after all, it's Memorial Day Week-in. I can remember all through my life doing this very thing.

I can also remember as a child talking and remembering those family and friends that died and are no longer with us.

Just for fun, I looked up the meaning of memorial . . .I found this definition - Serving as a remembrance of a person or an event; commemorative. As a follower of Christ, I can really say that everyday is a memorial day, for I serve as a remembrance of a person (Christ and is act of dying on a Cross to restore my broken relationship with His father).

How about making everyday a memorial day this year for the same reason?

Have an Awesome Day

David

Inspection Day

In the building process, a common practice (sometimes overlooked by some) is to call our city instpectors to check on us from time to time. Well, today is the day that we get your first inspection of our walls.

Inspection is a good think! Not only in building, but also with our soul.

So how do we inspect? Well, with building, there are codes, rules, common sence and with our souls, it's the same thing! Soul codes are goals. What are your spiritual goals? Do you want to pray more today then you did yesterday? Do you want think more about God this week then you did last week? Establish good soul goals for yourself and go for it.

Rules? Like it our not, everything has guardrails to keep you on the road. Rules are like that, they are there to keep you on the road. The bible is filled with guardrails to help you stay on God's road to keep you heading forward.

Common sence . . .that's the gift God gives everyone, the problem is that to many times, we don't use this gift. One word today, use it!

Have an Awesome Day

David

What Happen to Last Monday?

In a word . . . I forgot!!!! Sorry, I think in the last year, I have missed a hand fold of Monday morning blogs. This blog has been a good thing for me to start off my day and week with purpose and focus. Yes, if you look at some of the posted times, you might see it comes a little latter in the day, the late post doesn't mean I don't start thinking about it.

I think we should start everyday with purpose. My wife has helped me a lot with this. She has wonderfully crafted her skill of organization and filling her day with purpose. But I think it goes beyond just making sure you get from point "A" to point "B". I think you need to know what point "B" is.

When we started our sprint to smartness, our instructors introduced us to a think called ABC's. We soon learned that B always followed A. It soon became easy to say our ABC's with a little practice. Finding our mission should be the same. Our mission should be to far off from our lords mission as well.

Once again, I returned to that Christ home church teaching in Luke 4.

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the hole countryside. 15He taught in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

Jesus mission was simple . . . share the great news of his father to the hurting, help people out of the hell hole they are in, help people see the difference between light and dark, and set people free.

That should be our mission as well!

Everyday, we should look for opportunities to do the following.

1) Give someone a lift! (emotionally, physically, spiritually)

2) Give someone a hope (share a story of how you were lifted up from a bad day or bad situation)

3) Give someone a reason to investigate the claims of Christ

We all have a purpose, let's live everyday out of that purpose!

Have an Awesome Day

David