When Will We Get the Message?

Here's a song poem that I wrote 32 years ago. It's never been recorded, and it's only been sung by me while I'm sitting at home with family. The words have never been more relevant as you will see.

Live His Way

People are troubled everywhere
others just don't seem to care
Jesus wants us all to have His love.
Problems here cause so much pain
still no one will take the blame
Jesus' love comes only from above.

Chorus
Jesus' love will lead us on
Jesus' love will take us home
all we have to do is live His way.

Troubles come our way each day
Trials fall across the way
Jesus' love can help us when we pray.
Satan's snares will never stay
if we'll only kneel and pray
Jesus Christ hears us when we pray.

Take a look around you, watch the news, read a news paper, look at the news on-line, or read a Time magazine and you can't help but be overwhelmed with the problems we face as a country, as small communities, and as individuals. Many of these problems have been brought on by our government, many by individuals, and many by meddling organizations who think they know what is best for everyone in the world. One such organization is the A.C.L.U.
The problem with them is that we sit back and let them do what ever they want to do. A law suit to stop prayer in schools, no Bible reading allowed in schools, no Ten Commandments posted on government property such as our court houses, no nativity scenes on government property, let's even take the nativity out of our Christmas Parades. It goes on and on, and we who profess to be Christians let it happen. When do we say enough is enough and begin to fight for our rights? Everyone else has them, so do we!
It wasn't until Prayer was taken out of our schools that we started seeing all of the violence take place within their confines, and the farther we allow God, and Christian values be pushed into a corner, the worse things get.
You see, even though the problems are created by people and institutions, they all stem from a soul-sickness called sin. Everyone says do what you want to do, nothing is taboo, there is no such thing as sin, but God's word says different. Sin brings pleasure for a season, but in the end, it brings forth death.
Look at the AIDS epidemic. It grows, and grows, and continues to grow; yet, people insist on having their sexual pleasures met. Drug use is bad among middle aged people, but it runs rampant among our teenagers. Drug use causes a multitude of problems in our society such as breaking and entering, theft, robbery, assault and battery, overdose, and even murder, yet we allow drug pushers to roam our streets and communities without fear of reprisal.
When will it all end? When we acknowledge the problem, "SIN". The Bible says "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord... Psalm 33:12, and "Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34.
The United States has gotten away from what made her a great nation. Belief in God, in God's Word, and in the values and the statutes put forth in the Bible. God is calling her back, and in order to solve the problems we face in America, our government will have to get back to the principles on which she was founded.
Look at the weather around the world, the earthquakes intensifying in strength, tsunamis, famine, and now bird flu is a threat we will have to face one day. God is trying to get our attention! We use to be a great nation, we still are, but we have, and are continuing to go down hill. When will we wake up? It's a lot to think about, but the answer is there, if we'll only acknowledge Him, and "Live His Way."

Mother Nature's Glory

Towering Mountains rise above
the dawn of sunsets eve.
Mother Nature takes her brush
and paints the sky we see.
Hints of purple, orange and red
whisp across the sky.
Twilight now is closing in,
night is drawing nigh.

Then as darkness blankets o'er
the pastel painted sea,
stars echo heav'nly light,
rich, and full, and free.
Brightly shining so it seems
you'd catch one if you try,
glimmering ever so far away, yet seeming oh so nigh.

As the sun begins to rise
and dawn breaks darkness hold,
mountains stand against the light
looming strong and bold.
Clouds of soft and fluffy white
dance around their peaks,
wafting through the conifers,
that grow on mountains steep.

So precious are these gifts to us
that we should stop and say,
thank you to the Most High God,
who is with us every day.

About Mother Nature's Glory

We often fail to see just how much we have to be thankful for because we refuse to take our eyes off of the things we can't control. This poem reminds us of those little things we often overlook.

Small World

I was playing at an on-line gaming community yesterday when I happened to meet a lady who lived in the same town that I live in. That doesn't happen often from what I have heard, but even if it does, what are the chances? We had a Christmas Parade in town yesterday that I took my wife and daughter to, and she took her two children. We actually got to meet face to face the same day we met on-line.
She has been through much in her short life, but credits her two children to miracles, she also credits her life to a miracle. I too have had miracles in my life. The fact that I am still walking after being told twenty years ago, I wouldn't be walking in ten years. My wife and daughter are also miracles, at least to me.
I feel as though God brought us together for a reason, and I hope to keep this new found friend in my life, and in my families life. Dawn, you inspired me by your outlook on life. It's always been my outlook, but to see someone else with the same attitude toward what God has blessed them with touched me.
Thanks Dawn, keep the good attitude, and you'll touch many.
The whole situation brought an old saying to mind.

Give others the sunshine, tell Jesus the rest.