12 years ago my mom was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer. It was a day I will never forget. My world came crashing down around me with complete disbelief in what was happening. I remember I wanted to just crawl up in a ball and sleep it away. She had less than a 1% chance of surviving more than 6 months. 12 years later after brain surgery and a lung removal it has come back in a vengeful way. Monday January 14th 2008 my mom has been given less than a week to live. They have found a massive tumor in her brain and now is in a hospital bed in the middle of my sister’s house waiting to make her final journey to home. A home that Christ has promised to her, to me and to you if we are willing to turn to Him.
Today she is still alive in and out of consciousness. I have been able to pray with her, read scripture to her and sing praises to her. But most of all I want to HONOR her and glorify God with her life. This is my first attempt into honoring my mom who has meant the world to me in so many ways.
If you have read my testimony or known anything about me I lived a life of pretty much debauchery for 29 years. Yes my parents took me to church all the way up until I was 16 and I basically said I am not going back. They tried to give me a good foundation (which they did) but I pretty much rejected everything in the church and wanted to live for Wes.
But who was praying for me? Who never stopped believing that God could change me? Who, through I am sure tearful nights, kept her faith strong? My mother, through the love of Christ in her heart. It was her faithful prayers that God answered. All of her children are living for Christ today. Between the 3 of us right now she has 6 grand kids and they are all being raised to know Christ. One women’s prayers have made an impact in this world. She has two children in ministry and one who loves the Lord with all her heart.
One women’s prayer after 30 years saved a marriage. One women’s prayers have saved a family. One women’s prayers can impact the world for Christ. One of the things I am going to miss the most is knowing there will be one less powerful prayer warrior who prayed for me all the time will be gone. I love you mom. I can’t wait to see you again the way you were to be created from the beginning of time. All my hope is in Christ and I thank you for your faithful prayers that He pulled me from death to life because of you.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Oprah and Friends - A Course in Miracles
Oprah has launched a new radio program called "A Course in Miracles". This is the just downright sickening and I can't believe anyone would buy into this gobbly gook. Here is an excerpt on what this course is all about.
"A Course in Miracles (often called just "the Course") is an educational program for retraining the mind that is spiritual, rather than religious, in its perspective. Although it uses Christian terminology, the Course expresses a universal experience, and its underlying ontology is reminiscent of ancient refrains, echoing the world’s most hallowed traditions.…
Hmm can we say relativism, universalism and just a whole bunch of nothingness. Check out this last paragraph. If it wasn't serious I would laugh but they are serious and how many thousands are buying into this LIE?
Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required
What on earth does that paragraph mean? Seriously, I don't need to believe, I don't need to accept them and I don't even need to welcome them. Ok how about I just throw your whole idea in the garbage where it belongs.
Check out this junk.
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 1
Original Air Date: January 1, 2008
Listen to today's lesson!
Spiritual transformation begins with shifting your physical perceptions of what's real. If you think what you see and hear is all that's real, you'll be dictated by the limits of your senses.
Extend your perception beyond what your senses register…to what your heart knows to be true. Be willing to have your eyes opened to the love in any situation, even when with your physical eyes you cannot see it.
That is the miracle beginning.
Begin to shift your perception of what's real, with Lesson 1:
Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything.
1. Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see:
◦ This table does not mean anything.
◦ This chair does not mean anything.
◦ This hand does not mean anything.
◦ This foot does not mean anything.
◦ This pen does not mean anything.
2. Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range:
◦ That door does not mean anything.
◦ That body does not mean anything.
◦ That lamp does not mean anything.
◦ That sign does not mean anything.
◦ That shadow does not mean anything.
3. Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. 2That is the purpose of the exercise. 3The statement should merely be applied to anything you see. 4As you practice the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. 5Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. 6Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. 7One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned.
4. Each of the first three lessons should not be done more than twice a day each, preferably morning and evening. 2Nor should they be attempted for more than a minute or so, unless that entails a sense of hurry. 3A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.
Quote of the Day
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
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