...for the last few days, my thoughts have been running toward my parents, i cant really say why but ive really been thinking, about what awesome influences theyve been over my life...it could be the reason theyve been on my mind is that i heard a story the other day about this guy who landed on the beach at normandy...this man had such a moving story, but the one thing that stood out to me is that the detail which he remembered best was that there were young men dying all over that beach, and everyone of them was asking for their mother, not a girlfriend or sister, but without fail, these boys needed mom.......such an interesting account to me....and so for the last few days, my parents have commandeered most of my thinking...you see, my parents are probably the best folks on earth....i mean naturally, theyve always taken care of me and done their very best to see that i had what i needed as a child, and even as an adult......but more than that, mom and dad have always been able to understand what im going thru....theyve always cared enough to listen to whatever problem i have and give genuine help that comes from genuine love....and yet theyve done all this without ever relenting and just saying what i wanna hear, or just trying to be a friend and say what makes me happy......i guess what im saying is they always relate to me, but never so much that they give in to my immaturity and let said immaturity have influence over them.......i think that the church could learn a lesson from my sweet folks.......there is a world full of dying people out there that are crying for the mother that is the church, our love is the only thing that can comfort them..... i constantly hear people talking about being relevant, and i can agree with them..... but we dont need to be relevant to what these people are dying from, it is our duty to be relevant enough to understand the problems of a dying world, and to help them....but never should the church ever become relevant to sin or the product of a sinful nature.....the true church offers change from the pain of a life of sin and the hope of a new tomorrow.......that being said i will always be relevant to win a soul

I corinthians 9:22.. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

so im still in the desert...been here for thirty days now and to be honest, im not sure how this place passes the desert test, thats right!!!, the desert test...i mean to be a desert u gotta get less than like 10 inches of precipitation a year....its rained 3 times since i arrived and snowed twice....and when i was here in july.... rained every day.....now all that considered, i still believe that im in the desert, because no matter how much these fine citizens say they need rain, when it falls they dont know how to deal, i mean, take the streets for instance, .3 inches of water from the sky and there are tidal waves rolling over the hood of my vehicle....theres no drainage in the city....in the mind of a simple person such as myself, that seems like water wasted....but when you think about it, its kinda the same in our lives, JESUS came to earth and made the ultimate sacrifice for us, and essentially gave us oceans of grace, but many christians just let it lay in waste....see, grace is a beautiful, amazing, nurturing, life giving, substance..... but without daily repentance, that same grace becomes a gift that lays ignored, dormant, and unopened.....as the apostle paul said, we must "die daily"...this means prayer, or talking to God every day....try it and tell me you dont feel better, its amazing what how much difference grace put to proper use will make.....

romans 8:1...There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit........