today has been an amazing day, i cant really say why......im just happy......i absolutely love days like this, the sun is shining, the sky is sooo blue, i had lunch with great friends.......at times like this i think that being happy without a reason is probably the truest form of joy! ........so on the amazing day, i find myself in this really cool part of down town in a wonderful little coffee shop, its got all the required coffee shop criteria....u know, leather couches, aged brick walls, free wifi!! theres even some local artwork hanging on said walls.......looking at this art makes me think of a story i heard about a lady from louisiana that grew up in absolute poverty.......living her life with something like a third grade education, late in life her only means of income was the simple art work she could sell in a historic down town, not unlike the one that im currently blogging from......paintings on old glass bottles, hubcaps, even old boards.....ive been told they looked like the doodles of a small child........but to make a long story short what looked like junk, or mistakes, or trash to other people after this simple lady passed away was noticed by the right person and became a folk art craze......painting that once sold for a quarter are now worth thousands.....isnt that just like life?? we all make mistakes, in living and trying to survive, there are time that we produce what looks like junk to some people, but i have to come to believe that in all our pasts lie treasaures.....yes, thats right, even the mistakes are valuable...you see when we make a mistake we have something valuable to learn from, so from now on when you mess up, think of it not as a mistake, but a ministry....yes A MINISTRY!! i can guarantee that at some point you know will make that same mistake and who better qualified to help that person out than the artist who painted that picture in the first place.......

ROMANS 3:23....FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.....