A Fork in the Road

 When your life hands you a fork what do you do with it? That is not usually the saying, the saying usually is when life hands you lemons what do you do with them? Well we might not realize it but we might actually get more forks handed to us than lemons. Forks are those times in life when you have to make a decision and whether you choose left or you choose right neither one is wrong. Yet we can agonize for days over decisions like these. Weighing the pros and cons sometimes doesn't even make a difference. The more we try to fill up our fork hoping it will make the decision for us ultimately ends with us still having to make a decision. Even praying about it doesn't even bring more clarity because we serve a God that has given us a free will, and whatever decision we make, thanks to His Grace and Mercy, might not be a "right" or a "wrong" decision. Don't get me wrong there are definitely "Forks" that will alter your life but most of our decisions if we are doing our best to obey God and His Word will keep our focus on Him. So when you are handed one of these forks the only question to ask is  "will whatever decision I make continue to fulfill what I know God has called me to do?" If your answer is yes than go for it either decision will get you there. If your answer is no then say no and be at peace with it, another fork will come along soon enough. So when life hands you a fork what are you going to do with it? Celebrate fulfilling His calling on your life and all decisions will become much easier.

Old Fashioned Bible Story Time

I was thinking how much I miss the old time bible stories. For those of us who grew up in the church, we learned to love, grow and base morals of life on these great and timeless stories.So I thought, what if ????? I were to take bible stories and apply them in a blog to real life situations? Then I also realized, with my lightening fast mind, that not everyone including me, might know the bible stories and this might be a great learning experience. I hope you enjoy OLD FASHIONED BIBLE STORY TIME!!!!!!
Let's start at the beginning!!!!!
Genesis 1: 1-5 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was[a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Have you ever been in such a dark place you couldn't see your hand in front of your face? Years ago we took a vacation to Hannibal, Missouri. We went into some caves on a tour and right at one point in the tour they shut off all the lights in the cave. You couldn't see anything!!!! Even if Ishut off all the lights in my house it still is not as dark as that cave. That must have been the darkness that existed before God created the light. But despite all the darkness that surrounded us in that cave and all the darkness that was before the light still God was there.
Even in life we experience dark times and sometimes feel like we can't see anything to bring light to our situation. Despite all the darkness God is there ready to speak to the light. He was there at the beginning of time and He is there in the darkness. What a joy to know that in this simple story of darkness and light we can still know God's presence was there!!!!!!!