There is so much that I have to do!  Sometimes I look at my plate of responsibilities and just want to run away!  I always thought that as I got older that life would get easier, but the challenges keep coming.  The responsibilities plus the challenges sometimes get more overwhelming than I can handle!

The good news is:  I don’t have to handle anything!  When it gets to be more than I can handle, the Spirit in me always takes me to a special place of reminder, where I am reminded that I am not walking through this world alone, even though it sometimes feels like it!

I have God!  God loves me and He created me for the very specific purpose of living a life that brings Him glory.  I am at my best, when I am doing just that!  He wants to walk with me through this life and He wants to talk with me.  I am never alone and I don’t have to face anything by myself or in my own strength or power!

I have Family & Friends!  There are people around me, who really care about me and want what is best for me.  They support me in the things that I do and they believe in me and the calling that God has placed upon my life.  I could not and I don’t want to try to do life without them!

I have Help That I Don’t Even Know Of!  God and my friends have help that flows through others!  The purpose of our lives is to give God glory and the best way to give God glory is by doing life together!

When it gets to be more than you can handle – remember what you’ve got and that you are never alone, unless you make the choice to be!

Sundays are always crazy busy and Sundays are always good!  This Sunday was crazy good!  God showed up and communicated His presence in a very real and powerful way all throughout the day!

-Great Breakfast provided for everyone by the “Doing Life Together Class opened the door for some great fellowship to be shared between people in different classesand got the morning off to a good start!

-We Began our time of worship by celebrating the new spiritual lives of three that were baptized.  It was great seeing a young adult man who is excited about what he can do and be for God!  It was a blessing to see a young adult Mom set the example for her children and watching a fellow minister get to baptize his Grandson was priceless!

-Our Worship was a little different and very sweet.  It really made me thankful for all of the different talents and skills that God has given to so many to use for His glory through the worship ministry of Northwood!

-The message was plain and simple truth with potential of powerful impact, if we allow ourselves to get it and do what needs to be done about it!

-Seeing two more accept Christ and want to follow God in baptism was an exciting ending to a moving time of worship in our first service!

-The Sprit was really free and moving in our second service and we had a number of new, excited and eager faces.  Faces that have become very familiar through the ministry of Grace Place.  At the end of the service almost everyone was down front on their knees before God and two more Christ followers decided to follow Christ through baptism with a desire to join and serve God through His Church.  Two more, a husband and wife, expecting a baby also came forward acknowledging that they had accepted Jesus as their Savior and wanting to be baptized and join the church right after the baby is born.

-I Forgot to mention that there were also two young men that came through Grace Place this past week that prayed and invited Jesus into their heart and life as well!  That’s a total of 8 new spiritual relationships, plus the three that were baptized today = which equals 11 new souls stepping out of darkness and death into light and life!

-Tonight was great – super LIFE Classes all the way around and if you wonder why the Devil is attacking this week, it is because we are doing something right!  I am tired and ready for bed, but I am not sure I will be able to sleep.  Hard to shut down my mind, when my heart is going 500 miles an hour!

Thanks for being a part of God’s vision and for sharing in the miracles of His awesome plans.  May our lives lived for His glory continue to bless and make a difference!

Yesterday afternoon, I finally found a few moments and was able to ride down to spend a little time at my Grandparents old home place.  I have been working on it for a few months trying to get it livable and actually was able to spend the night last night.  As I was working in the house and walking around outside, it occurred to me that there is not a room, space or place where there is not a memory that is precious to me.

In the kitchen is a little bar where my Pa and I would sit after Sunday lunch and talk about life while we shared a Pepsi Cola.  I remember he would always smoke one cigarette and I would eat a spoon full of peanut butter!

I remember sitting on the front porch on most evenings, shelling peas, butter beans or cutting okra, while listening to the Atlanta Braves on the radio and watching the cars pass by.

When I walk through the fields, I think of what we used to plant.  I remember pulling turnips and my Pa cutting the baby ones and eating them raw!  I remember the corn – growing tall on one end and short on the other, because it did not get as much sun.  I remember my first lesson on growing tomatoes.

My mind has been flooded over the past 24 hours with very special memories.  Memories are a very special gift and should be appreciated.  I think one of the best ways to appreciate a memory is by spending a little time with it.  My most special memories are of moments that were shared with someone else.

I was thinking – right now, this very moment is a potential memory.  I get to decide if it is going to be something special or not.  God blesses us with time and with the time gives us the ability to create memories.  Memories are gifts that will keep giving as long as we have them, so take some time today to create at least one good memory.  And it would not be to bad of an idea to take some time today to dust off and enjoy an old memory!  If you do it, I bet you will be glad you did!