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I worked deep into the night last night finishing the updated version of Dancing During the Storm. You are going to love it. I know. I love it. I literally had to cut the last story off because I was running out of space. I had been promising this update for a year and I finally did it! It is so worth it!
I will be honest writing for me is like a relationship. Some days it is good and I love it more than anything, other days, I quit it and promise never to return. If it were a marriage, I would have divorced it a dozen times. Of course, we would get back together and promise to do right.
The thing that always brings me back is the story. I tell God I am not doing this anymore. I am finished, done. God gives me a story so good I can’t wait to put it on paper.
I added three new stories to the book and took two stories away. Dancing During the Storm is a collection of short stories. These are stories I have written over the course of my life. the first story I added is about justice or what is perceived as justice. Another is about the state of women and the third one was my first attempt to write from the point of view of a man.
As you read my work, I am sure you wonder where does this come from, and only the grace of God knows. He inspires me and takes me step by step through the process.
During the month of September I will give you some insight into why I do what I do. I will tell you some stories. You may even learn some things. This year I will also share some of the influencers in my life. Looking forward to telling you the story of me.
and just go to church to hear the choir sing, or you don’t participate in any of the things he calls the church to do from his pulpit, it is time for you to find a new church.
I know. I was in that position once. The preacher was good, but what he said did not line up with who God was creating me to be. As I often say we are the body of Christ and as such we all need different things, just as a body does. I mean we don’t put socks on our hands or sit on our hats. There are things designed for those areas of the body that allow them to function the way they ought to.
God has specific ministries for all of us, but many of us sit at the wrong church for the wrong reasons and miss it.
Since I joined this new church, I have found that my life is more full than it has ever been. I walk with folks who help me walk in obedience with God. i participate in the work God has designed for me as service. I don’t agree with everything my pastor says, but I hear the voice of God from the pulpit. He leads me.
In my new church, I have discovered that when my pastor asks something from the pulpit, he is representing God. How dare I say no. (yes, I have said no.) But I try to make it 90 percent of the time.
Annually my church sets aside time to help in local schools. I told myself I am serving in another ministry I do not have to do this. It would mean an extra day during the week, blah, blah, blah.
But my lifegroup chose to serve this week. I chose to serve with them. It was good. Find yourself a church where you can do the work God has for you to do. Find yourself a lifegroup to hold you to God’s principles. In a time when very few are moral, find someones who will hold you accountable.
I loved serving at the school. The principal was a joy.
It spoke to me to say that this is how life ought to be. When God requests, we fulfill. We let go of our selfish ambitions and do what God requires of us.
I shared information about the book, How to Raise God Wise Kids in a Satan Rich World. There were polls, videos and photos. I shared stories about the book.
You shared your insights and ideas. Thank you.
Join us on Facebook for the Book Launch of How to Raise God Wise Kids in a Satan Rich World.
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Join us on Facebook this Saturday for the launch of How To Raise A God Wise Kid in a Satan Rich World.
Join me on Facebook to hear more about How to Raise God Wise Kids in a Satan Rich World. This book will be available in print and I am over the moon excited because it turned out great. You will hear more about it on Saturday. This is an online event so that you can catch it from wherever you have internet.
Or maybe you will learn tomorrow the hard way. There are two kinds of people in this world. One who learns by other people’s experience and one who learns by their own experience.
Example: Your brother tells you not to mess with something because Dad will give you a whipping when he catches you. He knows. He has been whipped for it.
The first person will heed the brother’s warning and stop doing it. The second person will keep on doing it to see if Dad will really whip them.
The Bible is full of characters who would not listen to God and had to do things their own way. Saul wanted to be king the way he wanted to be king. He stopped listening to God and as a result, God picked a new king.
I am not a goody two shoes, but don’t your butt get sore from getting beat all the time? Don’t you get tired of always being in trouble?
As I have said on many occasions, God does not give F’s. He gives do overs. And usually the next time you go through it, it is harder than the last time. As I said before, don’t your butt get tired of being beat all the time? I means sometimes why don’t you just say, “Jesus, I am going to do what you said.”
When I was a kid one of the things I caught on to was when I saw someone heading into trouble, I took my behind to where the adults were and sat down. One summer evening, I joined the older ladies on their front porch chatting when a white man pull ed up in his car.
He said, “There are a bunch of little kids through rocks at the cars on the highway. Y’all know them kids?”
“No,” the ladies said.
Frustrated the man got back in his car and left. But those ladies knew who it was and those kids were going to get a talking to because they brought the man into the hood. And that was one of the few occasions I was not in trouble. Some lessons you don’t want to repeat.
So whatever you are fighting through right now, ask God to help you understand what it is He wants you to learn. If you fail the test, you will find yourself back in that same situation again and again until you get it.
God is more interested in you learning what He wants you to know than you getting what you want when you want it. There is a purpose in everything you go through. Look for it. Learn from it.
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