Monday, November 28, 2005
Lisa's CBC Article
Cabbie found dead in Thompson
Last Updated Nov 28 2005 09:00 AM CST
CBC News
An autopsy is being performed Monday on the body of a Thompson taxi driver who was found dead inside her cab early Saturday morning.
Police say the death of Mellissa Ivy Chaboyer, 35, is considered "suspicious."
Don Cameron, a dispatcher and driver for North Star Taxi, the company Chaboyer worked for, says he and the other drivers can't believe their colleague is dead.
"Right now we are really in a state of shock, because this sort of thing is really unheard of," he said. "Nothing like this has really happened up here in this community to anybody."
Cameron says the local cab drivers hope to have a meeting with the mayor early this week to discuss cab safety.
A vigil was held Saturday at the Thompson mall, close to the place where Chaboyer's body was found.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
A Friend has Died...
A Friend has died.
Lisa Chaboyer was a friend of mine who was like a sister to me when I lived in Thompson Manitoba.
She was a cab driver.
On Saturday November 26, 2005 at 1:00 in the morning she picked up a fare who stabbed her to death.
This (these) coward (s) is (are) still on the run, police have not caught anyone yet.
Police say that she put up a fight.
I have seen Lisa fight. She fought like a guy, man could she throw a punch.
I think it had to be someone really strong or more than one person. At any rate this is just semantics right now.
My friend is dead and I do not know if she knew the Lord.
God I pray she did.
I had not seen her in over 15 years, but yet I feel profound guilt at not sharing the Lord with her.
God I wish I did.
I know she had not been on my mind or had I even thought about her for all these years, maybe a couple times when talking with old friends from Thompson.
But I cannot shake a lack of responsibility for sharing Jesus with her.
I pray that God put someone in her path to do that.
Jesus said “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, No One comes to the Father (God) but by me”
His words, not mine. According to Jesus all paths do not necessarily lead to heaven.
“For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son that Whosoever shall believe on Him shall be saved” John 3:16
God I hope she made that decision to be saved. I have faith that God gave her every chance to make that decision.
God does not want any one to perish, but if anyone decides not to accept Jesus, God’s only path, they have decided to go to Hell.
He provided a way to heaven. I pray that Lisa chose God.
If she did not choose God, she had then chose Hell by default.
I wish I had led her to Him.
This just makes me more convinced that there is little time in deciding to live for God.
Our next breath is not certain. We could walk out the door today and be hit by a car, whatever.
Where are we going to spend eternity?
This is serious stuff.
If God asked you why should I let you into my heaven what would you say?
Could you answer Him?
“I have lived a good life. I am a good person”
Jesus said “All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God”
Again, His words not mine.
So if all have sinned, than being good enough is not good enough.
It is something else.
I am convinced it is WHO you KNOW.
In the book of Revelations, Jesus says, “In those last days they shall say, “Did we not cast out demons in your name? Did we not heal the sick” and I will say to them away from me for I never KNEW you”
Do you KNOW Jesus? Do you have a Relationship with Him? Do you accept what He has done for you by dying for you to pay for your sin enough that you will live for Him and give your life to Him, all control and all your will?
God I hope so.
When God asks why should He let me into His heaven, I will have only one answer.
You shouldn’t.
I have not done anything worthy of being let into heaven on my own deeds.
The only reason I should be let into heaven is because of that man right there, the man with the scars on His hands, on His feet, a wound on His side, and scars on His head.
The man who bled and died for me so that I could have eternal life.
I will know Jesus. I will recognize Him. I know His heart and He knows mine. I have a RELATIONSHIP with Him.
It was not what I have done that grants me to access heaven.
It is what HE has done.
I will say “That man bled and died for me. That man PAID for my life with His.”
“That man owns my life. Not me. Ask Him”
Satan will hiss, he is mine. I claim him. Look at what he has done with his life. Look at his failures, look at how he has sinned in his life. How can you let him into heaven?
God will then ask Jesus if I am His, If this is true.
And I KNOW that Jesus will reply:
“This one is mine. I love Him Father so much I died for him. Yes everything Satan has said is true. Apart from me you should not let him into heaven, however, because he has chosen to love me, to believe in me for his salvation by faith and has chosen to lay his life down for Me and make ME Lord, MY blood has ransomed Him from Satan and he is no longer the property of the enemy. He is under MY grace, and under MY mercy, MY blood has covered all his sins, I know him by name, he is my friend and my brother, joint heirs with ME and his name is written in MY book of life. He is mine for I have Redeemed Him and Satan you have no claim on him!”
I know that God will let me into His kingdom not because of what I have done, but because of what Jesus has done. Jesus conquered death by His resurrection.
Jesus is the only one that is not still in His grave. Mohammed is, Buddha is, Joseph Smith is, every atheist, agnostic, and ungodly is, Einstein, Darwin, and Freud still are too.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life by what He has done. He has conquered death. He has the keys to Death and Hades. Satan is defeated.
I believe this by faith. I have made a decision.
If you haven’t please do before it is too late.
If you have, please tell others before it is too late.
It may have been too late for Lisa. I do not know.
It is not too late for you.
Choose wisely.
Blessings -Moose
Lisa Chaboyer was a friend of mine who was like a sister to me when I lived in Thompson Manitoba.
She was a cab driver.
On Saturday November 26, 2005 at 1:00 in the morning she picked up a fare who stabbed her to death.
This (these) coward (s) is (are) still on the run, police have not caught anyone yet.
Police say that she put up a fight.
I have seen Lisa fight. She fought like a guy, man could she throw a punch.
I think it had to be someone really strong or more than one person. At any rate this is just semantics right now.
My friend is dead and I do not know if she knew the Lord.
God I pray she did.
I had not seen her in over 15 years, but yet I feel profound guilt at not sharing the Lord with her.
God I wish I did.
I know she had not been on my mind or had I even thought about her for all these years, maybe a couple times when talking with old friends from Thompson.
But I cannot shake a lack of responsibility for sharing Jesus with her.
I pray that God put someone in her path to do that.
Jesus said “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, No One comes to the Father (God) but by me”
His words, not mine. According to Jesus all paths do not necessarily lead to heaven.
“For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son that Whosoever shall believe on Him shall be saved” John 3:16
God I hope she made that decision to be saved. I have faith that God gave her every chance to make that decision.
God does not want any one to perish, but if anyone decides not to accept Jesus, God’s only path, they have decided to go to Hell.
He provided a way to heaven. I pray that Lisa chose God.
If she did not choose God, she had then chose Hell by default.
I wish I had led her to Him.
This just makes me more convinced that there is little time in deciding to live for God.
Our next breath is not certain. We could walk out the door today and be hit by a car, whatever.
Where are we going to spend eternity?
This is serious stuff.
If God asked you why should I let you into my heaven what would you say?
Could you answer Him?
“I have lived a good life. I am a good person”
Jesus said “All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God”
Again, His words not mine.
So if all have sinned, than being good enough is not good enough.
It is something else.
I am convinced it is WHO you KNOW.
In the book of Revelations, Jesus says, “In those last days they shall say, “Did we not cast out demons in your name? Did we not heal the sick” and I will say to them away from me for I never KNEW you”
Do you KNOW Jesus? Do you have a Relationship with Him? Do you accept what He has done for you by dying for you to pay for your sin enough that you will live for Him and give your life to Him, all control and all your will?
God I hope so.
When God asks why should He let me into His heaven, I will have only one answer.
You shouldn’t.
I have not done anything worthy of being let into heaven on my own deeds.
The only reason I should be let into heaven is because of that man right there, the man with the scars on His hands, on His feet, a wound on His side, and scars on His head.
The man who bled and died for me so that I could have eternal life.
I will know Jesus. I will recognize Him. I know His heart and He knows mine. I have a RELATIONSHIP with Him.
It was not what I have done that grants me to access heaven.
It is what HE has done.
I will say “That man bled and died for me. That man PAID for my life with His.”
“That man owns my life. Not me. Ask Him”
Satan will hiss, he is mine. I claim him. Look at what he has done with his life. Look at his failures, look at how he has sinned in his life. How can you let him into heaven?
God will then ask Jesus if I am His, If this is true.
And I KNOW that Jesus will reply:
“This one is mine. I love Him Father so much I died for him. Yes everything Satan has said is true. Apart from me you should not let him into heaven, however, because he has chosen to love me, to believe in me for his salvation by faith and has chosen to lay his life down for Me and make ME Lord, MY blood has ransomed Him from Satan and he is no longer the property of the enemy. He is under MY grace, and under MY mercy, MY blood has covered all his sins, I know him by name, he is my friend and my brother, joint heirs with ME and his name is written in MY book of life. He is mine for I have Redeemed Him and Satan you have no claim on him!”
I know that God will let me into His kingdom not because of what I have done, but because of what Jesus has done. Jesus conquered death by His resurrection.
Jesus is the only one that is not still in His grave. Mohammed is, Buddha is, Joseph Smith is, every atheist, agnostic, and ungodly is, Einstein, Darwin, and Freud still are too.
Jesus is the resurrection and the life by what He has done. He has conquered death. He has the keys to Death and Hades. Satan is defeated.
I believe this by faith. I have made a decision.
If you haven’t please do before it is too late.
If you have, please tell others before it is too late.
It may have been too late for Lisa. I do not know.
It is not too late for you.
Choose wisely.
Blessings -Moose
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Been a long time...
Been a long time, Been a long time, Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely,- lonely time –Led Zeppelin
Been a while since I blogged. Seems I have been on a dead run all this week.
Been a very interesting week spiritually.
Last Saturday was not my finest hour, I feel I blew it spiritually in a lot of areas.
Seems God gives us just enough rope sometimes to hang ourselves.
He lets us run our own race until we run smack dab into the wall of sin.
Only when our noses are smarting from face planting into the wall of sin that He finally has our attention.
Guess if we are never broken He can never restore us.
Living this cycle of victory-sin-repentance-victory et al gets weary after a while.
Sometimes I just wish God would just fix me up, just for a while and leave me to heal a bit before He calls me to something else.
But I guess that is not what faith is about.
I have done some body building in my life and I know that the first while when you are working out (approx. a month) you feel like a Mack truck ran over you.
You do not see the immediate benefits through the pain.
But if you persevere you do.
Muscles build, energy comes back, a general feeling of well-being and healthiness comes back to you.
But it ain’t fun at first.
Its breaking the old habits, it is getting through the pain to the payoff.
God I sure would love some payoff spiritually. Ok…I have.
Don’t get me wrong. God has taken me places I have never been spiritually and things have fallen off me in areas of my life like I have never seen in my life.
He has been trimming me like a vineyard dresser.
But Oh man that cutting off of the dead stuff hurts.
What I mean is I would like to see other areas of my life spiritually manifested, things I so long for.
A better financial situation, an end to the loneliness and ache of singleness, a generally better attitude about life.
Seems I just work to live, and live to work, to pay bills and try to survive.
Mabey I just need a holiday…I dunno.
Mabey I need some decompression time to refocus on what is important.
Things have happened this week that really have blown me away spiritually.
The pain will pass away. This too shall pass. There will be blessings at the end of this all. I will laugh again, I will love again. I will sing again. I must embrace the pain and let it teach me to trust in God. I must not try to avoid it but walk with it, until God removes it from my heart. I must be obedient and walk with His Spirit and let Him lead me where I am to go. God is faithful, He is trustworthy, and He has His very best for us.
Blessings -Moose
(Jer 29:11 NIV) "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
(Jer 29:12 NIV) "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you."
(Jer 29:13 NIV) "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."
(Jer 29:14 NIV) "I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Been a while since I blogged. Seems I have been on a dead run all this week.
Been a very interesting week spiritually.
Last Saturday was not my finest hour, I feel I blew it spiritually in a lot of areas.
Seems God gives us just enough rope sometimes to hang ourselves.
He lets us run our own race until we run smack dab into the wall of sin.
Only when our noses are smarting from face planting into the wall of sin that He finally has our attention.
Guess if we are never broken He can never restore us.
Living this cycle of victory-sin-repentance-victory et al gets weary after a while.
Sometimes I just wish God would just fix me up, just for a while and leave me to heal a bit before He calls me to something else.
But I guess that is not what faith is about.
I have done some body building in my life and I know that the first while when you are working out (approx. a month) you feel like a Mack truck ran over you.
You do not see the immediate benefits through the pain.
But if you persevere you do.
Muscles build, energy comes back, a general feeling of well-being and healthiness comes back to you.
But it ain’t fun at first.
Its breaking the old habits, it is getting through the pain to the payoff.
God I sure would love some payoff spiritually. Ok…I have.
Don’t get me wrong. God has taken me places I have never been spiritually and things have fallen off me in areas of my life like I have never seen in my life.
He has been trimming me like a vineyard dresser.
But Oh man that cutting off of the dead stuff hurts.
What I mean is I would like to see other areas of my life spiritually manifested, things I so long for.
A better financial situation, an end to the loneliness and ache of singleness, a generally better attitude about life.
Seems I just work to live, and live to work, to pay bills and try to survive.
Mabey I just need a holiday…I dunno.
Mabey I need some decompression time to refocus on what is important.
Things have happened this week that really have blown me away spiritually.
- I am angry with my wife for leaving me. Really angry. Really hurt. I did not even know that I was consciously until God pointed it out. Now He is dealing with me on this. He is making me realize I never have fully forgiven her and until I do, it will tear me from the inside out like some bad Aliens movie…I must forgive. I must love her in spite of the pain.
- I have more people around me and in my life who are also going through this. I am not alone. Other men experience similar things. We are walking this out together and I am not alone. I have other men to lean on and who pray for me as I do for them, men who really care about where and what is going on in my life and speak into my life in a very tangible way. For that I am truly blessed. Truly there are great blessings when men dwell together in unity. I am just realizing how deep those blessings are.
- This world and the things that are in it are really not as important as I once thought. I attended a funeral of a colleague who has lost his mother. No amount of money, fame, things, is going to bring her back. We must fix our eyes on what is really important in this life, on what will really last.
- Relationships are the key to Christianity. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. In short, maintain and build relationship with God and then the world. Only through relationships can God’s Kingdom grow.
- Where two or more are gathered, there I am in the midst of them. God said this and as I have gathered with other people this week God has shown Himself true to His word. Monday night at the Junior Youth meeting, Later Monday night at my brother Scott’s place, Wednesday night at Transformations, Thursday night hanging with my brother Joe and getting to know another brother Ryan, in every case God came down and the fellowship was awesome. The Holy Spirit showed up every time and there were exhortations, correction in love, revelation, prophecy, encouragement, repentance or something else God did. What I am saying is that when God showed up, He always did something that when you left the fellowship to head home that gave you hope that yes, you can go on another day and that yes, you met with God through those meetings.
- I cannot do this alone. I NEED God. He is not just a want but a hardcore need. I cannot do this thing called life without Him. When I do, I mess it up and end up in more trouble than when I started. I cannot live this life outside God. It is more painful, more trouble, and way less peace than I want or need. I need the peace and joy of God. I cannot live without Him. I must live in obedience to Him or I cannot live at all.
- I need to spend WAY more time with God than I do. Power and Grace comes from spending time and KNOWING God, not just about Him. Spending time in His Word, building relationship with the Living God is the only way I can become truly living. When I spend time with the world I find I am spending time with death not life. I want to walk in life and peace and joy. This world is promised to pass away. We are not guaranteed our next breath. Through God we literally live and breathe and have our being. I need HIS Grace, God’s Real And Continual Enabling to go through life and become what He wants me to be, not what I think I want to be or think I need to be. I need to be what God needs me to be. Only then can I be truly happy and fulfill my destiny laid down by my Loving, and Sovereign God.
The pain will pass away. This too shall pass. There will be blessings at the end of this all. I will laugh again, I will love again. I will sing again. I must embrace the pain and let it teach me to trust in God. I must not try to avoid it but walk with it, until God removes it from my heart. I must be obedient and walk with His Spirit and let Him lead me where I am to go. God is faithful, He is trustworthy, and He has His very best for us.
Blessings -Moose
(Jer 29:11 NIV) "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
(Jer 29:12 NIV) "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you."
(Jer 29:13 NIV) "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."
(Jer 29:14 NIV) "I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Monday, November 21, 2005
Sunday, November 20, 2005
A Song for Where I am At...
A Song for Where I am At...
ARTIST: Kansas
COMPOSER: Kerry Livgren
TITLE: Carry On Wayward Son
Lyrics and Chords
{Refrain}
Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
/ Em G D C / Em G D - / 1st / x /
Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high
/ Em D C D / / Am G F FG / Am G D - /
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say
{Refrain}
Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say
{Refrain}
No!
Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you
/ Em D C - / / Am G F - / Am G D - /
{Refrain}
I listened to this song tonite and really felt that this is exactly where I am at...
I love my church but sometimes cannot understand it. The people I mean.
People have told me how blessed they are at how God is shining through me at this time in my life.
I cannot see it. I see my self as a failure, a loser, who is constantly failing to live up to my God.
I know that in my weakness is His strength, but why does it seem I am always so weak?
I cannot seem to be the man that God wants me to be...
I cannot understand how God can show through such a mess as me.
I love people. I love deeply. I love passionately. I love God.
But I constantly fail to serve Him. It is like I am walking against the wind.
I cry out to God with a voiceless cry, like the cry one makes when screaming in their sleep, only to awaken and realize that the reality is worse than the dream.
I am torn apart. My heart is crushed and seems to pour out pain like a crushed grape pours out wine.
People get tired of hearing pain, but it is all that comes from my heart sometimes.
Sometimes there is Joy and Peace, but mostly there is agony.
Except when I am in the Presence of God. God I feel like Saul, needing music to make the pain, the rejection of God go away.
A soul torn apart. Is that really what you want from me God?
Longing, Loneliness, Pain, the hollowness of empty arms. How can this be your will O Lord?
Yeah, I know the answers from the Bible. I am Bible College trained. I know what the Bible says. I respect the Word of God.
But how does it change the way, the way I feel.
Faith is not based on feelings. It is based on truth.
What happens when the truth of agony seems to overrule the truth of God? What is more real?
My pain? God's Truth? What do I do with what I am experiencing?
It is honestly hard to tell in the midst of agony.
Like Peter not recognizing Jesus on the sea of Galilee, Sometimes, I have a hard time recognizing Jesus on the seas of my life.
Save me Jesus! He reaches out His hand, but sometimes it is not enough.
Everything passes away. Or hopes, our dreams, our possessions. What is truly valuable? Think about that.
Every time we are confronted with death, a funeral of a loved on or friend, what are we really here for?
Our work? friends? To have a bigger house? A better car? Or is is something larger than ourselves?
It has to be. Otherwise we live in vain.
Lovers and Marrieds, love passionately. Don't take your mate for granted. Dear God do not worship them, but love them as your most prized on earth.
Make amends. Don't hold grudges. Life is too short.
Love deeply, live passionately, care endlessly.
You may not have another shot at this life. In fact I guarantee you will not.
Time will move faster the older you will get. It will disappear even as you are looking at it.
Please use it wisely.
You only have this one shot at life. Make it count.
Another Kansas song to thing about.
Love you all. -Moose
ARTIST: Kansas
COMPOSER: Kerry Livgren
TITLE: Dust in the Wind
Lyrics and Chords
[Intro riff: / C Cmaj7 Csus2 C / Asus2 Asus4 Am Asus2 /
/ Csus2 C Cmaj7 Csus2 / Am Asus2 Asus4 Am / ]
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind
/ C G Am - / G Dm Am - / 1st / 2nd / / /
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind, ohh
Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
ARTIST: Kansas
COMPOSER: Kerry Livgren
TITLE: Carry On Wayward Son
Lyrics and Chords
{Refrain}
Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
/ Em G D C / Em G D - / 1st / x /
Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high
/ Em D C D / / Am G F FG / Am G D - /
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say
{Refrain}
Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say
{Refrain}
No!
Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you
/ Em D C - / / Am G F - / Am G D - /
{Refrain}
I listened to this song tonite and really felt that this is exactly where I am at...
I love my church but sometimes cannot understand it. The people I mean.
People have told me how blessed they are at how God is shining through me at this time in my life.
I cannot see it. I see my self as a failure, a loser, who is constantly failing to live up to my God.
I know that in my weakness is His strength, but why does it seem I am always so weak?
I cannot seem to be the man that God wants me to be...
I cannot understand how God can show through such a mess as me.
I love people. I love deeply. I love passionately. I love God.
But I constantly fail to serve Him. It is like I am walking against the wind.
I cry out to God with a voiceless cry, like the cry one makes when screaming in their sleep, only to awaken and realize that the reality is worse than the dream.
I am torn apart. My heart is crushed and seems to pour out pain like a crushed grape pours out wine.
People get tired of hearing pain, but it is all that comes from my heart sometimes.
Sometimes there is Joy and Peace, but mostly there is agony.
Except when I am in the Presence of God. God I feel like Saul, needing music to make the pain, the rejection of God go away.
A soul torn apart. Is that really what you want from me God?
Longing, Loneliness, Pain, the hollowness of empty arms. How can this be your will O Lord?
Yeah, I know the answers from the Bible. I am Bible College trained. I know what the Bible says. I respect the Word of God.
But how does it change the way, the way I feel.
Faith is not based on feelings. It is based on truth.
What happens when the truth of agony seems to overrule the truth of God? What is more real?
My pain? God's Truth? What do I do with what I am experiencing?
It is honestly hard to tell in the midst of agony.
Like Peter not recognizing Jesus on the sea of Galilee, Sometimes, I have a hard time recognizing Jesus on the seas of my life.
Save me Jesus! He reaches out His hand, but sometimes it is not enough.
Everything passes away. Or hopes, our dreams, our possessions. What is truly valuable? Think about that.
Every time we are confronted with death, a funeral of a loved on or friend, what are we really here for?
Our work? friends? To have a bigger house? A better car? Or is is something larger than ourselves?
It has to be. Otherwise we live in vain.
Lovers and Marrieds, love passionately. Don't take your mate for granted. Dear God do not worship them, but love them as your most prized on earth.
Make amends. Don't hold grudges. Life is too short.
Love deeply, live passionately, care endlessly.
You may not have another shot at this life. In fact I guarantee you will not.
Time will move faster the older you will get. It will disappear even as you are looking at it.
Please use it wisely.
You only have this one shot at life. Make it count.
Another Kansas song to thing about.
Love you all. -Moose
ARTIST: Kansas
COMPOSER: Kerry Livgren
TITLE: Dust in the Wind
Lyrics and Chords
[Intro riff: / C Cmaj7 Csus2 C / Asus2 Asus4 Am Asus2 /
/ Csus2 C Cmaj7 Csus2 / Am Asus2 Asus4 Am / ]
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind
/ C G Am - / G Dm Am - / 1st / 2nd / / /
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind, ohh
Now, don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Had an Interesting Week...
Had an Interesting Week…
Have not blogged much this week.
Dunno why.
That is not to say I did not have an interesting week, just that I have not seemed to find time to bang out a blog last few days.
Hmmm Where to Begin…
Monday night, my friend Scott invited my over for supper, he made this awesome road that was marinated in red wine and tomatoes that you could cut with the edge of your fork. Mmmmm! It was good to have a home cooked meal for a change. I don’t get many of those lately.
Seems I am munching on all the wrong stuff, TV dinners, Scottish Dining (McDonalds), or worse.
It was great to eat a meal that was healthy (
Monday night at Scott’s place we have been going through Chuck Missler’s “The Bible in 24 hours” with another friend of mine I went to Bethany Bible Institute (since renamed Bethany College with Glenn, who just had a baby, well technically he didn’t, his wife did, but…yah get the picture (
Tuesday night I worked later and then met an acquaintance from church Bruce for coffee at the Canadian Coffee Icon Tim Hortons and then came home and watched Oscar with Sylvester Stallone. Man I laughed my butt off (ok…figuratively) If you have not watched this movie, put it on your must view list!
Wednesday night I went to Transformations Bible Study with a bunch of people I am really starting to be wowed about. Transformations is a small group Bible Study developed by a guy named Greg Mitchell and it is a powerful study of the nuts and bolts of Christianity. Seems as we are meeting together more and more the Lord is really doing incredible things in our group’s lives. It is simply amazing to see and hear these people open up and literally shine for God. It is so encouraging to know that others walk rough roads, and that you are not the only one who is. The last week or so we have been going through church family and what it means to be in the family of God, how it is like planting your roots down by a stream whereas being outside a church family is likened to being in a parched desert. This is so true.
A lot of my life I have done the lone wolf thing, being part of, but not really JOINING a church. Sure, I have had membership in one church before, but I did not really place my self under the leadership authority of that church and still did my own thing when the rubber met the road. Here I have joined a church, have placed myself under the authority of the church and am allowing the leadership to lead me. Sure, it can be scary sometimes, you are not in control, sometimes admonishment comes instead of praise, but one thing I have noticed, I am growing in and closer to God. I am being encouraged to press on in spite of the mess my life looks like in the natural. I am being loved by people in my church who have the courage to be vulnerable and share their hearts. I am being prayed for and built up. I have come to realize that whatever small offenses that I can sometimes fall into are no match for honest love and forgiveness, and the price of such small things is trivial in the light of fellowship with God’s people.
Wow…where did that bunny trail come from eh? I start sharing my week and well…that is ok…who I am becoming is much more important than what I did this week (
Thursday…hmm…went to a StarPhoenix Christmas thing with food etc. at the Mendel Art Gallery. We advertise at work quite a bit with this company so every year they put on this event as a kind of thank-you to the Realtors that have advertised with them.
After that, I went to church as I am a Junior Youth Leader. It was great hangin’ with our kids, sharing the story of Joshua and Jericho, playing Israelites and Philistines, and snacking on cookies. Just the hang time with these kids is so cool, seeing them go from these Mexican jumping beans to when they settle down, spiritually hungry kids. It is so cool to see them changing before your eyes, really GETTING it, about what God is about, and seeing them grow in God. God has really given me a love for these little guys and I am so blessed every time we get together to see what God is going to do next! To see God’s kingdom being built in these kids is so awesome. To be able to minister and hang with my buddy Dale is just the icing on the cake, youth leadership in our church is in good hands.
Friday night I went to Concerts of the Heart, a coffee house style worship night for the people of our church to share their hearts through the arts. I was so blessed to be able to go and hear people sing, see people dance, and hear the hearts of people in a way I have never seen them before. Very cool. I got to hear Lighthouseforever sing, who by the way is in my Transformations group (brag brag, what a heart for God!) and really blew me away with her song to God (Unbelievable song Chelsea! Ya did good!), Nin and her sister Carebear worship powerfully in dance (The Holy Spirit showed up guys! Incredible Worship! God is so proud of you guys!) Nin and my brother Christopher are also in my Transformations group (brag brag, you guys are such blessings!), Nin also did a song with 2 other ladies about family in the church, wow, what an incredible song! I was so blown away by how these guys are moving in their giftings, seeing people in my church stepping out in faith on to the water, wow, I and a lot of others in the church are like, standing on side of the race course going GO, GO, GO! It is so awesome and so encouraging to see people walking on the water, ya just want to cheer them on! I also got to spend some awesome time with a few of my brothers in the Lord that have a really special place in my heart the Dales (, Corey, Kevin, Jeremy, and one of my best friends Firestarter. Man it was good to see you bro! Firestarter and CWG are two brothers that have walked a lot of stuff with me and I am truly blessed to have you two brothers in my life.
I realize that though I may not be the most wealthy person financially, or may not drive the most nicest of cars, or live in the best area of the city, I am rich. I am rich in friends who love God passionately and wholeheartedly. I am rich in that I have a pastor whose heart is to see his church fall passionately in love with Jesus and be transformed by God. I am rich because I have a church board that shares this same vision. I may not have a lot of money but I am rich because I am loved. First by God, and then by friends, brothers, and sisters. I would not trade the wealth of the world for the least of any of these. I have a family called the church who loves me in spite of myself, and am blessed with a flesh and blood family who all know Jesus and who stand by and encourage me.
God has made me truly rich in the things that matter. I am so thankful.
El Shaddai, Adonai, Lord Jehovah, Elohym, Yahweh, El Elyon, El Olam, Fairest of Ten Thousand, Lily of the Valley, El Berith, El Roi, Everlasting to Everlasting, Alpha and Omega, Beginning and the End, The Word, The Spring, Mighty Counselor, Prince of Peace, Everlasting Father, Almighty God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Might Shepherd, The Lion, The Lamb, The King Eternal, the Only Wise God, I Am that I Am.
(Rev 5:1-14 NIV) 1 "Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals." 2 "And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" 3 " But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it." 4 "I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside." 5 "Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals." 6 "Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth." 7 "He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne." 8 "And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." 9 "And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation." 10 "You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth." 11 "Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders." 12 “In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!" 13 "Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!" 14 "The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped."
Have not blogged much this week.
Dunno why.
That is not to say I did not have an interesting week, just that I have not seemed to find time to bang out a blog last few days.
Hmmm Where to Begin…
Monday night, my friend Scott invited my over for supper, he made this awesome road that was marinated in red wine and tomatoes that you could cut with the edge of your fork. Mmmmm! It was good to have a home cooked meal for a change. I don’t get many of those lately.
Seems I am munching on all the wrong stuff, TV dinners, Scottish Dining (McDonalds), or worse.
It was great to eat a meal that was healthy (
Monday night at Scott’s place we have been going through Chuck Missler’s “The Bible in 24 hours” with another friend of mine I went to Bethany Bible Institute (since renamed Bethany College with Glenn, who just had a baby, well technically he didn’t, his wife did, but…yah get the picture (
Tuesday night I worked later and then met an acquaintance from church Bruce for coffee at the Canadian Coffee Icon Tim Hortons and then came home and watched Oscar with Sylvester Stallone. Man I laughed my butt off (ok…figuratively) If you have not watched this movie, put it on your must view list!
Wednesday night I went to Transformations Bible Study with a bunch of people I am really starting to be wowed about. Transformations is a small group Bible Study developed by a guy named Greg Mitchell and it is a powerful study of the nuts and bolts of Christianity. Seems as we are meeting together more and more the Lord is really doing incredible things in our group’s lives. It is simply amazing to see and hear these people open up and literally shine for God. It is so encouraging to know that others walk rough roads, and that you are not the only one who is. The last week or so we have been going through church family and what it means to be in the family of God, how it is like planting your roots down by a stream whereas being outside a church family is likened to being in a parched desert. This is so true.
A lot of my life I have done the lone wolf thing, being part of, but not really JOINING a church. Sure, I have had membership in one church before, but I did not really place my self under the leadership authority of that church and still did my own thing when the rubber met the road. Here I have joined a church, have placed myself under the authority of the church and am allowing the leadership to lead me. Sure, it can be scary sometimes, you are not in control, sometimes admonishment comes instead of praise, but one thing I have noticed, I am growing in and closer to God. I am being encouraged to press on in spite of the mess my life looks like in the natural. I am being loved by people in my church who have the courage to be vulnerable and share their hearts. I am being prayed for and built up. I have come to realize that whatever small offenses that I can sometimes fall into are no match for honest love and forgiveness, and the price of such small things is trivial in the light of fellowship with God’s people.
Wow…where did that bunny trail come from eh? I start sharing my week and well…that is ok…who I am becoming is much more important than what I did this week (
Thursday…hmm…went to a StarPhoenix Christmas thing with food etc. at the Mendel Art Gallery. We advertise at work quite a bit with this company so every year they put on this event as a kind of thank-you to the Realtors that have advertised with them.
After that, I went to church as I am a Junior Youth Leader. It was great hangin’ with our kids, sharing the story of Joshua and Jericho, playing Israelites and Philistines, and snacking on cookies. Just the hang time with these kids is so cool, seeing them go from these Mexican jumping beans to when they settle down, spiritually hungry kids. It is so cool to see them changing before your eyes, really GETTING it, about what God is about, and seeing them grow in God. God has really given me a love for these little guys and I am so blessed every time we get together to see what God is going to do next! To see God’s kingdom being built in these kids is so awesome. To be able to minister and hang with my buddy Dale is just the icing on the cake, youth leadership in our church is in good hands.
Friday night I went to Concerts of the Heart, a coffee house style worship night for the people of our church to share their hearts through the arts. I was so blessed to be able to go and hear people sing, see people dance, and hear the hearts of people in a way I have never seen them before. Very cool. I got to hear Lighthouseforever sing, who by the way is in my Transformations group (brag brag, what a heart for God!) and really blew me away with her song to God (Unbelievable song Chelsea! Ya did good!), Nin and her sister Carebear worship powerfully in dance (The Holy Spirit showed up guys! Incredible Worship! God is so proud of you guys!) Nin and my brother Christopher are also in my Transformations group (brag brag, you guys are such blessings!), Nin also did a song with 2 other ladies about family in the church, wow, what an incredible song! I was so blown away by how these guys are moving in their giftings, seeing people in my church stepping out in faith on to the water, wow, I and a lot of others in the church are like, standing on side of the race course going GO, GO, GO! It is so awesome and so encouraging to see people walking on the water, ya just want to cheer them on! I also got to spend some awesome time with a few of my brothers in the Lord that have a really special place in my heart the Dales (, Corey, Kevin, Jeremy, and one of my best friends Firestarter. Man it was good to see you bro! Firestarter and CWG are two brothers that have walked a lot of stuff with me and I am truly blessed to have you two brothers in my life.
I realize that though I may not be the most wealthy person financially, or may not drive the most nicest of cars, or live in the best area of the city, I am rich. I am rich in friends who love God passionately and wholeheartedly. I am rich in that I have a pastor whose heart is to see his church fall passionately in love with Jesus and be transformed by God. I am rich because I have a church board that shares this same vision. I may not have a lot of money but I am rich because I am loved. First by God, and then by friends, brothers, and sisters. I would not trade the wealth of the world for the least of any of these. I have a family called the church who loves me in spite of myself, and am blessed with a flesh and blood family who all know Jesus and who stand by and encourage me.
God has made me truly rich in the things that matter. I am so thankful.
El Shaddai, Adonai, Lord Jehovah, Elohym, Yahweh, El Elyon, El Olam, Fairest of Ten Thousand, Lily of the Valley, El Berith, El Roi, Everlasting to Everlasting, Alpha and Omega, Beginning and the End, The Word, The Spring, Mighty Counselor, Prince of Peace, Everlasting Father, Almighty God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Might Shepherd, The Lion, The Lamb, The King Eternal, the Only Wise God, I Am that I Am.
(Rev 5:1-14 NIV) 1 "Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals." 2 "And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" 3 " But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it." 4 "I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside." 5 "Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals." 6 "Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth." 7 "He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne." 8 "And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." 9 "And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation." 10 "You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth." 11 "Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders." 12 “In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!" 13 "Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!" 14 "The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped."
Monday, November 14, 2005
What a weekend
What a weekend
Had an interesting weekend.
Friday was Remembrance Day.
I got to sleep in and took in the Act of Remembrance on TV.
I am always humbled by how costly my freedom was to redeem.
As I see the veterans walking by, and the tears as they remember fallen friends and allies, I am reminded how costly that freedom was.
Men and Women died so that we could be free.
Just let that sink in for a second.
Or as I did for a few minutes on Friday.
Call me a Patriot, but I am proud to be a Canadian and every chance I get, I thank our vets for what they did for me.
I saw an interesting bumper sticker one day...
If you can read this, thank a teacher, if it is in English, thank a Soldier.
We could of all been speaking German if our Vets did not go to war, German Subs were in the St. Lawrence seaway during the second world war. They were that close.
I am reminded of a poem that is displayed at the Canada Remembers Air Show every year:
It Is the Soldier
by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien United States Marine Corps
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer,
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protestor to burn the flag.
Mabey I do not fit into the typical pacifistic Mennonite Brethern conscientious objector mold here, but then again, my entire church does not quite fit the typical Mennonite Brethern mold.
I do believe that some things are worth fighting for. Freedom is one of them.
I always get choked up when I participate in an act of remembrance. I think of the men and women who died, the families left to mourn, friends left on the battlefield, and the price at which our freedom was bought.
I hope I never forget.
One of my Great Grandfathers (Filby) served in the first world war and was decorated by King George for an act of bravery in India, one of my Grandfathers served in the second world war in the Canadian Military (Shore) in England and married my grandmother who became a war bride, and my other Grandfather (Funkner) served in the German army and saw his best friend sawed in half by machine gun fire when fighting the Russians.
It is interesting that I have a British heritage and a German heritage. I grew up being babysat by my Grandmother, (my first word was G-air-age or Garage used to drive my mom nuts!) but later spent a lot of time with my Grandfather where I learned a little German.
So I grew up as a British German...
My grandmother used to tell me stories how when my great grandfather was fighting on Christmas day, how both armies laid down their weapons and came out of their trenches and exchanged cigarettes and alcohol and sang Christmas carols, the next day they were shooting one another again.
Under any other circumstances but war, they could of very well of been friends he said.
Amazing.
Friday afternoon I spent with a friend working on the Tangosierra.ca website...
Friday nite into Saturday morning :) I spent with my brother Chuck watching a movie and hanging out...and a longtime friend Amanda showed up in Toon Town. What a blessing it was to see her and Julienne.
Saturday I slept in again :)
Got a few things done, and Saturday night I went to House of Worship (their blog is houseofworship.blogspot.com) to soak in God's presence. What an amazing night.
God showed up and I just worshipped full tilt for a couple hours.
Man I needed that so much.
Thanks Jayson and Teegan and the band, God really moved through you guys. Great seeing you out Amanda and Julienne :) You guys followin' me around or something? LOL! You guys are such blessings!
Sunday it was off to church where I got to see some really cool people in my church get baptized, and I got to hang with my crew of Junior Youth and share about the Disciple Simon Peter, I am always blessed hanging out with our Youth in our church.
Oh yah...my buddy Dale turned 40! Man he don't look a day over 50 LOL! Actually ya wouldn't even know he was 40...he's got the heart and energy of a 20 year old. Dale is our youth pastor in our church, my immediate superior for youth, and an awesome friend of mine, with a passion and heart for youth that is incredible.
After church I went over to a Saskatchewan Roughriders party at Jonathan's place. My buddy Scott was there as were a lot of guys from my church. It was a blast. Unfortunately the Riders lost. That's it, that is all...they are outta the game for the rest of the season now...
Watched the Stampeders v.s. Eskimos game...that was an awesome game. Eskimos won. That was pretty cool.
All in all it was a pretty cool weekend, got rest, got relaxation, and had fun and fellowship.
Can't wait to see what is happening this week...
Bless Yas all! -Moose
Oh yah...found another friend who has started blogging now! Check her blog out and encourage her! She is an awesome writer and she has some very cool insights on her blog.
Here is her site: http://www.walking-again.blogspot.com/ I also added her to my Sisters in God menu on the right if you want to check her site out.
Had an interesting weekend.
Friday was Remembrance Day.
I got to sleep in and took in the Act of Remembrance on TV.
I am always humbled by how costly my freedom was to redeem.
As I see the veterans walking by, and the tears as they remember fallen friends and allies, I am reminded how costly that freedom was.
Men and Women died so that we could be free.
Just let that sink in for a second.
Or as I did for a few minutes on Friday.
Call me a Patriot, but I am proud to be a Canadian and every chance I get, I thank our vets for what they did for me.
I saw an interesting bumper sticker one day...
If you can read this, thank a teacher, if it is in English, thank a Soldier.
We could of all been speaking German if our Vets did not go to war, German Subs were in the St. Lawrence seaway during the second world war. They were that close.
I am reminded of a poem that is displayed at the Canada Remembers Air Show every year:
It Is the Soldier
by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien United States Marine Corps
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer,
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protestor to burn the flag.
Mabey I do not fit into the typical pacifistic Mennonite Brethern conscientious objector mold here, but then again, my entire church does not quite fit the typical Mennonite Brethern mold.
I do believe that some things are worth fighting for. Freedom is one of them.
I always get choked up when I participate in an act of remembrance. I think of the men and women who died, the families left to mourn, friends left on the battlefield, and the price at which our freedom was bought.
I hope I never forget.
One of my Great Grandfathers (Filby) served in the first world war and was decorated by King George for an act of bravery in India, one of my Grandfathers served in the second world war in the Canadian Military (Shore) in England and married my grandmother who became a war bride, and my other Grandfather (Funkner) served in the German army and saw his best friend sawed in half by machine gun fire when fighting the Russians.
It is interesting that I have a British heritage and a German heritage. I grew up being babysat by my Grandmother, (my first word was G-air-age or Garage used to drive my mom nuts!) but later spent a lot of time with my Grandfather where I learned a little German.
So I grew up as a British German...
My grandmother used to tell me stories how when my great grandfather was fighting on Christmas day, how both armies laid down their weapons and came out of their trenches and exchanged cigarettes and alcohol and sang Christmas carols, the next day they were shooting one another again.
Under any other circumstances but war, they could of very well of been friends he said.
Amazing.
Friday afternoon I spent with a friend working on the Tangosierra.ca website...
Friday nite into Saturday morning :) I spent with my brother Chuck watching a movie and hanging out...and a longtime friend Amanda showed up in Toon Town. What a blessing it was to see her and Julienne.
Saturday I slept in again :)
Got a few things done, and Saturday night I went to House of Worship (their blog is houseofworship.blogspot.com) to soak in God's presence. What an amazing night.
God showed up and I just worshipped full tilt for a couple hours.
Man I needed that so much.
Thanks Jayson and Teegan and the band, God really moved through you guys. Great seeing you out Amanda and Julienne :) You guys followin' me around or something? LOL! You guys are such blessings!
Sunday it was off to church where I got to see some really cool people in my church get baptized, and I got to hang with my crew of Junior Youth and share about the Disciple Simon Peter, I am always blessed hanging out with our Youth in our church.
Oh yah...my buddy Dale turned 40! Man he don't look a day over 50 LOL! Actually ya wouldn't even know he was 40...he's got the heart and energy of a 20 year old. Dale is our youth pastor in our church, my immediate superior for youth, and an awesome friend of mine, with a passion and heart for youth that is incredible.
After church I went over to a Saskatchewan Roughriders party at Jonathan's place. My buddy Scott was there as were a lot of guys from my church. It was a blast. Unfortunately the Riders lost. That's it, that is all...they are outta the game for the rest of the season now...
Watched the Stampeders v.s. Eskimos game...that was an awesome game. Eskimos won. That was pretty cool.
All in all it was a pretty cool weekend, got rest, got relaxation, and had fun and fellowship.
Can't wait to see what is happening this week...
Bless Yas all! -Moose
Oh yah...found another friend who has started blogging now! Check her blog out and encourage her! She is an awesome writer and she has some very cool insights on her blog.
Here is her site: http://www.walking-again.blogspot.com/ I also added her to my Sisters in God menu on the right if you want to check her site out.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Ryno Blog Dude
This Aussie dude posted a comment on my blog and man I was blown away by his blog. I just wanted to share these with you all. Check his blog out. Ya know I don't normally do this but these are must reads. I didn't get his permission to link to these, so --->Ryno, if this ain't cool lemme know.<---Your blog is a real blessing man.
Here is his website: http://rynospace.blogspot.com
http://rynospace.blogspot.com/2005/10/blame-or-gain.html
http://rynospace.blogspot.com/2005/09/as-big-as.html
Bless Yas -Moose
Here is his website: http://rynospace.blogspot.com
http://rynospace.blogspot.com/2005/10/blame-or-gain.html
http://rynospace.blogspot.com/2005/09/as-big-as.html
Bless Yas -Moose
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Last Weekend
Last Weekend
Thought I would drop an update on what happened last weekend.
I had asked a lot of you personally and in my blog all to pray.
Thank you for all that did pray for me.
I went up to Wakaw Lake to seek God on His direction in my life and just get alone with Him.
One non-spiritual thing I wanted to do was to Listen to the Saskatchewan Roughriders game on the radio against BC...which they won! What a game...
But I digress...
Actually this is the type of stuff God wanted to speak to my heart about.
Losing focus.
Even though a lot of Roughrider fans would say that watching our team win is a spiritual experienceit was not the reason for my weekend.
I sought God and He met me.
I brought up a loaner guitar and my Bible and set out to find God's will.
I was looking for something profoundly miraculous.
God brought me back to the basics.
I was looking for a solution and miraculous end for my problems.
God brought me the grace to perservere though my problems.
And God bonked me on the head.
With His Bible.
Didn't you know that God was a Bible Thumper didya?
After worshipping Him during the weekend I was drawn to read through the book of Phillipians while I was out there.
This is what I have learned.
(Phil 1:19-24 NIV) 19 "for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance." 20 "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death." 21 "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." 22 "If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!" 23 "I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far;" 24 "but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body."
God has a purpose for my life. I see part of the scope of this, but there is so much more. I do desire to be with God but know in my heart that He is not done with me on this earth.
(Phil 2:5-11 NIV) "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:" 6 "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped," 7 "but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." 8 "And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!" 9 "Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,"
10 "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth," 11 "and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
(Insert WOW here.)
Servanthood, our Saviour, humbling Himself to death on a cross and glorification for endurance and perserverence and Obedience. Yowch. Obedience. Gotta stick in my boots whatever what.
(Phil 3:7-11 NIV) "But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ." 8 "What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ" 9 "and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith." 10 "I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death," 11 "and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead."
Knowing Christ is Key. Faith in Christ is Key. Fellowship of sharing His sufferings is Key. Owch. Did I mention I don't do suffer well?
And the Doozie (as if the ones above were not)
(Phil 4:4-9 NIV) "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!" 5 "Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near." 6 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." 7 "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." 8 "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things." 9 "Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."
Rejoice. So important I am gonna say it again. Rejoice! Be gentle. DO NOT WORRY! Man that is a tough one. Pray and Petition with thanksgiving. And THEN the peace will guard my heart and mind. Not the other way 'round. That alone is a brain rattler. Then the focus verse. Think about the good things of God. Not how I am going to pay my bills, not how I am going to get though another day, but on God. Then just to nail the point home PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. It just ain't thinking about it here. Its doing.
As I think it was Snagglepuss in the old Hanna Barbera cartoons that used to say about Thinking:
"I'll do the Thinnin' Round here!"
I got to let God do the "Thinnin'" in my life.
I gotta be obedient and actually Trust that He has the best for me no matter what. Back to the whole faith issue. Do I actually have the faith to believe He has the best for me? Somedays I think so. Some days I know not.
So what happened this weekend? God admonished me, drew me close, let me weep, and get up off the ground...again. I met with God and He met with me.
It really does not matter that I fall. I will fall. It is the direction I am looking when I get up.
No instant miracles here. No fantastic lights or journey's to the 6th heaven. Just allowing God to get me back to basics in His amazing grace to accomplish all He has set out for me to do.
God's Real And Continual Enablement. Thats GRACE. And that really is amazing.
Blessings -Moose
Thought I would drop an update on what happened last weekend.
I had asked a lot of you personally and in my blog all to pray.
Thank you for all that did pray for me.
I went up to Wakaw Lake to seek God on His direction in my life and just get alone with Him.
One non-spiritual thing I wanted to do was to Listen to the Saskatchewan Roughriders game on the radio against BC...which they won! What a game...
But I digress...
Actually this is the type of stuff God wanted to speak to my heart about.
Losing focus.
Even though a lot of Roughrider fans would say that watching our team win is a spiritual experience
I sought God and He met me.
I brought up a loaner guitar and my Bible and set out to find God's will.
I was looking for something profoundly miraculous.
God brought me back to the basics.
I was looking for a solution and miraculous end for my problems.
God brought me the grace to perservere though my problems.
And God bonked me on the head.
With His Bible.
Didn't you know that God was a Bible Thumper didya?
After worshipping Him during the weekend I was drawn to read through the book of Phillipians while I was out there.
This is what I have learned.
(Phil 1:19-24 NIV) 19 "for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance." 20 "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death." 21 "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." 22 "If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!" 23 "I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far;" 24 "but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body."
God has a purpose for my life. I see part of the scope of this, but there is so much more. I do desire to be with God but know in my heart that He is not done with me on this earth.
(Phil 2:5-11 NIV) "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:" 6 "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped," 7 "but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." 8 "And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!" 9 "Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,"
10 "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth," 11 "and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
(Insert WOW here.)
Servanthood, our Saviour, humbling Himself to death on a cross and glorification for endurance and perserverence and Obedience. Yowch. Obedience. Gotta stick in my boots whatever what.
(Phil 3:7-11 NIV) "But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ." 8 "What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ" 9 "and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith." 10 "I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death," 11 "and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead."
Knowing Christ is Key. Faith in Christ is Key. Fellowship of sharing His sufferings is Key. Owch. Did I mention I don't do suffer well?
And the Doozie (as if the ones above were not)
(Phil 4:4-9 NIV) "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!" 5 "Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near." 6 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." 7 "And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." 8 "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things." 9 "Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."
Rejoice. So important I am gonna say it again. Rejoice! Be gentle. DO NOT WORRY! Man that is a tough one. Pray and Petition with thanksgiving. And THEN the peace will guard my heart and mind. Not the other way 'round. That alone is a brain rattler. Then the focus verse. Think about the good things of God. Not how I am going to pay my bills, not how I am going to get though another day, but on God. Then just to nail the point home PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. It just ain't thinking about it here. Its doing.
As I think it was Snagglepuss in the old Hanna Barbera cartoons that used to say about Thinking:
"I'll do the Thinnin' Round here!"
I got to let God do the "Thinnin'" in my life.
I gotta be obedient and actually Trust that He has the best for me no matter what. Back to the whole faith issue. Do I actually have the faith to believe He has the best for me? Somedays I think so. Some days I know not.
So what happened this weekend? God admonished me, drew me close, let me weep, and get up off the ground...again. I met with God and He met with me.
It really does not matter that I fall. I will fall. It is the direction I am looking when I get up.
No instant miracles here. No fantastic lights or journey's to the 6th heaven. Just allowing God to get me back to basics in His amazing grace to accomplish all He has set out for me to do.
God's Real And Continual Enablement. Thats GRACE. And that really is amazing.
Blessings -Moose
House of Worship
For all those Spiritual Soakers out there :)
An awesome time to hook up with God.
House of Worship is a night of worship that was created out of a hunger to know God more and encounter Him with other people who desire His presence with like passion.
This monthly gathering takes place at 7pm on the 2nd Saturday of every month at Victory Church (830 Idywyld Dr. N)
Upcoming gatherings: November 12, 2005, December 10 ,2005, January 14, 2006
Here is their url: http://houseofworship.blogspot.com/
Blessings -Moose
An awesome time to hook up with God.
House of Worship is a night of worship that was created out of a hunger to know God more and encounter Him with other people who desire His presence with like passion.
This monthly gathering takes place at 7pm on the 2nd Saturday of every month at Victory Church (830 Idywyld Dr. N)
Upcoming gatherings: November 12, 2005, December 10 ,2005, January 14, 2006
Here is their url: http://houseofworship.blogspot.com/
Blessings -Moose
Friday, November 04, 2005
Steeping
Steeping
I am feel like I am doing that right now in my life.
What a good picture.
I am the water, God is the teabag. (ok…just for this analogy…)
I am physically and fundamentally being changed by heat (trials) and God’s Essence transforming me from one thing to another.
God is inside of me, changing me, transforming me.
And it ain’t pretty some days.
This weekend I go to steep in God’s presence.
A friend of mine has graciously offered to let me stay up at his cabin for the weekend.
A guitar, a bible, and God.
To be still and know that I am God.
A time for me to listen and respond, and sort out a few things.
Do I have questions? Boy do I ever, but I am trusting He has the answers.
I really want God to change my heart. I love intimacy with God. It is so refreshing.
I just don’t like the pain that happens sometimes.
But, just like a doctor has to cause pain to remove a cancer, God sometimes has to cause pain to heal us.
But when the cancer is gone, oh what relief, joy, peace, and knowledge that you are right where God wants you.
“All things work to the Good for those who love God”
Some of those things that happen are not necessarily good, but in the end, they will be.
I am reminded of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
The children thought that it would be grand to run and play with Aslan.
One of the children asked Mrs. Beaver if Aslan was safe.
Oh no she replied. Aslan is not safe. He is the King of the whole wood.
…But He is Good.
I will go through the pain to experience that.
I believe that while embracing Jesus, God my Father and the Holy Spirit is not necessarily safe to my flesh…
…it will be good, and it will be healing.
Please pray for me.
Thanks and Blessings,
Moose
I am feel like I am doing that right now in my life.
What a good picture.
I am the water, God is the teabag. (ok…just for this analogy…)
I am physically and fundamentally being changed by heat (trials) and God’s Essence transforming me from one thing to another.
God is inside of me, changing me, transforming me.
And it ain’t pretty some days.
This weekend I go to steep in God’s presence.
A friend of mine has graciously offered to let me stay up at his cabin for the weekend.
A guitar, a bible, and God.
To be still and know that I am God.
A time for me to listen and respond, and sort out a few things.
Do I have questions? Boy do I ever, but I am trusting He has the answers.
I really want God to change my heart. I love intimacy with God. It is so refreshing.
I just don’t like the pain that happens sometimes.
But, just like a doctor has to cause pain to remove a cancer, God sometimes has to cause pain to heal us.
But when the cancer is gone, oh what relief, joy, peace, and knowledge that you are right where God wants you.
“All things work to the Good for those who love God”
Some of those things that happen are not necessarily good, but in the end, they will be.
I am reminded of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
The children thought that it would be grand to run and play with Aslan.
One of the children asked Mrs. Beaver if Aslan was safe.
Oh no she replied. Aslan is not safe. He is the King of the whole wood.
…But He is Good.
I will go through the pain to experience that.
I believe that while embracing Jesus, God my Father and the Holy Spirit is not necessarily safe to my flesh…
…it will be good, and it will be healing.
Please pray for me.
Thanks and Blessings,
Moose
Steep
Steep
yourself in the presence of the Holy Spirit
Steep
yourself in fellowship with good friends - and new friends
Steep
yourself in some steeped beverages and goodies
It’s Steeped Worship, on this Friday, November 4, 2005
At 7:30 pm for all Young Adults
Hope Fellowship Church
809 32nd St. Saskatoon, SK
yourself in the presence of the Holy Spirit
Steep
yourself in fellowship with good friends - and new friends
Steep
yourself in some steeped beverages and goodies
It’s Steeped Worship, on this Friday, November 4, 2005
At 7:30 pm for all Young Adults
Hope Fellowship Church
809 32nd St. Saskatoon, SK
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