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is less a place to gather strength and more a place of conversion: where the old person dies and the newly filled person emerges…

don’t think retreat… think surrender

Anna and I are headed to Atlanta on Sat…
what is there to do?????
civil war? NO
aquarium… hmmmm… ummmm… well…
theater???? none…
oh! the Coke plant!!! yay! kinda…
anybody know???
any cool coffee houses????
– – – sigh, longing for Budapest…

For 27 years today God has blessed me through my sweet Anna!

pride breeds insecurity

another unrelated thot…

the difference between eastern meditation and Christian meditation is that in eastern meditation you try to empty yourself… in Christian meditation, you realize you are already empty and seek to have God fill you with His Spirit…

in my role as a minister of the gospel, i am called upon from time to time to help a family during a death in the family…

today i have been doing that… i invested some time listening to a family who has lost a loved one…

they described thier loved one and told stories of thier relationship…

i am humbled by this question: what will my loved ones say when i am gone?

the ramifications of this question speak to how i invest my life in people now… we should all slow down, and ask ourselves: (not to get great kudos then [or now] but to evaluate our life calling NOW)

What could/would they say when i am gone?

this thought drove me to some scripture that should challenge us all… 2 Cor 5

so at lunch yesterday i was talkin to Da-viid about my tea bag thing as i continue to think about “doing verses being”…

and i thought about the other day when I went to lunch with friends… you know how in a self serve drink place when you go to the drink machine and push the button and you get water…? you know? well… they had TWO CHOICES!!! water and SODA!!!! I was pretty excited… cuz in eastern europe when you buy water you choose between carbonated and plain mineral water… I LOVE the carbonated water… but is there a real point to the carbonation other than drinking fizzy water??? and not this , after you open it, the fizz fades away…

so, i was discussing this tea bag think that i haven’t let go of yet… and it hit me… until i learn to stop and be… I will be like the bottle of carbonated water whose top is loose (yes, I know my top is loose, I get that already) and the next day you have plain mineral water… the fiz is gone… hmmm…

tea on the other hand has a permanant change…

“abide in Me” he said….