Tis Life...

Boy, things sure have gotten busy lately. There's been a party just about every day this week. I am going to get my wisdom teeth taken out on Tuesday. Whoopee! NOT. Being drugged and/or in pain is not a nice way to spend one' s Christmas break. ‘Tis life I suppose.

I had an opportunity to go see King Kong today, but did not take it because I had work to do.

Christmas is coming so fast.

I am so blessed it's not even funny. I have a amazing family and my friends are outstanding. My church is great and just life in general is not very hard. Why me? Why do I have so many opportunities? Why do I know the people that I do? Why do I have the family that I have? Why? I obviously didn't earn it and I don't believe it all happened by chance. Of course God has given me everything that I have and ever will have, but why? The only thing that I can figure is that my mother and father have faithfully served and obeyed God. Now I guess I am more responsible for how I act and treat people and I guess more and more I am becoming responsibly for my attitude toward God and my family. I take so much for granted. I can't earn the things God has given me, but I think it does stem somewhat from both my parent's obedient and my own. God says if we love Him we will keep His commandments. His commandments are only two, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and the second one is Love your neighbor as yourself. It is so simple yet so difficult. But of course if we could do it on our own we would need God now would we? I guess that is why it is so important to renew one's mind daily so that one will think more and more like Him. See people the way He sees people and treat people the way He treats people. However, it’s not quite as simple as all that. We do have an enemy besides our own flesh. His name is Satan and he does everything he can deceive us into letting him do. He doesn't want us to love our neighbor as ourselves, he wants us to serve ourselves and in doing so serve him. Deception is Satan's mightiest weapon. He is the author of all lies. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. On the flip side though, Jesus has come that we might have life, in abundance and to the fullest. All we have to do is obey what He says.

I have to go now.

~TTFN~