Bless The Lord

"Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name." Psalm 103:1

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:" Psalm 103:2

Bless: to extol as holy; glorify: Bless the name of the Lord.

Extol: to praise highly;

Healing...

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:" James 5:14

When I was born, I was born with cataracts. My parents didn't know it for awhile. The only thing they knew was I wanted to always stare at bright lights, that is the only thing I could see. They took me to the doctor for a check up and that doctor knew something was wrong. He told my parents that I needed to see an eye doctor. My mom and dad took me but the eye doctor didn't see nothing wrong. They then took me for another check up with my doctor and he ask what the eye doctor said and they proceeded to tell him that the doctor said nothing was wrong. The doctor said that I did have something wrong.

I'm not really sure but sometime after all this I was sent to Columbus, Ohio to Children's Hospital. The doctor there told my parents that I would never see. My mom cried all the way home (2 hour drive). My mom and dad did the only thing they knew, they laid me on the altar of the church they were attending and people prayed for me. I had six surgeries all together, three on my left eye and three on my right eye. I wore contacts when I was six months old, but couldn't tell anyone when I lost them so they fitted me for these big pop bottle glasses. I wore those glasses until I was in the 5th grade and then I started to wear contacts and glasses. The end result of a person who was suppose to be blind is seeing everything that I'm posting in this blog. Sometimes I might have to do something different like get closer to something, but I see.

The question that I have always wrestled with is why? Now don't get me wrong I enjoy seeing but why is it that other people are blind and I'm not. Well I believe God has his reasons. Other people can handle things better or God can use them in a different way, even though they may not see or have something else wrong with them. I've been told all my life God is going to use me and maybe all that God wants to use me for is to tell people to have faith. Trust in God and miracles do happen.

The first part of March we went to the church here in our community. A dear friend of our family was preaching and we wanted to see him. He was one of the people that prayed for me. Before I walked away from him he had to tell his son-in-law, "you know that picture of the little girl with the pop bottle glasses, this is her. They told her parents she was going to be blind and we laid her on the altar and prayed for her and here she is seeing."

"It is no secret what God can do. What He's done for others, He'll do for you. With arms wide open, He'll pardon you, It is no secret what God can do."

I'm a simple person and I want to be nothing more. I want what I say to others to be simple. I don't want to ever be over any one's head. So when I say I believe God can do anything, I believe he can do anything. It is that simple, nothing more and nothing less.

Jake Hess & The Imperials

I found this video on YouTube. When I first started watching it, I thought to myself, "which one is Jake Hess?" I didn't have to wonder to long though. I could tell Jake Hess by his facial expressions. He had the same expressions every time he sang, whether he was young or old.

Kid Humor...

Kids are so funny. Whether it is something they do or say. I was just thinking about my adopted niece Olivia, for 5 years old she is very smart and most of the time I think, is she really only 5 years old. She is also funny. One night I was babysitting her and we were playing Wii (which she usually beats me at), I some how pulled off a win. Olivia's Wii character also known as a Mii became all sad looking. Olivia then points at the screen and says, "look what you done to this 5 year old kid!" LOL!!!! Then she beat me at a game, so I turned the tables on her and said, "look what you done to this 26 year old kid!"

I was also thinking how funny I was as a little kid. When I was younger I knew everyone had a first name, middle name, and last name. I also knew that some people don't always have middle names, like my uncles Glen and Steve. So every time I would hear people say Jesus Christ, I would think that Jesus didn't have a middle name and his first name was Jesus and his last name was Christ. Also his parents' names were Joseph and Mary Christ. LOL!!! I know I was crazy. Anyways the reason why I was posting on kids is I was humming a children's song yesterday. Here is the video to one of my favorite songs when I was a kid.

Trust...

I posted this video on Myspace one day, but then it hit me that this could be related to the Bible.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Clearly the guy in this commercial is crazy for trusting a little gecko to catch him. Just think though if you are ever going to fall, don't you want to fall into the big arms of an awesome God. That is what I want to do and I know God will catch me. The devil he tries so hard to keep me from trusting God. Just today I was telling my mom how hard I've prayed for some people but I'm starting to think God isn't doing anything. This is what the devil wants me to do, stop trusting God. I know even if I may not see it now God is working and even if he may not answer the prayers the way I want him to, I know he still wants me to say I will trust him and serve him no matter what.

Regarding The Dog

I love how kids think about everyone. One time when my niece was at youth camp we went to the evening service. Now the camp was for ages 9-12. The guy in charge (Scott Brafford) went around to everyone and ask for each person to give one prayer request. Well one child said pray for my dog and some adults laughed. I really loved how this was handled. Scott said don't laugh he didn't want the child's feelings hurt, then he went on to quote Proverbs 12:10...

"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast..." Proverbs 12:10

I know this is probably more directed to a working animal, but sometimes I think my dog is a beast. LOL!!! I love him though. It is so amazing how dogs can sense when you are down and they will do something funny to cheer you up. My cousin Marcy helped me get my digital camera hooked up to my computer and we downloaded all my photos of my dog Gizmo and I thought I would share some with all of you out there.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!! (and I'm back)

Clearly I'm not Catholic but of Irish descent. So when I celebrate St. Patrick's Day it is not how everyone else celebrates it. I enjoy the music, if you think about it, Irish music comes close to bluegrass music (which is one of my favorites). Also I enjoy Irish Step Dancing, I wish I could do it though. I would say I love the food, but we eat potatoes all the time, lol and the last time we had corn beef my mom got really sick. Not from the corn beef though, but she didn't enjoy the smell and we haven't had it since.

I will say that I don't agree with how the day is transformed into one big party. When I think of Patrick, I think he should be honored better then what people honor him with. Really I think God should get all the honor. Here is how I have been looking at Patrick lately. I see someone that is an example of love, because he was captured by some Irish men and held as a servant for six years. He escaped but he felt the calling to go back and help the people.

Wow, haven't I been smacked upside the head. Isn't that what Jesus said though in Luke 6:35, "But love ye your enemies..." It is nice to have people though that truly loves their enemies, because as Christians we are suppose to do this. I have a friend whose sister was murdered and the judge gave them the right to say something to the young man who had done it. He said he sat there arguing with God, there was other things he wanted to say to this guy that killed his sister, but he stood up and said "Jesus loves you and so do I."

"He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is love." 1 John 4:8

Here is a video of a song called St. Patrick's Breastplate. I really like the part that says Christ be with me, Christ be within me. Christ behind me, Christ before me. Christ beside me, Christ to win me. Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me. I want Christ to be all around me.