June
2
2010
I spent hours in cemeteries this past weekend visiting burial sites.
Most of the sites were family members. Some I knew well and some I knew little. I visited once with my mother and once with my father.
With each grave site, there were stories and tears. I learned how my grandparents met. I learned that my grandpa was under the command of Patton.
I was reminded about those who sacrificed for me as a young boy. They went without so I could go with. Sacrifice. My son went with me and I told him about the sacrifice that my aunt and uncle had done for me and my mom said they are the reasons why we are Christians.
Thanks Aunt Betty and Uncle Rufus. Thanks for impressing upon me, the love you had for God.
Love,
Duane
May
28
2010
I went for a back roads drive the other day. I passed a cemetery and thought, ‘this body is headed there’. Should God wait to send his Son back and I exit this body; it will lay in one of these nicely kept yards.
I will no longer be able to help anyone find The Way to God. Wow. That reality is too much for me to ingest.
As we enter our eternity I also have this rather odd thought.
Will there be more people I know in Heaven because of my willingness to do God’s work, or inspite of my lack of willingness to do God’s work.
I shorten it to this, ‘Will there be more people in Heaven because of me or in spite of me’?
The Way to God to Jesus!
Get in The Way.
Love,
Duane
May
25
2010
I like the Discovery channel! However, I often get irritated with some of their statements.
I recently heard this, “Fish have adapted to live their entire life underwater”.
Well done fish. <—-Sarcasm.
Fish are smart enough to do adapt to breathe underwater, yet they continue to try to eat plastic frogs with grass skirt legs! “Hey, there is a frog on the way to a luau! Get him!”
I think if they were that intelligent, they would swim back to the others, ‘Don’t eat the Hawaiian frogs! Pass it on!’
20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, (and let them figure out how to breathe under it!?) and let birds fly above the earth (if they can adapt to fly!?) across the expanse of the sky.”
Sounds stupid, huh? Pass it on.
Love
Duane
May
20
2010
I am not a doctor nor do I pretend to be one, so with that, most of the kids that I have come across that are described as A.D.D. really have lack of D.A.D.
I have had to humbly tell my children, ‘Ok, you have my attention, and I am sorry for clocking out for a while, I am back to work.’
Fathering (parenting) is the most important job we have. We are affecting generations. Your child will probably be a dad or mom some day. They learn how to do that from you.
We go to work everyday. We never clock out.
Proverbs 20:7 (NLT)
The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them.
Your actions affect not only you, but your children, their children and generations to come.
Love,
Duane
