DID YOUR MOM or DAD HURT YOU?

Many folks harbor ill feelings toward their parents.
Maybe there was abusive parenting or simply a misunderstanding.
What if you took your experiences and wove them into the fabric of the Bible?
God the Father sent His Son into the world to suffer and die
before He had a "third-day experience."
All of your suffering
and your response to that suffering
is meant to bring glory to God.
Jesus said a few things while he was in agony. He spoke to his Father;

 "Why have You forsaken me?"

 "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."

Your father who abused you is not God. Your forgiveness of your Mom or Dad is an act that will precede your spiritual "third-day experience." That's a release from the dead weight you've been carrying. Remove your grave clothes by accepting that all things work together to reveal God's glory through your life. Roll away the stone and walk into the fullness of a redeemed life.

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"Out came the man who had been dead,
his hands and feet tightly wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips),
and with a [burial] cloth wrapped around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and release him.”
John 11:44 Amplified Bible
"I will take away your stubborn heart
and give you a new heart and a desire to be faithful.
You will have only pure thoughts,"
Ezekiel 36:26 Contemporary English Version

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Go and help somebody release the grave clothes of abusive parenting.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
8:05 AM, EDT
Buffalo, NY, USA

I JUDGE PEOPLE PLEASE HELP

       It's easy to help people who measure up to your standard of who needs help.

     Jesus was a guy who was homeless during his life.  The Bible says; "He had no place to lay his head."  My wife and I went for a walk this morning and witnessed many people at work; window washers, the movers, doctors, nurses, maintenance guys and many more. We picked up about nineteen cents off the ground as we walked.
     Understanding the life of another human being often requires that we walk in their shoes or God can confront us in other ways. After making our way through the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, we headed home. We spotted another young man hard at work - a street corner beggar. I usually pass them when I'm driving and my indignation grows as I pass them by.
     Daily, there are people begging on the streets of Buffalo. "Why don't they get a job?" "They probably use the money for drugs or drinking!" My self-righteous and haughty thoughts rise up faster than a soda bottle that's all shook up. Why do they bug me so much? Why do I feel guilty when I pass them by?
     God has a subtle way of correcting our bad behavior. This morning I was confronted with my own pride as we approached the man with the cardboard sign on the street corner. I knew he was begging and I had just found a few coins as we walked. I felt the urge to give it to him. But what the heck would I say?
     Employers usually don't like to hire felons. I gave the young man the coins that we found on the street and asked him why he was here begging instead of working. He explained that he was a felon who just got out of jail and was waiting for his "Papers." He was staying at a shelter up the street. He seemed like he was telling the truth. (Another judgment on my part." I asked him if he would ever like to work with inner-city young men. He said that might not be a good idea because he had been addicted to drugs. After explaining how our Basketball With A Purpose (BWAP) program works with guys playing basketball, listening to 9 Minute Guest Speakers and sharing a meal - he was interested. He took down my number and I told him I would pick him up on Thursday if he wanted to go.
     Everybody we meet has been placed in our path by God to help us grow closer to Him. By judging people and keeping a safe distance away, I'm only distancing myself from God. I'm still a chasm away from who I should be in unity with God, but today I was less than a stone's throw away from removing the speck of pride in my own eye. God helped add something good to my #LIFETICKET today.
     If you would like to learn more about how we strengthen communities by investing in young men, please consider joining us for lunch on April 28, 2016.
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How Do You Prep for Love?

     The little blue pill will give you the confidence to "Prep for love" and avoid contracting a deadly disease. If your personal actions require you to take a pill to keep you from getting something deadly, do you think maybe you shouldn't be involved in that activity?


     
     If I have to take a pill for disease prevention, then maybe I should examine my sexual habits. Is it really love or physical lust? Condoms and pills don't protect the heart. Most people feel used after a relationship breaks up and they gave their body away. Sexual abuse is rampant; one in three girls and one in five boys are victims of sexual abuse. Pornography is addictive and destructive. Over 50% of those who are involved in the production of pornography were abused as children. Love wasn't meant to be something to cause shame. If you are viewing porn you're just as guilty as the abusers because you are approving of their abusive productive. You are helping to spread the abuse of  women and children.

       The little blue pill is another way of making cheap sex safe. I suppose you can feel safe in your own cocoon of shame. "Don't awaken love until it's ready." That's a Bible verse from the Song of Solomon - a love story. God designed love and sex to be an act of unity. Passionate and uncontrollable love-making is an act of intimate trust. If you have to put your trust in a little blue pill, you might as well tell the little blue pill all of your problems and fears. Will you confide in a little blue pill manufactured by folks who desire to make money?

     The sign in the picture above is in front of a church. The church teaches about the love of Christ. Do you think that someday you will be able to stop at a church and get a Jesus Pill to "Prep for eternity?" Nope, Jesus already prepped you for eternity by sacrificing His life for you. You can sacrifice some of your physical temptations until you are ready for love. A fireplace is designed to hold a fire that warms your house. If you take the fire out of the fireplace and put it in the middle of the bedroom, you will burn your house down. Love is meant for the fireplace of marriage.

"One final word, friends. We ask you—urge is more like it—that you keep on doing what we told you to do to please God, not in a dogged religious plod, but in a living, spirited dance. You know the guidelines we laid out for you from the Master Jesus. God wants you to live a pure life.

Keep yourselves from sexual promiscuity.

Learn to appreciate and give dignity to your body, not abusing it, as is so common among those who know nothing of God." - 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5  The Message

LOOK PEOPLE IN THE EYE TODAY, IT MIGHT BE YOUR LAST LOOK

Sometime today.
someone will experience their last blink of an eye.
It could be me or it could be you.


The fluid in the eye is the Sea of Life and it contains the sound of many waters.
The eyelid is the dry land. It opens a path to your heart for what your eye sees.
Your eye sees life and soaks up the many waters of life.
The blink of an eye is the parting of the many waters of God.
I pray that your last eye blink
gives you a glimpse of your first Love -
the One who loved you first.
The One who knew you before you had eyes to blink. 
Look people in the eye today and say I love you with words spoken like a flood from your heart.

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"It will happen in a moment,
in the blink of an eye,
when the last trumpet is blown.
For when the trumpet sounds,
those who have died will be raised to live forever.
And we who are living will also be transformed."
1 Corinthians 15:52
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
11:09 PM, EDT
Buffalo, NY, USA

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