Stories and other stuff

I'm feeling pretty confident today.  That confidence isn't my own, per se, and I'd kind of like to explain what I mean by that. If you saw the sports headlines yesterday on social media, you probably saw something about the things RGIII left behind in his locker on what was, most likely, his last day as a Washington Redskin.  Y'all know the Redskins are my team and I don't know if RGIII ever got a good break after he got hurt in 2012.  NOBODY could have played behind that offensive line in 2013 and 2014.  This year was better and Kirk had a good year.  But the football thing isn't germane to the story. RGIII left behind two things in his locker.  The first one was a picture of a road and on the top it said "I can do all things".  There's part left off that photo:  "through Christ who strengthens me".  On the bottom the words from Romans 12 were there as well.  It talks about running a race.  Tomorrow I'm gonna share the 7 rules ...

I had an incredible day. Which started yesterday.  And may end sometime tomorrow, as far as I know...and please keep in mind I'm speaking of Monday and Tuesday.  I get today is Wednesday, but not for me until I wake up in four hours. Bible study day, you know. Anyway, the message of today was about living in the past.  Saw quite a bit about that, heard some about it too.  But it made me stop and think about what from the past I was still hanging onto. Cindy is on my mind a lot these days, so of course my mind went there.  There's some stuff going on there that's not really for public consumption, but it made me reflect on whether or not I was grasping at something from the past.  I'm gonna get to this more in a minute.  But first, I had to come to the well-thought-out understanding that Cindy, although we're not in the same relationship we were once, is very much part of my present. What I came to understand was that what I needed to let go o...

When I get out of step with God, that's when the wheels start falling off the tricycle.  It's an odd metaphor, but really it's what my life kind of is.  When one falls off, I start going around in a circle.  When two fall off, well, I'm just stuck. I had a rough end to 2015 but 2016 is proving to be much different.  I got a bit of a warning...New Year's Eve was a disaster for me and Miss June and we've been undergoing a lot of being fussed with by the Evil One. It happens. It's easy to get so caught up in what happens in my life that I lose focus on the One who is in control of the chaos.  None of it catches God by surprise, and if I'm to believe Him, I have to accept that He either causes or allows the things to happen, and uses them all for His glory and my good. Often that Glory is easy to overlook when you're focused on the one big thing.  I almost got there last night, but realized I was focusing too much one the blessing I want instead of...