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High Beams

Jason does such an awesome job of challenging us to try and impact the world around us. It is definitely hard to keep your chin up in today’s world, the economy is hanging on by a thread, people are losing their jobs, their houses, and the Gulf of Mexico is full of oil. Let’s face it the world can be a depressing place. It is full of illness, struggle, and all types of things to wear on our souls.
We need to remind ourselves daily that this world is a temporary home, every struggle we endure, every disease we fight, every weapon the devil uses against us, will not last. The Lord has told us to hope in him, to focus on his grace. Have you ever seen a ray of sunshine shining through the clouds on an overcast day? This is what we should look like to the world. We should carry the hope of salvation with us everyday. We should be a bright beacon of light to the people around us. When we focus on Christ, and we stay strong during the temporary storms of life, the people around us will notice. They will want to know what it is that keeps us calm, even when life is hard.
So today, when the temporary comes at you, focus on the permanent solution that Christ provides. Focus on the grace we have been given, and use the opportunity to let your light shine.
IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THE LIFE WAS  THE LIGHT OF MEN, AND THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS AND THE DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND IT……JOHN 1 VS 4-5
Have a great day everybody, and turn on your high beams.
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Summer Harvest

Do you like tomatoes? If so I have some for you!  I am currently picking handfuls of Cherry and Roma tomatoes a day from my square foot garden.   I am also starting to bring in cucumbers,  squash and peppers.  I have a few little bitty really hot peppers that have grown amazingly, I am just not exactly sure what do to with them. If you have some suggestions, I will gladly listen!

Its been a great experience this spring, taking care of these vines by directing their growth and providing support and water.   And finally what a pleasurable experience walking into the house with hands fulls of fresh produce.  Its a great thing being a vinedresser.  I can only imagine the pleasure the Lord gets in when he observes the fruit we bear.  Check this out – still from the Johns:

1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

5“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. John 15:1-8 (New International Version)

This is to my Father’s glory!   Yep!  The Father loves to walk into the kitchen with a big grin on his face and an armful of fruit – your fruit!  Live today in a way that glorifies the gardener by producing fruit!    Are you not sure what fruit you can produce?  Take a quick look in Galatians and if you know the song sing along while you read it.

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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Hip to Be Square

Its Geek Pride Day!  Also know as Towel Day – a reference to “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.  So the Daily Buffet will wear it’s Geekyness with Pride Today.  I think I will go march in a parade with all of my technology.

So for starters, here is the Klingon version of John 3:16

Klingon Language Version
3:16 | nuq ghajtaH moj vo’ the joHHom vo’ the heathen je such as ruled the Ha’DIbaHmey upon the tera’,

I guess!

Second, if you are really interested in tying the bible to Geeks and such,  there is a tween book at Amazon called Bible Freaks and Geeks.  Looks Great!

Third, back to John 3:16,  this time in three versions of Leet (1337), the hacker language from the New Hacker Version

(Light)
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(Medium)
F0r G0d $0 l0v3d 7#3 w0rld, 7#@7 #3 g@v3 #!$ 0nly b3g0773n $0n, 7#@7 w#0$03v3r b3l!3v37# !n #!|v| $#0uld n07 p3r!$#, bu7 #@v3 3v3rl@$7!ng l!f3.
(High)
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And finally here it is from the LOLCats bible.  I am not kidding!

16 So liek teh Ceiling Kitteh lieks teh ppl lots and he sez ‘Oh hai I givez u me only kitteh and ifs u beleeves him u wont evr diez no moar, kthxbai!’

Ceiling Kitteh, are you serious!  What fun.  So pull up you waist band, wear your glasses with pride, enjoy the day, remember 1Cor 9:25-27

25 Dey work hard to get teh medul. (But if dey taekz steroidz dey haz to givv it bak.) We iz workin hard to get a bettr priez. It will last forevr.26 I iz not just runnin around or wavin mai pawz in teh air.27 I work hard to maek mai bodi mai slaev so I wil win teh priez.

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Argh Teenagers

This is one of those days where I have one pressing thought on my mind.  Its short and sweet:

Argh!!! Teenagers!!

It’s absolutely amazing how frustrating and hurtful it is to watch your teenagers continually dismiss your advice and ignore your suggestions.  It’s really a stress creator – it makes you want to put your fist into the wall or tear something up.

Oh but isn’t it interesting that we continually do the same thing to our heavenly Father.  We disregard his advice for living, we ignore the suggestions, we create our own paths, and I am sure he wants to scream ( hm, that might have something to do with the whole Noah deal).

But what is really amazing is he doesn’t.  Check out John 8.  With the woman caught in sin he says

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

And then in Hebrews 10 he adds:

17…”Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

So no matter how the day goes today, no matter what befalls, remember these verses, you are forgiven, and that provides quite a lot of strength to deal with the day – even to deal with the teenagers – ARGH!

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Cinco de Mayo

Hola, es Hoy Cinco de mayo, así que pensé que debo escribir en español a celebrar hoy.  Inglés a traductores españoles en el Internet es tal bendición de Dios.  Para comenzar hoy, aquí, es el versículo más corto de la Biblia.

35 Jesús lloró.  – Juan 11:35  Nueva Versión Internacional(NVI)

y ahora el más largo versículo de la Biblia

9 De inmediato fueron convocados los secretarios del rey. Era el día veintitrés del mes tercero, el mes de *siván. Se escribió todo lo que Mardoqueo ordenó a los judíos y a los *sátrapas, intendentes y funcionarios de las ciento veintisiete provincias que se extendían desde la India hasta *Cus. Esas órdenes se promulgaron en la escritura de cada provincia y en el idioma de cada pueblo, y también en la escritura e idioma propios de los judíos. Ester 8:9 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)

No estoy seguro de lo que este día se trata, pero es una buena oportunidad para hablar a la gente y les deseamos un gran Cinco de Mayo.  Me siento como Nacho Libre.

24 Éste es el día en que el Señor actuó;
regocijémonos y alegrémonos en él.Nueva Versión Internacional(NVI) Salmos 118:24

Well that was fun!  The one of the great things about mornings, its always a new day and new days bring new challenges and provide us with another chance to do things.  Some days you can do things differently – like writing in Spanish.

24 This is the day the LORD has made;

let us rejoice and be glad in it. New International Version(NIV) Psalm 118:24