Brand new week, Brand new attitude

Good evening and Thankful Thursday As we come into end of the teachings for the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and Revelation 3:14-19 if you take a look at my picture you may not notice one thing about me. Even those who have known me for a while may not know this. But my Father, Mother and siblings know this about me. I have poor eyesight and need to wear eyeglasses. Now when I was younger wearing glasses for people my age was trying. You had children tease you and call you four eyes or depending on the prescription, you may be called Mr. Magoo. So a lot of times I would "lose my glasses " or by "accident". This did my make my eyesight any better as the years have gone by. In my walk as a person of faith, a Christian man, there are times when I am needed to be glasses to those in the world who cannot see but I cannot help them if I am Blind as a Bat. The wold is really in need of change. We have young men being victims...

Good afternoon and Marvelous Monday. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. As we come into the final week of the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and also Revelation 3:14-19 I want to go back to a time in my life when my heart was broken. See back in the day I was in love with one of the most beautiful young ladies in the world ( at least to me ). And when my behavior got me shipped away to school far away from my house my relationship with this young lady went from being all that to nothing at all. I can still remember getting a letter from her telling me that since I was so far away that she had found some one else to occupy her time. I was devastated and could not imagine life without her. I did not come out of my room and just sat there for hours until my roommate came home and asked me, Why Did Are You Sitting in the Dark. As I have grown much older things affect me sometimes that makes me wa...

Good afternoon and Happy Friday. As we continue in the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and Revelation 3:14-19 I remember on this day something that happened to me in 4th grade. In this class at Bennett school in Chicago I had a teacher named Ms. Collins. Ms.Collins pushed her students to do things such as poetry and I was one who liked poetry. So for a contest that we had within the school I wrote a poem and entered the contest within the school. As the day the announcements for the awards to be presented I thought nothing of it because it was nothing that seemed important for me. I never envisioned that writing anything would be part of my future much less poetry. So when I found out that I had won an award for my poem I was absolutely stunned. I did not see Ms. Collins again because the students on my block had to go to a school that was closer, but Ms. Collins  gave me a vision. As men and women of faith it is our duty to Help Others Wi...

Good afternoon and Happy Tuesday. As we continue in the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and Revelation 3:14-19 each month I do a teaching that is not on the theme of the month. So in doing I go a children's story that is familiar to most. In 1883 a Italian writer named Carlo Collodi wrote a book called the Adventures of Pinocchio. Pinocchio was carved out of wood by Geppato and had a dream of one becoming a boy one day. There was one problem. Pinocchio had a tendency to stretch the truth. In doing so he had a trait that made his lies stand out and that more his nose grew. In our world today you have some people that have what I like to call the Pinocchio Theory. They will lie, connive and cheat their way to receive what they have been promised, seen as a reward or to try to get over. And if we as a people of God do not become active the Pinocchio Theory might take over the world. If we look at the areas of education and business the way...

Good evening and Thankful Thursday. As we continue in the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and Revelation 3:14-19 I can remember it well as though it happened yesterday. The year was 1975 (ancient times) and I had saw my Dad, whom I adored ( and still do ), smoking a cigar. I thought this was so cool. I saw this as a passage to manhood. So each day I would take one of his wrapped cigar and place it in my mouth and act as if I was smoking it. One day my Father, whom I love, saw me doing this and was a bit perturbed. I thought I was going to get another epic whipping ( I would say the extension cord was part of my young life, like a best friend so to speak). But he did not. He instead ordered me to smoke the cigar. I coughed and wheezed all throughout this ordeal. My Father was trying to teach me a lesson before I would become older and he thought this would curb me from Slipping Into Darkness. Before I get further into this teaching I want to...

Good evening and Happy Monday everyone. Brand new week. Brand new attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. As enter into the another week of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25, and Revelation 3:14-19 there was a time when I was younger and everything that I thought about began and ended with God. I would read the Bible faithfully. I would pray fervently. I would go out with a group and attempt to save the people that do not know God. Somewhere down the road, as I became a teen, as I fell in the natural love with a young lady, the spiritual love I had for God faded away. I found myself doing things that was not of God but liking what I was doing. I struggled with my identity, my emotions and my faith. I could not fathom not leaving the life I had established as a teen. I had others tell me but I did not recognize. They said to me, See Your Are Going Down the Wrong Path. In looking up the meaning of the word path I go to my source of def...

Good morning and Thankful Thursday. As we enter into another day in the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and Revelation 3:14-19. I slept like a baby. When I woke this morning I was in a great mood. Everything was going right for me. Then I received an email with an alert about something that I had cancelled that had been shipped anyway. Much to my surprise the refund I expected was going to be delayed. And not only that after talking to the person on the phone I was told that I would have to go to the store to pick up the order and then ship it back myself. I am a teacher of the Word of God, as a matter of fact I write a blog for my church and a blog for myself and daily encouraging posting on Facebook so you would think I would know better but I didn't. I was furious that I cursed the person on the phone out before I knew it. Now his day was all messed up. And I probably started something that although I was not directly involved in it,  m...

Good evening and Marvelous Monday. Brand new week. Brand mew attitude. The past is the past. The future is unlimited. As we continue in the month of Visually Impaired in August based on Job 29:11-16, Mark 8:22-25 and Revelation 3:14-19 and in the Year of Healing based on Jeremiah 33:6-9, Matthew 9:6-8 and Acts 28:7-9 across the world today there are millions of people who have either lost their sight or could never see at all. I am not talking about the ones who have been born blind or who have become blind. I am talking about the ones who have no knowledge of who Jesus is and what he can do. Many countries and nations have a god that they serve that is not the true and living God. And you have say they serve our God but deny that Jesus is the Messiah. I am here to tell you that Jesus is how we get to God and in this teaching I am going to began a Healing From Being Visually Impaired. There are so many people who want to be in a better place in life. They seek that successful fami...