Crack the sky......

Ever wish that God would just "Crack the Sky" and get it over with? Then you would be free from this worlds grips. Satan's temptations. You look around and see people starving to death. You see little children you know that are under attack by Satan physically and the suffering that it causes them and their parents. You see the suffering of those for Christ. The woes of this world. The injustices inflicted on people by man and the empires that he has created. It angers me sometimes, well actually all the time at the pain that man causes each other.

Ever hear of Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart? For us really old people, Mylon was one of the founding members of the rock band of the early 70's, The Atlanta Rhythm Section. Well, anyway they, Broken Heart, have a tune called "Crack the Sky" Here are the lyrics.....

Sometimes I think it doesn't matter what I wish
Sometimes I wonder if I'd ever be missed if You came for me, if You came for me
Never asked You for a whole lot of things
Never begged You for the riches of kings
But I've one request, I hold it up to You...

Come on and Crack the Sky for me, Come on and crack the Sky and take me home
Take me home
Come on and Crack the Sky for me, Come on and crack the Sky and take me home,
Take me home, tonight!

I know You got where You want me to be
I know You got a plan of using me, but I long for You, For I long for You...
So I work here till Your ready for me,
But I don't know if I can ever guarantee that I'll never try, I'll never try to get to You!

Come on and Crack the Sky for me, Come on and crack the Sky and take me home
Take me home
Come on and Crack the Sky for me, Come on and crack the Sky and take me home,
Take me home, tonight!

What a great tune! Hard driving, lots of loud screaming guitars, really gets you going! Just think of it. No more diabetes on our love ones. No more heart diseases on our parents. No more depression on our people. No more oppression of the poor. No more ripping us off at the pumps! Yeah !!!! No more death, no more killing, no more drug abuse, no more temptations, no more of our beautiful ladies ruined by horrible abuses, no more of the tragedies of life, just healing!!!! Think about it! And when I do I always wind up in the same place....What about the ones that are yet to be saved, the ones whose turn is next? Those who are seeking. Then I start to feel selfish and I pray that Christ tarries till we work a little more, for that next one who will say yes. You know them...our unsaved children, our parents, our brother and sisters, our friends, the empty chair in our Lifegroups, the students of 24/7 who are accountable, the list is endless. There is so much work yet to do. Please pray that I an where God wants me to be till He "Cracks the Sky". I feel God is calling for me to do more. To trust Him more, to be open to His will no matter what or where it leads.

Do I want to go "Home"? You bet, but not till I have done all He wants of me.
Any hoo, that's how I see it.

Birthday weeek....

This was birthday week around here. Two of my favorite ladies had B-Days this past week. Crystal, my eldest, turned twenty something on the 11th (and it's not that I don't know that's she is really 27, but I learned at an early age not to give out a woman's age) and my Abie turned 9 on the 8th. I am blessed with a wonderful family. Crystal is a wonderful young lady. She is a great mom and a great wife to Wade. I have really never heard a bad thing said about her. She will do whatever it takes to please everyone. A real gift from God that she uses it well.

Abie, well Abie is a couple of bundles of pure energy. Some good and some....well you know if you know Abbs. She is pure love and will be somebody some day. I really cannot wait to see what she will do in life. I hope she turns all that energy and passion to work for the Lord. Can draw a horse better than anyone, Down to the eyelashes and muscles in the legs. As a matter of a fact there was a time in her life that she thought she was a horse, and she was so good at it we weren't to sure she wasn't. So we got to callin' her ..."our little Nebuchadnezzar". She is really a riot.

I'll tell you though raising a child in your twenties was allot easier than raising children in your 50's. But God gave these other two little one's to Tammy and I to raise (abie and ricky)and i know that he will give us all the strength and resources to do it with., and I thank Him for it. He always has, or that's how I see it.

Oh by the way, thats Abie and Ricky's granpa Dennis, my brother, in the picture with Abie, and that's Crydtal's husband Wade and daughter Sarala in the other picture.

24/7

Great night at UNDERGROUND ! AV Campus saw over 60 on campus and I heard the Fredericktown Campus was rockin also. Thanks to everyone who helped out. !!!!!!

Fearful....

Had a great week in church this past week. 24/4 Underground Kicked off this past Wednesday. Fearless series started up on Sat and Sunday. Life groups got going this week. I feel fortunate to be a part of each segment of our church ministry. I do not feel that I am capable of being an All-Stars Classroom Leader, or the 24/7 Underground Coordinator, or a Life Group Leader because of my fears. I have a terrible fear of getting in front of people and teaching, singing (Which is a good thing), leading in All-Stars, UG duties, or anything else that draws me in front of people. These are fears that only God can help me through. Speaking of fears, this series we are into about fears should be beneficial to me, but I must say I am afraid that the kids in All-Stars (The Children's Ministry at Meadow Heights Church) has beat the rest of the church to it. We studied fears (About witnessing ) in class a week ago. Nice to see that the rest of you guys are following our lead. We learned about the farmer sowing seeds on how the seeds fell on different kinds of soil. (Matt 13) As we broke into small groups my students (Grades 3-5) and I explored different fears that we might have. They were amazed when I shared with them the fears that I have about being in front of people. They did not believe that I could do something that terrified me week after week. The lesson told us to treat fear as a weed and to pray that God will help us to "Pull the weed of fear" and toss it out of our way so we could do God's will. This is true of me. I told the kids that in order to be able to do what I do I must "pull that weed" every time I lead All-Stars. I hope that it helped them. All-Stars is to cool. If you have not had a chance to check it out. Please do!