What do you enjoy doing? What do you have a Passion for doing?

Today my two youngest children, 16 and 12, are going to play the piano at a convelesant hospital. I hope that they will be relaxed and just let their talent flow. My hope for all of us is that we will let our talent and skills flow through us and out to others. We all have been given skills and talents to use in our lives for our good and especially for the good of others. We each were given a particular spiritual gift as well. It is often more difficult for some to know what that is. It is that something you do very well and feel passionate about. If you have a desire to do something for others and when doing it you lose track of all time, when doing it others are made happier, healthier (mind, body, and/or soul) when doing it you feel happier and healthier and you do an excellent job. If you are not sure what that is, just volunteer to do anything that interests you.

When you try to exercise a gift, observe am I enjoying this, am I comfortable, if it is something you are better off to do just once in a great while you will know from the way you feel, the results you receive, and the peace and comfort you do or do not have while doing it.  If it was not something you felt passionate for move on to something else.  Your time was not wasted, you helped someone in some way and you found out this is not my spiritual gift. When you experience using your intended gift, you will know. The Word says the spirtual gifts are: Teaching, Prophecy, Peaching, Healing, Serving, Mercy, Leadership, Administration, Encouraging, Speaking in all kinds of languages, interpreting the languages, Wisdom, Knowledge, and Faith.
1Cor 12:4. It is possible to have more than one gift at a time; yet, one will be more dominant than any other. Usually it is one gift, sometimes it can be one and a time later, a year, numerous years later, you may receive a different gift and change your emphasis to the new gift and that opens the door for someone else to take your place wherever you were serving. If I have time I can put to use a lot of different skills and talents, but I know I have been given a spiritual gift of Encouraging, I love people, I always have, I want to help others to feel their value and their ability to succeed with joy no matter what life hands them.

I have HOPE that the future will bring a better time than this.

I just recently opened my blog to many more people. Surprisingly or not I did upset someone.  In the past there were people that walked politically for the good of their lives and there families. There were the  left wing radical thinking (leftist democrats), there were moderate democrats more family and God values than the left, the center independents, which voted liberal or conservative depending on the candidates not their party line, the conservatives very set on family and God values, and the right wing radical conservatives.  I think in our culture today people have gotten the idea that you if you are conservative you can only be a right wing radical. Unfortunately someone thinks because I state that I am conservative that I am prejudice, bigoted, and a racist.  We conservatives are pretty sick of being called these things, it just is not true. Just because we do not stand for the same values does not make us racist and bigoted.  I used to be registered an independent; however, I could not vote in a primary so I changed my registry.   When we disapprove of our children's behavior does it mean we do not love our children. I disagree with certain behaviors but that does not mean I hate or even dislike someone. A conservative does not mean racism and predudice.

Another movement that is happening in our country now, as it has long been throughout the world, is the prejudice toward Christians. The movement on the left is to be tolerant of specific groups of people not including Christians or military, they even passed a hate crime bill that includes telling us we cannot even speak against specific behaviors. They refused to include the hate toward Military and Christians (what does that say?). Yet, those who pass these bills have no tolerance for anyone who has a difference of opinion from theirs and will even try to destroy anyone who speaks out against their beliefs.  Christians in the US are Americans with Constitutional rights, which I intend to always exercise including freedom of speech. I continually pray for truth to be revealed and I have hope that the future will bring a better time than this.

We hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year

This blog has been in the making since mid-summer.  You may have just learned about it, as I just published in Facebook that it is in operation.  When I first envisioned a blog I had thought about it for business purposes. It has become a great way to share our lives with those we care for and it can be therapeutic.
Journaling is a therapeutic, growing experience I would say blogging is a way to know yourself better and share your life with others.  I do not know if blogging openly to everyone would be beneficial but it may. This is a learning growing experience and I hope you will share it with me.
Perhaps in the future this can be a means of my grandchildren knowing some of the experiences in my life that formulated who I am and perhaps their lives.

May this tool of communciation plant seeds in your minds and hearts, may it bring healing and hope for the future.

I commit to write regularly as of January 2010, I hope to write each week, sometimes daily.

May you know the love of the God of the Universe.
Many Blessings to you and your loved ones.

PS Dave this is the arrangement  Thank  you