Defending the Dandelion

What impact will you make? What moves us to proceed in our development? What moves us to be better people? What gives us love to share? If we don’t have God! It would be extremely pretentious of me to believe that the only good people to live and breath on this earth are Christians.  People throughout history have sought enlightenment in their search for God. The uses of meditation, in the doing of good deeds, in the preservation of nature, in the passions of creativity, individuals and nations have sought advancement. There are those that have left a mark on this world for it’s good, in the sharing of their lives others have felt love. It’s been said to share God and who He really is we should love at least one person unreservedly, unconditionally, and completely unselfishly.  As Christians following that pattern we may have greater impact in this world but often we fail in the dispensing of forgiveness and love choosing rather to harbor, hurts and disappoint

Up Too Late I had a good Hogmanay and new year but I have stayed up too late for too many nights, which has made my body clock, go way off sync. So after napping on the couch and then going to bed I was lying there wide-awake so started to check up on Kathryn, my daughter who is in Australia before going to sleep and noticed she had liked a photo, which started me thinking about my life and how it hasn’t turned out anything like I thought it would.  In the past I prayed for years that God would restore unto me what the locusts had eaten. In reference to Joel 2:23-25 “Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before. The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten--the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and