What About Bob

Christmas Child

The way to Christmas lies
through an ancient gate . . .
It is a little gate, child-high,
child-wide, and there is a
password" "Peace on earth to men of good will."
May you, this Christmas, become as a little child again
and enter into His kingdom.
Angelo Patri

It is good to be children sometimes,
and never better than at Christmas,
when its mighty Founder was
a child Himself.
Charles Dickens

Thanksgiving 2007

Happy Thanksgiving!


         Thanksgiving is a
         time of gratitude to God,
         our Creator and Provider,
         whose guidance and care
         go before us...
         and whose love
         is with us forever.

         Thanksgiving is a time
         to reflect on the changes,
         to remember that we, too,
         grow and change
         from one season of life to another.

         Thanksgiving is a time
         of changing seasons,
         when leaves turn golden
         in Autumn's wake
         and apples are crisp
         in the first chill breezes of fall.

         Let us remember the true meaning
         of Thanksgiving.
         As we see the beauty
         of Autumn, let us acknowledge
         the many blessings
         which are ours...
         let us think of our families
         and friends..
         and let us give thanks in our hearts.

Author Unknown
 

Awe God

I am learning so much from my son.  He experiences life through innocent, untainted eyes.  His reaction to the familiar prompts me to deeply evaluate how I approach life and how I relate to God.

Have we lost a sense of awe in appearing before God?  Visit most churches on Sunday and you will likely find people relating to a God that matches their doctrinal beliefs, social crusades, and spiritual experience preference.  Absent is a sense of awe!

We promote the aspect of God, our friend.  Yes, He is our friend.  But we work so hard to connect people to the friend God that we loose the awe of God. 

In this world of fast-food, wi-fi, and IM, we fail to deal with God's silence when information is exploding all around us.  We have been born and bred to revere individualism more than revere God. 

Oh how I want to avoid re-defining God in my image and find more awe in Him.