Things I...

Things I am wrestling with:

• giving away credit for things I want credit for
• leaving “putting difficult people in their place” to God and loving them with all my heart anyway
• laying my life down for the brethren

Things I am blessed by:

• People who seek me out just to spend time with me; it’s even better when it’s minus a task list, no agenda, just two guys sitting down over a great cup of Starbuck’s peppermint coffee (yes, peppermint), fomenting and sealing a lifelong camaraderie
• children who are never too old to get a hug from their “Pasture”
• The stirrings I am sensing signaling that the Bride is coming forth in the earth; she is making herself ready for her Bridegroom

Things I better get a handle on:

• Carpe diem, as there is so little time left to waste
• The Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Gospel of the reign of Christ, and which distinguishes the professing Church from the “possessing” Church
• The Truth that “the church can’t rise until she dies.”

Things I want more than anything right now:

• For my wife, son and myself to “go out to Him, outside the camp” arm-in-arm, dying to know Him together
• For my life to be a prayer to my Lord, every breath, shut away in the closet of adoration
• To know Him intimately and to be His ‘marked man’