Our Unique Journey! by Cliff Hazelbaker
I wrote the following post December 30th, 2006 at my old site.
Just as God sent Abraham on a journey that he was completely unaware of where it would lead him, we too have been sent on our own journey and each of us must find our way. Every journey is unique with its own unique set of circumstances. Who is able to understand such a unique journey as this? The answer is easy and yet many still do not understand it.
The answer I am referring to is “God”. Only God knows where we came from and where we are going, and yes, he knows every step in-between. I am not saying we can’t help each other along the way because I know this pleases God when we love one another and seek to lighten the load of a burdened soul. But there is a big difference in helping another fellow traveler and forcing him to walk with us
Abraham’s great journey is filled with personal mistakes, bad judgment, and even weak faith, and yet he is held up as an example of the kind of human faith God would have us all to have. Was that faith based on law? I think not, because the law didn’t even come into play until many years after Abraham. Just what was it based on then? Paul says it best in Romans 4 talking about just what did Abraham believe?
Rom 4:5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Abraham believed in a God who would justify the ungodly. I too have come to this same faith. But one major difference I have with most institutional churches is that I believe he justifies the ungodly regardless of whether they have faith or not. Now I’m not saying faith is not required, I’m just saying no human being outside of Jesus Christ has the faith that justifies the ungodly.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Did you get the part in the verse above that says it is not of yourselves? It is a gift from God. I have yet to meet the man or woman who would tell me their personal faith was strong enough to make them right with God, and yet we hear pulpit after pulpit proclaiming that you must have personal faith to be acceptable to God. Well, my friends, we do have faith, all of us, and it is the Faith of Christ. It is a gift to every man.
Gal 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Paul says that the promise by faith OF Jesus might be given to all them that believe. Yes, it is given to them that believe, and just who is that? I am becoming more and more convinced that none of us living in the flesh has any personal faith of our own that has any power what so ever to justify us before God. What we have is HIS FAITH. He is the one that believed, and he has been given the promise of the Father. And as in Adam ALL died, so in Christ ALL shall be made alive. All will believe. All will fall down on their knees in absolute praise to their Savior. As Tim King says: God doesn’t shove us on our rebellious faces — he melts our clueless hearts.
All the prophecies of old proclaimed a Savior who would rescue all. We know that even God himself proclaimed his purpose in sending his son into the world..
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Yes, we journey on, each of us on our own unique path. I am convinced we will never fully understand all the difficulties along the way, or the suffering that we both see and experience. But I am also convinced that when we close these physical eyes for the last time we will then understand maybe for the first time what LOVE really is.
And I should add one more small observation.
If I am right then it means God is all powerful and did overcome every obstacle that man threw his way, rescuing even the worst of us from our sin, and he did that without our help completely through the efforts of his Son Jesus Christ.
If the institutional church is right, then even by the most liberal standards more then 80% of all human beings will be sent to an eternal hell to suffer for ever and ever because they didn’t have the right faith. There are now at least 30,000 different branches of Christianity. Is it possible that mankind will ever get it right on his own?
Impossible with man, but with God all things are possible.
Isn’t it amazing how his words can touch you like a moonbeam. How his love flows to you like the sparkle from a distant star. How his heart still holds you in the arms of the universe.
ITS UNGODLY, TO THE UNGODLY
Love Doug
Many of the last comments you heard from me came from the ungodly part of me, the part that lived 59 years barley acknowledge any God. The part of me that wonders if there is a God, and if there is why would he love me. The part of me that wonders why i should love him. The dark part that i have tried to put in the light… and that Connie is why i ask you what i ask.. because you came from the same roots as my brother. and i felt a similar love for God from you as he felt, and as my dark side leaves me wondering if there is a God of any kind i try to touch my heart but when i cant who should i ask?
Doug
How do i already know Connie’s answer? Is it because i read it in some bible, or on a road sign? Maybe i felt it in a dream, or heard it in a song. Was it the whisper of Jesus in my ears, or the fearless look of love in a brothers eyes.
Connie will say: “Continue to look within your heart Doug”
Doug
Most of my adult life the times i would get pissed with Cliff was when he would let people walk on him. I would try and tell him that the people he trusted was going to screw him, but he did what he thought was right regardless of the consequences. I saw him as gullible and naive. I felt i knew man so much better the he did, but what I realize now is that he looked at man the same way God dose, and he never faltered in his love.
love always
I know God, i feel God, … what the hell dose that mean? One of my friends is in prison for fifteen years, and he found God, he knows God, he feels God, and when he gets out he wants to preach about God, but i doubt he knows more of God then i did a year ago, and i would bet he will spread more untruths about God then i can if i live a thousand years.
just saying
MC says: a mouse will never leave tracks, a squirrel will never show you its trail, a mole will bury its path, but man will show its heart.
Dam cat
its the wonder of the quest, its the desire of survival, and the need for love, that lends us to confusion, and offers questions, but no answers..
Doug
WHAT PART OF MY DARKNESS DO YOU FEEL. What part of my love?When should i stop sharing either.
the tears of a brothers eyes
softened by his cries
left wanting
the heart of a brothers love
buried in muck from above
left wanting
the scream from a brothers throat
silent to his ears
left needing
What the hell was that boy thinkin.
If I am right then it means God is all powerful and did overcome every obstacle that man threw his way, rescuing even the worst of us from our sin, and he did that without our help completely through the efforts of his Son Jesus Christ.
love you bro..
Im dancin on the dark side of my life right now, and i might die there, but if i do i think im loved by God.
Doug
have you ever typed a truth in ur life then deleteded it because you knew you couldnt share it. hOW CAN U UNDERSTAND, the truth that is 50 years old.
Doug
Your not good enough…have you ever felt that way? I have been married to the most beautiful perfect woman that ever walked this earth, but she was always told that she was not good enough till she meet me, and she was told she is so much better then anything that walked this earth,and know she carries a 40 cal gun and i have to tell her that, but i still want to.
love Doug
My last thought will be of the reason for love. Is it to offer u comfort, to protect you, to assure you…I can go on and on with mans love, but all ends with an empty understanding till you reach your heart
love always
I don’t believe we make mistakes. I don’t believe in right or wrong. I believe we make decisions and they are ours to make. A friend of mine sent me this today and I want to share it with you…
“On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions
that shape your life.”
~ Mike DeWine
Don’t look at life through fearful eyes. Life is a process that will happen whether you like it or not so don’t be afraid of it. Wrap your arms around it and welcome it.
Whether you believe in it or not, right and wrong exists and, yes, people do make mistakes. Some actions are just downright evil. Realizing this doesn’t mean I’m fearful, it means I’m dwelling in reality rather than illusion.
Connie,
Whether you believe it or not, right and wrong doesn’t exist in my eyes and, no, people do not make mistakes…they make decisions. All actions are not for me to judge. I will leave the ones that need judged to the laws of man. Realizing this means that I am free from fear that religion put into our heads and it means that I am no longer dwelling in the illusions. Now I have acknowleded that I always was dwelling in what has always been a perfect process.
Do you really believe that Hell is a reality? Look at it for a minute. I believe it is a very sick view of God!
God our heavenly father has created a place of constant torment for his creation that has lost sight of how much they are loved by him. That is what I believe those who do evil things loose sight of as they travel through this human experience. I see children grow up in their human experience where they have others in their lives that abuse them to the degree that is so sick (evil). I could tell so many stories of family and others who have lived in such a troubled world. People who are so wounded
Do we know the truths in others lives? Is what we see a truth or illusion? Is it really true that a God of uncondional love and who knows the truths of each and every life would create such a horrible place for these wounded souls. Most christians believe that some things that humans do don’t even have to be that evil, for them to be thrown into this place of torment. How many groups believe that they are the only group who has the truth.
I have had a sycotic break and I know the place where a mind can go! The heart of Gods creation is so good!!!!!!!! He said it is very GOOD, not just good. We have a battle against truth and illusion, mind and heart. What do you think we are here to do? Are we here just to get good enough to live with God? I don’t believe that is why I am in this human walk. I believe I am here to learn of love, how to give it and receive it. This is just what I believe.
One of the greatest and best things I ever learned from Cliff Hazelbaker was this………….. “There are NO Bad people only people who have made bad decisions” He taught me that if we teach others and our children that they are good or bad then that becomes part of there soul. But if we instead teach them that they made a decision that was bad then that they can change! You see decisions can be changed.
THANKS Cliff!!
Peace
Geo
You guys have got to be kidding?! Even those who don’t believe in God have a sense of right and wrong. As responsible parents, we teach our children that it’s wrong to lie, cheat, steal, kill, etc. Those who lack a sense of right and wrong are even classed by mental health professionals as antisocial personality disordered (formerly known as sociopaths). You say that Cliff said “There are no bad people, only people who made bad decisions.” That statement acknowledges that some decisions are “bad” – in other words, wrong! I’m not making any statements about whether people are bad, and, I’m not saying anything about hell, either. I’m just saying that whether you choose to believe it or not, some actions are simply wrong. Child abuse/molestation comes to mind as something that most everyone would agree is wrong.
Mankind is a series of decision. The good or bad or the right or wrong of them is based on the perceive society of the the time they make them. A decision made in 1864, to hang a black man if he was out after dark would be different in 1964, but it was considered a good decision in 1864, a right decision. The right decision the good decision are the ones found in your heart, when they are made with the same love that God has, and they are timeless, and not based on the perception of man.
love always
Connie,
In my belief it is ultimately up to that person to decide if the decision that they made was bad for them. It isn’t our place to decide for them. If they kill someone then they made a decision…they will obviously suffer the consequences of that decision. One of the consequences will be by the laws of man of course and another consequence may be by their own internal/mental punishment, but it isn’t up to me to decide if they made a mistake. How tiring to put myself in a position to decide if everyone is doing right or wrong? My God doesn’t even do that. He got so tired of “As the World Turns” drama that he sent his own son to die on the cross and it still isn’t good enough.
and No Connie…we aren’t kidding. Love you
What you say is right to a certain extent, Doug, although there are some things that are almost universally accepted as being wrong. And there are a lot of gray areas, for sure. We may not always agree about what is right and what is wrong. But to say there is no such thing as right or wrong is a whole different thing altogether. You definitely have to throw out the Bible to believe there is no right or wrong. Even our courts have established some things as wrong. Murder, for instance. Stealing, for another. Try telling a rape victim that what was done to her/him was not wrong. Try telling a wife whose husband cheated on her and abandoned her and her children for another woman that his actions weren’t wrong. Come on, now!
Notice that I’m not saying anything about the persons who did these things. I’m not saying they are “bad” people. I’m also not saying they are going to burn in hell, or anything like that. I’m simply saying that what they did was wrong – terribly wrong. Right and wrong most definitely exists whether you want to acknowledge it or not.
Nancy said: “He said it is very GOOD, not just good. We have a battle against truth and illusion, mind and heart”.
There in lays the differance between fear and love, hate and love, guilt and love, and most of all good and bad.
Well said sis.
love Doug
You speak of the victom, of decisions made by man, and i speak of the heart of man that made that decision in his mind, and i believe that only our heart is felt by God and only man makes bad decisions when he look for the right or wrong of them in his mind.
The man that rapes and murders woman with a disease mind is not able to feel his heart, but God dose.
love always
CONNIE YOU SAID,
“I’m not saying they are “bad” people. I’m also not saying they are going to burn in hell, or anything like that”.
I think we are all saying the same thing. THAT our DECISIONS are either good or bad, but they are either concluded to be one or the other by man or God, and each of us decides which. I choose God because he loves me even with my bad decisions, but he leads me to make better ones.
The decision we ultimately make is whether the culminating decisions of our life decides our eternal life… and i say no it dosent, because i believe that our eternal life begins when we feel the same love that god dose, and that life can began in a heartbeat, or in the silence of one.
I believe the most vile person you can imagine will know Gods love, and be held by him just as all that walk this earth.
love always
This is why i love you Connie, your heart is pure, and your mind is open to the truth, and you are willing to share both, just like my brother, and say what you think.
love yah Cuz
or i love u cause u say bable instead of bible, lol,
MC SAYS: The tears in a baby rabbits eyes just add salt to the flavor of its blood, the screams of a ground squirrel, just add excitement to the kill, the flap of a robins wings are the winds of hunger, but the touch of my master is the truth of love.
I want to love him, but he seems so ungodly
Dam cat
The tears of man and his blood is dried in the earth of a world so loved, the screams of man is heard in the winds of the love of God, and touched by his heart.
love always
There is so much of me Connie that wants to take my last year and put it in a Zip Lock bag and store it in my desk. There is so much of me that is glad that my only goal was to know what my brother felt, and not to expect to feel it. I don’t EXPECT TO feel IT, but i think you will.
Love Doug
How much dirt wiil you taste till you see the garden. How many thorns will you feel tell you smell the roses. How much sun will burn you till you feel the light.
just a crazy thought
love Doug
Love is reckless. It speeds beyond the limits of the mind, but it stops at the heart.
love
MC SAYS: The sweet grass of spring is only made warm if it is the borrow of hidden fear.
I think he is the anticat.
Dam cat
The fear of man dances between each thought in his mind, and is lost in his heart.
love always
Mindy, If you look at the Bible closely, you will see that, contrary to what you claimed, God did indeed make decisions about whether man’s actions were right or wrong. As did Jesus. He made it clear that there were some things that were wrong. Didn’t stop him from loving us and dying for us, but he never said it was okay to do wrong. He said, “Go thy way and sin no more.” It does matter how we live our lives, and it matters whether we choose to do right or wrong. To say there is no such thing as right or wrong cheapens life, in my opinion.
MY LAST THOUGHT TONIGHT, will be of how beautiful it was to me to hear others try and understand God. It dosent matter to him if your right or wrong, it doesnt mater if your good or bad, but he loves that you care. He wont play mans games, but he will play in your heart.
If you play in mans mind you have to try and understand 2000 years of man killing each other mostly for God. If you play in mans mind you have to understand 2000 years of man hating because of beliefs of right and wrong. If you play in mans mind you will die never feeling God.
Just saying
Doug
What laws do you live by Connie, which ones will give u a seat in heaven, and not me? The right or wrong in your life will decide how your life on earth ,but it will not change how ur life in heaven is, you want to think that how ur life on earth will make a difference, and it will on earth, but your ever lasting life begins when you know that God loves you, and wants you to feel that love for everyone on earth. His boy died for all of us Connie, what sin do you think he missed, who didn’t he die for kid.
Love Doug
How closely can man hold the bible till he is blind. Will it take 2000 more years before man stops killing each other, and understands that God loves us all. EQUALLY LIMITLESS and UNCONDITIONALY..what part of that do you not believe..
I dont know a bible.. so am i destine for hell?
Your Daddy, my daddy, Monties daddy, would tell you to live a good life as close to the laws of God that you can, but you will be loved by God anyway you live, but your life on earth will be better the closer you are to God.
Doug
I do remember my daddy telling me that even if this is all lies, it’s still the best way to live. The instructions laid out in the Bible to live by are the instructions that will bring us the most abundant life. That attitude changed the way I make choices now. I think early on I did believe. that I had to “be good” in order to go to heaven and I had the darndest time doing so but when it started to dawn on me that God loves me REGARDLESS and Jesus died for me REGARDLESS and since He created me, His instructions do make sense and they will allow me to have the joy, peace, love and serenity that I seek. I now really do strive to follow those instructions but now, the times I fail at that I no longer fear hell I just know there is going to be consequences in this life that aren’t going to be so pleasant for the most part
Connie,
I have taken a very close look into the Bible which by the way is still man’s interpretation and what it tells me is that sin is no more because sin no longer exists.
In the garden when Adam and Eve hid from God…God asked where are you? and Adam said I heard you in the garden and was afraid because I was naked so I hid…GOD SAID, “WHO TOLD YOU YOU WERE NAKED?” Obviously God didn’t and prior to eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil Adam and Eve felt no shame. You see Connie, I believe that religion was created by Adam and Eve simply out of fear and from that point on religion has taught us to see right and wrong and call it sin and to be afraid of what God will do. God had nothing to do with any of that…we did it all on our own and I am no longer going to follow religion and hide. My journey is taking me back to the beginning where God wanted us to stay away from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or we will surely die and I realize that as long as I stay in the mind set of seeing everything as good and evil then I am not alive inside…Because of religion I live in a world where people are afraid, but I don’t have to be…I have a choice and I choose to see something different than you.
To me, the concept of right and wrong has nothing to do with religion. I can understand that people should not be classified as “good” or “bad” based on their actions. I can understand that there are a lot of gray areas, and disagreement about whether certain things are right or wrong. I understand that we choose to see what we choose to see. I also understand that just because a person refuses to look at something doesn’t meant it doesn’t exist. Reality is what it is, even if individuals choose illusion over reality. We all have our own way of perceiving reality and we all have illusions of which we are largely unaware. Hopefully as we grow and learn, we begin to drop the illusions and to enlarge our view of reality. At least that’s what has seemed to happen for me.
Wishing everyone a happy valentine’s weekend! Now I’m going to go bake some cookies for my Valentine! Love to all!
Thank God we are all wrong in and of our selves yet made right by Jesus.
Amen, Matt!
Man has always had a need to rationalize instead of to simply obey. I believe our need to reason did begin at the tree of good and evil. A need to understand more then the simple truth, so we continue to look for the right and wrong, because we feel we have a need to rationalize sin. But we were forgiven at the cross for all our sins, and there is no need to rationalize the right or wrong of anything to be loved by God, and once again we can feel free to simply obey the truth in our hearts. Our pre-cross mind needs to know right and wrong (sin) , but our post-cross hearts understands there isn’t any consequences in the right or wrong of any thing man judges man by, because we are all equal to him, and the more we feel his loving heart the more we will be like him, right or wrong.
Love always
Connie
Does the fact that everything Jesus said or commanded was BEFORE the Cross make any difference to you?
Peace
Geo
There is a part of me if not all of me that decided to take a journey a year ago, and i started with my mind, a place that has always protected me, and i walked places that even scared me, but i journeyed on. i began with the assurity of my mind knowing that i would walk a path that would take me beyond the confession of man, but i walked into the heart of God.
I heard the cries for God, and i felt the deaf ears as i walked in the muck, but i walked on. I saw man wanting to feel love, fighting for love,dieing for love, killing for love, but not knowing Gods love.
Man has not understood the difference between his flesh and his spirit. HE WANTS TO THINK THAT HE CAN USE HIS MIND TO REASON the purpose of his existence. He believes that all of him is human except his mind and that is special, but i believe that whether it is your skin, your lungs, your eyes or your brain that you are touched by a part of you that is not of your flesh, AN IT IS IN THAT MOMENT, that you will begin to feel the love of God.
With each one that feels that is a step closer to a world that is like the one he wants for us.
right or wrong.. that what i think
love always
MC SAYS: You can put a clown hat on a mouse, you can make a chicken dance like a duck, and put a prom dress on a coyote, but its not a party till you feel the love.
ok, ill let him set on my lap, but i dont like it..
Dam cat
You can taste the last blessings of the lords supper, you can adorn yourself in the robes of Gods blessings, and kneel till you knees are raw, or stand up and dance to his party.
love Doug
It is amazing to me to think that any though of man is greater then the movement of a grain of sand in the ocean.
love always
HOW DO I LEAVE,between the cry and the truth. My heart is wrenched, my mind is tied, my body is not worthy.
Doug
The beauty of life is in the heartbeats of the newborn, it is touched by the hearts of the old, and grows. The beauty of life is felt by every heartbeat and lost in the mind of man one heartbeat at a time.
Doug
HOW CAN THIS WORLD CHANGE?…..
Many have held guns, and fought, many have held bibles and pleaded, but neither have found peace. Are we destine to die by our confustion? or can we find the love of God?… I CAN TELL you the answer to that.
YES WE WILL.
Love always
I have lived knowing the hearts of the young. I began knowing the desire, and i never forgot, but it was just my mind i thought, till i touched my heart, then i knew , it was my spirit.
love always
HOW MANY LIES DO I NEED TO FEEL,before one person says i feel them to?
Doug
MC SAYS: The tears that drops from your eyes will puddle at my feet, the whine of your throat will hurt my ears, but the love of your heart will leave me warm.
thats why i love that cat
Dam cat
There were three crosses, and i will hang from any one of them, in place of anyone of them… will u?
Doug
only judgement of man, only right or wrong would led you to an answer of no,
love Doug
How windy is a storm
till fear is born
how thunderious is a cloud
till truth is known
mindy
Connie
Does the fact that everything Jesus said or commanded was BEFORE the Cross make any difference to you?
Peace
Geo
Not for the subject at hand, Geo. The fact that Jesus died and was resurrected doesn’t mean that there is no such thing as right and wrong. It means that we are forgiven of the wrong we commit. And, if you consider what was said in the scripture that was written after Jesus’ death, quite a bit was said about right and wrong. Quite a bit was said about discipleship, which includes becoming conformed to His image, becoming more like Jesus. It matters how we live, what choices we make, whether we choose to do right or wrong. The Christian is empowered through the Spirit to live courageously, to choose the right over the wrong, and when we make mistakes we are forgiven. That’s where we find abundant joy and abiding peace. We know we are loved and perfect love casts out fear.
how lost is the dance
in the sweetness of candy
how deep are the cries,
for the love of
Mandy
I LIKE THAT cONNIE
BUT IF I DO WRONG AND YOU DO RIGHT ARE WE THE SAME IN gODS EYES?
dOUG
OR ARE U JUST A BETTER HUMAN BEING THEN ME?
I love you so much Connie, but you live within your mind, a place created by man, and never known by God. You want rationalize your life instead of feel it.
love Doug
I can know that it is bad to take a stick and poke my eye out, or to do the same to you, but it is when i know i dont want to that my life changes, and it it is when you know that the world changes.
love always
I have looked at man and know that he will kill given reason by man. No one that i know is above that. You say not me but you are not raised to do anything less. you will justify it with love for man an country, patriotism, and will walk rightious, you will be honored for your kill, and believe that this is what God would want.
and wonder in the right or wrong.
love Doug
mc says,, It is better to touch the ankle of your master with a single whisker for a moment then to rub the belly of a coyote for a life time.
Can you poison a cat if it looks like a rat?
i HATE PETA
Dam cat
this so important to remember.. said by LISA
do remember my daddy telling me that even if this is all lies, it’s still the best way to live.
LOVE YOUR WORDS LISA
Doug
im too old and to tierd to do this,
love Doug
“I love you so much Connie, but you live within your mind, a place created by man, and never known by God. You want rationalize your life instead of feel it.
love Doug”
God created me – body, mind, and spirit – and He knows all of me. He expects me to use my intellect as well as to experience the emotions that are associated with life. And, I do “feel” life keenly, as much if not more than most people. And I can totally relate to your feelings of being too old and tired to do this.
God is love. Everything authored by God is tattooed with love. Anything not done with a motive of love is not of God and is therefore anti-God.
This is the central common thread of all spiritual schools of thought: God-centeredness (good) verses Self-centeredness (evil). Disagreement occurs when one man attempts to discern the motives of another. Because he is human his eyes are always “self” tinted.
Amen, Lisa! You are so smart. You should get a wise old owl and wear it around your neck!
We reflect the image of the God we serve. Some have a kind, loving God of mercy and grace, Others, not so much.
lol connie
well said matt
Which image of God dose God want us to reflect, The powerfull God that can toss fireballs from heaven, melt mountains like wax, distroy man with a whisper from his lips, or the God that came to earth as the son of God, a common man that served other men and died like a criminal by man, or the Holly spirit of God within all of us to feel any time we choose? THE PART OF US THAT IS TRUELY IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, AND THE ONLY PART OF US THAT CAN FEEL HIS LOVE.
Love Always
Lisa, i dont think love has a motive. Love is a gift asking for nothing in return. When love has a motive the it is simply a way to manipulate the one it is offered to, expecting something in return. Gods love was a gift and requires nothing in return.
Love always
Connie said a few comments back, and i will paraphrase it, but basically “I am not were i started” and i assume that she is not now were she will end. That has laid on my mind since i read it, and although i am a newcomer into the journey of knowing God I RELIZED I AM NOT WERE I STARTED, AND PROBABLY NOT WERE I WILL END. One of the places i have been in the last year was under the belief that my love for God should be greater then any love, even the love for my wife, my children, my rootbeer, but it never felt right. Most of my life if something didnt feel right then i knew it wasn’t right, but i kept trying to believe that to truely feel Gods love then i would need to love him more then anything or anybody, but i HAVE DECIDED THAT IS NOT A GOD I CAN LOVE. The God i love is one that wants me to feel the same love for him that i feel for my wife my children MY ROOTBEER and ALL of mankind if i can.
love Doug
I agree with you Doug. I think we can do “loving” acts but have selfish motives and therefore, imo, it is not love and is not of God but when we do those same “loving” acts simply because of love with no ulterior motive whatsoever than that is of God, imo. And, as you say it is a gift from Him!
That’s interesting Doug and I’ve had the same conflict as far as do I love my family more than God and I now believe that loving ones family IS loving God. God’s love is why we can love and imo, the closer we get to God, the closer we get to one another.
Why did the story of God end at the cross? Why dosent he show up every few hundred years and talk to us, maybe lay a big miracle on us, or have Jesus descend from heaven and give us a pep talk, at least we could right a few more chapters in our bibles. Why would he leave us with a thousand different bibles, and a million different beliefs knowing we would get it all messed up and kill each other confused about his message? The understanding of most bibles is based on metaphorical stories and construed interpretations of mankind.
I believe he has no interest in mankinds intellect. He could care less in mans ability to understand him with our minds. He offered us grace at the cross, and left us with the ability to feel his love, and both were a gifts with no motive and no requirement, equal for all that feel it, limitless for any that know it, and unconditional for all.
But man, what an ass kicking world it will be when we do.
LOVE ALWAYS
Did you ever wonder why God started out such a loving God, and then that darn woman ate an apple, and he was such a mean God, flooding the earth doing all kinds of stuff that let us fear him, then he came to us as one of us, and left us in our hearts.
All the men i know that have never felt love are angry men, but all the men i know that feel love are happy men.
Could it be that God knew that his love could only be known if there was a relationship with man, and he can have that know one heart at a time?
crazy huh
love Doug
Where do you look for your assurance that your loved by God? Do you think that the pope knows more then you? Did mother Teresa feel God more then you, how bout Saddam Hussein, the Shaw’s, your preacher, your priest the guy on the cross next to Jesus? Where do you think you are in the mix?
Can you run to your bible and tell me, can you run from church to church looking, can you recite a verse, or show me an example of another man other then Jesus, or should you just look in your heart?
love Doug
Awesome stuff, Doug. Keep thinking, you have a beautiful mind and a wonderful heart.
my cat is crazy he wanted me to tell him he is loved by God like me, and i said ducks are, chickens are , dogs are,and all creachers of earth except cats, know he is so mad he is wants to kill all of Gods creachers so he is the only one God has to love.
Dam cat
I wish i would have would of said him too…
What is our purpose? Why are we here? WHY AM I HERE? Is it to shear my heart with the five or ten that are listening, to comfort my BGS, TO HOLD MY SIS. Do we live to manage our budgets, enjoy next week end, feel the next sunrise , kiss our babies. WHY ARE WE HERE? WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE? WHAT IS YOUR OUR PURPOSE?
Are you here to just live and die? Dose that make since? Dose it feel right?
You know it dont, so there must be a greater reason then we know, and what can it be, then to love like God dose, and to feel that love like he dose, and what kind of world will that be?
kinda like heaven?
LOVE ALWAYS
is it the thunder and lightning
that makes you cringe
is it the creche of an owl
that leaves you lost in wisdom
is it the fog of a crisp new dawn
that leaves you confused and frightened
is it the new sun that warms you
in the light of love
There is a fight between man an man, a fight between man an love, a fight between man and death, a fight between man and life, but there is a beautiful dance of love in his heart, and it will stay in the center of the dance floor.
love Doug
How much love dose God feel between ur intelect and your eyes? How much love dose God feel between your mind and your vision.
I WALK STUPID IN A FOG, BLIND FROM ALL THAT TELLS ME TO SEE DIFFERANT, BUT I FEEL SURE FOOTED
Doug
What part of your mind do you think is precious in Gods heart? The part that lets you graduate first in your class? The part that got you a promotion, the part that felt it new God and could tell others? BUT dam there is that part of you that says God is to smart for me to know, so i will ask someone else like a preacher or a priest, they dam sure will know.
If it was your mind that God gave a shit about wouldn’t he protect it?
It is just another organ in your body that will fail, but he gives us a lifetime to feel him with our heart if we chose to, or to feel him without it when it is silent.
All of you have cried with the lose of a baby, all of you have cried with the lose of a long lived love one, but it was the heart of there first heartbeat God knew till there last one and ever after.
STOP looking in your mind and wonder in your heart.
love always
It really is a heart condition isn’t it?
YOU ARE SO LUCKY i am not a preacher, or i would lay so many hell fire and brimstone verses on you that would bring you to your knees, but i can barely spell my name, and all i want is for you to feel love, and feel loved.
crazy huh
Doug
IT IS CUZ.. till your last heartbeat,
Doug
MC SAYS: The fear of a mouse will leave him in a fridged bank of snow, the trap of man will leave him dead in his desire, but the scent of his life will lead me to supper.
Im telling you hes the anticat, but hes so cute..
Dam cat
You have heard me over and over say i want to leave, but why do you think i stay? You know me to well to think its for me.
I have left you out of this Cliff, you to Amy, and Tammy ive let u slide, but your Daddy left you with a message to share, and an ability to do it from your heart, am i asking to much….maybe
just a crazy uncle
love uncle Doug
MC SAY: The walk on thin ice to kiss the lips of a duck can leave you frozen in its beauty.
What the hell is that cat thinkin? Im buying a foot warmer tomorrow and takin him to the animal pound.
Dam cat
GEO , whats a matter with the founders of this site, am i missing something?
Doug
i read beautiful word from you and Bruce, steve, is everyone tired?
PEACE doug
IS THE MESSAGE, i have missed, to be silent?
MY LAST THOUGHT WILL BE OF MY LAST MESSAGE. What would yours be? Would you say i love you to everyone, would you say im sorry to everyone, would you ask forgiveness from everyone, would you remind everyone of who you were, or distract them from what you were.
Your eulogy to man means virtually nothing to God.. he wont celebrate your death.. but he will dance in your life.
Doug
MY BROTHER STARTED THIS with a love for man. A drunken crazy brother has tried to dance in his footsteps and stumbled awkwardly falling on his emotions and tripping on his mind but crawling on his knees trying to feel his heart, but im tired and want to go before my journey began and walk in my mind again… MAN IS NOT ABLE TO FEEL Gods love…
Why would my brother think otherwise
Doug
Reading your words, Doug, some verses came to me. Jesus was asked about the most important commandment. This was his answer:
29″The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:29-31)
While it is important to “feel” God’s love, emotion is not the only part of a man that is meaningful. In fact, we are given our intellect by God just as surely as we are given our emotions. A problem occurs when one part of us takes over and we are unbalanced in some way. We all know people who seem to work entirely from their head and don’t show much emotion. That person seems cold and unfeeling. On the other hand, some people seem to be totally ruled by their emotions and this causes a whole different set of problems. The person who acts only on his emotions is not a stable person who can be counted on, as they are often so caught up in their own feelings that they don’t stop to consider the feelings of others or the consequences of their actions. If we only did what we “felt” like doing, most of us wouldn’t get up and go to work in the morning, for one thing. Balance is important.
I have thought a lot about exactly what love means especially since my mother died, and what it means to honor someone – to honor my parents and to honor God. A long-time member of AA once told me he simply wants to make God smile. I think that’s a pretty good rule of thumb. If what I’m doing makes God smile, then I’m likely keeping the most important commandments well. I’m loving God and loving my neighbor.
DEEP DOWN INSIDE WE ALL HOPE OR HOPED AT ONE POINT IN TIME FOR THE BEST IN OUR LIVES. WE ALL HOPE THAT OUR DREAMS COME TRUE. WE ALL HOPE WE HAVE SUCCESSFUL LIVES. WE ALL HOPE THAT WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE SOME HOW SOME WAY, BUT FOR MOST TRAGEDY WILL RESHAPE THOSE HOPES AND DREAMS. ADDICTIONS CAN CONTROL OUR THOUGHTS AND SOME WILL GIVE INTO FEAR…BUT WE ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE. WE CAN STILL CHOOSE TO SEE THE BEAUTY AND PERFECTION BEHIND EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE OR WE CAN CHOOSE TO FEAR IT ALL AND RUN AND HIDE. REGARDLESS OF YOUR RELIGIOUS OR SPIRITUAL BELIEFS IT IS A LOT EASIER TO SEE THE BEAUTY AND PERFECTION IN YOUR LIFE RATHER THAN FEAR EVERYTHING. YOU MAY PLAN YOUR LIFE OUT AND SOME OF IT MAY HAPPEN EXACTLY THE WAY YOU PLANNED IT, BUT IF IT DOESN’T COME OUT THE WAY YOU WANTED REMEMBER THAT IT IS STILL LIFE AND OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE CHANGES…THE DIFFERENCES AND SEE THAT IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL AND IT IS STILL PERFECT. IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW THE REST OF THE WORLD SEE’S IT. THE LOVE WILL REMAIN THE SAME.
Well said Minners. Well said indeed. Of all your posts I have read Melinda, I believe this one sums it all up. Your father would be beaming a very large smile right now.
BobbyT
Thanks Bobby. Love you
“YOU MAY PLAN YOUR LIFE OUT AND SOME OF IT MAY HAPPEN EXACTLY THE WAY YOU PLANNED IT, BUT IF IT DOESN’T COME OUT THE WAY YOU WANTED REMEMBER THAT IT IS STILL LIFE AND OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE CHANGES.”
I love that Mindy and I love you!
This is off topic but just something I thought would be fun to share with my Hazelbaker cousins. I haven’t been a Hazelbker by name in 30 years and my son never was. Well, he went to the court house and got married a couple of weeks ago, and the clerk asked him for his mothers maiden name and he said Hazelbaker and she put down Lisa Baker and he said no its Hazelbaker and the clerk said I don’t need the Hazel and he said you don’t understand Hazel is not her middle name, her middle name is Ruth. Hazelbaker was her maiden name. He was like Mom, I just couldn’t believe it! I just had to laugh and say now you know what I put up with for 20 years. I was just wondering if thats just a southern thing or do you Hazelbakers up north run into that as well?
Ha ha, you said “this is off topic”
Doug wrote:
GEO , whats a matter with the founders of this site, am i missing something
Doug
Why would you assume something is the matter with the founders of this site?
Peace
Geo
Sarah,
I love you to. I know we learn soo much from each other, but Sarah you have taught me a great deal in the last couple of years. You are such a beautiful spirit…William and rootbeer are such lucky men!
Lisa….yes LOL!
Baker…Hazel or Hazel…Baker…even on occasion is was just Bakerhazel.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT?..i HATE mushrooms
I stood at my patio door this morning, and my vision danced near and far. I looked as far as my eyes could see, and saw only a blanket of white. I looked to the edge of my deck and felt sadness as i saw my flower pots puffed in the powder of snow like lonesome marshmallows. My eyes crawled to the distant woods void of life, then returned to my horsequcie filled like a meringue pie. As tears of loneiness began to fill my eyes i looked to the only sunflower left standing on my hillside and there sat a bluebird, and i knew spring would come again and life would thrive.
love Doug
I am a bee fighter. I have been from my earliest memory. A gladiator in the war of the sting, and i have learned to love my opponent, and respect his desire to survive. A wasp will be docile in the spring and only wanting to create, he will work feverishly to make a home and if you destroy it he will not fight you but began again, knowing he has time, but in the fall of his life he will fight with all that he has, to preserve life, knowing there is no time left.
GEO, wants to know why i would assume something is wrong, and it is because i know that either the wasps of Gods love are dormant in his snow, or they are waiting for spring, because i know there sting is still in there hearts.
Doug
We want to live a life in the reality of man, we believe that ice cream is sweet, that control of happiness is as close as the next adventure, and love is felt like in the touch of a rose petal, but in the truth, is ice cream will taste like sour pickles, control will be like holding an avalanche, and love is like your last toothache..till you feel God, but the beauty of it is that you can feel it anytime, but all will feel it.
love always
There is a dance between my eyes and my heart, my eyes and the marshmallows on my deck, and it ends with the bluebird of life.
love always
Doug Wrote:
GEO, wants to know why i would assume something is wrong, and it is because i know that either the wasps of Gods love are dormant in his snow, or they are waiting for spring, because i know there sting is still in there hearts.
Doug
I have no idea what you just said!!! haha
Peace
Geo
It is not easy to ask the questions of my mind, but it is better then to leave them unanswered.
When did you first know love?
Was it with the first kiss of a fevered brow, or the hug of a daddy, in a the night of fear or a mommies warm arms. Was it in the wrap of a sisters legs, or the tears in a brothers eyes. DID YOU KNOW LOVE on Wiligrove road diving 100 miles an hour, or the next day.. 40 years later, can you find love in all of your life?
What if you dont have a daddy, a mommy, a sister, or a crazy guy to dive 100 miles an hour for your love..CAN YOU KNOW LOVE?
The intellectual mind will tell you no, but your spiritual heart will tell you you that your are, and always will be.
There is no laughing matter about what i said Geo, and i love you whether you understand me or not, and i will never laugh at you because you dont.
PEACE
I have watched all of my BGS try and know love, i have watched mankind try and know love, and i have seen over and over the failure, because they dont see the bluebird of spring, the truth of love.
WHO LOVES THE UNLOVED? who kisses there fevered brow, who holds them in there nightmare,who wraps legs of love around them who shed tears of a brother, for the unloved, an intellectual mind of man, or a spiritual heart of God?
DONT LAUGH AT THE WASP OF MY HEART, in the fall of my life.
Doug
I have used all my intellectual mind and it has served me well to survive. I have controlled all of my heart, and left it empty to the possibility of hurt, till my babies were part of it, and then i knew love, and the dance i started on willigrove road exploded.
I SAW LOVE,, I WITTNESSED it in a way that i had never seen, in a woman that loved beyond my understanding, a woman that ask for nothing.
Love Doug
Lisa, as a Hazelbaker i have been known as hazel, haze, bak, i have tied to promote the nic of superhaz, i broke a guys nose at the cattle barns on the first day i was at school in the eighth grade cause he called me hazel , Dad said we came from a long line of horse thieves, but i never liked horses, but im proud of my name, with the exception of a few.
love yah cuz
anybody eles remember there dads talking about the black bear bar, in danville, ill?
My dad was the kind of guy to would drive a car a hundred miles an hour on a dark curvy road with the lights off for a kiss.
Doug
It is hard to understand the love of man, you want to feel it, as we do the love of woman. You think it is something natural to life, and all can know, but you lay with tears wondering.
The dance of love in your mind will linger beyond death, the want for love
began before your first thought, and the truth of love has no beginning and is timeless, endless, and forever.
Love Doug
It is not the crazy of my mouth you should feel, but the kiss of my lips on your brow.
Doug
A famous poet was once ask what is the meaning of his poetry, and he said when I am writing it only God and i know the meaning, and once im finished only God knows.
After rereading my comments from last night Geo, I agree with you only God knows what i was talking about, lol.
Love ya bro
I remember the famous black bear bar in Danville, Il.
Doug
If I offended you by saying I don’t know what you said then I am sorry.
Please Forgive me.
Peace to All
Geo
I realize that I am not always understood in my thinking and you know I am quite alright with that. Sometimes I think it is a gift to be misunderstood as long as I am the one that gets myself. I know that those who know me love me regardless and that is the way I feel about them…
Doug, you are right in saying that “It is not easy to ask the questions of my mind, but it is better then to leave them unanswered.”
Sometimes I will ask questions that I really don’t want an answer to. The puzzled mind of a human…crazy, eh?
“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.” ~Marya Mannes
Don’t worry, Geo. I don’t know what he means often times but I enjoy his perspective immenesly.
I agree with Matt!!! Love you Geo
I like Mindy’s quote about solitude (which is indeed quite different from loneliness) and agree that it is sadly lacking in American society.
“Only in silence and solitude, in the quiet of worship, the reverent peace of prayer, the adoration in which the entire ego-self silences and abases itself in the presence of the Invisible God to receive His one Word of Love; only in these “activities” which are “non-actions” does the spirit truly wake from the dream of multifarious, confused, and agitated existence.” (Thomas Merton)
I recall all through my life when things seemed to be pure crap and I couldn’t figure my way out that there was always someone that would say “All things are possible with God”, and I would think well I bet you got more then three hotdogs in your fridge and two buns with three days to go till payday.
So I have been thinking lately what dose that means? Now I understands it’s a scary thing when I start any comment with,” I been thinking lately, but what dose that mean? “All things are possible with God”.
Jesus didn’t say, all things are possible by God, or all things are possible in God or even All things are possible because of God. He said for humans all things are possible With God.
One of the most desperate times in my life was some 40 years ago in southern Ga. about this time of the year, and I got me and a buddy lost in the Withalacochie swamp. About sunset it began to rain and the tempetures dropped to near freezing it was a torrential rain never easing, like standing in a shower of ice cold water. The night was black as coal, and I knew our only source of safety was the vinyl clad kayak. The minutes turned into hours and hypothermia began to take its toll. As my friend began to shiver uncontrollably I removed my jacket and gave it to him. We lay face to face in the bottom of that boat with our arm wrapped around each other sharing what little warmth we had. As his fear grow he said “I think we are going to die Doug”, and I told him matter of a fact “That we were not! He said but how will we get out of here, and I told him when dawn comes we will find land. At the break of light the freezing rain turned to snow and I pointed in the direction of what I felt to be land, and we survived a night of Hell.
What I can tell you about that night is there was never a time I prayed to God. There was never a moment I felt all things are possible with God. So was God with me? Was it just my humanly youthful will to survive? Was it the jacket I gave to my friend? Was it the arms of comfort I held him in, or my words of assurance? Or did God just want to keep me around anther 40 years to see what kind of crazy crap I might have to say?
All things are possible with God, but if that’s true why hasn’t one man with God cured world hunger, found peace for all mankind, cured all pain suffering?
Is it possible that the WITH includes all of mankind and not just any man?
I believe it is like a hummingbird sitting alone on a single tree on a small desert island in the middle of the ocean believing it is possible for him to fan his wings and create a hurricane, but as hard as he tries he fails, but then there is two hummingbird that believe, and as hard as they fan there wings they fail, but then there is 4 and the 4×4 the1000x 1000, and a 100,000x 100,000,000, and with the engry of ALL there is nothing impossible with God.
lOVE ALWAYS
yeah say, but Doug there is millions catholics, and millions of Muslims, how about all of there energy, aren’t they with GOD? And i say there God dosent include me, there God dosent find me equal to them, and the God i know dose.
LOVE DOUG
If all things are possible with God then i want a do-over a mulligan in the Garden of Eden, and i want Eve to bake a peach pie instead of an apple pie.
Love always
MC SAYS: To shiver from the chill of a freezing night will keep you alive, to curl my nose up into my belly of fur in a snow storm will keep me warm, but to purrr in my masters lap will let me dream of heaven.
Dam suck-up cat
Do, you find more love in the diamond on your finger then the sparkle of sunshine through an ice cycle. Can you adorn yourself in more beautiful clothes then a single Lilly in desert. Can the most expensive perfume smell better then a new born baby. Can you find any more peace then in the face of a child as he sleeps…..Stop looking, start feeling, and enjoy.
Love
OH, Geo… brothers dont apologize we just rumble the the backyard, then drink beer.. love you bro
Doug
I love being a brother, we could say all kinds of shit to each other, but God help you if you got between us.
love my bro..Doug
ITS pretty cool to me to think i got one kick ass bro, in heaven, so be careful in my backyard.
LOVE
were at almost a record on comments here 142, if we can get all the women to tell there age, and all the men to tell there weenie size, we can get at least 25 to 30 lies, lets go to 200…lol
love the truth
I see where Australia has them a new Saint Mary, can we apply for MC to be anointed to Sainthhood… hes tried so hard?
love the cat
i have heard man say he dances to a different drummer and i believe there is a rythem to man, i have seem man dance like the waves to a beach the end like the drip of a broken faucet, i have seen man move like the tips of a wheat field then shake like the broken board on a barn, but ive also seen man start as a seed and grow to an oak tree waving to the strongest winds of God.. dont give up.. and never stop dancing.
love always
Do you live to clean the world up, to stop global warming to save the whales… 2000 years ago Jesus was walkin around and his daddy was God, man died at about the age of thirty, and would eat anything he could kill…All is possible with God… but not a fuckin man has been with God to know what that means.. just saying
love Doug
MC SAYS: My master hears the flutter of a rose petal and feels love. I hear the squeak of a mouse and feel hunger. My master see the dew dripping from a corn stalk, and sees the tears of man, and i see my thirst quenched, my master holds a hand out to be felt, and i feel the comfort of his finger.
I think clucky is whispering in his ear, but i love him..
Dam cat
How can you feel Gods love for you as much as Jesus did on that God damm cross.. you can say hollycrapolie Doug ur screwed using the lords name in vein.. and i will say what part was in vein.
How many will die, how long will it take, before WE know that we are loved..God dam it.
CAN U BE A HUMINGBIRD WITH ME?
love
BGs have cried tonight, tears have fallen to earth, hearts have begged, bodies weaken and spirits left wanting, is this what any God damm God you believe in wants?
The God i believe in cries with us, and is waiting patiently till we feel the same love that his boy did, and nothing will change till we all know that, All… and we will.
love always
I’d like to be a hummingbird but doubt that any number of them could start a hurricane, as fun as it would be to watch them try. We can’t always feel love or know love but we can believe it. I’ll believe it with you, Doug.
The man part of me gets so angry when i feel the pain of the ones i love. If i feel that way as a man… what the hell do you think God feels..
I want to think all is possible with God, but i think to stop my BGs tears needs all of mankind, and i sit alone in my tree on my island fanning my wings.
Doug
and know it is two mat
one with God
all is possible
Doug
My baby girl said, I just want to hear his voice one more time, and i feel what she feels, but she really wouldn’t want her Daddy to do that. If your child bg was living in a life of pain, suffering everyday, barely able to breath covered in boils and screamed for a moment of peace every living day, then some one said i can take all that away, but u will never see her again, never hear hear again, never touch her again.. what would you want, what would you say to that person, what would you do. I know what you would do, so do you.
But you say his life was full of love and happiness, and i say in comparison to what?
flap your wings with me BG.. HE IS WITH YOU.
LOVE Uncle Doug
most wont dance in my island not be cause its not true, but they are scared it is…. and it destroys all they have known.
Doug
i kinda like the bible cause it is like reading batman and figuring out the joker and the Riddler, but in the end batman wins.
love always
OK, I can see that I am not going to get any women to admit there age, but i know men are so much more honest then woman that i will be the first to declare my penis size, and it is..
Bigger then Rootbeers.
love always
WERE ARE 43 AWAY FROM MY GOAL… who will help me, matthew mark Luke john… i dont think so, they didnt fly to my island did they?
Its so easy to not feel God but think you do, its so easy to think you do feel god but others dont, it so hard to think that god feels us all the same.
love always
HOW CAN MY ANGEL AUDREY, have a new saint in Austria, and not stop by to brag about it..
love you Audrey
Can an old man feel the rythem of his life, can a young girl see beyond the blur of her tears, can a baby find a perfect world, were all is possible..
You know the answer, it is in your heart, but u seek in your mind, and flutter with the broken board of a barn door, then on the wings of a hummingbird.
love always
You say i dance between words, and you dont understand anything i say, but all of the words i say dance beyond my mind and your bible, but I still dance like I am on the tips of a wheat field waving with the breath of a brother in Gods arms.
Doug
I love you Mat but a condensending huningbird cant fly, but you can sit in my tree till you can.
love.. feel the truth
i try very hard to read the bible and understand what seem to be crazy crap to me, but i try to focus on a god of love, but i wounder why he didnt speak to us more clearly.
I’m tired now.. so i will sleep
my last thought will be for the love of my BGs
goodnight
Stopped in and noted that you’re going for a goal, Doug. Making an entry just to help out. Really don’t have anything worthwhile to say, so just rambling. (Not that what I usually say is all that worthwhile!)
Continuing with the rambling….just to help Doug out. After work yesterday went to Mom’s house. Still trying to get things sort out and divided up. Shouldn’t go out there by myself. Start feeling overwhelmed and overcome by memories. My stepson brought by our little granddaughter to pick out a doll from Mom’s humongous collection. Gracie chose one with a lavender dress on because that’s her favorite color. Took a wicker stroller, too, though one part of the handle is broken. She didn’t care, just wants something to push her dolls around in. Aren’t kids great!?
I know you asked the women to tell their age, and I don’t mind. I’m 56 years old, 4 years younger than Doug if I remember correctly. Don’t ask my weight, though, as it’s a closely guarded secret. Even my husband isn’t privy to that information.
We’re finally seeing some sunshine in northwest Alabama today! I’d almost forgotten what it’s like! It’s been so dreary and cold here for what seems like forever. So much for the global warming theory!
Doug, I’m not a condescending hummingbird. I am an eagle flying free above the madness ad unrest. Consider giving up on your hurricane and letting go into grace.
Planning a trip down to Birmingham tomorrow to take some things to my youngest son Michael who’s recently moved down there. Haven’t seen his apartment yet, so looking forward to that. Told him to choose a good restaurant and we’ll go to lunch!
What is prize for comment 200?
My son Geoffery lives with his wife and new daughter down in south Florida – too far away, especially now that my granddaughter has arrived. I spent a week with them after she was born, doing the grandmother thing, which I’m very good at since I love babies, even when they’re not my own little princess. Planning another trip down in April. It’s a fourteen hour drive, so I usually fly unless Tom or Michael go with me to share the driving. I wish they lived right next door, but that will never happen because Marcella’s family live down there. She’s a marvelous d-i-l in every way, but just too far away! I remember how Grandma H. would cry every time we would leave after a visit. I try not to cry, but sometimes I do anyway.
Speaking of hummingbirds, it’s almost time to get out the hummingbird feeders here in Alabama! And, my fifth grade teach nicknamed me hummingbird, for some reason. My dad called me flea sometimes. Something about me being small for my age when I was a child, I guess.
Must stop for now and do some laundry, etc! And a lot of other stuff.
I think you might be right Mat, those darn hummingbirds are getting dizzy flying in circles, and i would love to fly with you as an eagle in grace.
love ya man
Connie everyone told me how great it would be to be a grandpa, but i had no clue till I got my rootbeer, ain’t it wonderful!
Sarah, William, and Andy where out the other night for some of my famous beef stew, and after they left Cindy said if we would have written our own recipe for a grand baby IT COULDNT HAVE BEEN ANY BETTER.
lOVE ALWAYS
Lets get to 200… LOL This is fun!!
Ok, I am in for 200!
Galations 2:20 King James Version; I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by THE FAITH OF the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
179, come on now. Geo is going to post a new topic soon.
haha! posted new one!!!!
Grrrr… Well we can still post on this one! Pllltbbb!