Giving Due Credit

     God is known for his powerful history altering works, but God works much more in our lives than we could possibly realize. God is subtle and exact, leaving nothing to chance, letting no detail fall from sight. At Jesus' birth, His only visitors were mere shepherds. Yet by these humble men, these "low of the low," he shared the message of His son's birth with the entire world. He was born in a city the equivalent of Dothan for its day, but from Bethlehem he arose to Jerusalem, Washington DC.
     But this does not even scrape the surface of how much wisdom and careful planning went into the human life of Christ. As Jesus came, He fulfilled hundreds of prophecies written down over five hundred years before his birth. God is in control people. He hasn't left; He is here watching over each and every one of us.

This year, let us reflect on all that God has given to us and how much we have given back to Him. Let us take a little time from our busy holiday schedules, to thank God for all He has done in our lives, give credit where credit is surely due.

What One Finishes Another Begins

     Have you ever felt at a loss, as though no future is written for you, as though one day soon your life will end as abruptly as it began, as though there is no point to strive for, for you will never live to see your goal completed. Like a ghost it haunts me, no day for rest. I can not escape this mindset.
     The future exists no longer. There is only now, and my past to dwell upon. But will i use my experiences, though the path ahead lays unlit. Will I survive; If so, what more will be achieved. The fate of tomorrow, if ever the sun looks well upon it, is our destiny to accomplish. But destiny though written is my choice and yours with me. Together we can write our fate, the fate of humanity, the fate of the Earth.
      If not for our own benefit, then our children's we will strive to the bitter end. For though their face we can not see and what destiny they will write for themselves, we can, if no less, provide them a bright beginning. The future its not here, but the past has been written in stone, and with it the future is paved, a guide and a warning to those who pave a new and better way.