Morning comes!
"About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them" Acts 16:25
Paul and Silas were in prison, Im sure they knew that pain and rejection awaited them and what were they doing? Praying and singing! We expect them to be praying, I imagine that they were asking God for courage and strength to bear what was to come but what amazes me is the singing! Sing to God during times of trial! Offer up praise and worship, this takes the focus off ourselves and places it on God! I cant help but think that as they sang their prayers turned and became prayers of joy and thanksgiving! I know myself that when I start praising and worshiping God for what is going on in my life, even when it is a very rough road, when I take my eyes off my problems and focus on God and what He might be trying to change in me, I feel His peace! My troubles might not go away but I know that He is there with me! Jesus, help me to keep my eyes focused on you. There are areas in my life where I am really struggling but I know that I need to struggle through this so that it produces change in my life and most importantly in my heart! For my heart sometimes desires wrong things and I want it only to desire you! I sing to you my love for you, my thankfullness for all that you have done for me! Remind me to sing unto you a new song when I get to focused on myself!
Got to bed a little later than I had wanted. Couldnt sleep at first but eventually slumber over took me! woke up a little after 4, I love mornings! Said my prayers, read my bible and hit the floor for some abs! rib area is feeling so much better this morning, thank you all for your prayers! We serve an awesome God! Got my 500 crunches in. have read several times were the abdominals need fast contractions and not slow concentrated ones, so i try and keep a pretty good pace up, boy was breathing hard at the end of them. did my 25 pushups and some plie squats and calf raises, as it is the time of the legs! Let me tell you, if I can get some decent looking legs I will be way way happy because I have always been way too lazy to work hard enough to get them looking half way decent! I cant wait!
both monchers are up and seem to be in pretty good moods! yeah! thank you again Jesus! Only one simple surgery this morning and then the ACL repair! Dog is coming down from Phoenix and it will take them about 3 hours to get here so I dont expect them until around 10ish. Please Lord guide my hands as I repair what has been broken, help me to get a good fixation and for everything to go smoothly! For it is through your grace that I get to do what i love!
all of you in bb.com land have a great and wonderful day!
November 10, 2009 at 7:16 am
that was awesome reading-keep it up Doc. You’re on the right path!!!!
November 10, 2009 at 7:29 am
Paul was, and is, such a witness. Always positive through many trials that I would have run from. May I be positive today, regardless of what life brings my way.
Deb…..The Ab Queen.
November 10, 2009 at 7:35 am
It amazes me how easy it is to loose focus on what really counts, which is praising the name of Jesus! already this morning I am starting to go crazy and forgetting the most important thing that I am called to do! forgive me Lord! my God is an awesome God!
November 10, 2009 at 7:54 am
Dr. S. You must be a surgeon of some renown for people to drive 3 hrs to take advantage of your expertise. Cool. When they get there tell them to send our hockey team back to Winnipeg.
November 10, 2009 at 8:04 am
haha, not that good, just more economical then most other places! especially the big cities, $4000 sx there because they do the gold standard, $1000 with me because i still do the old way that worked for decades and still does.