Category Archives: Daily Word
My Son the Bull Whisperer
Here is a picture we snapped last night. This is a typical night on our farm where the boys are acting so crazy. Jude has a real talent with our Black Brangus Bull, “Fred”. Since he was about 3 years old, he has tamed Fred and rode him bareback. Typically, he will ride him and then ride our donkey for a few minutes. He is now working on getting Fred to ‘play dead’ and ‘beg’ like a weiner dog. Jude has a bright future on the rodeo and circus circuit.
-Robin
Your Change Story
The last 3 weeks we have been talking about CHANGE at PSM. Change in your office, with attitude, family, forgiveness, servitude, etc. Instead of waiting for change to come from an outside source, it is time for us to initiate change. Ignite change. We must be the change.
Have you taken that step of faith and changed mundane details of your life? Click the link below and tell us your change story. We want to hear how you are a light at the office, how you chose to forgive, how you decided to pray. How did you make your move?
I would love to hear your change story!
-robin
Lessons learned from Africa
This is the type of thing you learn when Pastor Ani Simonson stays with you:
- there are 2 types of medical facilities in Nigeria – a cheap version for minor cuts or bruises. This is a very risky place. You enter at ‘your own risk’. The other facility is for the rich only. You must pay BEFORE any services are offered. No exceptions. Therefore, if you cut your arm off and you don’t have money, you are not allowed entrance into the hospital. There is no help from medical staff regardless of your medical condition. No health insurance, no credit. This is why bullet #2 is so important…
- He and his wife wake up at midnight (every night) and pray until 3am. They go back to sleep and then wake up at 6am for another hour of prayer. He goes to the church property, which currently has no buildings or facilities, and stays there throughout the day. He prays with people as they walk by and request assistance.
- His tribe is the one who appeared in ‘Amazing Grace’ the blockbuster movie about abolitionists in England and Western Africa. There are still slavery houses in his home town. Tourists can travel through them to see how it actually happened.
When we begin to think about our economy and the affects of a recession, maybe we should think about the rest of the world and put it in a different perspective.
-robin
what do you think of this?
The New York Times ran a story on September 26 that provides incredible evidence that there is within the human heart a yearning to be born again. In “For a Fee, a Thai Temple Offers a Head Start on Rebirth,” reporter Seth Mydans tells of a Buddhist temple that “offers, for a small fee, an opportunity to die, rise up again newborn and make a fresh start in life.”
As the paper reports:
Nine big pink coffins dominate the grand hall of the temple, and every day hundreds of people take their turns climbing in for a few moments as monks chant a dirge. Then, at a command, the visitors clamber out again cleansed — they believe — of the past.
It is a renewal for our times, as recent economic hardship brings uncertainty and people try seeking a bailout on life. In growing numbers, they come here from around Thailand to join what has become an assembly line of resurrection.
The photographs are gripping. Individuals line up to enter coffins, assume a burial posture, and lie briefly under a shroud. Then, they arise and, in some cases, even take on new names. These so-called “funerals for the living” are attracting so much attention in Thailand that a movie, “The Coffin,” is now in Thai cinemas.
Pledging Allegience
Mike Yaconelli once said,
“The impotence of today’s church, the weakness of Christ’s followers, and the irrelevance of most parachurch organizations is directly related to the lack of being in the presence of an awesome, holy God, who continually demands allegiance only to Him – not to our organizations, to our church or our theology.”
This past weekend I referenced our loyalty to country in relation to our dependence upon God. I believe many Americans place their patriotism too high in relation to their spiritual walk with Jesus Christ. Be careful when reading my thoughts that you don’t take them out of context. I support and love my nation, but I am very careful not to substitute or equate patriotism with God’s Kingdom. If (or when) America fails/falls as a nation, God is still in control.
Taking Mr Yaconelli’s quote and these I have made, what are your thoughts on it?
moderating,
-robin
Robin Steele 