Sometimes, it just doesn’t make any sense; that God would create love across a million miles. We greet people near and far from our desks, rarely looking for, or expecting the excitement and intrigue of love across the sea. We don’t look for it, because we don’t really know if it exists. Who wants a love they cannot see, or touch, or know face to face? Who wants the hope deferred, the hope that makes the heart sick? Who wants the nagging question that haunts every mind…is this for real? Is this yet another hoax? What if I give my all, expose the well-spring of my life, my heart? What if…?
There is no explanation for an intense attraction that is fanned only by the flames of faith. There is no quenching the thirst of an empty embrace, a hug that is replaced by a jpeg teddy bear that says I ♥U. There is no way to measure the anticipation of the long distance connection; every moment eagerly waiting for the comforting, “Hello dear” to pop on the screen…there is just no way…
But think with me further…who can explain an undeniable, immovable faith in God? How much more should we sit and wait for the Lord? Do we seek him as diligently as the tug of a love story on the PC screen? Do we wait eagerly for God to speak to us each day…are we even paying attention? Cyber space, has taken the place of a face. We trust in the wires, and the applications that tell us the name of our next love starts with “T”. But, what about G-O-D?
Who among us has seen the Lord? Who has touched him and known him face to face? Yet, not every heart skips a beat when he blesses us with grace and favor. Look at the love in the sunshine and refreshing rain. Look at that faithfulness in the new life at springtime. Do you ever think about the next breath you will take, or the next beat of your heart? Does your love for him keep you eager for his next great move, his next, “Hello Dear” when you open your eyes in the morning?
If God had a PC (or Mac), would you diligently seek his messages each day? Would you read every message instead of deleting before opening? Would you send him an instant message just to say, “hello?” Would you believe him then if he said he loves you unconditionally, and would give his life again for you? God doesn’t Twitter, but he does deliver. God never puts out a promise that returns to him void. He promised to be around all the time, to direct, protect us.
So, what if you gave him your all; exposed your heart to the Lord; if you gave him access to the well-spring of your life? What if you had access to unconditional love, the favor of kings and queens, the assurance of salvation, answered prayer, victory, forgiveness, and guidance? What if…?
There are no wires, no keyboards, no jpegs, just God. There are no seas to cross, or miles to drive. God is right where you are. It is not a hoax, or gimmick, just an ever-present, all- powerful, all-knowing, unfailing love in your space, right here, right now. He wants your heart more than anyone near or far. He wants all of you, so he can give you more of him. Seek the Lord early, when he can be found. Run to him in the middle of the day when you feel run down. Embrace sleep with him in the evening when rest becomes your only goal.
By seeking God, you will know him. By knowing him you will love him.
By loving him you will trust him. By trusting him, you will see him.
He is in everything you do. Everywhere you go.
"There are no wires, no keyboards, no jpegs…just the endless love of God, charged by the flames of faith"
My friend, Shaunna wrote this and i fell in love with it. Read more of her works @ http://boundbymywords2.wordpress.com
It’s a common belief in America and around the world these days that without a high school diploma, you have no future. This opinion may be true to some extent, but it’s certainly not a hard and fast rule. There are a lot of highly successful people in this world who never even completed high school.
One of these successful people is Flava Flav, who dropped out of school when he was only 13, although, admittedly, it shows. He’s now planning to return to school to get his G.E.D., and the ordeal may even become a reality show on VH1. He’s not the only celebrity that dropped out of high school and still did well though. In fact, some high school dropouts are actually pretty brilliant.
Dave Thomas
The founder of Wendy’s, Dave Thomas started working in the restaurant industry at only 12 years old. His family was constantly on the move and at age 15, he refused to keep moving with his parents. He was working part time at the Hobby House restaurant in Fort Wayne and dropped out of high school to start working at the business full time.
After working as a mess sergeant during the Korean War, he began working for KFC, where he was able to help turn several of their failing franchises around. In 1969, he sold of the KFC franchises he owned and opened his own restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. He named the restaurant after his daughter, who was actually called Melinda, but was nicknamed Wendy. These days, Wendy’s is the third largest burger chain in America.
In 1993, Dave decided that he didn’t want to set a bad example for any youngsters out there, so he enrolled at Coconut Creek High School and earned his GED.
George Bernard Shaw
Famed Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw held an outright animosity towards schooling that he maintained throughout his life. He was quoted as saying, “schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.” Not surprisingly, the writer never completed his own education, having dropped out of the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School.
His main complaints about schooling was the standardization of the curriculum, which he believed deadened the spirit and stifled the intellect. He also deplored the corporal punishment being used in schools, although most modern teachers and parents would agree with him on this issue.
George Eastman
Creator of the Kodak Camera Company, George Eastman, was forced to drop out of school due to financial circumstances. At only 14, his father died and the only way George could keep his two sisters and mother alive was to quit school and begin working as an office boy full time. By the age of 26, Eastman found his true calling and began working to improve the emulsion process involved in photography. He though the liquid emulsions proved quite a problem as they were excessively sticky and had to be used quickly before they dried. In only three years, Eastman had perfected his dry emulsion plates and he started his own photographic business in 1880.
Quentin Tarantino
While a lot of famous directors hone their skills during college, Quentin Tarantino built up his film knowledge by working in a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, California.
He not only never went to college, but he quit going to Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California in his freshman year. He started learning the acting craft in acting school at the James Best Theatre Company in Toluca Lake, but it really wasn’t until he started working at Video Archives with Roger Avery, also a director these days, that he really began sharpening his future skills. Some people complain about Tarantino’s movies having too much focus on the dialogue, but for a high school dropout, I’d say that’s not such a bad thing.
Richard Pryor
If comedy really is born from tragedy, then it is only logical that Richard Pryor became one of the top comedians of the seventies. Pryor had anything but an easy life.
He was raised in his grandmother’s brothel, where his mother “worked” and his father served as her pimp. At only ten, his mother abandoned him and his strict grandmother took over his care, beating him whenever she thought he was acting “eccentric.” With a home life like this, it’s not all to surprising that he ended up being expelled from high school at 14.
In the end, Pryor ended up proving the adage that “whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger” and his comedy career was one of the longest lasting and most successful of the last fifty years.
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings started broadcasting when he was only nine years old. He followed the footsteps of his father, a respected radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and operated as the host of a CBC children’s program called “Peter’s People.” Surprisingly, his father was out on assignment when Jennings was chosen for the gig and he was furious at the network for hiring his son solely because he was the son of a broadcaster.
When it came to schooling, Jennings was a great athlete, but a terrible student, which he said was due to “pure boredom.” He failed to pass the 10th grade and dropped out as a result. He tried to attend Carleton University, but “lasted about 10 minutes” before he dropped out there.
After school, he started working at The Royal Bank of Canada, but he dreamed of being a professional broadcaster. I’d say did pretty well at meeting those goals, wouldn’t you?
Peter Jackson
Before he directed the Lord of The Rings, or even his cult classics like Meet The Feebles, Peter Jackson was just a film-obsessed kid. He was trying to make his own film by age of nine, complete with the special effects he loved to see in shows like “Thunderbirds.” After he saw the original King Kong, he started trying to mimic the stop-motion from the film. He spent his entire childhood and all of his teenage years making short films and developing his own special effect techniques, which even included making his own minuscule models.
When he was 16, he dropped out of high school and started working as an apprentice engraver in a newspaper photography department. He kept living with his parents so he could save money for film-making supplies, which he soon used to begin production on what would become his first full-length film, Bad Taste. When you know that your future is film you don’t have a real need for the three Rs of “reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You gotta go with your heart. Life is too short to be concerned with 'career,' you should be more concerned with happiness. I gave up a career in engineering to be a chef and at the time I did it, being a chef wasn’t what it was now…it wasn’t popular. It wasn’t about being famous. I made the choice because I really truly enjoyed being in the kitchen. It was a passion, it was fun, that’s why I chose to be a chef."
