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It’s Amazing – Mobile Posting!!
Posted by Paul on 23 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Friends, General, Ponderings
It is amazing that I can sit here at the Rev Coffee Shop and write my thoughts using my HTC Evo to post my thoughts from my mobile phone.
Just downloaded Word Press App for Android, it works great!
Actually when you get around to it, it is a mini-computer. Since I got this, I have not open my lap-top very much.
Just sharing my mobile thoughts. Look’s like a new adventure in blogging communication for me.
Later,
Paul
Talk To Him
Posted by Paul on 23 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Remembering, Writers
I am thankful for those that the Lord has put into my life, those that I pray with. To know the Lord is in our midst. That He will speak to our hearts and make us sensitive to the Holy Spirit, letting us know how to pray and what to pray for.
Prayer, Worship and Praise is what drives the Heart of God , with supplication and a desire to know Him, not just about Him. Sometimes we just listen, other times, we talk to Him, as a Father. To let him know how we feel, what is on our heart. A time of just being honest to God!
When we take time to come into his presence,. it brings joy to His heart, as we delight in Him, He delights in us!
As we touch the heart of God, He touches ours and He shows us how to love with His love. How to love our families, our friends, our brothers and sisters in the Lord, with His love.
That He will show us what it means to be one with Him. That we have been reunited with Him through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and that we have all been made one in the Lord and with each other and that is awesome to think about!
Take time to talk to Him today! Set aside some time to let Him know how much you love and appreciate Him. That He is your Father and you thank Him for revealing Himself to you!!
Let us bless the Lord with our whole heart, with our soul, with our whole being. As the Psalmist David said, “ My mouth is filled with God’s praise. Let everything living bless him, bless his holy name from now to eternity!” (Psalms 145:18-21 – The Message)
Till later,
Paul
Whoa! Don’t Hit The Send Key!
Posted by Paul on 12 May 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, General, Hope, Ponderings, Remembering
The other day, as I sat there at the Rev Coffee Shop, in Smyrna, Georgia, drinking a fresh cup of coffee, thinking, writing, looking out the windows, watching cars drive by and also observing people here in the coffee shop, I begin to wonder what things are on their hearts, their minds today? What battles are they fighting, what stories do they have to tell?
We all have things we can share, thoughts, hopes and dreams. We can build up or we can tear down with the words we share, that we speak, that we type!
We never know what kind of an impact our words will have on others, wether it will be a word that brings, life or death.
As we read James Chapter 3, we see the power that is in that little weapon, the tongue, that it can get us into a lot of trouble, because the word’s we speak, the words we type and the words we send have the power to bring life or death to the heart, to the spirit of someone!
Once that word is spoken or sent out, it is impossible to retrieve. It is like an e-mail we send or a word we speak in the heat of anger, it is gone!
Let us watch over this unruly member, the tongue, to set up a guard in our heart!,
Watch the words that we speak, that we write, that we send!
Take time to sit back and reflect for a little while before we speak or hit the send key.
Till later!
Paul
Why Do We Make It Complicated?
Posted by Paul on 04 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Family, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Writers
One of the things that I am wondering about at the present, is what to write about? What direction am I to go?
What do I have to offer in the Lord, what can I share that will exhort and encourage others? To help them in this walk called life.
How do we uncomplicate, what has been made complicated, especially when it comes to our relationship with our Father, with the Lord, we are to have a childlike faith, to trust in the Creator of heaven and earth!
That we are to walk daily in fellowship and communion with our Father, with the Lord, with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit , that we live in Christ and he lives and abides in us now, the Kingdom of God within.
I cannot live in yesterday, nor walk in tomorrow, but I can walk daily with the Lord, share his love, his peace and rest, that He gives.
We can abide in him, to be changed day by day, living a real life, in a real world, that our lives will reflect that relationship by the life we live, for our lives speak louder than our words.
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned, as I went through chemo and radiation, through surgeries, through a divorce, not by choice, is that the Father, the Lord, the Holy Spirit comforted me, gave me the strength to persevere, to not give up, to hold on to the hope, even when it appeared to be but a thread and to see the Lord bring me through it all to become stronger than I ever was before!
Yes I had my days, yes there were days I wanted to quit, to die, to give up but there was always that tug, that presence, that peace of the Lord, that pulled me through to eventually become a pen in his hand. To write from the heart, out of a relationship, out of what has become real in me.
One of the greatest legacies that I have is my children and grandchildren, they have seen their father and grandfather become stronger and take what could have destroyed him,to press in even more to the Lord and the call to write from the heart.
Hopefully to give hope to others as they are on this path called life, for there is nothing we go through, that he will not carry us through if we will allow him to.
As we walked day by day with the Father, as we are in a attitude of worship, of trust, of faith, we will look back and see that He was with us and that He uses what we have gone through to touch the lives of others.
For we share our experience, not out the theory, but out of what has been made real in our lives!
May our lives, our gifts, our talents, that he has given us reflect that reality. May it bring hope to others, to see it reflected in our lives. That it will cause others to want to know more about that peace, that rest, that comfort that we have.
Till later,
Paul
Real
Posted by Paul on 01 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Writers
What keeps us from being real?
From sharing what is on our hearts?
Are we afraid of what people will say?
What they will think?
Rather than letting others know we are in pain, that we hurt at times, we keep it within, rather then letting them know that we need those who will stand with us, who will pray and lift us up during these times, that we can be real?
It seem’s like the past year I had basically laid my pen down, I allowed my passion to write to be reduced to a flickering flame that was almost extinguished!
I feel a stirring again in this new year 2010, the breath of the Lord breathing life into me, to refocus my vision on Him?
Please lift me in prayer, that I will once again write from the heart, to share what is being made real within, that I might be an instrument in the hand of the Master Writer, to shake off this last year of heaviness and once again to be free indeed, to Write from the Heart!
Till Later,
Paul
New Direction For 2010
Posted by Paul on 22 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Art, Cancer, Coffee Thoughts, Encouragement, Family, Friends, General, Hope, Ponderings, Prayer, Remembering, Writers
Hi Everyone,
Just want to let you know that beginning in January 2010 I will be concentrating more and more on writing, to share the things that have been made real in my life over these last sixty plus years, especially these last six years.
You will noticed that I have changed the title of my blog to “Write From The Heart“ to reflect more of the direction that I feel like the Father wants me to take.
The most important thing that I have learned over the last six years is how important relationship is and that is the one thing that He has made real. That He desires to walk with us, day by day, be one with Him, with the Lord!
We indeed serve a living Saviour, a risen Lord, Jesus Christ!
My desire is to be honest, open and real, to share from the heart, hopefully that which will uplift, encourage, exhort others in this walk called life, that I will be able to share the hope, the rest, the up’s and down’s, victories and defeats, but more important, the hope that I have in the Lord Jesus Christ, in a heavenly Father, who has taken all that I have gone through, to turn me around. New doors and new opportunities will be happening in 2010.
Thank you my many friends, for the encouragement, the reminders, and the hope you have shared with me. I ask for your prayers as I begin this new path, that I will be sensitive to the Lord, to the Holy Spirit, to give out of what has been given too me, the hope that I have in God, that through this journey, I have never, ever been without hope!
Blessings and Merry Christmas my friends!
Till later,
Paul
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