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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
Pain
Posted by Paul on 02 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Cancer, Coffee Thoughts, Divorce, General, Hope, Prayer, Remembering
Why Write About Pain?
Pain is one of the things that I have been dealing with for the last seven years. It is part of my normal, everyday life. It never, ever goes away. The medications that I take, dull it and the side effects of the medication cause drowsiness and other effects and because of that I have to rest a lot.
This pain and the side effects are the very things that keep me focused on the Lord, reminding me of how far He has brought me and how much He has been changing me, that I am in the process of changing daily, becoming more like the Lord in heart, in attitude. It is an inner journey, that I am not the same man, that I was seven years ago, that I am becoming more conformed to the Lord.
Yes there are days that it takes everything within me to move forward, to go out into the marketplace, to be out in the coffee shops, etc., for those are the very places the Father wants me to be, For it is there that I can focus on others, to look outward, not inward.
It is there that I get to meet new people. To listen, a lot of listening, to encourage, exhort, lift up others. To share the hope, the peace, the rest that I have in the midst of this journey called life. The pain, the things I physically go through maybe my thorn, for they keep me focused and remind me that my strength comes from the Lord.
Yes there are days, I want to let go, but I cannot because I know that the life I live now is because of the Lord, that he is allowed my children and grandchildren to see the changes he has made in me over these last seven years. That others can see and know it is the grace of God, that has enabled me to be where I am now spiritually, and emotionally.
Though I’m on full disability and I can’t do the things I used to, I can do what I’ve been called to and that is to go out into the marketplace, where people are. For me it is the coffee shops, it is amazing how long I can make a large cup of coffee last
I have met so many awesome people over the years in the coffee shops and made so many new friends. I’ve been able to exhort, encourage and lift others up. In a coffee shop you overhear so many things and many times I feel a sense of the Lord to lift those things to Him in prayer and I do, others may reap the fruit, but I get the honor of planting the seed, even though I didn’t talk to them personally. I have learned it is important to respond to those promptings of the Lord. In a coffee shop as well as other places, you overhear conversations, even when you don’t want to.
I don’t know exactly why I felt to share this today, but I have learned when the Lord says to write, I write, the rest is up to him!
I hope the words that I have written will encourage you in your walk, in your life, for we all deal with pain, not all of it is physical. He uses the things we go through to make us stronger and enables us to touch others, because we share out of a relationship, out of a life with the Lord, and we share that very life with others, not out of theory but out of a relationship, that our lives reflect that reality, for often our lives speak louder than our words.
Till later,
Paul
“Thin Places: A Memoir” By Mary DeMuth
Posted by Paul on 02 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Book Reviews, Encouragement, Friends, General, Hope
It has been awhile since I have read a book that really grabbed a hold of me, as did “Thin Places: A Memoir” A book that was raw, open and real. It will touch others who have gone through the hurts, disappointments, the pains and the losses in life and to see Mary’s journey that led to healing.
Her book brought me to a place where I could look back, to see the many “Thin Places” on my journey with cancer, surgeries, divorce and a lost of everything. Where I could see the “Aha” moments, where the Father revealed himself to me, that gave me the strength, the hope to press on. Like others, I will never be the same after reading “Thin Places.”
Thank you Mary!
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
