Been A While

Hello my friends! I know it has been a while since I have posted anything and for those of you who have been following my posts I apologize. I guess I have been a little disheartened as of late. I don't know about you but I am so tired of those who are elected officials not listening to us. I am tired of the federal Government and even on the state level thinking that they know what is best for me!! Last time I checked...... I was a tax paying citizen in a "free Country" but I guess that just isn't the truth anymore. And if you think I am off the deep end let me ask you a couple of questions.

1. Where is the freedom in a mandatory seat belt law? Am I not an adult? If the government wants to require auto makers to put seat belts in cars hey that's fine, but don't be telling me I gotta ware one!!

2. Child seats in cars.... same thing. Who's children are these? Do they belong to the state or to their parents? If I want my child up front with me then that is my business not the governments.

3. Since when has it been a crime to speak out against something you don't agree with.... oh ya that's right just recently!! You know I bet King George didn't like those rebel colonials in the "new world" telling him to keep his noise out of their business either!!

4. Where is the freedom, PLEASE, tell me where is the freedom when a government tells me I have HAVE to have medical insurance or I am going to be fined? Please where is the freedom in that?

5. And the list could go on and on but I won't keep going. I am sure that if you gave it just a little thought you could add more to my list...?? couldn't you!

What do you do when you keep talking and no one is listening? When talk is not getting the job done then what do you do? Do you sit ideally by and watch everything that you have fought for just go down the drain? Are you going to sit there and let America be turned into a Socialistic state run by those to whom the rules do not apply? Just when is enough, enough?

So, you realize that what I am writing is on the verge of being against the law? Just asking questions and saying what needs to be said. Big brother wants to make anyone who questions them out to be a terrorist. I wonder if King George would have considered our Forefathers to be "domestic terrorist"? I wonder if this blog will put me on some watch list?

Sound paranoid? well stranger things have happened and are happening every day.

Where are the Statesmen, the leaders who love America and freedom more than politics and power, more than status and financial gain? Is there no one who will stand up and lead us forward to back where we used to be?

You ask, "What is this world coming to"? JESUS!!!!! my friend this world is coming to Jesus weather it wants to or not.

Remember the most important thing on this earth to God is people.... so be about His business and make your life about people, no matter what you do to put food on your table and pay your bills, make your life about PEOPLE!!!!!

THOMAS AWAKE

A PLAN AND WORKING THE PLAN

Well, a new year has begun!!! Happy new year to everyone who reads this. I am looking forward to this year with great anticipation for what is going to happen in my life and our country.

I have come to realize that most of the failures in my life are NOT because my plans failed but because I really failed to have a plan. So this year is going to be different for me. I am not a believer in new years resolutions but I am going to have some specific plans for my life this year and I am going to work those plans to their fullest extent and see what happens. My father used to always say that the test of a man's character is what it takes to stop him and you know what? He was and is right!

Just remember one thing, if you decide to join me on your own 2010 make a plan and work the plan endeavor. God is in control and He has his own plan and is working that plan. He also has a plan for your life, so you might want to spend some time with Him before you set out to make your plans. ;)

May God bless you this year beyond all that you could ask or think and my you have peace in the midst of the storm.

WAKE UP TO THE REALITY......... OF GOD........ PERIOD!!!!!!!!

ONE MORE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS

Well, Christmas has come and is almost gone. It is the evening of Christmas day and the presents have been opened and the food has been stuffed away in more ways than one! I have so much to be thankful for. You know the older I get the more I realize that it truly is more blessed to give than to receive. Spending time with the ones you love is such a blessed gift. I would love to have just one more day with my father. I would do nothing but sit and talk and tell him how much I love him and how important he is to me. Our time on this earth is so very short and the decisions we make in this life have eternal consequences. I know that some who read this blog may not agree and that's OK I don't agree with some of the stuff I read that people say. I do believe that it is important that we take the time to think about things eternal and not just temporal.

Christmas... what a concept...... that the Creator of all things sent his only Son to a fallen depraved race so that He could have a relationship once again with the only thing He created in His own image. Crazy, fiction, lunacy, I know those who think so but I don't. It makes perfect sense to me. I don't need to understand everything before I believe it. In fact, everyone is that way,they just don't realize it. Think about it for a minute. What are some of the things you believe in that you don't understand? I believe in a lot of things I don't understand. So why is it that so many refuse to believe in the Bible and a God that loves so much that He would send His only Son to save us because we can not save ourselves? Is it really so hard to believe? Or is it that there is something in us as humans that doesn't want to admit that we need a Savior. "I'm alright, I don't need anything from anybody. I can solve my own problems". How can something that is imperfect, perfect itself? I know..... and the argument goes on and on and it has for centuries and will continue until Jesus comes back and sets everything straight and right.

But honestly people how can we say that we are not flawed in our very essence, character? Look around you and tell me that "man" is getting better and better all the time. Better at killing one another, better at developing new ways of depravity, cruelty, hate, self destruction, selfishness, control over another,.......etc. Yes I agree that man has made great strides in science and ways of helping mankind. But at his very center, man is in need of a cure that he cannot provide for himself and that is why there is Christmas.... and Easter.

Just a little time spent on thinking about the eternal! WAKE UP!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!

SO MUCH........ THANK YOU!!

I found myself this morning thinking about my life as of late and wondering what is in store for me in the future. I have been without a "steady" job now since August. Have been picking up work here and there but nothing permanent, if there is such a thing!

Anyway, I started to feel sorry for myself because it is Christmas time and I just don't have the money to spend on those that I love. And, there are a few things that I could use and want...... but..... I don't know if you do this but, I started to compare my life with others and what they have that I do not and it was as if the Lord just smacked my upside the head and said "knock it off". So I said OK! I started thinking about all the things I do have that mean so much to me and you know none of it was "stuff" it was mostly people and relationships. For example: my wonderful wife, who loves me unconditionally, takes me as I am and doesn't try to change me into something she "wants". She is always supportive and doesn't cut me down or take down to me. She doesn't talk bad about me to others. She loves the Lord and wants to serve Him. I don't know too many men that can honestly say that about their wives. I have two step sons that love the Lord and their mother and father along with me. We have a wonderful relationship. They are wise and not foolish. I could not ask for nicer "sons". I have a very nice modest home, wonderful family, and two dogs that always put a smile on my face. I have so much to be thankful for. God has been so good to me in spite of myself, with all my faults and short comings. Although I really could use a job, I have all that I need and so very much more.

Please take the time to think about all the blessing you have been given and then tell someone about it. Don't keep it to your self. Someone out there needs to hear it and be blessed. Encourage one another with your words and deeds.

WAKE UP!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!

LAST NIGHT IN A LONG TIME

Last night I performed a free Christmas concert for anyone who was willing to come. I held it at my church in Bolivar Texas. For those of you who do not know, I am a singer/ songwriter/ actor...... besides what ever else it takes to put food on the table and provide for my family. Last night's concert was my first Christmas concert since 2003. I moved to Texas in 04 and had not given a concert since I left North Idaho. I must say that it was good to be up and on stage and doing what I love best, singing! It took me a long time to come to the reality that I was a singer. I know that may sound strange to you but that is just the way it is. I struggled for years with who I was and sometimes I still do. But I know that my "talents" are in the fine arts and that is the way God created me to be.

I will work at doing more singing in the future and perhaps something will come of it. I have sung for very large crowds in the past and some very small ones also. It does not matter the size of the crowd all that matters is that I use the talent's the good Lord gave me to bless those whom I come in contact with.

Who are you? What is it the Creator created you to be? Are you using your talents to bless those you come in contact with? If not then why not? There is a reason you are still on this earth, so BE what God created you for!!

WAKE UP!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!

THOMAS

HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED

I have been watching the game for so many years now and it is always played the same way. The problem is that no most people are not paying attention so "they" get away with it. Let me see if I can awaken you to this strategy that has been and is being so successfully deployed against us. Here is how it works. Let's say that you have something in mind that you want from someone else but you know that they won't give it to you. The question is, how do you get what you want? pretty simple question, right? Well what you do is ask for way more than what you what and in the art of compromise you end up getting exactly what you wanted. Or you make a situation out to be much worse than it is and out of fear the person gives you what you want. Or even if you don't have the power or authority you can threaten them or intimidate them into giving you what you want. The powers that be do this all the time! If you are "AWAKE" you can see it. Fore instance, the Cap and Trade Bill. There has been much debate over this bill and many believe that it will spell the end of our way of life as we know it. It basically is a huge tax program to make everyone,not just big business, conform to the ideology of Globalism. Just this morning on the news I saw where the EPA is now telling congress that if they don't deal with this bill and soon that they, being the EPA, will take over and do it for them, and if they have to do it, it won't be pretty. Do you see what they are doing? They want the bill put into play so they tell congress you had better do it soon or we the "EPA" will take matters into our own hands.

I am not going to go into the whole global warming "crap" but just let me say that in the 70's the same people were saying that we were going into the next ice age! I wish they would make up their minds, don't you? Also if there wasn't some sort of global warming going on we would still be in the freakin "Ice Age"!!!!

Always look for the hidden agenda and always follow the money. ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY!!! do I need to say it again, because I will!

In the words of our government officials, "never let a good emergency go to waste". How do yo think the Patriot Act got passed? Fear is being used to get people to give up their freedoms and American sovereignty . I don't know about you but I am not ready to give up my God given rights of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" Are you? Are you living in a "spirit of fear" ?

WAKE UP!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!

Thomas

KEEPING "IT" REAL

As I had my quite time this morning I found myself think about all the people I know that "seem" hollow and empty but endeavor to put on a good game face. Ya know what I mean? They are all smiles and laughter but if you can get a look into their eyes there is an emptiness that is longing to be filled. And then I wondered if I come across to people like that? Do people look at me and see a genuine individual who loves life and those around him or do I appear hollow and empty?

Don't get me wrong, I don't feel hollow and empty! When I look in the mirror I actually like who I see. (except for those unwanted pounds) But I would not want to give the wrong impression to those I come in contact with. Keeping my life "real" and my attitude where it should be is something that I work at daily. I don't care to much for General Collen Powell's politics but I did hear him say one time that if he could tell the young people of today anything it would be, "to have a sense of shame and don't give me any excuses". I thought that that is pretty good and applies to a lot of grown ups also, including myself. What does it mean to "have a sense of shame"? I suppose it could mean a number of things to a number of people, so I will let you decide for yourself what that means to you. But, "don't give me any excuses" is pretty universal in it's scope and application! It is not an easy thing to swallow one's pride and admit the truth, but it is the RIGHT thing!

It is my goal to be as genuine as a person as I can possible be. What you see is what you get, no hidden agendas no mind games and please no manipulations!!! In doing so I am at peace with my God, myself, and with others and that is right were I want to be!

Keeping "IT" real is something that we all need a little more of from ourselves and from others.

Just a little something to think about as you go through life's journey. Remember the one thing about life is.....NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE!!!! WAKE UP!!!!! WAKE UP!!!! WAKE UP!!!! The coffee smells soooooooo good!

Thomas