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