Kirk’s Blog

“...what a wonderful phrase...it means no worries for the rest of your day....”. You can’t tell me your not singing the song.    We all want to feel this but is it possible? Worry according to Oxford’s is: verb- give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles. noun- a state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems. So as a verb it means you have made a choice, as a noun it is a place you are at.    So can we make a choice to leave a place we are at and go to a different place?    I believe that answer is yes, but I also believe we don’t or can’t do either without help.   The Bible and our Lord cover worry extensively.    I was amazed at the number of places and times that pulled up when I did the word search. Nearly 3500 in the Old Testament and over 400 times in the New Testament, two word that follow close behind and walk hand in hand are fear and pain.    Both fear and pain are real and both are the

I am writing this blog based on a devotional my Mom did for a ladies class.  Thanks Mom this one needs to be shared... So when Mom was a little girl she was given a piggy bank, and all the time she was growing up she would drop her change into that piggy bank until the piggy bank was so full she couldn’t add to it any more, then she put it on a shelf and there it has sat for some 60 plus years.  That piggy bank has gone from West Texas to West Germany to Virginia to Kansas City to Colorado and back to Texas over the span of those years, and Mom has never taken a dime out of it.  Back when she was first married and Kara and I  joined her and Dad and Dad had been deployed to Vietnam, there where some tough financial times. The money in that piggy bank probably could have helped the ends to meet, but she never thought to pull from the reserve she had sitting on the shelf. When we are baptized into Christ we receive the Holy Spirit, our baptism fills our spiritual piggy bank. Luke

Isn’t it amazing how God will talk to us? We pray and ask God to do this or do that for us, then sit back and wait for it to happen, and if it doesn’t happen we wonder why God didn’t answer.  I know there is a song by Garth Brooks about this, I think what he was saying is there is no such thing as an unanswered pray, only unheard answers.  We are so busy waiting to see our answer, that we are not listening for God’s answer,  “ The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.” ‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭19:11-12‬ ‭NIV‬‬ We fail to hear the whisper watching for the wind, earthquake, or fire, yet if you would take a minu

“keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” ‭‭‬ Psalms ‭16:8‬ ‭    This verse has been very close to me over the last month. The month started with a mini stroke that has caused me to lose a portion of my peripheral vision in my right eye. Also because of the potential that the stroke could have been caused by the treatment trial I was put on treatment hold. Two weeks later I started having pain in my left hip and was feeling generally not well. Today we know this was because for the first time since we started treatments the cancer fought back in the last month because I wasn’t able to take a treatment. It was a minimal amount of growth but in the right places to cause the pain I was feeling, just another example of the Lord watching out for us.  I wanted to be scared, I wanted to have doubt but He would not let me. I have kept telling myself “ Lord I trust you, I know you have control and that everything will be ok”. This thought has gi