My Birthday

It's time to take time out from promoting my humble little
blog to commemorate my birthday. Not the birth of my
spirit/soul container (10\05\56) I'm talking about the
day I was born again. (Aka "Born from above)

On June 25 1974 I received Christ as my Savior
and Lord along with a bunch of other kids at
the big Campus Life end of the school year
retreat down in Ocean City NJ.

Ever since then I've hated sin and have chased
after The Holy Spirit where ever He leads.

Granted it hasn't been a straight path as there
have been a few U-turns and golden calves
to be ground up along the way but
somehow or other God keeps working it to the
good.

Praise His Holy Name Forever!

Introduction

Larry the Lucky Loser


In the end we're all losers. If you're lucky you don't have allot of stuff
to fret over, because when we die, none of it is going to really matter anyway.


Introduction


If you have any kind of Christian background you've heard of The Beatitudes.
This is where The Teacher espouses all these virtues that are contrary to
what the world believes. Things like being in a state of mourning or
knowing that you're really broke. As opposed to always striving to be
rich with all your desires fulfilled.

To that end I'd like to add "Blessed are the losers for in the end
they'll meet the one who's already won."

God doesn't like poor people more than than the rich. It's just that
poor people tend to give Him more cooperation.

In the same way, it's never good when tragedy strikes. But it's
in those times we see how fragile life is as we gather around and
get closer to God and to our loved ones.

And God doesn't want us to fail all the time. Yet when we do fail
that's when we can really learn what to do next.

"Blessed are the losers for in the end
they'll meet the one who's already won."