MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I wanted to shout Merry Christmas from my blog site because it is so Anti-Politically Correct! It was as a friend and I were talking about yesterday, in the ancient church it used to be "He is Risen!" "He is Risen, Indeed!" which distinguished whether one was a Christian. Today, one can know if a person is a Chrsitian if he greets someone with the saying of "Merry Christmas!" It seems as if only Christians are saying Merry Christmas. The popular saying everywhere is Happy Holidays. Sooo, Merry Christmas!

I discovered a song on another website which I would like to share with you. It is called "My Jesus" by Todd Agnew.

"My Jesus"

Which Jesus do you follow?
Which Jesus do you serve?
If Ephesians says to imitate Christ
Then why do you look so much like the world?

Cause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the arrogant
So which one do you want to be?

Blessed are the poor in spirit
Or do we pray to be blessed with the wealth of this land
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness
Or do we ache for another taste of this world of shifting sand

Cause my Jesus bled and died for my sins
He spent His time with thieves and sluts and liars
He loved the poor and accosted the rich
So which one do you want to be?

Who is this that you follow
This picture of the American dream
If Jesus was here would you walk right by on the other side or fall down and worship at His holy feet

Pretty blue eyes and curly brown hair and a clear complexion
Is how you see Him as He dies for Your sins
But the Word says He was battered and scarred
Or did you miss that part
Sometimes I doubt we'd recognize Him

Cause my Jesus bled and died
He spent His time with thieves and the least of these
He loved the poor and accosted the comfortable
So which one do you want to be?

Cause my Jesus would never be accepted in my church
The blood and dirt on His feet would stain the carpet
But He reaches for the hurting and despised the proud
I think He'd prefer Beale St. to the stained glass crowd
And I know that He can hear me if I cry out loud

I want to be like my Jesus!
I want to be like my Jesus!

Not a posterchild for American prosperity, but like my Jesus
You see I'm tired of living for success and popularity
I want to be like my Jesus but I'm not sure what that means to be like You Jesus
Cause You said to live like You, love like You but then You died for me
Can I be like You Jesus?
I want to be like my Jesus

May you come to know Jesus this Holy Season. God who came in human flesh, the God who came and with us, died for us, rose again, then ascended into Heaven and set us at the right hand of God.

Blessings!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This has been a very different holiday season. For the first time in almost 30 years I am not working in a grocery store during Thanksgiving. And for the first time in 8 years I won't have the added stress of making sure everything goes right for this holiday! God has been so good to me lately that it can't be hard but to be thankful to Him for everything He does.

Jesus moved me out of the stores in the middle of September. He put me in a new position at the corporate office. I am now officially the Manager of Space Allocation and Product Demonstrations. This means I now have weekends and holidays off. I don't have the stress of the added pressure of running a store. He is so good. People have told me the stress is so less visible on my life. One person told me just the other day I look 5 years younger because of the stress not on my life. Thank-you, Jesus. My doctor told me my health will be a lot better with less stress in my life. Stress is bad for my blood sugar. Thank-you, Jesus!

Then to put another piece to the puzzle in place, He moved upon my pastor's heart to ask Cara and I if we would consider being small group leaders. It would have been very difficult to be a Care group leader if I was still a store director. So again, I am thankful to Him for the opportunity to be a small group leader. I am also signed up to be an usher at church. That will start in December. I will serve for the whole month.

So for this Thanksgiving, I am so thankful to Him for his goodness to me!