What Does Your Deposit Slip Say?

When you want to put money into a bank or credit union, you typically have to fill out a deposit slip. The deposit slip generally shows what day and lists how much was put into the account. We use this slip as a reference for how much our account is growing. The bank or credit union uses the slip for the same purpose and as a check and balance system. Relationships can be looked at in the same manner.

In the relationship bank you should deposit time not that you have to keep up with every minute and hour, but you must put in the time in order to make a go at starting and keeping it healthy. You should deposit commonality. Having things in common gives you the opportunity to bond together. Liking and doing things and events that both of you enjoy creates comrade-ship, and that leads to depositing pleasant memories.

Remember to deposit attentiveness. Paying special attention to others wants needs and desires can go a long way in sealing the relationship. Affection checked on the deposit slip creates a warm environment each time you are with one another. Listening placed in your relational bank gives voice to your intimate thoughts. Listening sets up a give and take in your dialogue which causes you to deposit sharing into your bank.

As your relational bank begins to get full, you make your biggest deposit. You deposit love. You show your love by depositing the up most of care in all that you do and say.
The special touch the endearing phrase, the inside joke that only the two of you know; The joy the sorrow that have knitted two hearts and souls as one to cement the love you have one for another.

Your relational bank is now full, but like all accounts you must keep a periodical check on its transactions. Protect your investment from those, who would steal from your relationships. Just as you deposited time, commonality, comrade-ship, pleasant memories, attentiveness, affection, listening, sharing, love, and care, keep in mind that they can be taken away without official notice.

Check your relational deposits more often than your bank sends out a quarterly report. Check them daily, weekly monthly and yearly. This is a life investment that pays big dividends which promises you a lifetime of benefits if you deposit with your heart.

Be Still My Heart

The hole in your heart has many jagged pieces that continue to cut you here and there at any given time. All through the nights and days of your agony you bleed profusely. You feel like cattle who have been led to the slaughter pits and left hanging until every drop of life is drained from you.

Sometimes you wonder where you get the strength to make another step through another day. But, you do! You pray another prayer and hope that God can reach to the floor and pick up your request. Life right now is lower than low, and pulling yourself up by the boot straps is not an option.

The words you read from the Bible while you’re trying to find some comfort are just a blur. Your friends are like Job’s friend in that they can’t help but speak many pointless words. No words of encouragement have broken to your wounded heart.

As night falls, your mind in ceaseless thoughts can not give you rest so that you can sleep, and wake fullness becomes the enemy of your physical body. Hope, joy peace, where art thou? Come Holy Spirit, fall fresh on me. Fill me with your power, satisfy my needs. My heart is truly broken and I need a special touch from God Himself.

I know that God is close to the broken hearted. But, right now God it doesn’t feel good, I’m hurting. I’m so glad that situations only last for a season. I know Lord that you have seen me through many rough times, and that you will see me through again.

I’ll get up and try again tomorrow even if I don’t feel like it. I’ll try to pray and if I don’t, would You let the Holy Spirit intercede for me?

Will you send people to speak life into me until I can speak life into myself and others? Would you send me an angel to be my rearguard so that I won’t be taken off the track? And then God will you bless the one who has caused the pain in my life so that your glory may be manifested.

And God, when this miracle is done may I fall down on my knees and give you the praise thanking you Father for never leaving me nor forsaking me. Thank you that you are my Father, and I am Your child. Thank you for loving me ‘As Is.’ I will rest on Your Word and wait for your deliverance.

Psalm 62:1-2 tell us ‘My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. The focus of this Psalm is us placing all our hope in God. Knowing that God is in control of our lives helps us to wait patiently for him to rescue us. We will get relief when we praise Him through the good and bad times in our lives. Your heart will be elevated from daily distractions to lasting confidence in Him when we truly rest on Him.

Be still my heart and know that He is God.

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My How Time Flies

The bad news is time flies. There’s not enough time in the day to get things done that you really want to do. You have to work, you have household duties, you have to get groceries, you have to rush here and there. There’s just not enough time to do what you want to do.

Now there is an adage that says “time flies when you are having fun.” Time seems to run out when you are enjoying yourself at an event, when you are having the best time of your life with your favorite person or your “ace coon boom.”

Do you remember when you first accepted the Lord and all you could do was to eat sleep and drink Jesus? You wanted to spend all your time in the Word of God and time sped by all too quickly. The clock showed hours passing by swiftly as you couldn’t get enough of your Savior and Lord. Time seemed to move like the speed of light. So, what happened?

You forgot who the pilot was. News Flash just in!! You are the pilot. You’re the navigator of your time allotments. A common year is 365 days = 8,760 hours = 525,600 minutes = 31,536,000 seconds. How will you spend these precious interim periods in your life? Your season is here. Let’s get started.

Each year we all start out again at the stroke of midnight on December 31st. At this time of the year we resolve to spend our time more wisely than the year before. For the first couple of months, you tend to do okay. Depending on your location the weather could aid or defeat your goal. If it’s cold you may stay in more and work on the things you set out to accomplish. In warmer climates you may want to go outside and play and leave your life work behind. Either way you divvy the time into slots of activity. You determine who you are going to be by spending the time to perfect you.

Becoming a scholar means spending time in your studies. Being a swimmer requires many hours conditioning and swimming laps. Being a good Christian means spending time with God. Wherever you spend the most time dictates who you are. Only you can pilot your time slots and where your time is spent.

Whether your time stands still or creeps in a slow pace, only you can guide the big an small hands of the mechanical device that governs a period during which your actions or processes exists. Steer your time in the direction that redeems the time you have.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 exemplifies time when it states, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.”

Invite God to be your co-pilot as you navigate through the cycle of life.




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01-18-09

Dancing in the Rain

Did you ever see children playing in the rain hopping in every puddle they couldn’t wait to get to; splashing water everywhere that brought about laughter with every drop? The clothes would get wet but the spirit giggled with delight. The mud doesn’t matter or the season of the year. It’s a time to dance and play and enjoy the present moment

When the storms in your life bring about deep puddles, shallow puddles or the appearance of puddles, do we walk through them, jump over them or do we wait for them to dry up on their own? Sometimes waiting causes life to be a lot harder than if we would have acted on the situation or circumstance right away.

Some of us thought that if we ignored the problem that it would go away if we did not acknowledge it on its own, only to look a little further down the road and run into it again head on. We have not learned to navigate properly. We fear. We don’t understand that going through the storm circumvents obstacles that we would not have to face later on in life. I call it “handle your business.”

Step up and do the stuff that keeps you from dancing in life. Face the storms, prepare for the storms and hold to God’s hand as He takes you through the storm. Some storms are light weight and others pact a full force. No matter which one you are weathering, God will be there. Trust Him, seek His Word and let Jesus guide you daily.

Storms are a natural pattern of the seasonal life, just as they are a part of our natural life. They come and they go and only last for a short time. Determine that you will be like a little child when the storms bring rain in your life. Learn to be God’s partner as He hand dance and waltz you through each puddle. Let Him lead. His steps are well practiced and sure.

Think of rain as it gives us a rainbow of God’s promise to us. It can water the flower gardens of life with hope, peace and destiny. Learn to dance, dance, dance!


Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

You May Not Be Who You Want To Be but, You Can Be All You Need To Be

As we celebrate milestones in our lives, so we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King. There will be many events and programs put on in his name.

If Dr. King would have lived, I’m sure he would be a prominent figure at one of the biggest milestones of this century. Dr. King had a dream although he didn’t see it come to fruition. As we gravitate to our first black presidential inauguration, which is a huge milestone in this United States of America, Celebrate!

Celebrate the famous quote of Dr. King when he said” Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." A new hope has been created in America. More people now believe that a bold and audacious dream can come true. Imagine the possibilities that will come into being as people of all races, colors and creeds realize that accomplishing their musings is a thought a change a doable yes we can. Can you participate in a milestone in your personal life, “YES YOU CAN”.

How will you treat the milestones in your personal life? You have lived to participate in this milestone and will benefit from all that it brings. What say you to your new lifestyle change? Its time to grasp your dreams and begin to put feet and shoes upon them. You may have started off crawling, but now its time to begin to walk in new ways. Once your dreams are on sturdy ground, then its time to run the race. In Hebrews 12:1 it states “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

There were times before this milestone took place that we had lost hope of seeing a black president in our lifetime. We often heard the phrase “Yes we can” throughout the campaign. Now that Barack Obama has become the first black president, many believe that our dreams can come true. The words” Yes We Can” are a reality. We know that we may not be who we want to be, but we can become who we need to be by following our dreams and moving forward seeking to reach our own private milestones.

Do you want to honor Dr. Kings’ dream or one of your own? Then push, push and push until you have made it to your milestone. When you arrive--- CELEBRATE CELEBRATE, CELEBRATE!!

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01-13-09

“There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Happy New Year!

We have made it through another year. It’s time for 2008 to leave us and make room for 2009. ‘08’ has seen its trials in every form of life, but for the most part, we have survived. So, now that we are here, what were you celebrating as the clock ticked down to a new year? When the ball dropped in Times Square, or when you were standing in a church in prayer, what was your new year’s resolutions? Do you know why you go through these rituals each year?

New Year’s celebrated at different times in different countries. This holiday has been celebrated in September in Egypt when the river Nile flooded. Egypt was desert land and this was the way its people could grow their crops. In Babylonia they celebrated in the spring of the year. The Romans New Year was on the first of March in the beginning but was changed 46 B.C. by Julius Caesar to January 1st. January was named after the Roman god Janus who was always shown as having two heads. He looked back to the last year and forward to the new one. In Europe, New Year was often a time for superstition and fortune-telling, and in some parts of Switzerland and Austria, people dress up to celebrate Saint Sylvester’s Eve.

In the West, which is us, we think of New Year’s Day parades, football and resolutions we often don’t keep. The Tournament of Roses Parade dates back to 1886. This parade celebrated the ripening of the orange crop in California. The football game was played as part of the celebration in 1902. The following year the game was replaced by Roman chariot races. In 1916 the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.

The tradition of using the baby to signify the New year begun in Greece around 600 BC. The baby is a symbol of rebirth. The early Christians denounced the practice as pagan, the popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth forced the Church to reevaluate its position. The Church finally allowed its members to celebrate the new year with a baby, which was to symbolize the birth of the baby Jesus.
For luck, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. Traditional New Year’s foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck because it symbolizes “coming full circle” completing a year’s cycle. Black-eyed peas and cabbage are others foods served in many families.

Finally we look at the song Auld Lang Syne. This song is sung at the stroke of midnight across the nation. The song was partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700’s. It was first published in 1796 after Burns death. Burns produced the modern version as others were sung previously. An old Scotch tune, ”Auld Lang Syne” literally means “old long ago,” or simply “the good old days.”
It’s good to know why we celebrate the different holidays. Take the time to know and celebrate that God has created you to enjoy the festivities with hope reason and purpose. If you choose to make New Year’s resolutions, then resolve to know why you do what you do. Know your purpose, research why things happen in your life. Study to show yourself approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15.

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