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Monday, 11/24/08 11:53 pm

Have you ever had one of those days where you just didn’t feel very motivated? That has been the case around here the last couple of days. Actually yesterday was one of those days where I felt like just being in a bad mood and I don’t even know why…it’s crazy to even be like that. Like I’ve said to the youth many times we have the ability to choose what kind of attitude we’re going to have. We may not be able to choose the circumstance or the situation but we have the ability to choose how we react to a situation. So I had to put my money where my mouth is and snap out of it and get the move on. Today has been much better, except Jill and Brett my youngest boy has been feeling under the weather today, it’s never any fun when the little ones are not feeling too perky. But the cool thing about it all was I prayed for Jill and Brett this morning, and later in the day Brett said, “Dad, God made me feel better.” That put a smile on my face!
Well, last week was an extremely busy week for me with my grad classes that I’m taking. For those that don’t know, I graduated from Pitt State in 2000 and after an 8 year absence I decided to go back to school and get my masters degree in Sports/Business Administration from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. I am also an assist. baseball coach there. The Lord opened some doors for me to be an assistant there and pay for all my schooling. The classes are mostly online but I have to still go to Warrensburg for baseball practice. Needless to say, last week was crazy, I had 3 big assignments that were due, but thank God, my wife and my mom getting all my papers typed I was able to get them all turned in on time, and one of the assignments I already got back and I got an A on it, so I was very happy to say the least, PTL.
Speaking of classes, I have a class called Sports Administration and Management and the proffessor is an awesome dude, he is a great man of God and he sends me emails once in a while telling me that God has placed me there (coaching baseball) for more than baseball, he said I am helping further the Kingdom…when you think of it along those lines, we all have an awesome responsibility not just to god but to those around us. When you understand that no matter where you are in your job, or at school or life in general, we have a great responsibility to act in a manner that is pleasing to him. And in doing so, we are allowing Christ to minister through us. God is constantly searching for people that he can use for his glory…II Chronicles 16:9 says, “that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is after God…” God will use you wherever you are if you will allow him to and he will take bad situations and turn them into opportunities for your betterment (not sure that is a word or not, but oh well). Well, it is 12:35am I am hearing my pillow calling my name. Have a great rest of the week and a HAPPY Thanksgiving…here’s a challenge for the week. Since it is Thanksgiving this week, if there is anyone in your life that maybe there has been some issues with, call them up or email them and let them know your thinking about them and wish them a happy thanksgiving, you never know what it may do to that person but for sure it will bless you. And for sure let the people in your life that are special to you let them know how much they mean to you.
That’s it guy’s, have a blessed week!
-DC-

11/10/08

Well, up to this point I have considered myself a complete novice when it comes to websites and for sure blogging. I am what you call a rookie. I have taken that step so to speak and decided to dive in and try to figure it all out. What I am beginning to see is that it is not that difficult to understand when it has all the software that basically does everything for ya. This may not be the greatest looking website or blog but hopefully you will understand that I am trying and doing my best!

Now that I said that, this blog has been designed to try and help keep the youth of Joyful Sound Worship Center informed on “stuff” that will be taking place as well as enlightening thoughts (at least I hope so…) from me and maybe on occasion from my wonderful wife Jill.

For the past few weeks I have felt impressed (at teen class) to use stories and excerpts from Joel Osteen’s book “Your Best Life Now” as a guide for our weekly lessons. This book was given to me as a birthday gift (the BIG 30) a couple of years ago from a very godly lady from our church, Helen Lively. This book set on my night stand for over a year and I had the very best of intentions to read and me not being a big reader just sort of kept putting it off and putting it off, until one night I opened the pages and began to read and I could not hardly lay it down. There is so much wisdom in this book and I get something new out of it every time I open it up. Some of the things that has ministered to me, is the fact that we all have our own sets of trials and tests. It may not be a big deal to some people but when it’s your faith that is being tested or your getting close to the fire and your feeling the presures or the heat, then it becomes a pretty big deal. But the key is realizing that for every problem there is a solution, we may not know what it is but God does. That is where our faith must be activated and our responsibility is seeing in our own mind and heart that we sometimes have to change in order for a situation to turn around. It’s easy to point a finger and lay blame, but we have to look at our own selves and know that we have the power with God’s help to change, and what I talked about Sunday was that it usually starts with that one little word called ATTITUDE! We truly can choose how our attitude is going to be, we may not be able to pick the adversity or the situation but how we react will determine whether or not we will be successful in most situations.

One song that I am listening to a lot here lately is called “Everlasting God” by Lincoln Brewster. This song talks about how our strength will be empowered when we wait upon the Lord and that God reigns forever and that our hope is in Him and that he is our strong deliverer. The book of Isaiah talks about they that wait upon the Lord their strength will be renewed…when we learn to wait much like a waiter or a waitress waits on a table then our strength will be renewed. If you don’t know about the song that I am talking about, go to I-Tunes and download that song, it will cost you 99 cents (make sure you have permission) It’s an awesome song with a pretty cool beat. Have a great day!…