Another Gloomy Day

Today is definitely gloomy, but that is how it has been for the past couple of days. Wednesday it rained and rained and then early Thrusday morning there was a tornado in my mother's hometown of Magee. It destroyed the church that she attended as a child, a church that both my grandparents are buried and a lot of other family members. Needless to say it was a sad thing to occur for lots of people. Joshua was with Dewayne on the Smith-Simpson county line so I worried about them for part of the day since I wasn't able to get ahold of them until lunch, but when I did I felt so much better and relieved that they weren't having issues with the electricity as so many people were. It is an awful thing that happen and it must had been seeing that the national news caught up with the story.

Tomorrow is going to be a big day for us. Madison has a Dance competition for Jazz and Baton so that will take up our morning. Following the competition we have my nephew's birthday party and this will be his 3rd birthday. It is so hard to believe these kids have grown as fast as they have. It is fun to watch how they are developing their personalities. I also plan on taking some pics sometime this weekend bc that is something that I have come to use as a sort of therapy and it helps to be outdoors and to capture different things. I will have to post some of the stuff that I have done, its all amatuer.


Thought for the day:

Look for Opportunities

Jesus' purpose was to do the business of His Father. He did not have a job instead He started looking for the work that needed doing. His market was not "the job market," but it was the people around Him who had unmet needs. He wasn't looking for a job, He was looking for opportunities. In order for us to move to another level, we need to change our mind set. Jesus had a mind set that was different from the people around Him. He had to change the mind set of His disciples in order for them to make a difference in the world. We must have a different mind set from the world if we are to make a difference in the world. We must see ourselves as agents of change. Opportunities are coming to us the guise of the unmet needs of others. Today, let us look for opportunities that God will bring to us. They will not look like what we would expect but they will be recognized by their calling, "UNMET NEEDS" This is a great day.

Greg Blair/Deep Thought