Finally Fun Time

Honestly, it was something unplanned, some benefits of my impulsive tendency made fun time with my three kids finally POSSIBLE! This morning i just thought of taking tim (my youngest) out for a one on one date. After my noon time broadcast we are all set. Changes happened when the two kids wanted to join the fun, hmmmmp on second thought i said jump in, so we were four fun seeking family! This time it's daddy and kids, my wife decided to stay home for some chores.

You will understand how precious is this time for me as a minister. I can't fully explain why most minister are in this plague of others first then family, please pray for us for many like me have become too tired to have fun with the kids! What tragedy! One kids grow without any memory of family at all or their daddy. Finally, almost accidentally we had fun together. Tim and I had a haircut, while the Paul and Shekinah waited. Then we head off to have kentucky fried chicken before seeing a movie at NCCC Mall. I smiled seeing the kids trying to count the people who knew me at the mall, perhaps at the back of their mind a question that ask when will we have daddy alone? Paul candidly commented "i think there's no place where you don't know anybody" whatever that statement meant it led me to think hard.

The movie was "the bridge of therabitia" it was fun, we had large pop corn, i had coffee. I can sense we all had fun. I bought kids some stuff and my teenager a sleeves sports shirt and a shorts each time they say thanks dad my heart swells with joy and thanksgiving for the opportunity to be their and have somehow build a memory. It feels good to be able to make some right things sometimes especially as a dad! Thanks Lord

Moments flies quickly, the fun has ended and back to our routine. Yet in my heart something is buried to stay, that at least at one time we HAD FUN!

Easter Awareness or Easter Awakening

I am doing my final review for tomorrow's easter message. Honestly, this annual routine of preaching easter message sends me to a ministerial cramming looking for something new, something relevant about the easter celebration. Something relevant? Isn't the resurrection of Jesus Christ the most relevant and dynamic truth of Christianity? Perhaps the relevance i am trying to seek is not how to make the message of easter handy and useful in the pain and suffering of the modern man. I believe the message but i am struggling on how to communicate it in a fresh way! Then something happened God intervened, answering my plea for wisdom.

This year's easter must transcend easter AWARENESS to easter AWAKENING! I pondered on the the experience of cleopas and his friend at the road to emmaus. Incidentally, only the gospel of Luke recorded this marvelous easter awakening. Prayerfully, I desire that you too as will encounter the risen Lord and experience easter awakening. On their way to emmaus a stranger joined them, later the stranger started to make sense to them that he became their dinner guest, who later led them to an awakening that the Lord is risen....really risen! What's the difference? At first it was just an information regarding the risen Lord, informed but not transformed this is exactly how many celebrate easter today, well informed in the mind yet no divine warmth in the heart! Jesus Himself walked with them, Jesus Himself talked with them, Jesus Himself dined with them! This easter awakening the Risen Lord walks and talks and commune with us!

Don't walk alone let the risen Lord walk with you, talk with you and dine with you! A special journey of faith and prayer, a special time of spontaneous chat, a special time of close fellowship! Easter must transcend awareness to a holy awakening of grace, gratitude, of faith and of fervent prayers wrought about by the risen Lord Himself! Have you experience this awakening? For a preacher like me preparing easter message should no longer be described as ministerial cramming but a holy encounter with the Risen Lord! The Lord is really risen!

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!

Pass word rememebered

For some time no i have not written something in my blog, this is due to an alarming loss of memory at 38! I forgot my password. Well, I have been forgetting many things lately, keys, dates , names, my kids ages hahahaha and many others. Is this a sign of silent and yet rapid deterioration? Or simply i am unfolding another chapter of life. Moments ago i tried punching in my pass word as i remembered, honestly i really believed i have logged the same password in my past attempts to open my blog yet to no avail. Tonight it worked!

More than this newfound password, I think there's more timely insight to learn. 1. No matter how old and predictable your life might be God still sends some timely surprise! which means to me don't rut there's more to come! 2. No matter how sharp your memory is totally unreliable, get a pen and a note and write your password! ( i know my youngest brother told me this already) 3. follow sound advise immediately 4. Prayer works wonders. 5. Delays are blessings 6. Forgetting creates a new and fresh appreciation when you finally found what you lost.

Well i know there are more lessons to learn about this experience, just to be sure that I dont forget them lets keep it to these 5 items. Rejoice with me I found my password again, and this time i hope and pray to be a little bit more wiser and humble admitting human limitations and resting in the Sovereignty of God, and not to forget expecting surprises!