My Thought For Today

I publish “My Thought for Today” as an online ministry on a semi-regular basis for everyone to enjoy and to hopefully receive a blessing from. A Diary style of writing pertaining to daily lessons from God performed here at the Bar-K-Ranch.

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Question less Trust more

Good Morning Everyone,

WOW! can you believe that it is Tuesday already? I am about four or five days behind now and today is not going to be a good one for catching up either. (smile) Connie girl is having dinner for some of her brothers and sisters and this ole house is going to be jumping in just a little bit.. She started cooking last night and just got back from town with a bunch of goodies. Everyone should get here about noon time so I am trying to get this ready before they get here.

You’ll never guess what I been up to these last few days.. Maybe I can catch you up on the happenings around the Bar-K-Ranch... I’m having trouble knowing just where to start.. (smile) First off I have been fighting with this ole pc trying to learn the new programming... It has been locked up as much and it has been working.. I had a weeks worth of music with all the titles and song names typed in and was trying to sing and play my guitar and record and somehow hit the delete on the wrong thing and lost every thing.. But praise God I have it all back in again and can listen to my gospel songs once more...

The last two days I have been taking all the midi’s off of my two web sites. If you have been to the heaven bound site you’ll see a yellow warning box that links to the site telling about midi’s songs. It seems that some of the free to use midi’s are in fact copyrighted and there are some very large law suits going on now. I don’t know for sure my music midi’s were included in this and didn’t want to infringe upon other’s rights so I removed all my midi’s from both sites.. I haven’t finished with the heaven bound site yet. It is tore all to pieces right now. I also have several sites that I have made for others which I’ll have to remove the midi’s from.. eeeeeeeeek!

I sure hate not having any music on my sites and it really takes away from the pages.. I know many of you have web sites and may want to check into this... I have sure been torn up over it... I read some of the letters of people who were sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars.. I’ll be putting music back on later but only after I know who wrote the songs... I don believe it would be glorifying God to be breaking the law by using someone’s copyrighted music...

Well enough gloom and doom.. Last evening I had to get off here for awhile and went to the garage and piddled for awhile with my little red bellied Ford tractor and finishing mower. Got two flat tires on the mower.. LOL What is that old saying about, ‘if it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all’? LOL Anyway, God has been good to me through it all and He and I will get this all straightened out before long. It will just take time, some patience, and understanding....

Romans 11: 34, 36
[34] For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?
[35] Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
[36] For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

You and I do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars, their positioning nor the reason for the size difference nor their rotation or courses, but we know that God, who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us. Often times I have wondered why certain things have happened just as they have and I am sure you have to. Haven’t you?

And I am afraid that often times we question God as to why he has chosen to make a certain direction change in our lives. Don’t we? Only to find out further down the road that it was in our best interest that God’s chosen direction in our life was for our own good. I am likewise afraid the with lack of understanding comes, sometimes harsh judgment as to the intentions of God. Maybe we should try and question less, and trust more. I believe that might be the true unveiling of understanding.... Well Glory!