Living Above the Sun Ministries

I can remember being a small child, three or four, and accompanying my dad to the nursing home where he was the chaplain. I still pass the nursing home every now and then and I'm taken back to those vague but memorable days with my dad. In this nursing home was my granny, Ruby. My grandmother, Nell, tried her very best to take care of her mother at home, but granny's parkinsons disease was too much for my grandma to take on by herself. It's no secret nursing homes don't treat patients right all the time, my grandma watched her mother suffer cruelty in the nursing home and vowed she would never let that happen to herself. The older folks at the home loved my dad, everyone in these parts call him Jimmy. He gave tender touches and hugs, he would crouch down to look them in the eye as they sat in their wheelchairs. I can't remember a lot about being at the home with my dad, just that I was there. We would sing, he would preach, and they loved it. Growing up I ...

"I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors." - Psalm 130:5-6; Proverbs 8:34 Waiting is something we don't do well anymore as a society. Even waiting in the drive-thru is too much for us! Waiting in traffic, waiting for someone, waiting to hear if you were accepted into a school or society. Life is full of waiting. Waiting for the promotion, waiting for the BIG trip, waiting to move, these are just some of the things I have had to wait for lately. It makes us anxious, and the unknown is full of questions. Will I like where I'm going? What if? Am I really going to be able to pay my bills? Things aren't all flowers, rainbows, and unicorns at work with that promotion, now what? Do we run to the next thing? Do we stay where we are for...

"Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing." And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever. And they sang the song of Moses , the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations! "Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For ALL THE NATIONS WILL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU, FOR YOUR RIGHTEOUS ACTS HAVE BEEN REVEALED."...

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction , that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope . Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction , on whom the end of the ages has come." -2 Timothy 3:16-17; Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11 Happy 2020! My first post of the new year, go figure, huh? It's the time of year when everyone is feeling cute, and unstoppable, on top of things; we've made our resolutions, determined to be better than we were two days ago, two months ago, two years ago. While I don't really make resolutions anymore, on a personal level I can tell you that I've made a lot of progress the past two years. It's not been ...