Begining of the Week funny thoughts

1. Waiting until the absolute last moment to get up to go to work on Monday.
2. Waiting until the very last minute to get up for work Monday, tue, wed, thur, fri.
3. Once again you dont get up to cook breakfast like you said you would.
4. For some reason your socks dont match once you get to work.
5. Who took the last pop tart for breakfast.
6. Snooze
7. Snooze button twice.
8. Snooze button, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10 times before you get up.
9. turning the snooze button off by accident and the freaking out when you wake up 5 min before you have to be at work.
10. Have you seen my keys, oh my gosh are you kidding me where are my keys.
11. found them they were in my pants pocket.
12. Staying in your truck until the very last moment that you have to go into work.
13. eating breakfast in your truck while waiting until the very last moment that you have to go into work.
14. bringing your trash to work from the weekend to throw away in the dumpster behind work.
15. staying up really late on sunday night to stretch your weekend as long as possible so it seems longer than what it really is. PRICELESS.

The everyday ordinary is often hard

I have to admit that pretty often I get very frustrated with the mundane. I cant stand repetition or groundhog day weeks where you can say everything that is going to happen before Monday even comes. If it is something you love than that is different but when you find yourself wishing you had greater purpose or even felt purpose then it is very frustrating. Being honest I feel like that a whole lot as of late. As a Male God has created me with a sense of conquer and exploration, this heart of adventure and danger. I often feel in my life that there is predictability and average, boredom and routine. I am not the average guy, alot of people want the 9 to 5 with a big house and American dream. Six figure job, nice car's, boats, material stuff. I would love a cabin in Colorado or Alaska maybe even Montana with a lot of land, I want travel and adventure, the feeling that your heart is alive and not suffocating from lack of testosterone, from lack of zeal, from lack of meaning. I open my Bible every morning, read, and look at the Gospel, what a great adventure. What an amazing life sold out for Christ holds. What an eternal purpose, winning the lost to Christ. I know that God has seasons and times where he is molding and shaping and we must learn so that we are not stuck in a lesson we should have been done with years ago. Transparency for a moment, that is tuff. I've learned that hiding behind mask gets nothing but friends that hide behind mask, transparency sets the heart free.

thoughts
1. Dive into your Bible
2.Travel often
3.Work less family and friends more( obvisouly you have to pay bills but you know what I mean.
4.Use you talents, bless people and give give give.
5.Challange yourself to encourage someone every single day, build them up.
6.Get in shape, working out helps your stress, or beat up a sibling I do with my brothers all the time.
7. be thankful all the time, others have it worse, so could we.

Memorial Day, looking back

What God is Speaking now

When God is hiding from us it is the best

When God is hiding from us it's because we are in a season of revelation, we may not feel a thing, no presence. But in this season God wants us to draw near to him so he can reveal new things to us, he wants us to come into the hiding place. Here the enemy cannot find us nor would dare to try and go if he knew we were there. Once God is done revealing all the things he wants to show us he then takes us into a season of manifestation. He his presence is all over us and is showering us with his spirit, in this season he wants to manifest in us and through us what he revealed to us in the season of revelation. For us and for others. When we are in the presence of Gods spirit we cannot see anything else but God b/c he is so big, so he draws away from us so that we can draw near to him and hear from him. Great Example: the disciples walking the road to emmaus and then Jesus shows up, they dont know that it is him b/c he is hiding himself from them to reveal to them things he wants them to learn,they speak to Jesus telling him do you not know what has been going on in the last few days regarding the crucifying of Christ. Jesus in classic response says no why dont you tell me, he then gives them revelation they want him to come and spend time with him. Jesus goes, then they eat, Jesus offers thanks and then breaks bread. At that moment Jesus manifest himself to them and there eyes are open and they realize it is Christ. After this the disciples were astonished and filled with joy then ran back and told all the other disciples that Jesus was risen. Revelation then manifestation for you and for others.

We were all Orphans at some point

Pastor Steve Ware spoke at retreat tonight, he just came back from Africa and told us how the children there have no record of birth, no identification of birth records, all orphans. When I went there last year and the year before that I learned about this truth. Tonight at retreat I herd this and then God spoke to me Barton before you and all of these people in here that are followers of me were found by me you were all orphans, you had now birth date, no identification, nameless,and fatherless, without a home or family. But once you accepted me and responded to me you were no longer Orphans, you became Sons and Daughters, with a family and a father, you were given names and those names were given not just by any father or dad but by our King!

Thoughts that have been messing with me.

1. Quote: You can tell the size of a person by the size of what it is that makes
them angry. Robert Barringer

2. Quote: A real sign of maturity is when someone responds to a trial not
reacts. Graham Cooke.

Let's just say these have been timily words for me recently, nothing crazy just keeping me in check with Gods heart, thats where I want to stay near. And not fleshing out. If your human you know what I mean. God please keep me in your big bucket of Grace. I try to keep little thaughts like these in my Ipod so as Im going through out the day I'm reminding myself how my focus should be, that of Christ. Even though the medicine dosent always taste good, it's gonna make you better I promise.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers day especially to my Mom, but I would also like to say happy Mothers day to all moms. God has made you such an important role in the family and in the life of your son or daughter. Thankyou for all your hard work and faithfulness to us and sacrifice you make. From getting us up to go to school to bringing us to church on Sundays and wednesday nights. Yall are awesome. so to all the moms God bless and know that you are so special to God. And your hearts are precious, and so needed in the lives of so many kids today. Moms where would we be without you.

3 pieces of Art and The Kids

These 3 pieces of art are almost complete, I've been working hard to get as much art finished as I can each month so I can start making prints. It has been really cool for me to see the work come together, I Love Drawing, Painting, Photography, it is such a peaceful thing working on my art in the back room, little music on and creative juices flowing, Love it. I'm so thankful that God gave me this gift, I want to use it as much as possible to bless others and serve him with it. I Love Art, and as much as I can I'm gonna keep using it to serve.



Major and Koah at the Park