Gone With The Wind

Read the fine print, folks. I didn't realize I wasn't allowed to click on any of the ads that Google sent me through their Adsense program, so they disabled my account. So that means I won't get the fifty bucks or so I had coming to me. That's just as well. I was considering dropping the ads anyways because of some of the anti-Christian content. It had been weighing on my mind, so God lifted the burden.

I'm gonna try to start posting daily. I've probably said this before. But now I'm really gonna try. I'm just gonna post a bit of what's on my mind each night before I go to bed. A lot of it will probably be about writing, since that's what dominates my thoughts most of the time. Christian writing, to be more exact, since that's all I write these days. If I'm thinking of a story, I'm thinking of how I can include God's message into it. I'll post a lot about my thoughts on what I read in my bible each morning, if anything particular strikes me and inspires me, which happens a lot. I enjoy my bible reading time. I used to have a difficult time reading my bible. I used to read the King James Version and the New International Version and the New American Standard Version. In some of Paul's letters, I can't remember where...probably Romans or 1st Corinthians, I couldn't understand what Paul was getting at. I read through those three editions and studied those same verses and just couldn't quite grasp Paul's meaning. Then my oldest brother brought over the New Living Translation that his mother-in-law had bought by accident. It was so clear and understandable. It made things I had been troubled over for years make perfect sense. See, what they did was take all the manuscripts still in existence from the original Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic and commissioned a team of bible scholars and language scholars and translation specialists and what not and really came up with the most accurate meanings and translations that they could. I know the NIV did something similar, but it's still hard to follow sometimes. Anyways, I decided to get my own NLT, and when I finally found a bookstore that had it, I discovered that the NLT people had taken an extra eight years to do more research to be sure of the accuracy of their translation. If you have trouble with all these other translations, I would recommend picking up a copy of the NLT Study Bible. I like to keep all the different versions I can for reference, but I've found the NLT the easiest to read and understand and it has strengthened my walk with God tremendously. And The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren is a good read if you feel you've been lackadaisical in your Christian life. And I would particularly have you read the beatitudes that start in Matthew, Chapter 5, and run through Chapter 7, about a dozen times. Yes, read them over and over again until you absorb the full meaning of it all. Life can be difficult, but Jesus gives us no excuses for not following God's word because of what the world may do to us. For they hated the Master. How much more will they hate the servant.

Alright, so no more ads and many more posts. How's that for cake and ice cream.