So...now what?

My best hope with any project that I begin--including this blog--is to build momentum and then just let it go.  Like a snowball being pushed down a mountain.  (I know that's not a complete sentence.)  The problem  is the snowball grows in size and gains speed as it travels.  It becomes out of control.  And that's my problem.  Too afraid of getting out of control to just let go...I remain frozen at the top of the hill trying to decide if I should let go and roll or wait for the sun to come out and let me slowly melt into the soil below.  


It feels like I'm just going with the slow, controlled version at the moment.


We Are Family



I’ve been told I come from a long line of folks who like to argue.  Enjoy a good political debate.  Are stimulated by lively discussions about football--or sports, in general.  Can pick apart the finer qualities of Kentucky Fried Chicken when compared to Church’s Chicken.  Or deliberate over the world economy and its relationship to the price of gas.  Here in the South, that’s just our polite way of saying that my family--both sides of it--are about as stubborn, hard-headed and opinionated as a bunch of mules. And we're pretty proud of it.


I acquired the trait honestly.  I've also been told that my auburn-colored hair was a gift of my maternal granddaddy and it's obvious from family photos that my short stature could be  inherited from any number of my antecedents.  In short--haha--I am a short, red-head with a sharp tongue.  My family produced this end result of "Who" I am.  


Whether you fall into the "heredity" or "environment" side of behavioral debate...all must admit that in many ways, our family definitely influences our character development and ultimately "Who" we are.   

In the same way, we should be influenced by our heavenly family ties.  Galatians 3:26-28 tells us:  "For now we are all children of God through faith in Jesus Christ, and we who have been baptized into union with Christ are enveloped by him.  We are no longer Jews or Greeks or slaves or free men or even merely men or women, but we are all the same--we are Christians; we are one in Christ Jesus."  

Also, 1 John 3:1a "See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are."

This means that, as Christians, we are all one big Family!  So what family traits do we inherit?  

• Deuteronomy 10:17 "...the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, and the awesome God..."
• Deuteronomy 32: 4 "...all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He."
• Psalm 25: 5 "...you are the God who gives me salvation. I have no hope except in you."
• 1 Corinthians 14:33 "...for God is not a God of confusion but of peace..."
• 1 John 1:5 "...God is light..."
• 1 John 3:3 "...He is pure."
• 1 John 3:5 "...in Him there is no sin."
• 1 John 4:8 "...God is love."

So..."Great, Awesome, Just, Faithful, Righteous, Upright, Savior, Hope, Peace, Light, Pure, Sin-less, Love"...all character traits of our Heavenly Father. If we are His children and we claim this family tie to the world...which of our character traits would He proudly point to and say, "Just like his Father!  Chip off the old block!  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!"  


Just some food for thought as we go about claiming "HE is the reason for the season."  I hope I make my Father proud of me.