October 22, 2008

F.R.O.G. NOTES

Everyone attending the 10 am celebration this past Sunday was given a little purple bracelet as they entered the fellowship.

Oh No! Not another one of those rubber band things!….. We got pink ones for breast cancer, yellow for cancer, green ones, camouflaged ones for our troops, OD ones for WWII, red/white/blue stirped ones for patriot events---- red ones for the Bucs and blue ones for the Colts ….super bright yellowish green for "What Would Jesus Do",, a dull blue one for "Fully Rely On God"—Frog it!------In fact I think at last count I had about 15 to 20 different colored bracelets to remind me of something---- that some one--- wanted me to remember…..but I have forgotten just what they all mean..

Well Bingo! You are in Florida!—Not Kansas Toto! This one is purple, the highest spiritual color. And can make a immediate, I mean immediate, effect on change in your life. You can bring Joy into your heart.

This bracelet was started by a little church out in Lee Summit Missouri about two years ago and at last count had given out over two million of the things the world over,----yes-- it is the same one as seen on Opra Winfrey!!!

Yet the concept of this item of reminder actually started in Genesis 3, this is the chapter where by Adam eats of the fruit of the tree that God told him and Eve to leave alone.

If you will recall God is walking along the path in Eden calling out for Adam and Eve, when He finds them they are dressed in fig leaves and they go through all that why stuff back an forth with their parent creator. Adam offers as an excuse; Eve made him eat the fruit! Adam passed the buck!,,, ,he complained to a higher authority that some other entity was effecting him--but--the fact remains HE ate the fruit and ignored the consequences for it. Adam, as a representative of who we are, did not accept responsibility for his free will decision.

What did Eve say? " well, uh,"( twirling her bare toe in the dust) "you see God it was that pretty serpent that made me eat the fruit!"

And what did the serpent say-------Nothing! Not A Thing!!

As a child growing up in Iowa with my 4 brothers and sister, I am sure our mother would of loved to have had one of these bracelets……to cope with the raising of all six of us.

More then once I know she heard one of us say, ,Sam made me do it,,,,,, Joe made me do it or Bill made me do it, or Jene made us all do it! We couldn’t pick on Cindy she was the only girl and the baby so mom would never have believed that. And though we called Bill the “slow one” no body even today would believe that.

Not me of course I was just to perfect! I can give self quoted references!!!!!!!!

OK! So you won't believe that one----I tried!

Regardless it was Adam that started it off for all of us by refusing to accept the responsibility for his actions, by shifting the blame, by complaining! He complained that someone else did it to him…….Eve followed suit and the ole ego—that devil of us all---just didn't say a thing, simply because------ the ego has no complaints as long as everything goes it’s way,, as long as it has accomplished what it wanted for immediate gratification of the body. Doesn't matter if you're are man nor woman, it applies the same!

No matter how we cloth ourselves in other self justifying ways, ( in some fig leaves are just not enough) no matter how we try to hide ourselves in excuses for our actions, when we are called out, we are naked before the truth! We are responsible for our own actions before the one power the one presence in the universe God. Just becauseWe colored pictures in church with out knowing what they stood for, in short we listened to the ego---that serpent---- the devil in disguise, We bought into the egotistic idea that we were exempt from the law of the universe, because our ego tells us it is all ways the other guy doing this, after all we went to church----- once!

Folks----You created an error; Now accept it and make the changes in your life. Don’t set around and complain and let it ruin your life….. take it to prayer and find an alternate route, something has seen more in you then your ego does. Open up to the universal direction coming your way,,,,,all it takes is a little prayer, meditation and listening then reacting.

Do not be afraid to live---- just live by the grace of God, if you drift and error, change your mind and you will change your ways. Don't beat yourself up over the error, over and over again, change your mind and you will change your ways---for--give-- prayer is "for" yourself first by "giving" it to the universe

So many times we have heard heard that alcohol or drugs made some perpetrator do something, NO! You drank the alcohol. You smoke or took the drugs-- that the law of nature said: when you do so much of this-- you will cause this effect. It is simple---you can not complain against the hops of the field. They are doing what God intended them to do----make alcohol---it was your free will to abuse their use.

Don’t complain about it, pay your fine, do the time and drink less! Or get a designated driver!

Look at the past for your complaints and to the future for your solutions.

God’s interest is where you are going from now on, not your complaint of where you been. The creator is all forgiving! Yes! Of those that take a step in a different direction! It is easy just to float down stream--it is harder to swim upstream to redemption but if "You" want to change something ------

do something!…..It all starts with you! A little prayer, meditation and listening before you react will go a long ways to accepting and knowing what the effects of your decision will be……

You want lower gas prices! Read up on all the new ways to increase gas mileage. Stop driving as much, don’t buy every teenager a new car when they hit 16--- school buses work----- public transportation works---bicycles work---shoe leather works even better------car pools bond people together---make a grocery list and get all those needed items that is possible at one time.

----spend time with the family instead of shopping on Sunday for "stuff" that is not going to last the tests of time. If you can do something church can really help!

Really build something, Memories! Memories are eternal---no matter the times we face. Memories last when you are gone.

Some of the fondest memories of my brothers and I when we are together was of our Grandfather, his cigars, his two baseball games going on, one on tv another on the radio and playing cards with us---all at the same time I might ad. But I can not tell you one Christmas gift I bought for any of my brothers when we were kids----but we remember the family outings. The swimming--picnics--ice skating---trips to visit relatives. What are yours?

When we are not clouding our minds with complaints of a situation we are being open and receptive to God’s fountain head of good ideas to come through to direct us with a solution and suddenly what was , a complaint-------- becomes a ray of sunlight---- a joy in our heart ---the vision to a blind man.

Suddenly we are expressing the happiness of God through—His-- perfect idea---YOU—man kind. Joy and gladness are strength-giving, especially when reinforced by a simple prayer-----“thank you God”

Thank you God for me realizing I am just complaining,,,,, finding fault with what ever--- blaming someone else for my error.

Luke 1 tells us, “my soul magnifies the lord and my spirit has rejoiced in God-- my savior”

In so many of our songs we sing how He has raised us up, raised us up over the mountains—raised us upon His shoulders etc. etc. but that can only come about by refusing to complain---- by ceasing to block the good coming to you---most of you reading this message remember the song “Good Vibrations”,,,,, well vibrate with prayer-----by praising the universal creator and adjusting our ways.-------we are magnifying that which WE were made in the image of…. GOD

Simply put a complaint free person is a magnification of the laws of a peaceful, content universe and your very body--- your very spirit--- your very being will be happy with this universal change of mind this change of attitude---

Blessings
Fred



The Cake by Cory's Bakery of Clearwater Florida topped off the two year celebration of the fellowship.

It was truly yummy!

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Our closing circle surrounded the room, what a blessing.


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