Driving while Intexticated

Today on the Morning show my heart cried out for a family who had just lost their little girl due to an accident that could have been prevented. I began to get angry to think that the person driving and responding to a text message was so selfish. This person couldn’t wait two minutes to pull over and respond. She had to respond right away. It was so important that she looked away for two seconds to type LOL and her life would change forever. Her life would be full of guilt and another life gone, while her mother and father deal with the loss of their 17 year old daughter. How selfish can we be? What is so important that we have to text one another while we are driving and risk killing someone. You might as well be driving while intoxicated. The morning show took five teens and adults on a driving test who all assured that they had mastered the art of texting while driving. They may have mastered the art of texting but failed while doing it driving a vehicle. Out of the 150 cones placed out in a driving course to simulate the side of the road and oncoming vehicles one girl ho thought she could do it the best hit the most, knocking over three quarters of the cones. Ten of them were simulating on coming traffic and seven pedestrians on the side of the road. It takes less that half a second traveling at 45mph to merge 10 feet from your course of travel. We don’t need to text that bad. I would think that God gave us better sense than that. I struggle just talking on the headset and driving. This brings me to another conclusion. Relationships, have our relationships gotten so impersonal that we can’t even talk on the phone to one another? Have we lost touch with Gods ways of fellowship? I’d rather hear someone’s and feel their emotions rather than read LOL. I want to hear them laugh, cry, call for a hug, or even just say hi. But we have driven ourselves into this fast pace world where everything is in a to-go bag. Families don’t even sit down at the dinner table anymore. Our dinning rooms have become our office or computer room. We wonder where our family values are at. Well we just past by them going 7 seven days in less than 24 hours.
People, slow down and. look at what God created. Take a time of solitude and try enjoying spending time with family at the dinner table, have conversation, and share what your day was like with one another. This texting is getting out of hand. I don’t condone texting, I think that it is a useful tool when used at the right time. But don’t let it consume your quality time with family. They are the only family you have. And parents be aware of where your kids are. Don’t text them to pick up milk at the grocery store when you know they are on the road driving. We have a responsibility to bring back the family values, and base them on Gods values.

Fear In the Closet

Can you remember a time when you were little that the boogie man lived in your closet or under your bed and it was just impossible to go to sleep only to find out in the morning that he was never there? I remember those days and I also remember a day when a friend of mine told me his story. When my friend was seven years old he had been playing hide and seek with his neighbor friend and while he was searching for his friend he had gotten distracted by his brother and detoured into the unknown world of “what was I just doing”? Well dinner time came and went, and then it was time to take a bath and so forth. Well soon after it was 9:00 pm and the bed time was approaching quickly. He dreaded this because of the boogie man who had made his way into his closet every night as he slipped underneath his cold sheets. He had a really bad feeling in his stomach this particular day and the sounds from the closet seemed so real. He started to sweat and shiver in fear that this night was his last. The boogie man had finally come to take him away. He heard another thump in the closet and he tried to scream for his mommy but his voice was caught in fear. He buried himself under the sheets further than ever before hoping the sounds would just go away. Another thump and it was all over, he screamed a blood curdling and his mother came running in what going on? As he said the boogie man and pointed to his closet his friend came out of the closet crying and rubbing his eyes. His friend had fallen asleep while playing hide and seek. Now some of you are probably wondering why his parents didn’t call looking for him? They had gone to a movie and the older sister was to be looking out for him. I guess she got in trouble for that one. Sometimes we often fear things that we put into the closet ourselves. We don’t understand how to face certain things so we put them in the closet or under the bed hoping that they will just go away. We need to be able to trust in God and know that he will enable us to face all things. We may not like the outcome always but sometimes the unknown can be exciting when God comes along for the ride.
John 14:27 “I am leaving you with a gift-peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn’t like the peace that the world gives. So don’t be troubled or afraid.

Honoring our Pastors

Today we celebrated a special day to some very special people. Today was our pastor’s appreciation day and I thought that I would share what they mean to me and my family. Pastors Eric and Gena Boggs have been such a wonderful part of my family’s life since we moved to the Greenville area. I have only known the Boggs family since last November. We visited Beech Springs by invitation from another member and to this day I believe it was a God send. We met and it felt as if I had known them for years. I knew that God had placed Pastor Eric in my life for many reasons and with this gave me an opportunity to be a part of the church staff as youth pastor. I cherish Pastor Eric and Gena. Just in such a short time I see how God uses this family to influence our community and be a place of comfort to the hurting people. They dedicate themselves to serve God and the community with such passion in their heart and to see the world change with love one person at a time. Their love for people is a model of Christ’s love and with such an example you cant help but love them and want to e a part of the vision God has given them. Their children mirror the same heart within their parents, and are always there to lend a hand to their peers. All I can say if I had to keep it short is I love them and I appreciate everything they are doing for the Kingdom. I am honored and humbled to be a part of their journey with God. Pastor’s Eric and Gena, we love you!