it has been so long- truthfully i have nothing to say- or at least to afraid to face it.

coming to the end of yet another year i am thankful for so many things. my trip to Guyana not french any thing GUYANA across from trinad and below Venezuela. that trip opened up so many things- I fell myself slipping back into my american christian mindset. humm i'm thankful for my wife and children- and pray that i am a better father and husband then i have been. i am thankful for our students At PHY and how god is moving in some of their lives-- i'm even thankful for our difficult surroundings in church they have taught so much. i'm excited and freaked about being so close to finally graduating next dec i'll be done and have a degree. but most of all I'm Blessed to be loved by a true and faithful God- who acks as a father. he loves and cares for even when i shame Him, but not being al that he has created me for. i think of the last part of the the Christmas story the part that every one ignores the one of Simeon, and Anna in i believe it's Matthew. Simeon was promised by God he would not die until he saw the messiah, and both he and Anna were considered righteous, and gave their lives to serving in the temple. when Mary and Joseph presented Jesus to be circumcised Simeon knew with the Spirit who Jesus was and praised God-- the part that gets me is when he says " this Baby is a light to the gentiles- theres that red thread of hope and grace from Adam and eves sin- to Rahab the harlot- to Ruth and Boaz- on into the Babylonian captivity and further- the red thread of Christs blood as sacrifice not only for the Jews but for me a gentile-- Paul carried that thread into the Roman world and here i sit seeing the duty i have to carry it on as well. just as Anna did that day- she knew who Simeon was talking about- and she ran telling all who waited for the Messiah. so should i and any who have been bound by that Red cord of grace, and Hope-- Blessing by God in 2008 and may i wave his banner- Jehovah Nissie