EarthMover

Update

2011-10-18T06:49:00.000-07:00

I think I'm right in the middle of a quantum leap of epic purportions!1. Working on stuff for church...2. Really having a good time at Ron's Pentacostal Methodist Bethel/Vinyard3. Goals and dreams4. Breakthroughs in several different areas of my life!!

2011-09-13T12:03:00.000-07:00

Finally
Today I forgave someone
and found myself
grinning from ear to ear like
the possum is said to do
I believe that possums do
grin when they have cheated the
speeding car on a dark road
That seldom happens

Poetry not profitable
The clerk in the bookstore looked
incredulous when the patron
came out of the Bible aisle
and asked about Poetry
She led him down many aisles
to a back corner section
where the selections were few
and most were onsale

More Quantum Leaps

2011-09-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

Today, I was reminded of a secular teaching that I studied back in the early nineties. I do not remember the name or even the person that promoted this, but it lead me and is still leading me to new highs and a better quality of life. Live in the moment. Several times a day, just stop and take notice to everything that's going on around you and even in you. Are you nervous? Why? Calm? What's so peaceful? Smells? Touches? Sounds? I so incorporated this into my life that I do it all the time and sometimes it makes me appear like a space cadet or out off touch with reality, but it's quite the opposite. I'm tuned into what's going on. And most times, it connects me to the Godhead!! Try it! You'll like it. Become aware of your surroundings.

BTW....I love the comic strip, Mutts!!

Leading Worship

2011-06-10T08:18:00.000-07:00

I'm really enjoying leading worship at Clear Springs United Methodist Church!! Sunday is Pentecost Sunday and I think Ron Catoe the Pastor has something good planned. I've picked out 3 songs that I think will complement his teaching. Sometimes I get so completely out of it and ecstatic. I miss being at the Vineyard on a regular basis and am looking and praying for some others to lead. This is God and He is in control!! WhoooHooo.....can't go wrong!!!!

On being offended

2011-05-26T11:33:00.000-07:00

I had an imaginary conversation with a friend today:
IM: You didn't call me back today. I was afraid I had offended you...

Me: Oh no. I'm very hard to offend. What offends most people doesn't even faze me anymore.
IM: So....what would I have to do to offend you?
Me: The easiest way to offend me would be to say something about God that implies that He is not loving, or gracious, or caring or forgiving.
IM: Sounds like you get offended alot.
Me: Yeah, but its mostly in churches and with people who say they are believers. They don't mean to offend me.

I may be totally off base here, and please forgive me if I offend you, but
I am less offended by gross sinful acts and deeds done by nonbelievers, then I am by believers speaking against God's goodness, or His Grace as opposed to works and the Law, or those who are judgmental or unkind. The real problem is that very few believers actually have some experience with God's grace and love and goodness and even fewer, me included, are willing to offend the "Pharisees".

Church of God

2011-05-18T11:29:00.000-07:00

Between September 1992 and January of 1994, my wife and I and our 3 kids were members of a Church of God. Worship there was awesome, but there was a lot of LAW taught and from what I remember, very little on GRACE. You either functioned in Tongues and maybe another gift or you should be and this was a difficult place for us as a family. My timing on moving us there and out of the Baptist Church was totally wrong and while I met some people that are still my friends to this day, it was a mistake to go there. Later, when Priscilla and I started going to a Vineyard church we were asked why we didn't go to a COG. I said that that the COG was more bound than the Baptists and in different ways. That's my take.....

Methodist Church

2011-04-07T11:51:00.000-07:00

After Priscilla and I got out of college, we moved back to Gadsden and started attending a Methodist Church. It was the first place I seemed to realize that I was conscious of God and doing good or at least not doing bad. The people there were friendly to me, but my wife was treated quite shabbily. I'm not sure why. I loved the hymns. They always made me smile or even laugh out loud. I was happy, but I worried that others might think I was making fun of them. It was the raw beginnings of bliss for me. We gave part of our income. It seemed like the right thing to do. I went to Sunday School, but was freeaked when I had to read out loud and stuttered and became embarassed. I seemed to connect with the minister and I'm still friends with some of the people there.

More Quantum Leaps!

2011-04-02T09:14:00.000-07:00

Sozo
Learning about Sozo inner healing ministry enabled me to make 2 QL's in my spiritual life and that invaded my physical as well as mental states.
Sozo brought me back to to the point where I was the moment that I became a christian. 1. I could see myself as free, clean and in rightstanding with God. 2. Sozo showed me that I had let myself and others convince me of my unworthiness. This was a lie I had believed. I let them talk me out of spiritual inheritance. I was angry and this caused the wound I thought I had experienced. Reading Romans and John Crowder and meeting Matt Ford started me on the road to the truth I know hold: That I was made a new creature when I first believed. All the other stuff was religious do do or don't don't and works based.

So far in my life, this has been the biggest and most profound QL I have made o

r maybe not made but have been Christ Propelled!!

Leading Worship

2011-03-29T13:35:00.000-07:00

I was able to lead in worship at Clear Springs United Methodist Church last Sunday.
Ron Catoe invited me to sing a few songs and I think I can do this again. It was a great experience to be there. The Spirit of God is on that property and it is in a beautiful setting. It's out in the country south of Oneonta surrounded by hills with meadows and cattle and a small cemetery across the road. Ron preached and I nearly got ecstatic on the heaven part! Wow!!

Tommy's guidelines for leading worship:

1. Be a worshiper
2. Encourage others to worship
3. Worship is a lifestyle not a few songs on a Sunday morning
4. Have fun and be happy!

Leading Worship

2011-03-22T11:43:00.000-07:00

Sunday I get to lead worship(a couple of songs) at a Methodist Church in Oneonta. I'm jazzed!

The Episcopal Church

2011-03-18T09:05:00.000-07:00

For the first few formative years of life, our family attended the Episcopal church. What I remember is this:
1. Getting all dressed up-suit-clip on tie shined shoes. Always seemed like everything was stiff and then we'd pile into the car getting there either just in time to beat the choir down the aisle to seat for 5 or having to wait until choir went down the aisle and up the steps to the altar/platform area.
2. Cushy little fold-down step things that at times during the service we would all together kneel on.
3. Scripted prayers we would read out of prayer books they supplied from little boxes on the back of the pews.
4. Being thrilled watching the choir march in and down the aisle singing and carrying banters and these huge golden plated staffs? wearing amazing looking white? robes with purple or red? stoles. It was really cool.
5. It seems like Sunday school was after church and one of my brothers would hold me back and when all the people were inside, we would steal away to the drugstore down on the corner and drink cokes until a certain time that only he knew and then meet our parents and other brother? back at the car.
6. Eating at the White Palace cafe on Broad Street. Man it was good!!
7. Sundays were a positive experience.
8. Not Learning the catacism and still being made a member.
9. Not taking communion there until I went to a funeral several years ago.
10. Going to kindergarten there and at least 1 vacation Bible schools and 1 day at the day camp.

Quantum Leaps in life

2011-03-15T08:29:00.000-07:00

I've started rereading a book called, Quantum Leap Thinking, by James Mapes.
About a year ago, I bought this book to help me focus on redirecting my life in the wake of our family business closing. Maybe I even wanted to reinvent myself. In the last 12 months or so, I have focused my life on Christian Mysticsm and that(actually focus within at the Christ within and His Finished Works of the Cross) has DEFINITELY been a quantum leap for my consciousness. Basically, quantum leaps occur when there is a sudden change or advance in program policy. This is from Webster's Dictionary. Some QLs in my past are:
1. Discovery of altered states when I was about 12. Drug induced-backwards step for my life, with the exception, there ARE altered states. Now I know that there are GodAltered states that are most excellent that I have experienced such as visions, dreams, hearing His Voice and revelations and many that I have not experienced.
2. Dale Carnegie Class and the introduction to motivational thinking. This led me to Love through Brian Tracy's Psychology of Achievment to Leo Buscaglia and ultimately to God's Love in the Bible and organized religion.
3. Actually Hearing God's voice
4. Losing myself in Praise and Worship
5. Understanding(do we ever completely understand?) the New Creation technology and What Grace really means. This came about from my introduction to John Crowder and his books and seminars and Matt Ford.

The Goal in reading book is to make new quantum leaps IN Christ and know Him better through Altered States, Experiences and Revelations shown to me in the Bible.

Bible verses not preached Part III

2011-03-11T11:53:00.000-08:00

John 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you."
Jhn 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
Jhn 20:23 "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

I hear someone saying, "Who but God can forgive sins?"
Go look that up and see who said it.

I also read in a commentary that this was ONLY given to the Apostles.
Hmmmm.....just like the gifts......

SOZO'D

2011-03-07T06:34:00.000-08:00

With the exception of maybe being part of an intercessory prayer group, I am out of Sozo. It was a good ride and I see wonderful things in people exposed to it, however, I cannot come to a place of working with the team and not teaching on the Finished Works of The Cross. I don't know if I'll get to intercede for any future sozoees, or even if there will be any more sozos at Gadsden Vineyard. Something came up last night at home about some old stuff that happened a long time ago and I thought about what Kathryn Kuhlman said when confronted by her divorce and scandalous behavior: That NEVER happened; That is NOT the Kathryn I know!!

Truly Christ Sozoed me at the cross. I'm a new creature!!

My Journey

2011-01-27T10:50:00.000-08:00

23 years ago April 3 I prayed the most dangerous prayer an unbeliever can pray: make Yourself real to me God! I want to know IF you are real! He did and He is and Wow! what a journey so far.(shofar?)In the first year I traveled from NOT understanding what happened to me to judgement to grace and absolute love to the law and a mixture of both grace and law which is law. 99%Grace+1%Law=Law
Then within the next 5 years I traveled to and from Charismatic town and Pentacostal village through Prophetic and Deliverance States. Gradually, I found myself slumming in Self-Righteous City and took the mystic feelings and true words from God Himself and stored them in a closet underneath my Baptist Deacons sheepskin. I learned how to do all the right things at church with the right people at the right time and very nearly spent the rest of my life here. And would have been almost at perfect peace. Almost.....
Still, I could not and would not deny my secret prayer language, the fact that I heard God's voice in the Bible, from the pulpit and the amusing Sunday School class as deep within my own soul, coming right out of my mouth and the mouths of others who I snuck off to see whenever possible and wondered that so many more mainstream evangelicals didn't question the statements made from pulpits and podiums about gifts and tongues and signs and wonders being done away with because now we had the perfect ultimate source of everything that God was up to and had been up since the Book of Acts was left unfinished less than maybe 35 years after our Lord and Saviour hung on the cross, was buried, resurrected and ascended into the clouds with thew promise of returning.
Six and a half years ago, I heard one of my most favorite Baptist ministers say from the pulpit that speaking in tongues was demonic. Before this, there had been several sermons that described the error of prophetic words. I had seen firsthand that some prophetic words were not. I was careful to really seek the Lord on these "words" and felt that some were from God and some were not. Maybe they came from that minister's carnal nature or their attempt to manipulate others. But tongues and the words that God Himself had spoken to me that lined up with His love and His word were the evidence for my beliefs. Some things you just know.

The tension between Inner Healing and the Finished Works of the Cross

2011-01-25T13:49:00.000-08:00

This blog has shape-shifted back and forth between creative writing to inner healing to grace and then back and forth again. According to FWC, inner healing was accomplished on the cross. The old sin nature was eradicated and we became new creatures.Inner healing says we still have scars and/or have believed lies that taint our new creation selves. FWC says that we are perfect, complete, healed and have the mind of Christ, BUT we need to grow into it by the renewing of our minds.

All I know right now is this: 2.5 years ago I knew little about the FWC and thought I had been totally healed. Then I met people at a conference that said that grace had not been sufficent for me, but that if it had been then grace trumps all. Apparently, I felt that I did not have enough trump cards. Now after 2 years of inner healing ministry, I feel great. After 6 months of Grace and FWC I feel transformed. My question: Where would I be now if 2.5 years ago I had known about the FWC and Grace, but probably more important than that is this: What will I become in the next 2.5 years as I continue in Grace and the FWC?
All I know is that now my role is to enjoy God and all His love and benefits. I'm cool with that....

I will sing....sing a new song!

2011-01-04T13:33:00.000-08:00

Romans 6:6 We know that our sinful selves were nailed to the cross with Christ so
that the body of sin would lose its power, so that sin will no longer be
used to make us slaves to sin. 6:7 A person who dies has been set free from
sin. 6:8 Since we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with
him. 6:9 You know that Christ was raised from death, never to die again —
death does not rule over him anymore! The Holy New Covenant Bible

In Christ Realities!

2011-01-03T07:21:00.000-08:00

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

In Christ Realities: What we as believers have that give us identity.
In this verse, Jesus shows us the way to have access to the Father. It's through HIM! Also He IS the way(door path etc)truth and life. Truth on a human level might appear to be relative, but on a spiritual level it's Jesus. Life. Everlasting life with Him(actually I like to say, Them). Right now available to all who ask for it and then receive it. It's like opening up a Christmas/birthday present.

Alternative tuning on Guitar

2010-12-16T06:30:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I start out my day worshiping God by finding a Bible verse(this morning it was Ephesians 1:2-9) on my computer; usually a verse They have spoken to me and then I "make up" a song to it. Some days it's very annointed and other days it's not as annointed. I asked God to give me some new ideas about guitar chords and music and I "felt led" or heard in my spirit. Try an alternative tuning DADGAD. My wife had found a note someone had written me about alternative tunings and DADGAD was one of them so I tuned my guitar to this tuning. It was almost too easy. HA! Isn't that the way They do it. Very different sound and fun, too.

I found an easy way to play the "Charley Brown Theme".

Art in Motion.....

2010-12-13T07:34:00.000-08:00

This morning on the drive into work, I was listening to Bach on XM and watching the little bits of snow swirling in mini tornados in the road.
I could drive all day in this atmosphere, or until I needed a nap after lunch. Thanks, God for warm safe cars with music and relatively safe roads!!

On bearing His cross

2010-12-09T13:08:00.000-08:00

I cannot bear the Cross of Christ. Only He could be the perfect sacrifice necessary to atone for the sins of mankind. Jesus actually did not carry His own cross; it was forced upon Simon of Cyrene to carry for Him. As believers, we were in Him as this happened and died with Him, were buried in Him, resurrected in Him, are now seated in Him and are joint heirs with Him.

When the Bible speaks of me bearing my cross, it is speaking of my willingness to put myself in the position to be obedient to what a Jewish person of that day would view as unthinkable; hung in a tree, exposed, and bearing the curse. That was utter humiliation. It is speaking of my willingness to trust in Jesus as Saviour at all costs; to give up my selfish desires to desire only Him.

It is also speaking of fulfilling my responsibilities when I became a believer. To help take care of parents and siblings if needed. If married, to support my family. To love my wife as Christ loved the church. To raise my children with all the love and wisdom that God has placed in me. I am to treat my employees with all the respect I would treat our Saviour and to work for my employer as I would serve my Saviour. It is to do the right thing, and if I do not know what that is, then I am to seek counsel and pray and walk in faith until I do. In short, I am to play the hand of cards I was dealt with all joy, knowing that They will never leave or forsake me. Knowing also that these acts do not save me, but are my manifestation of Christ in me the hope of glory.

I choose this life. I choose to die in Christ 2000 years ago. I choose to have alreadied suffered in Him. I choose Joy unspeakable here on earth and in my existence afterwards. I choose to be in Him!

Grace Haiku

2010-12-07T12:29:00.000-08:00

Grace God's gift to us
It costs us nothing more than
ripping the paper

God's son sent for us
The cruel cross of Christ's death
we were there in Him

A few more Bible verses I've never heard preached Part 2

2010-12-07T08:55:00.000-08:00

Romans 2:1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. NKJV

OMG!! Paul seems to think that if we judge someone, it is because we do the same things that we are judging them for.....hmmm.......

One MORE reason NOT to shop at WalMart

2010-12-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

Taken from the drudgereport.com 12/6/10

Press Office
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Dec. 6, 2010

BIG SIS INVADES WAL-MART: 'IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING'

WASHINGTON -- Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the expansion of the Department’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign to hundreds of Walmart stores across the country—launching a new partnership between DHS and Walmart to help the American public play an active role in ensuring the safety and security of our nation.

“Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe,” said Secretary Napolitano. “I applaud Walmart for joining the ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign. This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities.”

The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign—originally implemented by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and funded, in part, by $13 million from DHS’ Transit Security Grant Program—is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities.

More than 230 Walmart stores nationwide launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign today, with a total of 588 Walmart stores in 27 states joining in the coming weeks. A short video message, available here, will play at select checkout locations to remind shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.

Over the past five months, DHS has worked with its federal, state, local and private sector partners, as well as the Department of Justice, to expand the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign and Nationwide SAR Initiative to communities throughout the country—including the recent state-wide expansions of the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign across Minnesota and New Jersey. Partners include the Mall of America, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, Amtrak, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, sports and general aviation industries, and state and local fusion centers across the country.

In the coming months, the Department will continue to expand the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign nationally with public education materials and outreach tools designed to help America’s businesses, communities and citizens remain vigilant and play an active role in keeping the county safe.

My comment:
Very BigBro/Sis 1984ish attack on civil liberties.
I must go to my favorite Walmart and see if this is true,
but I'm afraid I'll be seen......

A few Bible verses I've never heard preached Part 1

2010-12-06T11:36:00.000-08:00

1. Matt. 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, Mat 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

Wonder what Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard or John Carpenter would do for this shot??

Were they new creations or night of the living dead?
Did they remain alive until they died again or taken up like Jesus or Elijah. What did their families say?? How many family members wound(pun intended)up at Jerusalem Memorial Horspital that day with head injuries from fainting and striking the ground or wounds caused from leaping out of windows?
What sort of conversations took place??
I hope that I think to ask the proper Authorities about this some day.....

John Crowder

2010-11-16T09:01:00.000-08:00

I am so grateful that John Crowder visited our church. He's not real big on inner healing. I'm not as big on inner healing as I once was. Once you get the message of the "finished works of the cross", inner healing becomes a moot point. We were healed 2000 years ago. Our old sin nature was nailed to thr cross, in Christ and died. Finito.....

As our minds are renewed the old junk is seen as irrelevant. Sometimes it's hard for people to get this revelation, but when they do.....Whoa Nelly!!
It's a done deal!

More EarthMover stuff!

2010-02-24T12:10:00.000-08:00

EM started as a writing/poetry blog offshoot from my other blog Confessions of a Grapeseed and is slowly turning into my road to inner and maybe even outward healing. I may still put some poetry or even original songs on here later.
Anyway........I've been listening to Aiko Hormann. Bing her or whatever you do to find out out about someone. Sozo uses some Aiko tools like the "wall" and "presenting Jesus" and "divine editing". I listened to her go through "wall" thing and it was amazing!! The basic wall I bulldozed down several months back was only the beginning and so yesterday I found and smoothed out some walls and did some heavy duty forgiving and remission of sin stuff and here's what came out of it:
BTW-Walls block communication with the Godhead and in this day and time of closing businesses etc I need ALL the communication skills there are and more. More Papa more!!
1. Figured out the Apple/Comcast glitch!!
A couple months back, my macbook decided it did not want to connect to our wireless internet service. No one at Comcast could help me and they suggested I get Apple to help, since it was an Apple problem. Our internet has been down at work thanks to ATT and thankfully I had my trusty macbook with my Verizon aircard. Trust me, Apple and Verizon are sending cash for these shoutouts. Anyway, Within a couple of minutes after praying with Aiko on the cd, I crank up the Mac and I'm just messing around and there was the answer!! Don't ask me to explain it, I'd have to show you. But when I got home, I tried it and voila' it worked!! It worked even better than over a year ago the Comcast guy set it up! Yea!! Wireless at home works!!
2. Most importantly:
Last night about 12:30ish, I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep and decided to spend the next 2 hours in prayer and silent soaking. Awesome!! Thought about the physical ways that the Godhead touches some of us; levitation, stygmata, bilocation etc. Around 3am I got back to sleep. I know because I changed my alarm to go off at a later time. I woke up a different more peaceful me and that helps with all areas spiritual and otherwise.

And Bethel folk are staying at the Homeplace and it's all good.....

The Wall

2009-06-05T08:26:00.000-07:00

There was a wall in my spirit between me and Father God.
then there was a dream that came to me one night and a picture that represented my fears and reminded me of an event in my life that caused this wall to be built. Later, I learned about the wall and I saw it. I could take you to several places and show you how it was represented to me. At first, it was not safe to tear it down. Then I tried to tear it down in my own strenght.
God then agave me bulldozer to tear it down and remove the rubble from my spirit that separated me from the Godhead. How deep is His love! How wide is His mercy!
You are my God; Father Son Holy Spirit forever, amen

I got it!

2009-06-05T07:47:00.000-07:00

Here's what it took and what it looked like:

It took me awhile to do it and it was both painful an exhilarating:
and it brought.....

Glow in the dark crosses

2009-06-05T07:44:00.001-07:00

Glow in the dark crosses
Pots full of flowers
there's a bench there
and we talk for hours

nobodys around
except me and you
and God's there
listening to us too

And I miss you
and I know where you are
your not at the tree
beside the highway
marked by the star

and your not here either
planted in the dirt
in that copper colored
steel box in your bestest shirt

and your not in pain or bleeding
your Saviours done that for you
no tubes or wires or needles
no nurses or doctors

So one day soon
we'll be together
by that glassy river
flowing from a fountain

and we'll walk through
that field that I know so well
I've been there before
and it sure wasn't hell

and I won't be
planted in a steel box
on a rich piece of land
I won't pay the money
for that, even though I can

Sprinkle my ashes
in a nice place, in a forest
or by stream, in the ocean
or the mountains
just don't keep them over the fireplace

so don't bring me flowers
that the workers throw away
and don't buy a cross
that glows in the dark
seen from the highway over there

talk to Jesus and Father
and Holy Spirit too
that's the only way you'll
make it
I'll be waiting for you

You Know me

2008-10-12T19:11:00.000-07:00

You Know me
better than my wife
the lover in my bed
the mother of our children

You Know me
better than my mama
who bore me in pain
and thought she knew it all

You Know me
better than my bestest friends
who think I do no wrong
and that the sun shines out my....

You Know me
better than I know myself
though I'm working on this
and have made great strides

You Love me better than my wife
better than my mama
better than my bestest friends
better than I love myself
Your Our Father

celebrate

2008-10-06T11:56:00.001-07:00

celebrate

I love You
You are my Everything
All

We are together
forever
as One

I sit in You
On Your throne
child

the others
are with Us

celebrate

2007-11-28T07:04:00.000-08:00

Thank You Lord!
For keeping me alive 49 years.
For teaching me several important lessons.
Hopefully there will be more.

If I died today, I would die happy.
My family knows You and I know You.
I've had many blessings over the years.
They ALL came from You!

I've known many people.
Most have been a blessing.
Thank You for all the people
I've known, even those that weren't blessings.

I pray that in the time I have left
here in this world, that I will be
more useful to You and I look forward to
the day I go to spend eternity with You.

Book

2007-08-08T07:34:00.001-07:00

Maybe I won't Jinx it.

Bob Jones

2007-06-12T13:31:00.002-07:00

I think this happened May 31?
PP and I met Bob Jones.
By "chance" we were walking into Flemings at the Summit in Bham. I heard his "Walter Brennan" type voice and saw him sitting outside at a table with 2 women. He introduced us to his wife Bonnie and Kathy Walters. I shook their hands and introduced myself and Priscilla. They are at a conference at the Sheridon this weekend.

I told him we went to a Vineyard in Gadsden.
He asked me if I was the Pastor. I said no, just an elder. I said it was because I was older than most there. He laughed and then I told them they showed me the secret handshake and they all laughed. I told him that sometimes I play my guitar and that PP works with the children. It was real relaxed. I told him that I had always wanted to meet him, but something had come up every time. KW asked if this meeting was an answer to prayer. Yeah, it is! I secretly wished he would say a "word" to us. Then he looked up at me and said:

1. Keep doing music. There's something there. It could be more.
2. There's an annointing for the pastoral, evangelical and miraculous.
3. Read Psalm 96

Psalm 96?
Psalm 96.

Thank you, Clark Powell

2006-09-29T11:27:00.000-07:00

Took a strange trip
Went back to the past
It was as good and
as bad as any acid or
sroom trip.

Academia was so
lovely looking and
now that I growed up
I relish the thought
that I am NOT surrounded
by those kind of egos
razor sharp wits.

I am surrounded by
a vast zoo of others
some loving and some
full of hate and
jealousy interspersed
with the indifferent.

Poetry ain't dead in
me, just kinda comatose
laying there on that bed
full of tubes and wires
and using a bedpan.

I Hate Politics!

2006-04-18T11:27:00.000-07:00

But God loves politicians and I'm trying. This post is not fiction: should it be to be included with EarthMover? Where do I stand politically? Wight Wing Wackos-see my comment on Laura's blog dated today for an explanation.

Ok...so we ALL have opinions and they're all like belly buttons: they all look weird but mine. So forgive me if I offend; I guess that I'm an "outty". Politically speaking, I'm a conservative. Actually, I want as little government as possible. I believe in free enterprise and I believe in personal liberty.Please let me explain.
According to the Constitution, government is supposed to build roads, keep the peace and stay out of the way of peaceful citizens earning a living. Everthing else it(government) gets involved in it screws up. Entitlements are not something you are entitled to. If people would get right with the Lord and be stewards of their finances by supporting the local churches through tithes and offerings and take care of their families like the Bible says, there would be NO need for entitlements. Ok there are a few exceptions, but the church could handle those.
Oversimplified? For all you computer geeks out there, the internet, compared to society, is government lean. Very lean. There will be a civil war if and when the government decides to REALLY get in on the internet. It took the US 75 years to get this Socialistic and I figure when we get on the right road, it may take that long or longer to get back to what our Founding Fathers ideal was; that we be self sufficient, honest, law-abiding, peace loving Christians, or in the least, that we leave private enterprise and personal liberties alone. Free market Capitalism.
As I see the US post-911, personal liberties have taken a beating. What's the answer? I'm not sure, but swift response to any threat on any liberty is probably NOT a mistake. I can hear Russell Crowe, giving the the order in Gladiator, to "unleash hell." Instead of using diplomancy to settle violence, we should make the consequences so severe that those terrorists would think twice before attacking.
As an idealist, I think we should have the right to go and do as we please, if we uphold the law, anywhere and our safety is assured. Ok I'm an idealist. That is a goal to shoot for. No pun intended.
I really and truly believe that what the US has become is a farce to any Continental Soldier and that they turn over in their graves at the thought of what we have let the Greatest Nation on Earth become. I don't see a great mass of people rushing to any other country in the world except America. Socialism failed in Russia and in no other nation is economic growth sustained but here. China is trying to learn from the USSR's example. We have some ups and downs but the trend for the last 200 something years has been up. I'm not asking you to join me. I'm just saying who I am and what I believe in. I'm proud to be an American, I think we need to rethink our position on government interference in private enterprise and private lives.

Don' go in dare

2006-03-15T03:58:00.000-08:00

"Basketcase" plays it background

Paul's Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom-Eph.1:15-23
15 Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for Christians everywhere, 16 I have never stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, 17 asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. 18 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the wonderful future he has promised to those he called. I want you to realize what a rich and glorious inheritance he has given to his people.*
19 I pray that you will begin to understand the incredible greatness of his power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power 20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly realms. 21 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come. 22 And God has put all things under the authority of Christ, and he gave him this authority for the benefit of the church. 23 And the church is his body; it is filled by Christ, who fills everything everywhere with his presence.

I hear all the kids in the movie theatre sayin' it
Talkin' to da stupid peeps in da movie
Monsta' hidin' in dare
Don' go dare
DON'

I heered about cha in that place
Spoutin' off that bible verse
you ain' got no CLUE 'bout dat bible
Don' go in dare

Get er' don is what some of em' says
but dey ain' got no idee 'bout whatcha
goin' thru
I tells em' don go in dare
DON' doncha do it

You be messin' wich sumpin
you ain got NO idee 'bout
Tern da lite on
Don go in dare in da dark
Git da gun
shoot it
SHOOT IT

But dat how dat movie plays out
You gots to want it
You gots to want it BAD
cause 'till you do
IT gonna OWN you
Gonna SCOOL you

Don' be a fool

Either one of ya

You gots to turn da lite on
turn it on

You gots to wanna be rid of that devil
And you don' wanna
You hide behind it
You use it as an excuse
for the way you be
when you can change it
but you gotta wan' it
and want it BAD

2006-02-06T12:56:00.000-08:00

This picture makes me think of my present state of mind. The "Old Man"
raging in me and the Holy Spirit renewing me daily. Daily. Thank You, Father for renewing us day by day.

watertower2

2006-01-24T12:39:00.000-08:00

watertower2
Originally uploaded by adopted1987.

Regret

There are houses where I used to play
the backyard is not what it used to be

okey dokey I thought that I could go
there anytime and I thought I would be able

to sit there with that view of the city
smell the pines hear the birds watch the hawks soar

sit and be quiet or converse with God
and hear His voice fly on a windy

day and feel his presence in the silence
of the rocks and trees and grass and flowers

that grew wild on the cliff but now spring up
alongside a swimming pool cedar deck

of someone that I do not know. I pray
that they love this place more than I do

song

2006-01-10T11:28:00.000-08:00

I Love You Lord Tommy Puckett

D Bm
I love You, Lord I love You, Lord
G
You are my God, my Rock, my Fortress,
D A
You're my Deliverer.
D Bm
You are my Strength, In Whom I trust
G A
You are my God You are my Lord
G A
You are my Strength, Your Word's my Sword
G A D
And You live in me and will be with me forevermore Repeat

Bm
And yea though I walk through the valley of
A
the shadow of death
G D
I will not fear because You are here
Bm
Your Rod and Your Staff are my comfort
A G
You prepare before me a table fit for kings
D
In the presence of my enemies Back to beginning

Requeim

2006-01-10T07:39:00.000-08:00

That day

On days it's warm and sunny
I think about you and this place
But you're not here

Today

The sun sets cold in the winter sky
I rake the leaves into a pile
and look to the place you ought to be

I go inside to coffee, kids and wife
I look to where you ought to be
Goodbye

2006-01-09T11:35:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen it all

Shadows larger than the buildings,
clouds shaped like doves,
people doing things and
not doing things.

I haven't seen it all
but I've seen a little

Seems like it's best
to keep silent with the rest
and wait on the Lord
who created all

But some things I can't
keep silent about
He said He would make
the rocks cry out

He sees it all
and it's in his control
I'm glad it's not me
that's in control.

Those I've hated in the past
I've come to pity here at last
and No, I don't want to walk in their
place or live in their space
or breathe their air
or drink their brew
So... I'll keep quiet
unless you need to know
Ask me and maybe I'll tell you so

Dragon's Lair

2005-12-30T10:56:00.000-08:00

Drachenfels

At Drachenfels the Dragon's Lair
2 fledgling wizards spent the night
to discuss the test that that came at 8am the next morning.

So, all night long they sat
and grilled each other on the fine points of all the notes,
the lectures and the books that they had read
or not read, for that matter
and braved the chill of that midsummers night
and the ghosts of Siegfred
and maybe the ghost of the dragon that was slain
and all the other souls of those who had come and gone before them.

How proud their master(that firey gnome, Ausfart Auf Deutche McMinn)
was when they returned to take that final exam
and maybe just a wee bit jealous of 2 young men who lived to tell of a
night spent in discussion,
the plans that were made
and the breakfast pitcher of the finest brew
to flow from the tap at the inn on the Rhine
We slurped it as we wrote and dare to tell you that we passed,
nay, but that we excelled and then
went on to slay more dragons held us back.

Oh, for 1 more night at Drachenfels the Dragon's lair!