Today is my mom in law's 60'th birthday

60! 6 decades! That's many memories and plenty to remember. It's also
an interesting theological number since that is half of what God
prescribed fallen man's maximum age to reach. We celebrated the
anniversary of her birth by getting her an on tap hot or cold water
filter - being the running enthusiast that she is and having weaned
herself off of other drinks (hot or cold) from her staple liquid diet.
We saved up for it by budgeting from the beginning of the year, which
was something we've never done before and intend to practice far more often.
Today I quickly scanned web filtering software, for the non-profit
community project we're donating to the local farm residents, but I
think we can use this for our company also - this also lead me to the
fascinating topic of the anti-pornography movement which then lead me to
sites dedicated to assisting the more than 50% of professing Christians
that are addicted to sexually explicit media of a perverse nature!
This evening at the "party" we were also discussing a chemical imbalance
in one of our friends; a very active and health conscious person, who
exercises tremendous self discipline and shared his life long struggle
with medication prescribed by every which doctor his parents found to
help their so called "hyper-active" son. It took this friend a long time
to realize it wasn't anything they were doing wrong, but simply an error
in the chemical composition of their make-up... They've finally conceded
to getting a blood test to determine what the source of their constant
physical fatigue is...
Well it's bed time, so I'm going to try a novel thing by praying right
here on my blog.
"Heavenly Father,
Thank You for an awesome day!
Thank You for blessing me with health and a happy family.
Thank You also that no evil befell my loved ones.
Today we honor the gift of life you have blessed my mother in law with
Thank You for her input in shaping the character of my beautiful wife
Lord, my dreams to You
Let me rest deeply tonight, secure in Your presence.
Let my thoughts be fixed on You
And as I dream, let me soar with You on eagles wings in heavenly places.
Bless my children, wife and myself with a inspiring and creative day
tomorrow
Fill us afresh with Your precious Holy Spirit
I love You Jesus Christ
Bless Your Holy name oh YHWH!
AMEN!"