Greetings to all:

I hope this is going as a positive day for you and for all who you love. Praise the Lord!

This morning, I do believe, God revealed to me at least one of the reasons why this blog is not going well, and is not like the other one, "Marty's Struggle". And that is because I am back in my role and life style as pastor. Now what in the world does that mean? That means that I can not talk about my life and what is going on in the same way as I did when I talking about my personal life and what was happened with Marty and me. Let me say it this way. The way that God revealed this to me is that the last two days (Wednesday and Thursday) some things happened in my life and work day that I would just love to be able to tell you about. God is so alive, so well, so at work, and so good - all the time, all the time - God is good! These events in some ways are the same kind of things that happened at St. V's and during the time of Marty's Struggle, but they are happening to me know as a pastor and not as Marty's husband. And the difference that that makes is called HIPAA, privacy practices, confidentiality. In other words, many of the ways that I saw God before Marty's illness and death, and see God at work now, have to do with my being a pastor and working with people from that direction, which means that I can not talk about what has happened. The law says that I cannot talk about it in any detail or specific way without the others written permission. And that my friends puts a real limit on what I can publish and how I can publish the blog.

The worst part about it is that it is now about 6 hours later than when I wrote the first sentence of this blog and I have had another experience this afternoon that I cannot write about. It has indeed happened the last three days in a row. So though the same Spirit is not coming out in my blog, that same Spirit is still very much alive and in me. I am really sorry that I cannot share it in the same way, but I will be talking to God to see what we can do about it. Maybe with now realizing the problem I can figure someway out to put some meaning back into the blog. Praise the Lord!

I need to go now as I am still at the office and poor Buddy has been in the house for about 9 hours now. I am sure he will be very happy when I get home. Yesterday, it was about 10 hours so if it is earlier today indeed I am sure he will be happy.

Have a positive day, take care, and God bless.!

Jack
Romans 8:28

Greetings and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope you are all doing well and have had a good beginning to the year 2008. I am and have! Praise the Lord! I had lunch (a big, big dinner at lunch time) with a family in the church and other friends. It was awesome! The food was really, really good and the fellowship was the same. I really filled up and enjoyed myself. I am so glad that I was included and that I went. Praise the Lord!

Over all it has been a good Christmas Season. It was really great having the kids and grand kids home the end of last week. It sure was different from the empty house that it had been. And besides when I came in not only was their noise in the house but I also had to watch where I walked because of toys, etc. Praise the Lord there was activity again!

God is so good - all the time. All the time - God is so good. Yesterday day I had the opportunity to help someone who was helping a person who was very down and out. It was good to be able to assist in that situation. Praise the Lord!

Well, I was wanting to let you know that all is well and to wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR so I do believe that I will close for know.

Have a positive day, take care, and God bless.

Jack
Romans 8:28