Author: Chris M. Day

I'm almost 59 years old. I've been online for 33 years - starting with my own dial-up bulletin board system in 1993 - and continuing with AOL, my own dot.com web site, Myspace, WordPress, Twitter / X, Flickr, and Facebook.

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God Music

My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

One of the hottest Christian Rock songs in the entire free nation is the latest radio single from Abandon entitled “Be Alive In Me”. There is no music video for it, so you won’t see one this week. But the lyrics are so powerful and amazing that I wanted to capture them here:

Here I am without a place to start.
Lost inside the desert of my heart.
All of my mistakes are adding up.
Take them all away I’ve had enough.

Heal my jaded soul.
I want to feel the weight letting go.

[CHORUS]
Be alive in me I know I’m – I’m Yours forever.
Be alive in me I know I’m – I’m Yours.
So take me and shake me I know I’m needing You to
Be alive in me.

I need You here so we can talk it out.
I’m giving You the things that pull me down.
Jesus can You teach me how to stand.
And if I fall I want to fall into Your hands.

So Heal my jaded soul.
Cuz I want to feel the weight letting go.

[CHORUS]

I’m Yours.
I’m Yours.

Excite me !  Ignite me !  Relight this fire !
Excite me !  Ignite me !  Relight this fire !

[CHORUS]

I’m yours.
Be alive in me.
I’m yours.
Be alive in me.

This month marks the 3RD anniversary of when my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ rescued me, saved me, and gave me a second chance at Life (always capitalized). I wasn’t particularly searching for God at the time, but He was there waiting for me to fall into His arms at the right time and the right place. Call it a miracle if you will because if you had told me three years ago that all of this would happen over the next three years then I would have laughed at you and written you off as a member of the loony bin.

The words to the song above accurately depict my feelings at the time of my unscheduled “Rebirthing”. They remain to be just as true today right here right now as they were yesterday, last week, last month, last year, and three years ago this month. The euphoria never ends. I want Jesus Christ to be alive in me always and forever Amen. Deep within my heart and my soul. I want Him to rule what I am all about, for I am absolutely nothing whatsoever without Him. I am His creation. I am His Disciple. He IS alive in me !

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Driving Food Health Weather

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

The Tuesday night saga continues with the flagship weekly series of this here blog:

1.  TODAY I took a day off from work. I actually took 8.0 out of my accumulated 1,386.5 hours of sick leave. That’s just a little over one-half of one percent of all of my sick leave. I was not actually sick today, but sick leave may be utilized for any type of medical appointments, and I did just that today.

2.  This morning at precisely 9 AM I reported to my new personally hand-selected Family Practice M.D. Here’s a brief summary. My weight is virtually perfect for my height and age. My blood pressure is extremely normal. My heart functions as determined by the EKG is about as average as can possibly be. Oh yeah – they also took a lot of blood from me. They will check it all out to see how it all looks. I have a follow-up appointment for the ‘results show’ next Monday morning.

3.  Later in the morning I ventured over to Firestone for routine preventive maintenance on my car which incidentally hit 59,500 miles today. That’s 59,500 miles over the past 2,231 days for an overall average of 26.67 miles per day – slightly below the national driving average of 33.33 miles per day. Firestone did the oil and filter change, the tire rotation, and the alignment in about two hours while I waited. I’m always satisfied with their work.

4.  While I waited for my car at Firestone I walked on over to Mamma Mia where I enjoyed a GINORMOUS Lunch consisting of salad with blue cheese dressing, spaghetti and meatballs, garlic rolls, and soda. The food was great, the service was great, and they also have an unusually clean and modern bathroom for a mom-n-pop Italian ristorante !

5.  The last stop on my errand-filled Tuesday was at the legendary Woody’s Barber Shop for a haircut. My last haircut was 7 weeks and 3 days ago, so I imagine that my next haircut will be sometime during the final week of September. That sounds about right. I think I average about 6 to 7 haircuts per year.

6.  Most of the southeast coastal region of Florida has received two to three feet (24 to 36 inches) of rain over the past three months. It was a bit on the hot and dry side during much of the month of July, but I am forecasting a return to the cooler and wetter weather that we experienced during much of May and June for the latter portion of August into September and October. El Niño is in full effect here in America’s Riviera.

Thank You for your attention my friends, and Thank You for your continued support of the fine art of blogging. Good Day !

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Humor Politics

The Major’s Loony Bin

After a long hard day at work on a Monday – all ya wanna do is laugh.

Coming out of the ‘Loony Bin’ this week I present to you a joke and a song that’s not so politically correct, but it made me chuckle, giggle, and guffaw:

An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other. He says to the waiter:  “Want coffee.”

The waiter says:  “Sure, Chief, coming right up.”

He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee. The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp, turns, and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhere, and then just walks out.
 
The next morning the Indian returns. He has his shotgun in one hand, pulling another male buffalo with the other. He walks up to the counter and says to the waiter:  “Want coffee.”

The waiter says:  “Whoa !  We’re still cleaning up your mess from yesterday. What was all that about anyway ?”

The Indian smiles and proudly says:  “Training for position in U.S. Congress:  Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull, leave mess for others to clean up, disappear for rest of day.”

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God People

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s my takeaways from this morning’s Life Pointe Church experience:

– The devastation and the redemption continues …

Devastation

– We all need help from above.
– God does not wish to redeem our harvest.
– He wishes to redeem our land.
– That way we can be fruitful and produce.
– It’s all for the purpose of us redeeming other people’s land.
– God wishes to use us to be His hands and His feet here on His Earth.
– God wants the ‘us’ back that He created.
– He wants all of His creation to return to Him so that we may all be redeemed.
– The world has corrupted us, and God is waiting for us to repent to Him.
– His Holy Spirit will be poured on to us all once we call on Our Father.
– We shall be witnesses of Him, and tell all about His miracles.

Acts 1:8 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere — in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Nancy L., Chris D., Anne J., Kristina M. - 26 July 2009
Nancy L., Chris D., Anne J., Kristina M. - 26 July 2009