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Bedtime Stories

God loves you more than you’ll ever know. He loves you unconditionally. He loves you no matter how much you love Him back. God loves you even if you don’t even know Him. He loves you more than you could ever love Him. It doesn’t matter where you’ve been in your life or what you’ve done with it. God gave up His only Son on that bloody wooden cross so that you could live. That’s how much He loves you. There is not a person in this world that is so far removed from His love. God’s reach is infinite. His reach is unstoppable. Since God can reach you with His love you can reach Him with your love. You should love Him more than anyone else and anything else. Show your love for God. Let Him know how much you truly love Him.  

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Food Health

Beef O’ Brady’s: It’s What’s For Lunch

TODAY at 11 AM if you were looking for me then you had to look no further than the Homestead area (just outside of the city limits) Beef O’ Brady’s location. I ADORE that place !  I eat there about once or twice a month, but I should eat there much more often than that because the food is hot and delicious, they have a large menu selection of food available, you get big portions of everything, and customer service is excellent and fast. You pay a wee bit more than other places, but it’s all worth it. The ambience is near-perfect as far as I’m concerned. It’s neither too big and noisy of a joint nor is it too small and uneventful. It’s the perfect size, and I always feel welcome and comfortable there – even when I eat there solo.

I enjoyed a half-pound cheeseburger and curly fries today – two foods that I rarely eat nowadays ever since my MASSIVE heart attack several years ago (just kidding). Where’s my Lipitor ?  Oh yeah – I already took it for today. I’m obedient like that.

Catch me at Beef O’ Brady’s again next week my friends !

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

You waited 168 hours for this ?  Let’s see if it was all worth it.

1.  Last week was the biggest week in history for this blog. Nowadays we are averaging more than double the amount of unique hits to this blog in a typical Monday to Sunday week than we were less than 3 months ago. Today (Tuesday) became the biggest Tuesday ever in the history of this blog before I even turned on my computer this afternoon !  THANK YOU FRIENDS !

2.  Speaking of friends Pastor Travis called me ‘clueless’ in his blog today, and it’s the nicest complement I’ve received all day. I’ll accept the complement because I did a much better job late last night before I went to sleep talking all about Trav to God. Trav is one of the most sensible persons that I have ever met in my entire life / Life.

3.  Paul – There’s no need to be jealous. The person that was going to take me out to Lunch for my birthday today fell ill and had to postpone it, so I ended up eating ‘grocery store grub’ from Publix. Actually it was rather decent tasty – chicken tenders, macaroni and cheese, and juicy corn. YUM !

4.  Yesterday (Monday) I went to Panda Express (spur-of-the-moment decision) for Lunch and I received poor service. As usual they had little to no selection of foods available to choose from for the various entrees. I completed and submitted a survey online stating my dissatisfaction with their Lunch service and product. We’ll see if it gets any better in future visits. If the customer service and the food selection doesn’t improve then I’ll just stop going there.

5.  Speaking of the Atlanta Bread Company in Homestead I have received no follow-up communication from Corporate Headquarters in Smyrna Georgia as of yet – more than 80 hours after the fact. Apparently they have no Assimilation / Follow-Up Director.

6.  I was extremely shy as a kid. I didn’t talk a lot. The reason why is because when I did talk nobody was listening and nobody cared to listen. I pretty much lived through a sad and miserable childhood. My little brother was one of the first persons in my entire life that actually listened to what I had to say and was genuinely interested. If it weren’t for my little brother then I may not be here today.

7.  One of the highlights of my day is looking out my personal hurricane-proof window at work that faces due east and watching the sun rise above the horizon. I adore the daylight. I adore chasing it. It’s morning again !

8.  I spent close to 45 minutes at Office Max yesterday and I only spent $8.75 (including tax). The fact of the matter is that I could have spent 3 hours browsing around in that store and $500 or more on quality office merchandise. But I showed real restraint in there. I’m a member of the Christian Conservative Coalition. Yeah – I’m one of those wackos – and PROUD of it !

9.  When Staples opens its doors for business later this year over at the MASSIVE new Homestead Pavilion shopping, dining, and entertainment complex I may hang out there like I own the place !  I’m crazy about office supplies like that.

10.  Exactly 5 months ago this morning – on January 03RD 2008 – Homestead was shivering just a few degrees above the freezing mark. It was in the 30s outside for 8 hours, and in the 40s for an additional 8 hours. It was our coldest morning in nearly 12 years !  I just wanted to remind you of that now that we’re clearly in the bug-infested hot and humid summertime rainy season.

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God People

Bedtime Stories

TONIGHT just after 11 PM EDT as I lay myself to bed I’ll pause for a short little while for my nightly talk to God about the random events that are going on in my Life as well as the people that are directly or indirectly involved with said events. I’ll be praying for the usual suspects. The people don’t really change too much in my current Life. God knows all of them quite well on a first name basis. He keeps hearing about them from me over and over again. He’s guiding and directing them on His fantastic journey.

Tonight I’m praying for some of my closest friends on His journey – Gene, Alex, Anne J., Paul, Jesse, Ela, and last but certainly not least Travis. I prayed for Travis in public earlier tonight, and as usual it really didn’t go very good at all. The words weren’t there, and what words were there were all jumbled together. What I ended up saying out loud didn’t really make too much sense at all. I asked God for a ‘do over’ on this one, and so I will pray all over again in my own style tonight as I end this day.

Praying in public (out loud) has been my greatest weakness ever since I stepped onto this fantastic journey some 22 months ago. It pretty much goes in hand-in-hand with my other major deficiency – talking in public. I’m basically praying for the first time in my Life, and it’s really hard when I’m not a very good talker. It’s kind of like learning how to surf when you aren’t that good of a swimmer. It doesn’t work out very good. I’m obviously much more skilled at writing (as you have already realized if you are a fan of this blog).

I think that God understands. He’s all ears whenever I need to talk to Him – even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense at the time. He’s known me for much longer (41 years) than I’ve known Him (22 months). He knows where I’m coming from. He knows where I’m going to. That’s why He is Almighty. There is no one or no thing that is mightier than Him !