I just had a thought.  Everything is crazy right now with the economy being like it is, but I just realized something about perspective from my work.  

I am now tasked with SEO for our site.  SEO is Search Engine Optimization and is the process of making your page rank well in search engines like Google.  The idea is the rank well for a phrase you expect someone to search on such as “discount tour tickets“.  I just looked at the site and they are trying to rank for everything under the sun instead of aiming for Key West Discount Tickets or New York Tour Discount or Cheap Tours in Washington DC.

When you focus on the specific then you get better results.  If we focus on one specific thing with God we can get better results than a generic “I’ll try to be a better person.”

I’m fine with science verifying things we find in the Bible… it seems to happen nearly every day.  What I don’t like is when people try to use science to prove things in the Bible were normal happenings and had nothing to do with God.

First off, why bother?  If you don’t believe in the story of creation, for example, why try to explain a big bang that created everything?  Why fight against those you consider nut jobs that want to believe in a higher power?  Why, above all, say things like “This may be the explanation of the story in Genesis” if you don’t even believe the story in Genesis at all?  It’s like me trying to prove that cats won’t eat green ham and eggs or something! (more…)

How do you view the blessings that come your way?  The boss comes in and asks you to step up to the next level to fill a hole left by a coworker.  Is it a good thing or not?  We always have opportunity to choose how we view things like this.  We can see it as extra work and more demands placed upon us or we can view it as a reward for doing well at our current level and a chance to shine.  We could end up as a failure or as a senior ‘whatever-we-are’ making more money and more intangible rewards. 

When something happens in your life which way will you choose to see it?  Your attitude will decide how well you do at that task.

Right now we have  a terrible war going on.  It’s the war against terrorism.  It has manifested itself as military action in Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly soon Iran.  It is one of ideals, of American success and the world’s hatred of it - including even some Americans.  Too many times people buy into the mentality of feeling guilty for blessings.

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“Make it so.” These words were made famous by the confident Jean Luc Picard, Captain of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Invariably there would be a problem and someone would suggest a course of action and the captain would tell them to make it so.That is great for a scifi story on TV and in books, but what about real life as a Christian?

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