Faithfulness and obedience are the things that God wants from us. When we measure our closeness to God by the things we do for Him we will begin to drift away from Him in our hearts. The key to not drifting away is by measuring your closeness to God by time spent with Him. The greatest gift wen can ever get is the presence of God. Don't measure your relationship with God by what you do, live for the presence of God.

What is loving God? Not to mention loving God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. But I wonder if a person other than me were to examine my life, would they find I love some one or something more than God?

I spend more time with my wife, I spend more money on her, and I think about her many times throughout the day. If she and I spend much time apart at all I am constantly thinking about her, calling her or writing her emails. It is painful to be away from her.

Not at all to say a relationship with your wife should suffer, but I do wonder if I truly believe it's okay to merely read my bible for 20 min a day, pray on occasion when it feels right or necessarily, do my salaries worth of work for the church, put 10% of my paycheck back in the offering plate and sometimes go a day or so without any communication with God?

I don't want to put anything in my life above God and loving him. Instead of loving anyone less or doing less of something, how can we love God more?

I hate being late! And today I completely missed a meeting that was very important to me. Normally in this situation I would think of how I can work harder and become a better manager of time to ensure this doesn't happen again and to also somehow make up for my fault. But right now, I kind of think it was good that I missed a meeting.

God spoke to me, and I believe He was telling me that His love is better than my best. Nothing I do or don't do can change His incredible love. I can get so hung up on myself, my meetings, and my agenda (even though its for God) that I forget to enjoy Him.

My word is, Its easy to shut the door on God when we are upset with our outcome. But don't let your mistakes get in the way of enjoying God and being with Him.

Today was my 3rd day on the job as a Nurse Tech in Surgery at Saint Francis. I have been seeing some pretty crazy stuff, some of which is a little more than emotional. I am glad to say that God is giving me a new level of compassion. I can feel it growing in my heart. If you are feeling a little cold inside, go out and take a look at some hurting people. They are all over the place and they wont be around forever.

God knows our needs. And sometimes we think we know our own needs, but God knows them so much better than we do. I believe this is why it can be so hard and at times even painful to obey Gods direction when he speaks it to us. We can either follow His leading or our own.

It will always be a better decision to seek His direction first.

I love my life and my wife. Even more I love the direction and the adventure that we are in together. This morning as Shawna and I sipped coffee we talked and dreamed about the future. I love dreaming about the future. It inspires me to be better at everything I'm doing, right now. Dreaming also makes me slightly irritated with the condition of certain things that need to be better. But all in all, I love dreaming and even better I love dreaming Gods plan for our lives. Shawna and I will always do our very best to find Gods plan before our own. Because If we would ever decide to follow our own plan before Gods we would no longer be on an adventure.

I don't usually check my email first thing in the morning, but this one morning in particular I awoke from my slumber and felt the nudge to get online and see what might be waiting for me in my inbox. As I logged in my gmail preview gave me a peak at the one piece of junkmail (or so i thought) that found its way to me. I decided to give the letter one chance since I did make it this far from the pillow. I followed the link that was inside and to my delight I arrived at the webpage of Double Shot Coffee Company of Tulsa. This day happened to be their 6th year anniversary and If I could drop by on this particular day I could get a free cupcake with my cup of coffee. I will just say it already... Double Shot has the best coffee I have ever tasted in my entire life! You owe to yourself and your grandchildren to get over and check out Double Shot! Its located on Boston just south of 13street. There is so much to be discovered at this place, you wont regret it.