Irony vs God's Will

Irony VS God’s Will
Who are we to say what will be?
What can be the bigger picture we just can’t see?
Our dreams may not be what is best
Sometimes though we are sure God’s will is a jest

We look at those things we once said never to
We call these things the “ironies” but we don’t have a clue
God often has a reason for a change in our road
For a change in our heart over the way we want to go

Someone wrote “ I thank God for unanswered prayers”
When we give up our own way to go His then we can give up our cares
What we think is best is quite often not
We never really know why our own plans come to naught

Irony or God’s will which is best
Well it’s God’s will of course so forget the rest
Our way applies a certain amount of luck
Luck is a concept we just have to chuck

Jamie Rivera 2005

Fly

Learning to let go and to fly on my own
Learning to be me and not what others want to see
Isn’t easy but is the best thing to do
It’s about as simple as hammering a screw

Learning to give my all is not something small
Learning to face facts is all I can do
Dividing reality from fiction is best
It gives you a much needed test

Learning to be me and not someone fake
Learning to accept when I make a mistake
Is hard to contend with at times
Making me wish I was thrown lemons rather then limes

Be Ready

Trying to understand this finite thing that life is
Trying to comprehend how our lives are truly His
God gives and God takes… this is what They say
No one knows when it is going to be their Day

The day that they will see Him in His dwelling place
The day that they will go to see Him face to face
No more shall we be bound to this earth or inequity
No more shall this place hold our destiny

We will go and meet our Savior
This is a truth that we all should savor
We will be gone in but a twinkling of an eye
We will be where the angels fly on high

So be ready for that day when it comes
For we are more then dogs who eat the master’s crumbs
We are His children for whom He cares
More then the sparrows or the sweet, sweet mares.

By Jamie Rivera January 25, 2006

What the heck is wrong

Ok... so I just told my sister-in-law I was going to go to sleep. I went and checked a few things first and find I need to post this first.

I come from a fairly interesting background. My mother was someone who dearly wished she had been born in the time of Woodstock and the big counter-cultural world of those in 60's society called "Hippies". She did drugs she had free sex and she acted liked a hippy. Even thought she was born about 15 or so years too late to really fit into their movement. So I heard liberal politics spouted for the first 13 years of my life.

I became a Christian at the age of 15 and I agreed with the moral teachinsgs I was taught there. I knew somehow within my spirit even before I would have declared myself as a christian there was something wrong with living with a man who was not your husband, that there was something wrong with free love sex and happiness. That abortion was really another word for infanticide and the murder of an innocent life.

In my sheltered world that I lived in from the time I was 19 until I was 25 at LIFE I thought most of my fellow classmates believed the same way I did on these issues. I am morre and more disillusioned when I see and hear over and over that they don't really. That abortion isn't another word for murder. That prochoice isn't promurder. I disagree. I so disagree that it hurts my heart that my alma mater is sending out students with ba's in biblical studies who don't think there is something wrong with abortion. Who think liberation theology, word faith theology or whatever the most popular theologic practices are in that moment are whats best.We need to return to GOOD theology and careful study of scripture and meditate on what we find there.

I keep seeing people graduate and get disillusioned with what they once thought was a call on their life. Graduates are being slammed down by those above them in ministry. They are abandoning the call they felt because "it doesn't pay" to be a pastor, or because they simply don't "feel" called anymore.

We don't always "feel" God, but does that not mean he isn;t there? God is always where he is. He is not the one who moves. We are the ones who move. God doesn't call us out one day and abandon us the next. I have been having a struggles of faith and I am realising that THIS is the conclusion I need to come to. My feelings don't matter. What I feel doesn't matter. What matters is that I keep faith and realise he is right where he has always been. He is not the one who moves away. If I feel distant it is because I have distances myself.

I am just getting frustrated with what I see. For those of you out there at life or who have graduated I just want to encourage you remember that call that God put on you. DON'T give up.