I'm Taking a Break...

I'm taking a break from writing this week. I hope you all had a great time celebrating Christmas yesterday. I know that I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Now I'm looking forward to 2010 as I have a strong impression that regardless whether things improve in the global or national economies this coming year is going to one with many positives changes both personally and for the Body of Christ as a whole.

Christ, The Word in the Flesh Living among Us is Father’s Gift to All Creation!

A week from yesterday families and friends will gather many will have a big elaborate meal and for many if not most the main event will be exchanging of gifts.

These gatherings are an event that has required great planning and effort.

Everything has to be just right and often a cause for so much stress that people become depressed and irritable and outright nasty toward one another.

People often go into debt to buy presents and everything else that goes along with what Christmas has become for the majority.

Me included to some extent in this stress, but thankful by Fathers grace not in the going into debt part.

However I have been finding myself worried whether gifts I have chosen for specific people are expensive enough, since I know the particular people will be going to great expense to make sure everyone other than themselves receives very nice and often at least for their means expensive gifts.

It may be seem strange, but today I find myself thinking about God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit deciding to give the greatest gift the gift of the Son becoming flesh and living among us as one of us.

God did not stress about that they simply made the decision and were pleased with it.

Knowing even that Jesus will be accepted and acknowledged as the Messiah/Christ by few and rejected by most.

When I think about this I find myself thinking about how Jesus life on earth was the exact representation of Father and who he is and what he is like.

We, people, had such a warped view of God and what he is like and yet all we have to do is look at Jesus to know.

So warped that when Jesus walked this earth most refused to accept that he is the Son of God, because he is nothing like who they had imagined in their minds God is and what he is like and what he expects or desires of and for us.

All too often those of us who profess to have placed Faith in the Son of God are not much different as though we read the Gospels and the other parts of the New Testament I think sometimes we just don’t wrap our minds around the fact that Jesus was the exact representation of His Father.

That Jesus life and his ways where exactly the ways of looking at and relating to everyone he encountered is an exact representation of who God is, his ways and how he relates to to you and to me.

Jesus life on earth as I understand it and his perfect representation of God was Father's Christmas gift to all of us.

God's greatest gift to us was lowering himself by taking on the form of man to give us himself to us in a form that could be observed, heard and felt with natural human senses that demonstrates how much he loves and values relationship with us in my mind at least as much as the Son's death on the cross.

People R' Sheep

I wrote the following poem several years ago.

From the time I was young I spent a good part of life as a Working Cowboy and it was important me that others were fully aware that what and who I am.

That was my identity.

Now however I want to only be known as a child who is loved by my Heavenly Father and who lives love.

Getting to the place I am now has been a very long and hard journey and in many ways still is as there is so much in me still that does not conform to Father's image and contradicts living loved and living loved.

Writing this poem was significant in many ways as a Working Cowboy I did not have a high opinion of sheep or shepherds and my way of life, character, and demeanor was totally opposite of Jesus the humble Good Shepherd.

It was not until Father opened a door for me to join him in loving neighbors I once despised.

Only then I came to appreciate and have affection for sheep and to honor shepherds so much that I desire to be one myself within my Father's flock especially for those sheep who are often thought of and treated as the least desirable or completely undesirable.
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Only then did I know that there is no us and them there is only us and I am (We all are) no different then those I (We) despise except that I know my Father loves me and therefore I have placed faith in his Son who is the Good Shepherd who loved us all enough to give his life as the Savior of All Men!

"People R' Sheep"

God's people R' called sheep
Not cattle
Jesus is called Good Shepherd
Not Good Buckaroo or Good Cowboy
Which I've found difficult to swallow
For some like me who ride tall in the saddle

A shepherd is right down there
with them nasty dirty n' stupid sheep
Noth'n b'tween'em to keep’em apart
The Good Shepherd doesn't ride high on a horse
He walks the ground in front
Humbly lead'n the way through life’s course

A shepherd's not above'm drive’n from behind
Show'n the sheep whose boss
Instead where he goes they follow
When one sheep decides to quit herd n’ run
To have some fun on its own
The shepherd must be committed
Cuz to find that sheep
He's go'n to have to use his own two feet n' run
So his Boss will not suffer loss of even one

Shepherds must love the sheep
It is his job to protect
N’ lead'em to feed n' to water
That won't make'm sick like goats
Sheep eat n' drink anything without a single thought
Their water must be still if it is move'n their woolen coat
Will get caught n' the current n’ drag'm in
To drown never to be seen agin

The list of what a shepherd must do for sheep
Much of which I dare not mention
makes his job one few men r’ will’n to keep

The shepherd's life is demand'n sheep R' helpless, stupid,
And they stink
Without the shepherd all would be dead in near a wink

Cattle left on their own most thrive
Independence is how they survive its why
To bring'm home Buckaroos n' Cowboys from behind must drive

People remind me of Sheep
Often take'n into themselves non-sense n' destruction
Without care or considering cost
Eat'n deception n' drink'n every popular philosophy
Want'n to play they insist on their own way
With no idea in the end there's a high price they cannot
themselves pay

With all that in mind I'm offal glad Jesus is the Good Shepherd
We all like sheep have gone astray
Everyone has turned to his own way
N' Jesus the Good Shepherd died our sin to pay
N' down the Path of life He joyfully leads the way

Pardner I'm glad we're like sheep
With the Good Shepherd on foot with us lead’n the way
It could be months before a Good Buckaroo or Good Cowboy
Ride a long high on a horse covering
the full course of God’s spread
Regardless how hard we pray after we've wandered off
By the time he arrived we could be dead

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Taking A Break, But Who Knows I Might Write Something Later

Hello all my faithful readers and Newbies too:

I'm taking a break from writing this weekend.

Who knows I might have something I feel compelled to write at some point this weekend so that may change.

For now though have a great weekend and a great week.

I Love and appreciate you all.

The following is something I shared on Facebook last night that I'll add for everyone to soak on:

Love is Seeking relationship with another to know them, discover, show preference to, and spend yourself to meet their needs, desires, preferences, success or to give your life for theirs even if it is not reciprocated. Without fail that is what the Father and Son have done and do for us all every day regardless whether we recognize, acknowledge, return it or not... Tom Wilson