Bueno!  Ola!  Howdy!  <Gomer Pyle voice> "Hey ya'll!" 

All greetings to the Saints of the Most High ...
I trust you are "movin' into May" real nice?  A few things I wanted to remind you of this week ...  school is almost out!  <kids heard cheering in background>  Yes, school is finally over for the summer ... in just a few weeks!! 

My youngest is always saying, "School is boring ..." while my oldest, now 26 and attending college, says, "I am thankful for the schooling I am getting ..." 

Remember the Arsenio hall show that used to be on?  It had a segment on each show that they called, "Things that make ya' go ... hmmmm?"  Well, the scenario above me ... makes me go "hmmmm".  Why the different attitudes?  Is it just my oldest?  No, he felt the same way about school that my youngest did when he was in Jr. High and High School. 

(sorry folks, I just can't bring myself to call it "middle School" ... I like the "manly" name ... "JUNIOR High"!  <Tim Allen voice, "Arrrrghh!">)
... ok, don't know where that came from! 

The difference seems to be in the "appreciation" that we get when we begin to understand what things would be like (or 'are' like) WITHOUT.  My oldest, Joshua, went straight into the workforce after High School.  He did this for a few years, and began to observe that if he really wanted to get anywhere ... if he really wanted to make better money ... he was going to have to get some training, some education, and he was going to have to get a degree. 

NOW, he has an appreciation for the training and the schooling he is getting!  Will my youngest, John, feel the same way?  Sure!  Given time to see its benefits and its importance, he too will see the value of learning, of knowledge, and of an education, and what it can mean to him! 

Take stock of the things around you ... and especially of the things for which you find yourself complaining about.  Consider them.  Are they a blessing?  Or are they a curse?  If they are NOT what you want, then as Mike Murdock always says, "Don't complain about that which you allow in your life."  DO SOMETHING! 

Make me proud! 
-pastor rich-


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In light of last weeks message here, I have been watching the scale.  I am busy, with work (where I drive about an hour to/from each weekday), and with Boy Scouts, and with our family and the things we want to do there. 

Where do I find the time to exercise and to "get serious" about losing the weight I want to lose? 

Remember last week?  It hasn't nor will it change ... you've got to ask yourself, "Am I really serious?" 

Well, in order for me to find time to do this, I can get up earlier (5:00am) and go straight to Lifetime Fitness near where I work and I can workout "before" work!  Then, I can shower and dress there, at the gym, and drive the couple of blocks over to work!  I can be in-place, sipping a Starbucks while everybody else is ranting and stressing over the morning traffic!  

Sounds like a plan!   What's yours?  MAKE IT HAPPEN!! 

Make me proud!
-pastor rich-

 

So I'm driving in the traffic the other morning and I notice all of this "space" in front of me ... a few football fields worth of empty highway, before any traffic ... way way ahead of me.  I thought to myself, "Well lets just scoot on up to the traffic" and at that moment, the Lord stepped in and said, "Why?"


"Excuse me?", I asked.  He again said, "Why?  Why race up to the traffic ahead?  Take a look and tell me what you see ahead?" 

As I looked I realized there was a police car, with it's lights on ... an apparent car wreck at the right of the road.  And all of the cars way up there were now braking ... there were brake lights everywhere! 

He continued, "So ... you want to rush forward ... into THAT?" 
Point taken. 

And I perceived some wisdom ...
Often, we race head on with an unwarranted urgency to "get there" when if we had just maintained our pace, the calamity that we encountered (because we were in a rush) would have already subsided and been cleared away!  In other words, if you think GOD is taking too long on answering that prayer, ask yourself this question:  "Is GOD maybe trying to help me ... to avoid something that I am racing towards?" 

I have often seen that GOD is in "no big rush" when it comes to making things happen!  It's "HIS" time table, not ours, that matters.  HE sees the really BIG PICTURE ahead that we don't! 

So remember, when you find yourself calling in for your musicians to play you a sad song, all because you don't feel like you're where you need to be in life.  Maybe, just maybe ... it's not GOD's timing yet?  Consider it. 

Make me proud! 
-pastor rich-
 

Rich & Jane Allcorn
Rich & Jane, sr. pastors of WORD CHURCH, are both licensed and ordained, and have their BA in Biblical & Theological Studies. 


Margarett Parker
Margarett, associate pastor, is also director of foreign missions.  She is licensed and ordained, and has earned her BA in Biblical & Theological Studies as well.  Pastor Margarett recently traveled to Kenya, on her own, and ministered to hundreds while there! 

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