Norman and Susan Carter

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Prayer:

Father, I am tired of the furious pace of the world. Sometimes I just want to run and hide. Allow me to run to You. Be the source of my peace, Lord. Amen.

I remember seeing a healthy and diseased heart side by side in on the TV. The healthy heart looked strong and fit. The diseased heart was a sickly colour, and looked bloated and spongy. That image sticks in my mind. The diseased heart symbolizes for me the sin-sick heart, discoloured by evil emotions and intentions, bloated by selfishness, and spongy through lack of love giving and compassion. The only solution for a sin-sick heart is a transplant by the Giver of all new life. God can take a diseased heart and make it new, fresh, and alive. Pray for God to remove the disease of sin, and He will heal you.

Prayer: Lord, I want to be made new and alive. Remove the dead tissue caused by sin and replace it with tissue that is strong and healthy. Create in me a new heart, and renew my spirit within me. Amen.

The Lord God is the Lord of compromise

No Muslim or Christian should be our enemy. We are all members of the same body, and the Lord God blesses those who strive to live in peace and harmony with one another.

My dad used to say that “there is nothing more tragic than watching the news on the television“. When I got to the age of fifty I began to really understand what he meant. We go through life and the younger we are the less we take from the news on TV or even the papers. Another one of his sayings was “don’t buy the times until you retire because you won’t have the time to really take it in“.

Both of those pearls of wisdom came upon me today, I watched the news tonight and saw the piece on poor baby Peter, how I hope that he is in the arms of our Lord now and that he truly knows that what love is now “suffer unto me little children”.

But what left me fuming were the words of the Judge and the words that he used when sentencing those animals. Are the judiciary so truly out of touch with humanity and the grass roots of the good minded people who live in the UK? What on earth posses a man with the power to deliver a much higher verdict choose the lenient way he sentenced them all today. They as good as murdered that poor defenceless child. They deserve to be euthanatized for one tenth of the things that they made him suffer. I know where there is good there is most certainly evil so on the Day of Judgment let them fear the wrath of God.

Now with hindsight I can say without fear of contradiction my dad was right. The news tonight has left me with a bad taste in my mouth and a crying pain for the innocence of that child in my heart.

Prayer:

Pick me up, Lord, and hold me in Your loving arms. Protect me from the pressures of the day, and remove the heaviness from my heart. Inspire me with the knowledge that You and I together can handle anything. Amen.

God wants us to need Him. He made us to need help, not to try to do everything on our own. When times get tough, God wants us to open our hearts to Him, that He might be made real to us. Call upon God from your brokenness, and He will be faithful to answer.

Prayer:

When all else fails, I turn to You, Lord . I should not wait until situations get bad, but I do. Be with me to help me in the hardest of times, and stay with me in all times, that I might know You better. Amen.

Today I have spent quite a bit of time listening to my talking books and pondering on where I will be in ten years. Are you like me? Do you worry about the time you have left, do you worry about what people will do when you are not here, well I have been doing that quite a bit lately. What in Gods name am I doing I spend days worrying about the quality of my life than I do planning or just enjoying time.

We all from time to time stop and try to make sense of this earthly domain. Me I am about to give that up. Who cares what you are going to leave as your legacy, not me and that's for sure, I will have passed on to another existence. So why do I worry about it. DUUUR.

So a very late new years resolution, I Norman (fat boy) Carter will do my very best to stop worrying about the things that I can do nothing about, and will concentrate on the things that I can influence.

How long do we think this new found freedom will last, keep you eyes on my blogs both here and Christian Chat

God Bless you for reading this and I will keep you all informed via my blog or on the Christian Chat Site.

Loves Ya all.

Norman