Loss for Words

This week has been really rough for me. A close friend of mine lost their son last week and it hit me like a ton of bricks. One wonders often why horrible things happen and how one could have helped to stop it from happening. Yet there are no answers sometimes.


I have found myself staring into space just wondering, why? A loved one has been given to us and a second later, taken away. We know that Christ has given us the words for eternal life but in situations like this it still is hard. Thankfully we have someone to help us through the "mud" of life.


Hug your loved ones. Love them. Be with them. Don't wait a day longer to resolve some misfortune that could be resolved. Be with them and don't let the material things of this world take you away from the things that really matter in life.


As for my friend that lost his son. I love you and I am so sorry.

A Good Job

This morning on the news Best Buy announced that they were going to be laying employees off due to the slower economic times. This has been a normal and too often occurrence. We seem to be living in some real unstable times, which brings me to this discussion.

There are very few people out there that can say that they enjoy going to work. As for me I can proudly say that I enjoy my job. God has been so good to me. There are so many aspects about my job that I have enjoyed. There is not a single individual there that I dislike. I love them as brothers and we treat each other as such. We understand the common goal of "work" and working diligently but there is a common bond between all of us that is respectful.

It saddens me that I know that the day of employment here is going to come to an end, which will be too soon, when I leave for seminary in a couple months. This place has been faithful to all my needs as an individual and to my family.

I guess I just want to say thank you to my employer and to those that I work with. You have been good to me and have been a major blessing to me. You have made me laugh endlessly. I will be eternally grateful for the time that I was able to spend with you. You will always be in my heart.

As for those that have lost their jobs, I hope that you find a place that I have found. A place that not only provides financial stability but also a place where you find pride in what you're doing.

Reasons

Hello everyone and welcome to my new website where you will hopefully find a lot of insight of what is going on in my life and my family.

What are the reasons for calling this blog Lifting Eyes? My eyes are flawed and often follow things that don't last. They are often impressed by the flashy things of this world. Whether it be in the cheap entertainment on our computers or whatever our eyes are drawn to on tv. Maybe even in material things I find myself wanting and desiring.

Yet these things pass away in the blink of an eye and I keep wanting something more. It's kinda like my craving for candy. I love it so much and find myself eating more and more, never fulfilling my lust for the sweets. I have only found one thing in this life that has been faithful to me. That is Christ. His water makes me never thirst, it is an energy that never dies. When my eyes are lifted on Him..."I can do all things!"

Peter once was asked by Christ after a hard teaching, and many followers of Christ left, whether he was leaving also and his response is even true to today, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." (John 6:68) He is eternal.

So with that said, I hope you enjoy my coming to the "blog world" as I write about the things that I experience in my world for you to learn and be a part of. May my eyes always be on Him for there is nothing greater, not on things that pass away.