Saturday, May 9, 2009

Prayer Needed

This is my bro Marcus and his little girl, Zara Brazel. She is diagnosed with leukemia. Please take some time to lift her up in prayer. She is a brilliant, beautiful life that makes you smile.


Please keep praying for God's steadfast healing. Pray for the continual miracle of science as well as the doctors, nurses, assistants and all those that are administering to her.


I have no idea how tough this is on Marcus and Collette (Zara's mom). Please pray for their renewed strength, guided wisdom and healing hearts.


Please pray if you don't even know what to pray for. Thank you for your hearts in this.


Andy


"And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19


"Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray." James 5:13

Friday, May 8, 2009

The Gym, Vitamins and Truth

Tonight's blog is a late night check-in.  How are you all doing?  Is anybody reading???  If not, then I can journal away baby!  

Dude, it is late.  I can't sleep at all.  Ah well.  

By the way,  I came across this article written by Chuck Colson.  It's sweet.
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FAITH
The choice we make as to the universe’s origin is the most important choice in life, everything else stems from it, it’s where truth begins. Few people have thought through the choices. But, most are influenced by their cultural prejudices as I found out a few weeks back at a charity dinner. 
At a dinner I sat down next to a man who said, “Just so you know I’m an atheist.” 
I said, “I’m happy to sit next to you because I’ve never met an atheist.” 
He said, “what do you mean?” 
I said, “An atheist is someone who has claimed that the existence of God can be disproved, so please, tell me, how have you disproved God.” 
He said, “Well, I’m an agnostic.” 
“When did you give up studying God? An agnostic is someone who thinks that God can never really be known, and you can only be an agnostic if you’ve tried to know him and exhausted the search. So though you appear to be a very educated person, you’ve made an unsupportable statement.” 
A few weeks later I was reading the editorial page of the state’s largest newspaper, and it was written by my the man I had conversed with at dinner—he was the publisher. He wrote about our dinner conversation and said, “Religion is indeed an important element of all or our lives and something we need to pursue. My own previous point of view proved to be unsupportable.” 
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This article illustrates the logical (and non-combative) nature of Christianity.  Furthermore, it presents the reality that atheism and agnosticism are both forms of religions.  After the research I have done, I don't have the faith it requires to be an atheist or agnostic.  There is too much truth in Jesus Christ.   

Vitamins
Today, I didn't take my vitamins.  Courtney has got me taking Juice Plus (this is one of the infinite perks of doing life with her).  Aaaahhhh..... Where was I?  Juice Plus!  Man, I now know that this stuff works because without it... I feel like poo.  Them magic pills give me the energy to accept God's work!  Free Radicals can't get ME down!  (I don't even know what a free 'radical' is, but the stuff keeps me moving and grooving!)

Holler at my girl and try them out:  Beautiful Juice Plus Rep.  

Please Note:  If you bother her or email something weird, I will break your ankles.  

The Gym
I have been doing Cross-Fit Flood under Steve Tankersley (he supports my internship in so many ways).  Thank you, bro!  These crazy workouts are making me 20 years old again.  It's time to be able to dunk a basketball.  

If anyone ever wants to check out the Cross Fit, the gym is open on the third Saturday of the month @ 8 AM.  Check it out!  

Conclusion
There you have it.  A healthy diet of fruit & veggie supplements, navy seal regiments and Jesus Christ as God's descent.  Life is good.  This is living (2 Cor. 5:17).

Eyes to the SKY!


Andy Kelly

The proper motto is not "Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever," but "Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can." God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers. ~    C.S. Lewis