AdventureSeeker7 I like this

AdventureSeeker7 is a 56 year old married guy from Michigan, USA.

I am an 11 year survivor of a bone marrow transplant for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. I am also a married man with 3 wonderful children and a fantastic wife. We share an interest in backpacking, gardening and reading all emails that we receive.

If you are looking for pretty pictures you won't find them on my site unless they are of places to backpack. But you will find links to interesting articles about the Christian faith, politics and backpacking.

The picture is a photo of our dog and his Christmas present. It is the first leather bone that he has not devoured the first day. He is still trying to figure out how to chew it and Feb is close at hand.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

May 23, 7:33am: I read a headline today that announced a 22% increase in the sales of homes in CA during the month of April. This goes along with a few radio spots in which economists were saying the recession is over. I am not sure if the recession is really over but I am a preacher and not an economist. Warren Buffet does not have my cell phone number in his Fav Five. However, as a preacher, I am an observer of human behavior. I have learned that people will show different behavior that have similar emotional causes. Grief at a funeral may be shown through tears by one person and by another through jokes. Both are hurting inside but one expresses the pain through tears another through laughter. People also worry differently.

Reactions by worriers to an economic downturn will vary. Some may obsessively review economic reports looking for signs of hope. Others will talk incessantly about the problems and make dire predictions of gloom and doom. Still other will ignore the issues completely. And others may sleep more, act lethargic and apathetic toward their plans for the future. All of these reactions may be signs of worry. Worry is not limited to hand wringing, knee twitching behavior.

The human mind struggles to stop worrying. That is why I never liked the Bob Marley song, "Don't Worry Be Happy!" it is just too simplistic. Our emotional response is produced by a belief system that tells us if condition X exists then we should worry. We cannot stop worrying unless we re-write our belief system. Jesus tells us not to worry but then tells why--because the Father who takes care of the birds of the fields, cares more for you. It is easy to say that we believe that statement but much more difficult when our company announces that they will be having lay offs. It is easy to say that God will provide but then we look at the stock price of GM and figure out how much our portfolio lost over the past three years and worry about having enough for retirement.

We cannot stop worrying without a complete trust that in "life and in death" we belong to God. Unless you confidence is completely based in that belief you will worry. If you are losing sleep at night or getting too much sleep, if you become angry every time you read the financial reports, or spend hours thinking about your stock investments, you are worrying and not trusting. If you believe that you have saved enough to enjoy a wonderful retirement, or believe that your children will take care of you, or you will work till you drop, you are heading for a very bad reality check. Your trust is focused on the wrong source.

A worry free life comes only from a complete and totally dependence in God the Father. Until you know that and act as if that were true, you will be subject to worrying about the incidentals of life.

I do not write this as someone who has arrived but as a fellow traveler looking for companions who will join him for the journey.

StumbleUpon

Great! Stumble now and meet more stumblers like AdventureSeeker7.

AdventureSeeker7 I like this

How Similar Are You?

“Too early to tell.”

AdventureSeeker7's friends

Stats