The Lighted Path

Good morning everyone.  Just wanted to make a quick post to say hello and to also say thanks and praise the Lord that today is forty days since I have had a cigarette!  I have said it again and again and again, I could not have done this without God's help and guidance.  Constant prayer and reliance on the Lord have made this, by far, the best quit that I have had.  I am not trying to be cocky about it, but I feel that I do have the right to be happy about it. Time to go get ready for church and enjoy what is looking to be another beautiful day given to us by God.  Not that everyday He has given us isn't beautiful, I just like the sun...and the Son as well ;-)!  Take care everyone, may your day be filled with many blessings... GOD BLESS!

...well not completely new.  There is another " The Lighted Path " and I have this one hosted on tumblr .  For the most part, the two blogs will be and contain the same things.  I know that you may be thinking that I have a hard enough time keeping up on one, now I have another one to throw in the mix (actually this is the third ), but that is the beauty of ctrl+c / ctrl+v! You may be asking yourself why have the same thing in two places, well that answer is simple.  If you look to the right and see the lack of followers (if you are reading, follow why don't ya:)) I am hoping that maybe I can get some followers here.  I have had alright success with my other tumblr blog so I hope that these two will compliment each other well. So go now and check out the other " Lighted Path " and if you belong to tumblr as well follow me.  Thanks and GOD BLESS!

Not that I had really gone anywhere but the other day when I logged on to my blog it Google said that it found malicious content, or something along those lines, on my page and gave the "proceed anyway?" message so I stayed away to see if it became resolved.  I checked last night from my PC and got to view my blog fine, but this morning on my laptop it was the same thing.  I tried it from different browsers, I use Chrome, and it was fine.  Throughout the week I checked it from work using Chrome and it was fine so I was a bit confused.  Then this morning when I checked again from the laptop it gave me the message again.  So I decide to try clearing out all browser data and trying it again.  I typed in the blog address and wouldn't you know it, it worked message free.  You would think that since I work with PCs all day and I am a Help Desk Analyst by career that I would have tried this first!  So long story short, it feels good to be back!. I will be back later with a mor

Good morning everyone!  It has been a couple of days since my last post, and you better believe it has been a busy couple of days!  My wife has taken on an evening job strictly for extra money for our son at Christmas.  We are still only operating with one car so it is a constant run, run, run, and when we finally get home it is bedtime, and believe me my head welcomes the pillow.  Well at least it is Wednesday and all we have to do is make it over the hump and we'll be okay! Tonight we will be taking our Pioneer Clubs class at church to the Fields of Faith event at the high school tonight.  Fields of Faith is a student hosted and student run ministry where students can share their testimonies and share the Word of Christ with the community.  Now that is my interpretation of what Fields of Faith is all about, but if you are curious you can go here  and get the correct "what is!" I am going to wrap this up here as I started writing this at about four in the morning

Good morning everyone.  I can not believe that another weekend has come and gone and now it is back to the daily work grind.  I really wish that the work week would fly-by just as quickly as the weekends do! I am quite surprised that I am not that sore this morning after participating in the 2011 Quakertown CROP Hunger Walk .  I think we did a 3, maybe 3.5, mile route, and I would have to say that about a mile of it I had my son on my shoulder's!  The Lord blessed us with a truly beautiful day and our church had an excellent turnout this year.  My wife Holly is actually our church's coordinator.  She did an excellent job in the weeks leading up to by getting walkers and keeping everyone motivated and pumped up for the event. I leave you with a music video entitled "Raise Your Voice" by K.C. Clifford .  It gives a little insight into what CROP Hunger Walks are about and their cause.  Thanks, everyone and GOD BLESS! "Truly I tell you, whatever you did

Yesterday was a day of a milestones for me.  The first milestone was finishing up day 40 of my 90 day reading plan for reading through the bible.  Each day you read between three and five chapters of three different books; one from the beginning, one from the middle, and one from the end.  For instance yesterday's readings were from Joshua, Ecclesiastes, and Acts.  I can not believe the difference in myself an the impact on my life that has come from the reading the Word daily.  The past few weeks at work have been really trying and when I start to get upset I look at the Bible sitting on my desk, pray for those upsetting me and pray for calm and the frustrations leave me.  I then refocus and reflect on Colossians 3:23  and remember who my Boss really is. The second milestone of the day was reaching 28 days of being smoke-free!  Twenty-eight days ago I can honestly say that I did not think that I would see this many days of being smoke-free (well twenty-nine now since that was ye

Good Monday morning everyone.  I wanted to make a post about World Communion Sunday last night after my family and I returned from the service, but I was tired and knew I needed to get up early today for work.  Let me give a brief, very brief, background of World Communion Sunday for those of you who may not know what it is. World Communion Sunday  is celebrated the 1st Sunday in October by churches around the world, regardless of the denomination, to commemorate and reflect on the meaning of communion and significance of Jesus' last meal with His disciples before paying the ultimate price for us and our sins.  For " while we were still sinners, Christ died for us " (Romans5:8 TNIV). In the Brethren denomination, which is my denomination, we do not celebrate communion every Sunday like some other Denominations do.  This is usually saved for certain Sunday's of significance, weddings, and or other special events.  In our church we celebrate World Communion Sunday

Good morning everyone!  Guess what today is???  If you couldn't tell by my post yesterday and this big banner above, it is my BIRTHDAY!   I turn thirty-two today so it is not really a landmark birthday or anything like that.  I am looking forward to going to church and spending the day with my family.  I am going to try not to do any housework today, but I did promise my wife that I would do the bathrooms and kitchen (well I want to do kitchen) yesterday but that did not happen. We will see how that works out. For my birthday yesterday, I did treat myself to a few things, and they did not cost me a thing, at least not at the present.  Last week I decided that I wanted to get a new Nintendo 3DS .  I did not have the money and when I heard that trading in my Sony PSP ,   Sony PS2 , and Nintendo DSLite would not get me there I was bummed.  I didn't take into account games and accessories that I was able to trade-in, so once again yesterday I gathered up a big plastic con

Good morning everyone!  Wow I can not believe that October is here already!  I guess it is time to wake up   and enjoy the fresh start that comes with each new month.  My 30 day challenge is over, and I must say that while I did not hit my goal af averaging a post a day, I am quite pleased with ending the month of September with a total of 24 posts.   I was only 6 off of the mark and that isn't too shabby considering the poor performance of posting the previous months.  While the challenge is closed I still plan on continuing to try and make a post a day and so far I am off to a good start ;-) The month of October is quite important to me as both my birthday and my wedding anniversary fall in this month.  October 2nd is my birthday, this year I turn the big 32 , and October 19th is my wedding anniversary.  This year my wife Holly and I celebrate our 9-year   Anniversary!   Where does time go?  I know through out the course of these nine years, we have had our share of ups and dow