Treasures - Keep the ones you like. Forgive the ones you don't. And share them when you can.

Pray all the time. If necessary, use words.
Sacrilege is to feel guilt for sins forgiven.
God forgets the past. Initate him.
Greed I've often regretted. Generosity-never.

Pursue forgiveness, not innocence.
Be doubly kind to the people who bring your food or park your car.
Don't ask God to do what you want. Ask God to do what is right.
Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

You'll give up on yourself before God will.
Know answered prayer when you you see it, and don't give up when you don't.
Flattery is fancy dishonesty.
The right heart with the wrong creed is better that the right creed with the wrong heart.

We treat others as we preceive God is treating us.
Sometimes the most godly thing we can do is take a day off.
Faith in the future begets power in the present.
No one is useless to God. No one.

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
Succeed in what matters.
You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance.
To see them in tandem is conversion.

Faith is the grit in the soul that puts the dare into dreams.
God doesn't keep a clock.
Never underestimate a gesture of affection.
When Jesus went home, he left the front door open.

And to sum it up;
As soon as you can, pay your debts.
As long as you can, give the benefit of the doubt.
As much as you can, give thanks.
He's has already given us more than we deserve.

Pray About Everything

Want to worry less? Then pray more.

Can’t handle the fact that you’re gay? Are you living in torment of the self-inflicted pain of your homosexuality, as it relates to your spiritually? Then, “Pray about it.”

Rather than look forward in fear, look upward in faith. This command surprises no one. Regarding prayer, the Bible never blushes. Jesus taught people that “it was necessary for them to pray consistently and never quit (Luke 18:1 MSG). Paul told believers, “Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart” (Col. 4:2 NLT) James declared, “Are any among you suffering? They should keep on praying about it” (James 5:13 NLT).

Rather than worry about anything, “pray about everything.” Everything? Yes. Heterosexuals pray for a mate. Why can’t you as a Same-Gender-Loving Person do the same? “Pray about everything!” Business meetings and broken friendships! Procrastination and prognostications! Pray about everything.

Gods says to the Same-Gender-Loving Person, "Call to me in times of trouble. I will save you, and you will honor me." Psalm 50:25

A Hymn to God the Father

Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun,

Which was my sin, though it were done before?

Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run,

And do run still, though I do deplore?

When Thou has done, Thou hast not done;

For I have more.

Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I have won

Others to sin, and made my sins their door?

Wilth Thou forgive that sin which I did shun

A year or two, but wallow'd in a score?

When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done;

For I have more.

I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun

My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;

But swear by Thyself that at my death Thy Son

Shall shine as He shines now and heretofore:

And having done that, Thou has done;

I fear no more.

Used by Permission: "Lullabies of Mercy" Author, Calpatrick Robertson. Copyright 2007

"A Hymn to God the Father" Author, John Donne 1573-1631 (The Oxford Book of English Verse)

You are You-Nique

When I was younger, my viewpoint of what I could or would be once I became an adult was a bit skewed by the negative things I had heard about gays and homosexuality.

Image my surprise when the light in my closet of my world came on and God revealed to me, "I made you you-nique." My you-nique-ness is not about becoming a Same-Gender-Loving individual. In that I had no choice. My you-nique-ness is that I can only be what God wants me to be.

Secular thinking, as a whole doesn't buy this. Especially when it's coming from a Same-Gender-loving person. Secular society sees no Author being the book, no Architech behind the house, No Purpose behind or beyond life. It simply says, "You can be anything you want to be."

Be a butcher if you want to, a sales rep if you like. Be an ambassador if you really care. You can be anything you want to be. However, can you? If God did not pack within you the meat sense to be a butcher, the people skills of a salesperson, or the world vision of an ambassador, can you be one? An unhappy, dissaffied one perhaps. A fulfilled one? No.

Can an acorn be a rose, a whale fly like bird, or lead become gold? Absolutely not. Neither can you be anything you want to be. However, you can be everything God wants you to be.

Each of us is an original. Galatians 5:26 MSG