A Penny For Your Thoughts

I wish you a year of blessings and fulfilled promises. One thing I can promise in 2014 is hope. Hope can go a long way, so does courage, hard work, love, and family. As I enter each new year, I always look at my last year resolution. I see the shambles of uncompleted work: leftover writings and drawings from unfinished ideas, work undone that needs completing; and religious fruits that still need ripening. Most of all, I feel a faint niggling of guilt, but this only lasts for five minutes while I bravely decide to finish my projects early this year. Somehow, I know time is not waiting as I plunge ahead to new projects leaving the decay of last year's for a lucky thought, an excited glance, a fevered thought and frantic fingers that could give them life again. Toward the waning of the lights and the dawn of a new year, excitement kick in and I feel annoyance that those uncompleted tasks may get my way. Should I complete them or should I focus on this year alone? This year, my thou

When serving God, what you want rarely matters. He gave you all the time to do everything. And he's only asked us for 10% of our time this year. So how he wants you to worship, is how you should worship. Take Cain and Abel. Cain may have been a vegan. Abel was the shepherd. There was a time when they had to make offerings and Cain made an offering of fruit while his brother sacrificed a sheep. God did not accept Cain's offering; and Cain was angry. Cain may have believed that this showed God hated him. However, I do not think the acceptance was based on hatred; it was preference. I believe that besides its use for sacrificial purposes, God really likes both meat and cakes equally. He warns against eating too much meat and poisoned the quails when the children of Israel sinned, yet He uses meat only for sacrifices. On the other hand, whenever he feeds his prophets, their meals are mostly made of almonds, figs, fruits, breads, and rarely meat. For the first time, we see God a