Wow!  CHRIST JESUS!  I say WOW, WOW, and double WOW!  How amazing are you?  I mean, how in the world do you put up with me?  How do you have so much patience?  I look at the Israelites that wandered around in the wilderness and I question their sanity at times.  I mean, you gave them everything that they needed and wanted.  How could they complain?  Yet, I look at my life and I am out in the wilderness complaining to you every chance I get.  Instead of reaching out on faith, I complain about what I don't have.  Yet and still, you have patience with me.  What an awesome and powerful GOD you are.  Halleluyah.  I thank you and really should be erecting another one of my makeshift monuments to you.  This past week has been a growth period.  I so, hate, Lord that before these growth periods are serious amounts of stress.  I wish I could just grow.  Maybe drink some cow milk or better yet, some goat milk or something and just grow.  Pain free.  Stress free.  But, that is what is needed.  Pain and a little suffering, mixed in with a tablespoon of stress.  Not too much.  Even though, I often act like it is the end of the world...hahaha.  A diamond must go through the fire to become a diamond.

I am a diamond. 

I realize this.  I often forget, but maybe these daily writings will remind myself.  Maybe those makeshift thingys I make for you will remind me.  I thank you for the lesson that you gave me just right now.  I am forever grateful.  I am forever needing you and you are forever saving me.  Halleluyah.  I thank you for not alowing me to go to sleep right now, but instead talking to Juren about Spoken Funk and the Lord and the direction that you want us to go.  I thank you for leading me to passages and scripture about SUNDAY WORKING.  I truly believe that you are speaking to us and want us to move SPOKEN FUNK to another day.  For Sunday, I want to dedicate solely for you.  Juren and I hardly rest.  Let alone do we set enough time to worship you.  I have been led to believe through the Bible and other circumstances that Sunday is the day you want us to do that.  (among other days, also, but definitely SUNDAY).  So, with this new knowledge, we set out RIGHT NOW to find a new venue for SPOKEN FUNK and a new night.  As I step closer to you, and obey you more and more, I pray and trust that you will take Spoken Funk to the greatest heights possible.

I thank you, Lord for a wonderful and incredible show.  Oh my gosh.  You are too amazing.  Despite all that went down before the show...you gave us an exceptional show.  You also strengthened Juren and myself.  We went out a couple feet extra on our faith.  We believed that you would deliver.  Juren really was convinced waaaaaaaaay before I was.  Thank you for her growth.  Thank you, period, Lord.  I just plain thank you.

And what a call today.  I thank you for the call-back for DEAL OR NO DEAL!  Is this for real?  Thank you, Jesus.

Bless me indeed and enlarge my territory.  Keep your hands on me and keep me from my enemies so that I may cause no pain.  Halleluyah.