People think I am successful.  HAHA.  That is so funny to me.  I appreciate the notion, but I think I am far from it.  Yea, I am on TV once a blue moon, but that doesn't make me successful.  I sit down and watch the fricken LAKER game and see Jack Nicholson and Denzel and Diane Keaton and fricken Robert Downey Jr, sitting court side and I think...THAT IS SUCCESSFUL.  Even by those standards, I could be more.  I mean, by those standards, wait til GOD places me on that television show as a regular cast member.  See me every week.  Or wait tilL GOD calls me to be the star of that movie and the next movie and then the next one...yea...by those standards...that is what I call successful.  I haven't made that, yet.

But, truthfully, there is another standard that I am itching to be successful in.  I am far from that one, too.  Every time I think I get a little closer to it, I fall down by waysides.  I stumble in the middle of the thick of it and slide all the way back down to unsuccess.  I want to be successful in my Christian walk.  Where did I read, probably the Bible, that success is not graded by prosperity.  Thank goodness, cause if it were, I still would be in the loss column.  I am far from prosperous.  Dang, now I think about it...I am not successful on any level.  By the world standards or by GOD standards.  Ahhh, now I am depressed.  

Only one matters, but, since life is going on, can I at least be successful in it, while I am striving for success in the other.  Cause the other kind of success is looking like it might take me a lifetime.  I am already behind by about a thousand points.  It is almost halftime and I need to cut it down to at least 500 , so I could have a shot for the victory before my final buzzard sounds. 

Dear Father,

who art in heaven, hallow be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.  Give us this day, our daily bread, forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who sinned against us.  Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the glory, the power, forever and ever and ever...

please Father allow me to be strong and of great courage like Joshua.  Please allow me to lead myself into the land of flowing with wisdom and understanding.  So, that I can turn around and lead my family back there.  Allow, me to let go and let you take over my life and let the chips fall as they may.  Allow me to trust those chips.  Allow me to use those chips once they have fallen.  Allow me not to worry if those chips are gonna produce enough other chips to feed my family, help my career, just plain pay the bills.  Lord, you know I need to pay the bills!  Please allow me to circulate enough of the GOD-given talent that you have instilled in me to be the person that you made me to be.  Allow me to understand that just because you gave me special gifts, I am not suppossed to lay around and WAIT for something to happen.  I am still suppossed to work at it...pain, struggle and heartache those gifts until they produce the seeds of success that grow inside of me.  Allow me to be successful, LORD, internally and eternally.  Get my mind right, LORD...get my mind right!

These and all other blessings, I ask in your wonderful and incredible name...Jesus name...AMEN.

But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 

Keep it natural.