HAPPY PALM SUNDAY EVERYBODY!

Today marks in history where Christ rode a procession into Jerusalem. Soon, He would follow thru on His and the Father's Plan to redeem all mankind, Jew and Gentile. Becoming a Holy Sacrifice thru which we all would be reconciled with the Father without shame. Christ grabbed those keys of sin and death from Satan's hands, walked out of hell with them, and arose to sit at the right hand side of God, once again! Mission accomplished! Aren't you glad!!!!!!


I waved my palm in the air, like a saved child of God, who didn't have a care in the world! I'm practicing for that great day when Christ comes, and I step to the side and get in line!


Be blessed in all you do, as you enter in and out, and about your day!


Flowerchic

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY, ITS THE WEEKEND! PETS ARE FUNNY! PERFECT CUP OF JAVA.

Old Fashion English Rose From My Walkway

As usual Caity my lil dog, Zig my cat, and I are up early listening to the birdies chirping. Coffee is on, and I've messaged my Go-go buddy to see what she is up to today for lunch. Today is one of those morning when I want to do lots of fun things, a few responsible things, with so little weekend to do them all in. Usually when this happens I end up doing most of the fun things and drop as many responsible duties as I can! Just being honest here folks! I give it my all on the days leading up to the weekend. So by the time the weekend gets here, its difficult keeping my feet on solid ground, and my mind from a wonderin!

For one, I've made a promise to fill the bird feeder for my feathered friends. Caity and I were doing yard duty one day, and decided since its getting close to tomato season to move the feeder out back, by the magnolia tree. Last spring/summer, we planted tomatoes in containers. Well, we were out there almost everyday watering them. So we're wiser this year. We are planting our tomatoes in the ground, by the place where we had the bird feeder last year. Caity the dog loves tomatoes! I try to feed her veggies for snacks. She loves baby carrots, lettuce, cabbage, apples, grapes, dried cranberries, and raw green beans. Oh, and she loves strawberries. Actually, there's not a lot Caity won't eat!

Speaking of Caity the lil dog, today she gets a bath. I call it her glamour spa day. We just love spending our time together on glamour spa days. Not! But I don't have chase her down anymore, but I do have to be creative about capturing her though. She really is good about standing still in the tub, but also at spraying me down when she does that shake it all off thing she does. Her favorite session is the drying part. She consider that our love session. Then off to her crate to roll around on her towel to finish drying herself off.

Pets are funny! Ziggy was sunning in the window the other day, it was pretty out, so he was experiencing a Ziggy moment with his eyes closed. Well the pet chair, a chair I paid $25 for at an auction solely for them, sits directly under a large window that opens up, with a wide ledge.  Caity is a Silkie breed-Australian terrier and a Yorkie mix, therefore, she has short legs. So she was doing her "I'm a crazy insane dog "barkandgrowl" routine which means, "Intruder, intruder, come fast, let me at em, let me at em" in their chair, with her front paws on the back of the chair, barely able to look out the window. So I go up front to the window to look out, and she is barking at the black birds in the tree by the window! I threatened to close the window if she didn't get a hold of herself!

I've been rippin & runnin & runnin & rippin

Changing the subject here, have you ever made what you would consider the perfect cup of java? Like, I think I make a good cup of coffee! But occasionally it comes out wrong, or not so great. But then...sometimes...I make what I would consider a stellar, fantastic, cup of java! That was my cup of Java day before yesterday! Oh, I'm single, so I don't make pots of coffee. I'm a one cup of coffee drinker in the morning, and every blue moon, I'll have a cup at night. This morning's cup is pretty close to the one the other day. But, its getting on the cold side, so I'll have to end this blog and heat er up!

Its 7:30 am here, time to get my head in the Word, and start my day! I'm going for raw sushi today for lunch! Tee-hee! Have a fun weekend everyone from Flowerchic and the pets!

I'm leaving you with a fun song to carry around with you today. Click on the link below for a surprise song! Nope, I'm giving no hints!

http://youtu.be/n3f8kafNkjE

http://youtu.be/uVTeIMursb8

http://youtu.be/z_pImRGISww


FLOWERCHIC

ALL THINGS NEW

The month of March is a month of all new things for me. I'm getting help from tank+tink in setting up a new blog header. I am so stoked about its unveiling! I've had some remolding done of the rental house I live in, so everything is in my kitchen from the entryway, where all the changes are being made. This morning I can officially walk on the new tiles that have been laid. No more going out the back door and walking around to the front, where my car is parked across the street. My car is not in front of my house because the workers were all parked there, and I resorted to parking across the street to be out of the quagmire. When they finally left, I was too rattled to go get the car and park it in its usual home spot.

There is a new all glass door that I just love! The workers asked me if I wanted to leave the screen in or wait till it was hotter out. I told them not to even bother. My lil dog Caity, who is unspade would just blast thru the door on her way to venture out for naughtiness, so I told them, "No, we're good!" I walked out the door to look at the new look, and the first thing the pets did was run to the glass door and put their paw on the glass! Yep, this human fur mommy knows her pet babies!

My neighbor hood is getting some surreal new people, and so now I feel like I am going in and out of Fort Knox. I have a lock on the glass door, a deadbolt, and a regular lock on the metal door. Were I to get chased by a person of crime, it would be quicker to run past the house and into the business down the road for safety!  Ha! Where do I get these thoughts?

So, before I move everything back into the entry way, I am going to have the move things around in the kitchen first. Because now, I'm thinking of not putting everything that was in the entry way back in there, and putting new stuff in there. Well, new as in different stuff from other parts of the house. You know, my mind thinks differently than everyone else's I think. Like in my entry way is where I store on the left side of the room my books, I am an avid reader and have books stored all over my little abode. I have two book cases that are full, I have books stored on the side of the bed on the floor next to the wall so they are not visible. I have them stored behind the couch, and a storage tub full in what I call my "junk it up room." Then on the other side of the entryway I have a metal rack where I store pots and pans, fresh fruit, my keys, a flashlight, my dog leash collection, bottled water, potted flowers, can goods, whatever else. Because when you first walk into my house past the entry way is the kitchen. Next, is a small sitting room. Oh, I need to tell you I live in a duplex. I had first bids on which side to live on and I chose my side because its not next to the street, I had room for a small patio garden, and it was more private to sit out in during the summer. But my rooms are placed sorta hodge, podge like...but it works for me. I have a fear of growing old and people categorizing me as an eccentric woman, where they give the other person that raised eyebrow look with a question mark above their head, when speaking of me. Ha! That makes me smile.  But I am at sweet place in my life, where I simply embrace my quirkiness, and love myself! This ain't high school baby! You live this life your way, or you waste it on someone else's way! If God gives you the thumbs up, your good.

Speaking of being eccentric and quirky, take a gander of my "Girlfriend's Day Out" pictures. Well, its supposed to be a girlfriend day out, but sometime the guys saunter in too, but they most times sit at a table next to ours for an informal guys day out, separate, but equally fun!

This is not all of us. Some did not show, because they thought we were going to have just sushi! The original group of us have known each other for a little over 25 years, and we vary in ages. We started out eating out after church as a bunch of single girls, and have evolved. We ate out at Jasmine's. The above picture is my friend Charlotte, my invited guest tilting her bowl of Wasabi salad with seared, raw tuna (I went back today by myself and ordered the lunch version.) Charlotte loves raw sushi and is trying to pull me over to the raw side of sushi. Actually it was very, good. Next time, I'm going for the rainbow roll!

Heaven's doors and windows are opening up for me, I'm at that place. A place where new avenues are opening up to new destinations. I feel that in my spirit, in my gut, in my heart. I'm headed somewhere different, and its a better place. And, its here on planet earth, not heaven yet. 

Come back to the purple door and see where my journey takes me from here. I'm on my way somewhere fun for sure. My life bags are packed and ready to go at the front door! 

ITS TIME TO FIRE IT UP BABY!

I live in a foodie township! Every celebration revolves around food, especially in the summer here. Funnel cakes, BBQ competitions, corn dogs on a stick, car shows, fried twinkies, fried pickles, Superman celebration, pork burgers with mustard and onions.... We celebrate, walk around, stop and talk to each other, eat, listen to music, go home, come back in the evening and do it all over again! Then we get on the phone to our friends the next day, "Girl, did you get some of that BBQ chicken on the right hand side, set up in front of the hardware store? Girl, that was some good chicken!" No, but did you go up the street, about 4 vendors up from there, and get one of those bloomin onions?" "We went to that stand in front of the dog groomin place, and got some sliced BBQ beef, that was good, but they were were a lil skimpy with their meat!" On, and on the conversation goes.

Last year my parents were cleaning out their garage, and found a brand new grill used only once! I used to grill out all the time and invite my parents over and my sister. We'd sit out in the yard under the umbrella and talk and eat, and wave at our friends as they honked their horns, or stopped to yell out across the yard and talk a while. No body dared parked their car and pulled up a seat for food! We small town folk, but we ain't that small town! We may raise our glass to ya, or wave a drumstick or an ear of corn at ya, but don't park the car and get out. Its an unwritten rule and everybody knows it! There was no invite, and it didn't get lost in the mail!

So back to my train of thought...my parents are really slick when treating my sister and me equally. I'm the only one that grills. Sista does have a grill but its just for looks. She built a new deck on to her house a couple of years ago and bought a grill to set on the deck. Never been used. But my mom calls me up and says, "Your dad and I found a gas grill in the back of the garage. I think I won it at bingo at the plant employee picnic one summer.  Course, we're never gonna use it again." Pause. So I say, "I'd like to have a gas grill and start grill out again." "Well, I asked your sister, and of course she's already got one she doesn't even use, so it's yours if you want to come get it." So basically, she told my sister she had a free grill she didn't need, since she wasn't using the one she had,  and she was going to ask if I was interested in it. Slick I tell ya, slick!

So, that's how I ended up with a free, once used gas grill. That was last summer. I never did get around to grilling on it because I was in overload mode from all the city celebrations that revolved around food!

Last weekend after the all the stress from dealing during the week with the 2 tornadoes in and around us, the sirens waking us up in the mornings, and staying after work in the shelter of the building where I work, I had had enough of near death, and loss of possession, home, and neighboring townships. The very next day was a warm Saturday, and it was a beautiful, sunny  day! I decided to clean up the grill and buy a tank of propane, so I could be ready at a moments notice to, "Fire it up baby!" Found a couple of steaks on sale to stow away in the freezer till a perfect day to grill. Which, by the way I just heard on my new weather radio will be this coming Tuesday...sunny and high 70's!

I've decided to name my grill, "Grateful!"  Every time I grill on sunny days, I'm going to remember just how blessed I am! God is soooo good to us! That unseasonably Saturday after a week of stress was no coincidence!

Peace out to ya from Flowerchic! Go out and have a great one for me.

I'm leavin you with 3 of my fav songs to pep your Saturday up with. I'll probably have these playing on my iPod while I sittin out grillin! No, I'm not telling you what they are, you'll just have to be surprised as you tap your feet and listen!

http://youtu.be/vaiT2ignyEc

http://youtu.be/5WC14jvYHKA

http://youtu.be/ZrJwrPWuQrI

AW, FRENCH TOAST WILL MAKE IT ALL BETTER

Today is blog day. I can't think of anything to blog about. I certainly don't want to relive or blog about the tornadoes! You see I live in the mid-central part of the U.S. So its been a a very long week with tornadoes passing thru towns near and around my city, which is not far from Harrisburg IL, twice this week. So....think. Think. Think Flowerchic. First and foremost, I need a cup of Java. Is there anything better than opening a vacuum pack of Maxwell House coffee? First you hear the hiss, then the aroma of fresh ground coffee!

I think I'll need french toast to help me come up with a fresh topic! Yep, I'm thinking that's what I need to go do first.

There are keys to making good french toast. One, you have to have fresh eggs, then french bread cut thick, good bacon and bacon grease, real butter, I use organic milk, cause it just tastes better to me, a dab of cream, cinnamon, and nutmeg. For sure, you must have 100% pure maple syrup. You don't have to go so far as to tap a tree yourself, or pay a lot of money. I buy the Private Select brand by Kroger. Note you can never drizzle too much syrup on french toast. Oh, and back to the bacon, buy the no name brand from the butcher cut thick. My sister taught me this tip. 

The next key is to plate you french toast on a platter. Yep, a platter. Don't scrunch it all up on a plate, one on top of another, Single layer all the way baby!  Scoop some butter on top of each, lay your bacon on there and drizzle till your heart is content with maple syrup. Then dig in! You got the butter taste mixed in with the salty bacon taste, mixed in with the sweet taste of maple syrup....um um ummmmm! Next, you take a sip of your coffee, then your cold milk. If the cold milk is too much for you, cut it all back with a glass of ice water. 

I know there is some of you out there thinking, "Why go thru all that trouble when I can get in the car and drive to a dive and have someone else do all the work?" Because it ain't the same baby! French toast with thick sliced bacon, coffee with real cream, and a glass of milk will cost you an arm and a leg first off! Second, this kind of meal must be made with some good ole fashion, homemade, love behind it! Can't no stranger slaving over a grill for 8 hours give that to you! It's priceless!

Well...I'm still trying to decide what I'm gonna blog about! I'm sure something will come to mind! Tee-Hee!

Oh, I have a fav song of mine to share with you below. Peace, love, and joy to ya, Flowerchic!

http://youtu.be/6Graa_Vm5eA

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE BAD MAMAJAMA DAYS!

"I have finished running all errands, and completed all the "yucky" stuff on my weekly To Do list! I've dreaded doing every single one of them!!!! Checking this stuff off my list has been painful. I don't like being a grown up! I'm going to listen to some praise music and hang out with Jesus reading my bible! I need to feel some love ♥ Geepers!"


That was my fb post on Thursday at the end of my work day. After listening to some MercyMe, Burlap Cashmere, Lindsey McCaul, and Todd Agnew my next post assured my friends I was back on track again. Ha!


"Well, now that that's over with...tee-hee! I'm on steady ground again!!!!!! Sometimes I miss myself, and I gotta find me, with the help of Jesus, in the midst of praise!"


But you know what, its not all that hard to comprehend what it's like when life gets crazy, and you don't know Jesus or that you can run to him and hang out, how people end up on the wrong paths. Praise music has the ability to move you from where you are to where God is. Being able to be like "the one who Jesus loves" and just lean into your relationship with him, and just let it all go, is a priceless gift for believers. Does God know how to work a plan or what!


I did a post earlier about not despising the Church or the religion of Christianity and I'm blogging again about the tools of Christianity-the religion and the Church. Cause here's the thing, the church and the religion of Christianity work hand in hand, in that they both teach you how to use the tools of the trade, shall we say. When I was little, I liked to work on cars with my dad. I'd be the one revving the motor behind the wheel of the car while in park, while my dad listened to the engine; the one handing tools under the car as he taught me the names of each tool and what task they performed; or the one under the hood with him as he check the levels of liquids that needed replenished. Christianity is where you learn all the tools you'll need to live out your life more abundantly, and the church is where you develop those tools, so that when life hits you hard, you know what tools to use and how to use them. For instance, when your funds are low, you make sure to not stop paying your tithes, and even to up your offerings. When life has sucked all your Spiritual energy, you turn on your praise music. When you are sick, you speak scriptures over the sickness, rebuke the sickness, and you speak healing over yourself. When in danger, you invoke a hedge of protection around yourself and others. When you are attacked by the forces of evil and darkness, you speak in the name of Jesus, and they all must bow down. You don't even have to raise your voice to invoke conviction. I recently discovered this, a normal voice will do. Its not how loud, but a simple demand backed by, "In the name of Jesus" that will do the job quite adequately. For it is not the decimal level that Satan is afraid of, but the name of Jesus, who he knows will back us up every time His name is called upon. That's why you can't let the bad behavior, or the ignorance of a few, who misrepresent Christ's church, or the religion of Christianity steal the blessings that God has provided for your good.


If you don't know you have the tools to make the forces of evil and darkness back down when they come into contact with you, or you don't use them, those forces will overwhelm you and make feel defenseless, hopeless, and suck the life that God meant for you to have right out you! Let us never, never, ever take for granted the tools Jesus died on the cross for, and left for us in this life walk we have committed to. 


Signing out with peace, love, and joy, FLOWERCHIC. Below are a few links to click on to a few of my favorite bands that can pull me out of the valley. 


Where I Belong - Building 429

K-LOVE - The City Harmonic "Manifesto" LIVE   


Burlap To Cashmere - "The Other Country" Live at Le Poisson Rouge NYC

GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS, THE PRINCIPLES OF RECEIVING FROM GOD ARE UNIVERSAL

Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.".http://bible.us/Gen18.14.ESV


Note how God is a god of His Word. Many years had passed since Abraham had requested proof that he would receive from God all that He had promised him, when God had made a covenant between Himself and Abraham. God made a special trip to visit Abraham in person, to let him know what the appointed time would be when Abraham would receive his heir that God had promised him. 

This is an example of logistics. Abraham believed God, and God granted him his blessing based upon Abraham's faith. But Abraham's blessing did not manifest until God's appointed time. God has a long-term plan for us from the time we take our first breath up until we take our last breath.


The principles of receiving from God are universal. And He, God is no respecter of persons in releasing His blessings. This is a good thing. The key is to master His principles, and like anything else, practice achieves required results. To find out what His principles are you must read His manual-His written word. For how can you achieve a goal if you do not know what is required. To not do so, is like a shot in the dark. God watches over His Word when it is spoken. When it is backed by faith, what you pray for is released. When you release your faith, God releases your blessing, and not until. Its a principle. You can't get caught up in questioning if God will follow thru on His part, or is it God's will? If it is in God's Word, you are good to go on exercising your faith for it. Now there is such a thing as logistics, meaning there is a timetable for every prayer request. And like it or not, we must all adhere to God's timetable. God is all about excellence. Providing His best for us at the perfect time. God is not about any of us accepting second best, because we don't want to wait for the best. If we are at the end of our ledge, He will show up. Abraham and Sarah waited approximately 20 year for a blessing God said He would grant Abraham. 


I really wish I were at the practice makes perfect stage. I'm still striving and learning God's principles like the rest of believers. Wish I were there already. I'll get there. 


The question we have to ask ourselves is are we in a relationship with God or are we still trying God out? Are we still at the stage where we are taking God out for a test drive, or have we moved past that stage?

I am going to make a new start, and ask myself this hard question, and start taking responsibility for my side of my relationship with God. In Jeremiah 29:11, God makes His intentions toward me very clear. How clear am I with my intentions in my relationship with God?

IT IS FINISHED & I'M CELEBRATING BY DOING THE SNOOPY DANCE!

I just finished my one year in the bible this morning! Doing the Snoopy dance! One year ago today I started reading this particular bible plan. This is not my first year reading the bible thru and thru, but it is the first time I have enjoyed it as much. And it is the first year I done so without commentary included. So this year it all came together for me and past bible study and God. Such a cool feeling. Sometimes the verses stuck with me days and sometimes weeks, where God showed me ways in my own life how the verses applied. There is something about opening the door to God and allowing Him to walk thru the door of your soul and take up residence. It is life changing. Your whole being changes-your thoughts, your behavior, all go thru a process of making you more like Christ, but it not a feeling that you have somehow "made it" but instead you are "finding" your way to being more like Christ. But there is also a feeling that you are nowhere done yet! Gosh, God and His Son, and His Holy Spirit are all so good! So, yep, I'm going to start all over again, and do it once more. I think I will stick with the same plan, and see what God has to bring forth in me again. I get a second chance to understand the stuff I may have missed out on the first time. This is a life walk for me, and I am excited! Pray for me and I will do the same for you! Stay blessed and have a great day!

THE WEEKEND WITH THE PARENTS AND SISTA

Funny story told by my mom yesterday in the car ride to Aldis with just us girls, Sista and me. My great grandfather, Lewis, who raised my mother was a true farmer Brown! She said he would have loved talking plants and gardens with me. He would always grow a large patch of lettuce and onions and other vegetables. You've got to understand my great grandfather, as he has been described to me, he was competitive. Besides farming, and maintaining a garden, he also loved to fox hunt. Apparently, Brownfied had a group of fox hunters back in the day. Regardless of his race in those days, grandfather was allowed to fox hunt and was known to be good at it (different times and different ways back then). So that is who he was. Every year he and 2 or 3 of his buddies would compete to see who would show up at church first with a brown paper bag filled with lettuce and green onions from their garden! They were all farmers and they would plant their seeds, baby them the way I am doing mine, and then compete to see who could produce the first crop within their group! Mom had us laughing about her memories of how he tended to his lettuce and onion crop to be the first one at church with his bag full! Then she made my heart swell, she said, "Your great granddad and you would have had so much fun together babying those lettuce plants of yours! He always took great pride in his garden!" That is the first time she has ever told that story♥


As usual, dinner was at the parent's house Friday evening. Mom made the best chicken and dressing ever. Then Sista brought over her world famous veggie soup! And dad brought the drinks. I generally bring my appetite and a ready source of entertainment! Nothing too exciting other than watching dad open his RX drugs the VA had delivered to the house. The VA has him set up to where he doesn't have to go to the pharmacy anymore. He did read off all his prescriptions as he unpacked them though, that was sort of exciting-not! If anything else exciting happened, I was not aware of it since I went up front and laid on the couch for a nap. I was sleepy last night. I did dream I heard the door bell and yelled out to Dad someone was at the door. Bless his heart after he finally got to the door, he determined that I dreamt it, since he still hadn't gotten around to changing the battery! Oh well! My bad! That's about as exciting as it got, that I know of! Lol


I decided to post a synopsis of what happened last weekend that was on the funny side. As you can tell, I am very blessed to have a wonderfully fun family. Come back and visit again, and this flowerchic will see what she can come up with to entertain, make you think, or LOL!

DON'T BE ONE TO DESPISE RELIGION/CHRISTIANITY OR THE CHURCH

I was watching a video earlier about a person despising religion, and it got me to thinking...hum. These are my hodge podge thoughts. Christianity is a religion. So is Islam. So is Hinduism. Whether you or I are a Baptist, Methodist, or Episcopalian, is what denomination we are a part of. A person can switch religions, if they choose and they can switch denominations. But to be a believer in God, you must be a believer in Christ. There is no opting out of Jesus Christ. You can hate political parties, chose one over the other, but you will find Christians in both parties. There are Christian Democrats and Christian Republicans. You can refuse to go to church standing on principle that you don't want to be religious, but the disciples created churches in homes of believers crossing all cultures and races throughout the world. You can hate religion because you say it causes wars but God is not apart of that. People cause wars. You can say I don't go to church because churches make you follow rules. You are right, the rules of the church are made based on the Word of God. And whether you like it or not, so is heaven. Jesus was about rules and principles given by His Father, and He carried them out to the letter. You don't want to be a Christian because they are a bunch of hypocrites, well at least they are trying. Christian or not, none of us are perfect. But a practicing Christian as unperfected as he or she may be, who goes to church, and states they follow the religion of Christianity, renews their mind daily in God's written Word, under the institution of a church denomination or so called non-denomination are getting better and better each day at being imitators of Christ. You can't do that sitting on the sidelines criticizing. Check back with them in a year, cause of the Word of God, It changes people for the better. You won't recognize them a year later, if they are committed to changing. You don't like authority figures or following directions from others, so that's why you've not said the sinner's prayer or accepted Jesus as your Savior, or joined a church, or pay any tithes, call God a Divine being or the universe, instead of Creator God, Father of Jesus Christ, and you detest religion? Pick up the Word of God and you will find He requires all of the above before He will accept you into His kingdom.

God is not just some cool dude you hang out with. He is that, and so much more! God loves His church, its body of believers, His pastors, His prophets, His teachers, His evangelists, His intesessors, His nursery workers, His greeters, His urshers, His etc. He loves those in the church and He reaches out to those outside the church and loves them too. But He's got rules. They are not to cut your fun out, but to extend your life and make it more fruitful and abundant!

Don't stand on the outside hating the institution of church or religion, join and make them better. Do Christian always want to go to church? Nope, but thats my flesh speaking out, and it has nothing to do with it (I'm speaking honestly for myself here.)  We are to go anyways, because it is a committment to renewing our minds, a committment to the desire of God, "Neglect not the assembly of other believers." If we can't go we are still to pray, renew our minds on our own reading the word, praise and worshipping at home. God wants us to go to church to gain knowledge and strength from other believers. In the midst of praise and worship He shows up and joins in-that is when we realize we are not alone. Ease into it if you are not ready. Find a sevice online or on TV, that is a start. But have a goal of moving toward a church body you can assemble with, and then maintain you online church. You can do both. Neither is a sin. The 12 disciples chosen by Jesus came from inside the church and outside the church. He was always out and about in the market place, speaking about His daddy God. But the devil couldn't keep Him out of the church. He was always in the church reading the words and laws given by the prophets before Him.

But please, please understand what I am trying to communicate. Don't stop short of acknowledging God and thinking Him to be just a cool being. Take the next step, acknowlede Him as Father God, then accept His Son, Jesus Christ as alive and well! Accept that there was always a plan between Him and His Father-God to connect you with the Creator God. So much so that He died on the cross for yours and my sins, so that the Father God would not turn His face out of disgust for our sin, but toward us, so that He could forgive us of our sin. Accept that by asking Jesus to be Your Lord and Savior, that He will forgive you of your sin, which is any lifestyle outside of Him. For when you can believe that, and acknowledge that you have been living a life of your own outside of Him, He-Jesus Christ will claim you as His, and interceed with the Father on your behalf to become a child of God. Then just invite Jesus to be apart of your life. When you can speak thoses words out loud, Jesus hears you, and accepts your plea. That is all there is to the sinners prayers. 

Don't be ashamed to be a Christian and don't be afraid of religion.  Find a church body of believers and join in, but don't expect them to be perfect yet, for neither are you just yet. Go to Lifeway Bookstore or wherever, and ask the sales clerk to help you find an easy to read bible for new believers. Then, enjoy your journey with Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit!  

Be blessed.-FLOWERCHIC