The Pastor's Perspective

    There was some new construction going on in the new residential area in the polish town of Lubin. Everything was going according to schedule . Aug 10th 2023 seemed like just another day for the construction workers. That is until they made a terrifying discovery.      As one of the workers began digging he stumbled upon a very large metal object. This was unusual and unexpected. As the workers began removing the dirt from off the object it became clear that they now had a problem on there hands. This rusted metal object just happened to be a 550 pound bomb that had been left there since WWII.      It just so happened that the place in which they were working was used as a labor and prisoner of war camp in WWII. It was believed that this place had been cleaned up and perfectly safe, a belief that was in fact misplaced.      Now the question came what are we going to do about this situation? Immediately the local officials took ac...

       This blog post is not so much as a devotion as it is just a testimony. Which I believe can be a blessing to the reader just as much as it has been for me experiencing it.     You really never know how the things God does in your life will be used until you get a chance to look back and see the hand of God in it.      That certainly is the case for me as I look back on the past several months. It was about this time last year that my car which I had only had for 2 years decided to quit on me. This led me and my family having to break down and go and purchase a new car. This meant that we had to do something we had not had to do for nearly 20 years and that is get a loan. Until then we had always paid our cars out in cash.      Looking at the finances we quickly realized we need to make a little bit more to stay a float. My wife had just stated a job working as a bus monitor for the school. I knew that they were always hir...

     There was a problem a few years back in a county near by Ashmore, where I live. Turned out that some of the first-responders, firefighters and police officers were having trouble communicating in certain parts of the county. Apparently, there were certain dead zones in the county where the radios was unable to receive or transmit a signal. There were several areas in the county where the signal would be weak, making it difficult for the people to understand one another.    I know that I have times when I would be talking to someone and the signal would not be great and the call is dropped. That kind of thing can be frustrating, especially when you don't know when it was dropped and you find your self talking to your self, that is until you realize the call was dropped. That alone is frustrating.     However i t's one thing to be on the phone with someone and all of a sudden you lose connection. It is something entirely different when you are tryin...

    On October 15th 2009 something tragic happened to a Colorado family that got national attention. Falcon Heene the family's six year old son had gotten trapped in a homemade Helium balloon and it had accidently floated away.      For two hours the authorities and media outlets tracked down the balloon's flight path. Many people were fearing the worst and were worried about the fate of Falcon. The fears were relieved when the balloon eventually landed about 50 miles from the family's home and it was discovered that the boy was not inside the balloon, but instead it was discovered that the boy had been hiding in the attic the entire time.   Tragedy was averted. A family has been reunited. A terrifying story with a story book ending.      However the relief turned into disappointment and outrage when it was later came out that the entire thing was nothing more than a elaborate hoax orchestrated by the parents. The parents of Falcon Heene...

     The last words found in Sir Walter Scott’s diary was “Tomorrow we shall". Sir Walter Scott never finished writing what he planned to do. He never did whatever he wanted to do. The reason; Sir Walter Scott never finished that sentence, and he never did what he planned to do, because he passed away before he could do it.     Perhaps Sir Walter Scott had plans to write a new book or pen a new poem. Perhaps he needed to go and pay off a debt that needed to be paid. He might had intended to fix up his office or clean up his room, or keep some promise he made to someone. However Sir Walter Scott was planning on finishing his sentence in his diary and no matter what plan's he had intended to do we will never know. We will never know because he was prohibited in doing it.      All of us must come to terms with our limitations in this life. There are things that you are not able to do. Things that are beyond you abilities and skill set. Personally spe...

      Like most people in the world this past week a lot of people have been watching the Olympic games that were held this year in Paris France. Many of us have been watching our favorite Olympic sports on TV. Cheering on our favorite athlete or team. Rooting for those people we might know either personally, or by some other association, who are representing their country before the entire world.        Like me, you have seen or at least heard something about the Opening for the Olympic games. They held this opening ceremony on the Seine River. Where on these large boats the athletes from these various countries were waving their hands in celebration before the entire world. This was the first time in the history of the Summer Olympics that the opening ceremony took place outside of a stadium. However, that is not why it got the attention that it did.      What stood out most about this opening ceremony was that within thi...