Lingerdog's World

My blog focusing mostly on my creative writing endeavors, but also with updates on my life and how I am serving God.

We go through life, and we pray, and sometimes we don't see the prayer get answered, even when it does, because maybe it wasn't answered the way we thought it would be. And sometimes we ask for direction from above, and it's given, but because it isn't necessarily the direction we were expecting, we try to go in the direction we want, and justify to ourselves that God will definitely step in if we aren't doing what we should.
And sometimes, direction will be given, even when not explicitly asked for, maybe it's a thought you've had and haven't even been asking for direction and suddenly your are shown the way.
I've never had that so clearly happen to me as tonight.
I ride around listening to my ipod, right now it's all Christian groups, there are 286 songs on it.
I've been trying to play the guitar again, and really trying this time, and actually praying for help, praying to be able to make music for God, to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Psalm 66:1

And I've been thinking that, there should be a site out there on the internet to get chords and tab for Christian songs. There's one I go to for tab that has some Christian music, but it's pretty slim pickings. And I haven't bothered to look for one since I'm not really at a point, I didn't feel, that I would need those things yet.
So I'm listening to my ipod, the first song was Desperate by Fireflight
The second song was Lay Down My Life by Sidewalk Prophets
This song has been on there for maybe a month and, but I haven't heard it, not that surprising, as for the most part, I only get to listen in fifteen to thirty minute spurts as I drive from one place to another.
But I hear this song, and I think, I'd like to sing that one day, I'd like to play my guitar as I sing it, and I'd like to preach a message about laying down our lives for God. I don't mean that in the die for God way, but expanding on the idea of the things in our life we can give up for God. How if God wanted us to do something for him, but it would disrupt our life in a major way, like being called away from a really good job to go be a missionary with little or no money in some far land, would we lay down our life for God in that way.
And I think about this message and listen to this song twice on my way home, and when I get in I hook my ipod to these little speaker I have, and am now hearing it play for the eighth or ninth time.
But the first thing I did was search for the lyrics just so I can start singing along to it. The first time I googled it I didn't type in the bands name and it brought up some songs by different artist with similar names. And one was from a site WWW.HIGHERPRAISE.COM and I figured I would see what the lyrics of this persons song was, see if it was actually a remake.
Well what I found at that site, was the thing I had been wondering about, Christian bands, chords and tab for their songs. Sometimes you can see God show you what you need, that direction I was speaking of, even if you haven't exactly asked for it yet.

You can check the song out HERE if you're interested.

I just couldn't get done tonight, what I wanted to get done, no matter where I turned, or how much I had planned, I just couldn't seem to focus on doing several things I wanted to do before sleep, and I wanted to go to bed early so daylight saving time didn't make me tired through church in the morning. And yet here I am at 11:30, knowing that I need to be asleep.
I needed to practice my guitar some, I missed the last two nights, one because I was working on a newsletter, the other because I was at a basketball game/mini concert. I had no excuse tonight, I was home by 8:30 or so.
I also wanted to do a few pages of my new converts class worksheets, just didn't get around to it.
There was plenty of time, but I squandered it, playing on the computer, surfing from facebook to another site I frequent. So, you may be wondering, what pearls of wisdom was I dispersing that distracted me from being able to do the more important task of the night, what in depth conversation did I become part of? Well, none, maybe posted three times in three hours, where does the time slip away?
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Well, I decided to go to sleep, and now it is Sunday night.
And no, I didn't get any guitar practice in today, but I'll get back on it tomorrow, and my exercise program. But to my original point, why is it so easy to just let time get away and the important things fall by the wayside as we focus on less important things?
Why does following through seem so hard to grasp these days? And how do we find the necessary strength to adhere to the plans we have made.
I started this blog because I had a lot of things I wanted to say, but if you look at my previous post history you'll see how few post I've posted, maybe two a month after the initial four the first month. It isn't lack of ideas that have kept me from posting, I have had lots more ideas than I've posted, little notes written on scraps of paper that I've saved to write about later, and never seemed to find the time to get them done.
And here I am today thinking about starting another blog to focus fully on a new direction and project in my life. And I'm going to do it, I have a name in mind, and hopefully no one out there is using it yet. I just need to learn to focus on what is important, the things that drive me, the things I want to do for the Lord. He didn't give me the gifts he did for me to squander them, and I plan to use them fully from this day forward. I have had it impressed upon me this weekend how important it is to serve now because one day I will be looking back at my life, and I will feel regret for the times I could have been serving the Lord, but wasn't.

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I love writing and am rediscovering that passion. I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and want to tell as many people as I can about him and what he has done for me.