SHINE UP YOUR VISION

Over time, things that once excited you can become dull....if you don't take the time to put the shine back into them.

Have you ever received any awards or trophies? For the first week or month you look at them often and keep them clear of dust.

As time goes by, they become less significant and maybe even a nuisance.

Vision should never be like that.

Even when you get discouraged and feel like you will never see vision realized, take it off the shelf, polish and shine it up, put it into a prominent place where you can see it often, and keep moving towards it!

Don't treat your vision like your old awards, shine it up!!!! Make it sparkle. Clean it up and make it something that people notice!

Make Today Count!
Mark

DAVE RAMSEY'S TOWN HALL FOR HOPE

Next Thursday, April 23 @ 7pm, we will be broadcasting Dave Ramsey's Town Hall For Hope. It is a nationwide live webcast....well, live for Eastcoasters and kinda, sorta live for us Leftcoasters.

Maple Valley Presbyterian has graciously offered all of us to come to their place! Their seating is ample, but come early and get a good seat.

Hope you can make the Hope webcast!!

MTC!
Mark

Great Event

The Town Hall For Hope Live Webcast with Dave Ramsey is going to be a great event.

We've had a huge response from our community and so we have moved it from the school to the Presbyterian church for greater seating capacity. The local pastors have jumped on board and it is really awesome to have a group of guys who love God and are into Kingdom building things and not worried about who gets the credit except for God.

If you are not attending, go to www.townhallforhope.com and sign up today!!

We've added the live broadcast at 5pm to accomodate the crowd. The taped broadcast will be aired at 7pm.

Make Today Count!

Mark

Necessary Maintenance

We might even call it preventative maintenance, but I needed to do some necessary maintenance to my lawn as I had neglected it somewhat last spring.

So, yesterday six of us neighbors rented a lawn aerator.

One of my neighbors' little 5 year old daughter said about the machine, "That is a better lawn moler than my daddy has. But why does it make poop on the grass?" What a riot!!!!!

As I'm fighting this aerator over my front and back lawn areas I was thinking about the necessary maintenance that is required in life. We need to see a dentist once in a while, the doctor, take certain medications, get some exercise, etc.

What about the necessary maintenance in your family? Hanging out together, talking with each other, communicating how we really love and appreciate each other, and expressing verbally how wonderfully talented and funny and gifted they are.

What about the necessary maintenance in you own spiritual life? Daily spiritual disciplines like prayer and reading the Bible, taking care of your connection with God, working on loving others like Jesus said we should.

We spend quite a bit of time, effort, energy, money, and provide necessary maintenance on our yards. We should apply the same to our families, ourselves and our relationship with God.

Just random thoughts walking behind an aerator!

Make Today Count!
Mark

LOVER OR HATER?

I was talking with a buddy of mine in our old neighborhood in Cali today. Granted, it
was of the texting variety, but none the less (am I supposed to put hyphens in them thar werds???) it was a good chat. He accused me of hating.

Just because I was totally bummed that he was doing 74 degrees and I was doing 37 and snow, doesn't mean that I'm a hater!!!! He was just giving me a bad time.

Have you ever been misunderstood? Have you ever been doing the right things only to be called out because someone who wasn't even around said that you weren't?

Times like that make it hard to love.

You get the looks. You get the emails. You get the texts. Hang in there. Be a lover! Don't be a hater!

MTC!
Mark