Please go to http://whosyouridol.blogspot.com/ to read the full review and see all the pictures from the Ascension Day Lift-off today!! It was awesome! You could feel the Lord right there with you! Wow! A super-spiritual day!!

Tomorrow is Ascension Day!! My husband and I are excitedly looking forward to the official/non-official inaugural Ascension Day lift-off! Wow!
We will spend the rest of the day and evening preparing the balloon and getting the details ready.

If it weren’t for his Franklin planner reminding him of the day tomorrow I might have missed it completely! What a sad state that would have been. But I was duly reminded and preparations are being made.

Maybe in about 10-20 years after this first official/non-official lift-off, the day will be celebrated with much more flair as they do Christmas and Easter. Do you think it could grow to be that big?

I suppose we should find a mascot. Like the bunny is for Easter. Well Christmas doesn’t have an animal to represent it. I guess Rudolph is as close to a mascot as any! Some suggestions have been a flamingo or penguin. Please feel free to send any mascot suggestions.

We will be documenting the lift-off tomorrow May 17, 2007! I will be back to tell you all about it and show the pictures.

Stay tuned!

It is a sad day. Today the great Jerry Falwell passed away. He was so great in many people’s eyes, hearts and minds. He did so much for the Christian causes. He was definitely a doer and not a hearer only. I am sure he will be greatly missed.

Personally, I am deeply saddened by the thought of his passing. I read the massive accolades that were attributed to his name and character. Everyone in America at some point has heard of the name Jerry Falwell. It would be like hearing the name Billy Graham. To many, they are synonymous with Christianity.

Again, I am deeply saddened. Not so much by his death but wondering what he is doing now. Right now. In my memory loss, I cannot exactly tell you the exact biblical details of what happens when a person dies. Does that person go directly into the presence of almighty God? Do they wait a specified time to be ushered into… heaven… or hell? I honestly do not know. I do know what has been taught to me for most of my life but I am not completely sure that I am ready to hang my hat on those theories until I am able to do an in-depth study for myself.

Will all of Jerry’s ‘doings’ get him in to heaven? Was he so busy doing Christian things that he couldn’t find some solitude and time to have a deeply committed relationship with Jesus? Did all of the accolades from the men of this world afford him humility before his maker? Did he get to take any of his riches, be it money or praise, to heaven with him? If in fact, we are under the premise that he did go to heaven.

We are completely taught by the pulpit that ‘good’ men go to heaven and that men that are considered godly will go to heaven. Forbid, with all that they did; with all the good they brought to this world, with all the mouths they fed, people they taught, buildings they built, services they attended or held, rallies, conventions, seminars, money they brought in, books they wrote and especially all those that they spoke about Jesus to ~ no one should even hint that they wouldn’t get into heaven!

Dear friend, don’t be fooled or misled by the trappings of this world. Even if they are clothed in what looks like the richest garments of righteousness, only One knows for sure where one would go or where Jerry went at his moment of death. Just as only God will know ultimately, where you will spend eternity.

Yes, there are scriptures where we as Christians are called to be doers. But Christ is looking for a Bride, not a whore. We are to be sold out to him. Not the causes that may have his name lightly stamped on them. He is looking for a devoted bride that will look to him for everything. A loyal, dedicated, constant and committed bride that will always look for his best in the situation not trying to attain a name for herself.

My prayer would be that the Lord would be gracious to me, a sinner, that if he were to bless me in any sort of ministry to his body and bride that it would always be under the banner of his name. If I were to do something for the Husband, that it would be for his glory alone and that the stamp of approval would be for him and not for my accolades. I pray they would see the Husband when they meet the Bride.

This is how I see it for today. There has been an odor in our shower the last few days. I scrub and we wipe the stall down after every shower, have clean towels, etc. I cannot figure out what the smell is. We just re-caulked last month so it isn’t any mildew. It is a ‘dirt’ smell. I think the word would be ‘organic’.

In my spiritual journey, I notice the new buzzwords are organic and emerging. This smell was both! I sniffed everything out. Today I opened the container that held a chamois that my husband uses to dry the shower stall. That was the smell. It wasn’t a ‘bad’ smell per se, it was just different and not one I was used to smelling in my bathroom.

This is similar to where God is taking us. He is trying to show us something organic and emerging… and different. Not bad. Just different. We are used to the clean fresh smells of an organized church and church setting. Everything in its place and everyone taking their rightful places on stage for their timed performance. We are even used to the smell of the old Law of religion and it smells ok to us. We are used to it. It is safe. There are boundaries. It seems easier to be told what to do, when to do it, how to do it and to whom. Then when God wants to open new doors to his real reality, our senses back away as if it is a bad thing.

We have been so assimilated with the thoughts and ideas that everything from the pulpit has been from God. That if the ministry is large or if they are able to ‘perform’ tricks and healings then the Holy Spirit surely must have his hand upon it. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is sad that the stench of old Law, religion and sin draws our attentions but the pure odor of an organic emerging repulses us. God definitely has his work cut out for him.

When a couple has their first baby, that child is perfect. All the way from its pointed head to its scrawny toes.

Whether that child is three or eight they are perfect and completely accepted in the parents eyes. The neighbors might have a different opinion but to the parents they are the best.

This represents our Christianity. We are to come to God just as we are. He loves us just as we are with all our imperfections.

The problem I see is that too many folks are content to use that as a justification to ‘stay’ just as they are. ‘Well God loves me as I am, right?’ Yes, he does. But in his perfect infinite father-ness he wants you to continue to grow up and grow healthy and strong to face the world as an adult.

Is that not the ultimate chore of every parent? To equip the child from birth how to be independent? While our dependency should be on God and him alone the chore is for us to learn that dependency in its fullness.

This creates a huge problem because man in himself wants to rule and reign. He wants to dominate and not be dominated. That directly opposes Christianity because we can choose to let God have us or we can have us. He will let us decide our fate and let us live in our muck and mire that we create.

I know a young couple that has a 5-month-old girl. They watch her every move. They know what teeth are popping through and how she rocks to try to crawl and how she eats and what she likes or does not like. She is a constant growth. You can see the changes almost from day to day.

If our Christianity isn’t a constant growth then is it stagnant or simply dead? The growth should be visible.

There are plenty of scriptures that speak of the fruit and growth. The one I chose is John 15:8, Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

As Christians, we should be bearing much fruit- it glorifies the Father. If one were not bearing much fruit would it be necessary to say that their life is not glorifying the Father? And I would want to know why someone that chooses to go by the name of Christian wouldn’t want to be glorifying God? Is that not our eternal purpose? If we can’t do it on earth then can we fathom an eternity doing it?

Golly gee I have so many questions! It will be a sad day for sure for a whole lot of these folks that think they are ‘Christians’ and think they are ‘ok’ in God’s book because God is a God of love and loves them no matter what. A sad day for certain.

Pray with me for their eyes to be opened and their ears to hear. For their hearts to be softened to the truth. We all know people like this. They might be in your direct lives. It may be you. Pray for mercy and repent before a holy God that is as an old lover tossed to the side just waiting eagerly and patiently for you to come back.