Today's Devotion: Luke 5:16 (New International Version)
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed

It is hard to pray, isn't it? I don't think that I do a very good job. Maybe that is one of the reasons that I am doing this blog. It gives me a chance just to sit and focus on God and how much he makes a difference in my life.

Today's Comments:

I got up at 4:45 AM and was not able to get back to sleep, so I thought that I would spend some quality time with my blog. It was cold tonight, I turned on the heater, which I rarely do. Even with the cat snuggled up on one side and the dog on the other, I couldn't get back to sleep. I have a lot of work to do for my New Testament seminary class. There's plenty of time for it. However, I hope that just doing this writing and thinking will help clear my mind and that I can go back to sleep. In the meantime, I will try to keep my mind open and my heart in prayer, asking the Lord to remember those who I love, the veterans that I work with, those service man who are overseas fighting the war on terrorism.

Which reminds me. It seems like almost everyday, since the massacre at Virginia Tech, there have been shootings or threats of shooting. All of a sudden, we are getting a rash of threats in our EDD call centers. I am keeping a threat database for our Division Chief, and yesterday, I drafted a memo for him to remind all of our Field Offices that no threat, whether actual or perceived, should be ignored. If there is anybody out there that is reading this blog, I pray that you keep that in mind, also. It seems like there is very little distance between thought and action, these days, no matter how evil the thought is.