I've weathered my fair share of storms. I've been through a few battles. I've looked death in the face as a loved one slipped away. I've preached the funerals of older ones, younger ones, and those yet to be born. However, the more battles I go through the more I realize just how completely and utterly dependent upon an All-Powerful God I am.
I've been through some rough patches with my work lately. Pardon me, I've been through these patches with my temporary money provider. Ultimately being a Contract Project Manager for Implementations and Conversions for a Banking Software Company is not what I want on the resume of my tombstone. However, I realize that everything that I go through is only another way for God to continue to mold my character, to shape my integrity and to prepare me for where He wants to lead me. Besides, I don't work for Open Solutions. I work for the Living God. So, everything I do, I do with Integrity. Everything I do, I run as to win the race.
Isn't it funny how we look at the Presidential Race now and instead of running the race to win, each Candidate in their own right is not running toward the goal, but just trying to be the last one pushed out of the Sand box. John McCain the maverick who doesn't buy into politics, but does what's best for the American people, is now known as "SAFE". Obama, the most liberal senator in the whole U.S. Senate is now separating himself from Ayers and Wright to become the "Center".
When I became a Christian I got a new CORE, I became a new creation. I no longer fight to please man, but to please God my Father. Let me say that I'm extremely happy that I have gone through some fires. Otherwise, I might begin to develop the mindset that I'm in control. That I can do what I want to do. That I can succeed by my 146 IQ. How crazy is that? I wish a Presidential Candidate would be honest for once and say, "I don't know it all." "I'm going to surround myself with the brightest minds, and most of all find my knees in prayer to the one that does know it all."

Preston