Last Sunday at church we begun a new series on BLOOM, meaning that no matter where you are in life you can began again. There were so many people in the bible that God had given fresh starts and new beginnings: Moses, Peter, Rahab, David and now me and you.
*WE ARE GOD’S FLOWER
We are not stuck in life; it’s never too late to begin again.
This Sunday Pastor Scott talked about new beginnings start when you take a step, the first step through the power of the Holy Spirit. He quoted DR. Martin Luther King JR. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole stair case, just take the first step.”
Then he gave us; 4 Steps to make today different from yesterday, I’ll paraphrase them as best I can.
1. We are to make up our own minds to bloom again. 2 Corinthians 10:5
2. When we praise God, it’s a form of blooming. Acts 16:25-26
3. Let God take over, when you bloom and how you bloom. Job 8:8-13
4. Have a new season not determined by the last. Jesus offered the woman in adultery a new beginning. John 8:1-11
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Its summer and it’s hot, but do you know who invented the air conditioner?
Anytime you see a truck on the highway transporting refrigerated or frozen food, you’re seeing the work of Frederick McKinley Jones.
One of the most prolific Black inventors ever, Jones patented more than 60 inventions in his lifetime. While more than 40 of those patents were in the field of refrigeration, Jones is most famous for inventing an automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks and railroad cars.
Before Jones’ invention, the only way to keep food cool in trucks was to load them with ice. Jones was inspired to invent the system after talking with a truck driver who lost his whole cargo of chicken because he couldn’t reach his destination before the ice melted. As a solution, the African-American inventor developed a roof-mounted cooling system to make sure food stayed fresh.
In addition to that refrigerator invention, Jones also invented an air-conditioning unit for military field hospitals, a refrigerator for military field kitchens, a self-starting gas engine, a series of devices for movie projectors and box-office equipment that gave tickets and made change. Jones was posthumously awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1991 – the first Black inventor to ever receive such an honor.
reference: http://www.black-inventor.com/Frederick-McKinley-Jones.asp
Unless You Receive
How can you behold the beauty of the sky, that appears in your eye, unless you receive?
How can you handle the joy, that God has promised, and stop feeling blue, unless you receive?
How can you care about all the things others have to share, unless you receive?
How can you cherish our love, unless we fit like hand and glove, unless you receive?
It is in God that we live, because He is so willing to give. ALL WE CAN RECEIVE.
Ida Hamner
Instrumental by James Rhodes
“So I looked for distractions. I looked for a way out that didn’t involve homicide or suicide. And all roads led to music. They always do.”
Two years ago, just a couple of months after being discharged from a mental health unit, I sat in front of the TV and watched a man take a Steinway into a psychiatric hospital. I listened as he talked about his own experiences of mental illness, about how classical music saved his life and then he played a piece by Rachmaninov (his Prelude in c sharp minor, if you are interested) and my brain stopped for the first time in months. I had been unable to read a book or follow a TV show, I couldn’t breathe without an overwhelming sense of anxiety and then suddenly I experienced this moment of peace and that’s when I fell into the world of classical music.
Here’s the thing about classical music…
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Building emotional ties between the readers and characters will always cause the reader to remember the character. Let’s say, what if the character lost an arm while holding onto a stranger as she was falling from a train? After months and months of pain bitterness took over his life. He is continually asking himself, “Why did I try to help? If I didn’t help she would have died.” The character is in physical pain as well as mental pain. This has left the readers with all kinds of emotional thoughts: He really shouldn’t be so down on himself, after all he helped the lady. That lady should thank him every day of her life for saving her. In my mind he’s a hero. If I was in that situation, I would have done the same thing, but he lost an arm doing it. I feel so sorry for him. Oh my, the pain it caused. He could not do, with one arm, what he could do before. How is he going to manage his life? Why did this happen to such a good person?
So many thoughts are going through the readers mind when the character is suffering. This build such strong emotions that the reader will want to continue reading, to see if the character came to peace with his situation. Will he be strong and make it to the end or is his life over? The reader cares so much about the character, that they carried him through riding on their emotions.
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Adrian Blevins: My Mother’s First Husband
It’s in your past, but pray for those that’s beginning.
My mother’s first husband, who was the first mentally ill person I ever met, rents storage spaces all over D.C. He saves in crate after carton after crate: paper towel tubes, his son’s second grade science projects and college term papers, broken air conditioners, hammers, screwdrivers, curtain rods, weights, spatulas, pots and pans, old cans of paint, drills, sandwich bags, magazines and books and paper clips, window panes and big, long rolls of pink insulation and leather gloves and half-empty cans of shoe polish and arm chairs and tube tops and baby aspirin and vinyl records as well as the files of the court records (as well as their Xeroxes) of what was said before the judge between he and my mother more than forty years ago. When I saw him a couple of years ago, he was standing in my sister’s dining room organizing boxes of National Geographic, which…
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