Sounds Like...

...My parents are planning to travel out here to Alberta for my mother's 70th birthday; which, of course, is good to know. I am listening to this song right now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXjpwf5jdLY


I love Don Francisco. He is such an amazing, gentle, man of God. One time, I asked a former pastor if he had heard of Don Francisco. He exclaimed: "Don Francisco!? He's great!... But wait! He was before your time!..."


It's true! Don Francisco, I think, was big in the 70's and maybe early 80's. I picked up one of his CD's in the bargain bin as Hull's Bookstore in 1999. Then, when I was living in Australia, in 2000,I discovered one of Don's cassette tapes at the home of John - with whom I stayed for my last several months in Australia.


When I got back to Canada, I looked up that album, and discovered I could get it; along with 13 other Don Francisco "Oldies" CD's as a package, so I ordered it! I greatly enjoyed listening to them, both here in Canada, and then in South Korea; where I went to teach English twice.


Just recently, though, I learned more of Don's life story; and was amazed at how much we have in common! Hooray for Don! And for my friends! I'm really hurting right now - even bleeding (figuratively, of course, but it is bleeding, nevertheless) from certain words that were said; and I did not see them coming. But hooray for my friends, anyway.


I am reminded of a Scripture that says to "love one another with a pure heart, fervently"; and I resolve to do that, in Jesus' name.


Daniel


See, I have my own way of "focusing on Jesus", and I sure hope that is not a problem. It is a fact that sure is not going to change; because I don't think it should. Another verse says, "...let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." And I definitely am that.


What has caught me off guard has been the inescapable insinuation that there is something supposedly wrong with me. With what I have been doing. Believing. Saying. To my own master I stand or fall; and being judged like that is not sitting well with me in the slightest. We shall all stand before the judgment seat of "Christ", or the Messiah. (See Romans 14... in fact, please read it! Here - I'll go and do that right now...)