This is harder than I thought!

Thanksgiving week I started this blog.  My head was full of things I wanted to say, and it was even hard to figure out what to say first.  My plan was to try and write every day or two.

At first I wrote a lot in the first couple of days.  And here I am not even a week later, after skipping a day, wondering what to write next.

I'm a teacher.  I work every day and my head is full of what to teach, how to teach it, and how to manage 180 students.  Some days are better than others, and once in a while it's a "terrible" day.  I'm not complaining, it's my dream job -- I love teaching!  

But I mention this as part of the reason I don't write a blog some days.

I'm also a student in a Supernatural School of Ministry.  I love it.  We have class two nights a week, 6:45 to 10:00.  And there is homework! So that takes up mental energy and time, too.

I won't get into a deep Bible discussion or doctrinal argument here, but the basic premise of the whole school is that we take quite literally, "thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven", and we take literally Jesus' statement that "you will do greater works than I", as well as the command to "preach the gospel and heal the sick and raise the dead," that we are to "make disciples, and these signs will follow".. and like many Christians, we believe we are pretty much in the "last days" (or at least "more" last than we were before), therefore what is prophesied in Joel 2 is for now. And it's ALL permeated with God's love for people, that Jesus died for everybody, and forgiveness and repentance are available to everybody.

Revival happened a little over 100 years ago in several places such as Los Angeles, Wales, and England, and we are seeing the beginnings of new revival now. Hundreds of people were healed instantly of outrageous things, hundreds of people received salvation, and there are hundreds of personal testimonies from witnesses and people who were healed.  A man named Tommy Welchel wrote a book telling the stories he was told by the people who, as teenagers, were part of the Azusa Street Revival in 1906.  You can search for the book on Amazon.  I think his latest book is called "Azusa Street Revival."

Like I said, I refuse to argue about it, I'm just writing about what I'm doing.. and if it's all out of love, who can argue against that?  I've seen and experienced way too much to deny that God is real. If that's crazy oh well, deal with it or just don't read my stuff.

So... Here I am having written a whole page...