Okay, here we go...

Hello everyone,
Well I set the new blog up it is still under construction though. Feel free to stop by and take a look, here is the address http://sdsims.wordpress.com/ . I do want to keep in touch with everyone that stops in here so please come over and see me. I will keep this blog open for anyone that comes through later. Eventually I will get all of this content transfered over as well.

Stay tuned...

Okay, for the very few people that read this blog. I am going to switch over to another blog site. I opened the blog but do not have it set up yet. I will let everyone know exactly when everything will be over there. It is going to be over at Wordpress. Some friends of mine are over there and I really like the look and features available.

How far should we go?

How far is too much? I realize that, as a Christian, I am not to think of myself, to place myself last and serve others first. I do this because our example on the life we are to live, Jesus, told us that this is how we are supposed to live and modeled that way of life for us while He was here on Earth.

But, does there come a time when serving others becomes presenting myself as a welcome mat for others to walk on? Is there a difference? I mean Jesus served with all He had, including His life, for all of us. There were also times when He expressed indignation and anger (think confronting Pharisees and overturning tables in the temple courts).

Now, I enjoy serving people around me. But, when those same loved ones and friends do not acknowledge that service for what it is and only see my actions as being a pushover, is that counter-productive? I know all of the thoughts that our way of addressing the world will be seen as weak to begin with because we have different ways of viewing life and our reason for being here and what we have to look forward to at a later time. I have no issue with that expectation, but, is there a line that is too far?

Just some random musings and thoughts, but I would like to hear feedback on this one.

I'm back...

It was actually quite the disappointing week!  I spent my entire time away from home as sick as a dog!  I actually missed some of the events at the conference I went to for work because of how miserable I felt.  Then, once I made it home, we received a phone call from the ski area that we were going to inform us that the mountain would be closed for the majority of our trip!  Well, that was cancelled and my wife and I and my in-laws ended up going to their beach house a little further north in Connecticut.  It ended up being exactly what I needed to recuperate, I spent some major down time with chicken noodle soup and a good book.  

The main thing that I was hoping for over this week never even materialized.  I didn't have the chance to speak even once on anything about Christianity.  I guess it wasn't the right time for me or for any of my companions over the past week.  The good thing about being sick was being able to have some really break-through quiet times.