Judd's Blog

Lord, grant me the strength to make it through another day. Help me to understand the blessings you have given me and see them for what they truly are. Help me not to lose myself in selfishness and see the plan you have for my life. Help me to take one day at a time and not try to outrun your blessings. Thank you for a wife that stands behind me, loves me and encourages me no matter what the circumstances and three children who love me unconditionally. Thank you for a child that calls me her Hero and sees no wrong. She sees me with your eyes. Help me to become a leader within my family and in what you have planned for me as your child. Carry me Lord, I know those footprints are yours.

Lord, grant me the ability to remember the thigs I have learned when I need it the most. Help me to trust that whatever you have planned for me is so much bigger than what I can see even from my highest point. Help me to have focus on you in my darkest hour and most of all, help me not to take all you have entrusted me with for granted.

The word rule has lots of meanings. It could mean that you are governing or dominating a body of people, court proceeding or some other event. It can also be a way to measure how we hold up against others in our field of expertise. Mostly though, it is a way to describe how our lives are controlled by things of society around us. Some of us are ruled by money, some by family and some by substances like drugs or alcohol. Whatever the case may be, we should be mindful that while other things are ruling us we are slowly spinning out of control. Where my family attends church we have been asked that question a lot lately. Who or what rules your life? It is a question that I am beginning to take more seriously than before. While all of us are somewhat controlled by the jobs or careers we have chosen, we can choose to be very careful of the things that can quickly overtake every aspect of our lives. Recently I lost my job, again, and while it was painful I knew the assignment was not to ...