Thoughts

Well today was a good day for myself. I know we all have our bad days and good days and this was one of my good days. I am starting to really understand how amazing your life can be with the relationship of God. Not just only the relationship with God but the relationship with your mentors and accountability partners. This will help you in your walk in life so much. Today the boys and I talked about how are tongues can be so evil. Ryan Seeburger did a great job leading the group today (Especially with those hand outs). Anyways the point is that I don't think we realize how bad our tongues can be. We really challenged ourselves that we can't be leaders if we can't lead with a clean tongue. It's so true because how would you like to look up to someone you thought was a great leader in God and then you saw them cussing out there dog because it peed on their carpet? It's a really tough world we live in today because now we can use f*** over the television. It is a crazy world we live in today but why not change it. I know a lot of us guys in our group have had a rough time with this subject. I know a lot of you teenage guys or girls have a tough time with it as well.
So in everything you do don't get super mad and let your mouth speak its own words but have control. Another great thing I think I learned today is that your mornings are the most important part of your day. You know how they say breakfast is an important meal in the morning but check it. Prayer is the most important meal to your day too. Not only prayer but the good of God. Why not play some Lecrae or some type of legit Christian music. Because what you start your day with is how it will turn out. You might listen to Eminem and just be angry the rest of the day. Another way to start it out is just wake up and have some silence. These are many ideas a bunch of the guys in our group today came up with. Even get into the word or as you sit in your car before you go into school just think and pray about how you are going to be a good leader.
One last thing on this blog. Don't you find it weird how we find it so hard to say hello to someone. I mean if it's true that we are all living this life together why can't we just say hello to each other. If we are all truly brothers and sisters in Christ why can't we say Hi to each other. I mean I'm not even saying to get to know them and get a friendship out of it. But why not the friendliness? No, not saying lets all be hippies and throw the peace sign around but just throw a smile on and say hello. You might think "Oh it's not important if I talk to them" the truth is..... that might be the one thing they need.
So the day after you read this please challenge yourself to these things. Please, I challenge you to start getting into the word. The more you train yourself the more you will do it. Have a good day or night. Love you guys. Thanks for reading!

From: Big Red (Austin Brown)