If  I take enough yucky stuff  in sooner or later yucky stuff will come out. Just as if  I take in good godly stuff it will come out. So I want to fill up on God. I want to be aware not desensitized, because I don't want to be oblivious to what I am taking in.

Keep Me Lord

My eyes are a window things keep passing by.

Lots of times I don't pay attention to what I see.

My ears are always open sounds into them do fly.

I don't always hear what's coming into me.

Deliver me O Lord from being so oblivious to what comes in.

Set a guard over my eyes, my ears, my mind, my heart, and deliver me from sin.

The world sends images to my eyes all day.

Keep my eyes on You I pray.

The world sends messages to my mind all day.

Keep my mind on you I pray.

The world sends messages to my heart all day.

Keep my heart O Lord I pray.

Beat The Heat

One of my favorite ways to beat the heat in Hawaii was to go get a shaved ice. Believe me I needed one after riding in the back of a convertible! I probably should have applied it to my forehead! I had a great time riding around the island, but because of the wind I didn't really feel like my forehead was roasting. I was oblivious to what was happening to my forehead. I guess I thought my bangs had it covered. You know it is kind of like being in the world. I am exposed to all sorts of  yucky things and sometimes I am oblivious to them. It comes from being desensitized and or insensitive. I need to be more aware of what is going on around me. I get use to hearing unsavory words or phrases and I no longer react. Not only should I cringe inside but I should cringe outside too. People are not going to know it offends me if  I don't express it some how. Also if  I don't react I may send them down the road to becoming desensitized. I am currently trying to become aware of just how desensitized I am. Do I let someone finish telling me a dirty joke? Or do I say "please don't tell me this one" when I begin to realize its dirty? If  everyone gets an alcoholic drink do I get one too? Or do I say no thanks and get a soda? You say ask " what's that got to do with being desensitized?" If  I get an alcoholic beverage which I know is a stumbling block to me. Then I am not being sensitive to some one else who may have the same problem and order one because I did. So now I am checking closer the programs I watch, music I listen to, what people are saying to me and what the world is trying to pour into me. I know it's not what goes into a man that defiles him, but what comes out. But if  I allow enough yuck in eventually yuck will come out. I don't want to be oblivious to what I am taking in. I want to be aware so I can take in more of  God and what's good and right, that He may be seen in what I do and say.

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. 1 Corinthians 8:13, Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things. Philippians 4:8, Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Matthew 10:16, I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:16

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