Hunnie's Blog: PRAY for today...just for today.

Hunnie's Blog: PRAY for today...just for today.: Look at this new modern family, imagine them being your kids and grandkids. Imagine getting that call that your son & daughter-in-law (who...

My Riding Buddy

IF I ever were to take a ride on any moving vehicle that didn't have doors or a shield over my head for safety, I'd still choose to ride down the road with this dude. We've grown, through MUCH adversity to feel like quite a comfortable couple. In other words we LIKE being around each other. Not are we just "IN LOVE" with each other, I think that's obvious or we're just stupid and that's the FIRST thing we fall into is LOVE. But this true LIKE my Buddy thing is the real work in our relationship.

We've had to, over the past 20 months really get to know each other and who we REALLY are. Lo and behold to my disillusionment WE are not PERFECT!! WHAT!! I surely thought I WAS! I thought I had it all going on! My "religious leadership" background, my chronological age of maturity, having been married 2X before!!  I thought I knew what was what!! But it's not been until I started mixing my Kool-Aid in this old guy's Kool-Aid pitcher did I know how truly FUN life could be & is!!

NOW, no matter WHAT life has to throw our way, I know I have a riding bud for life!!

PRAY for today...just for today.

Look at this new modern family, imagine them being your kids and grandkids. Imagine getting that call that your son & daughter-in-law (whom you LOVE DEEPLY BTW) were involved in a tragic massacre at the movie they went to last night. And then imagine hearing they had taken your little precious grandchild with them to that movie and then hearing the outcome the likes of which the nation & world became so REALISTICALLY aware of this past Friday morning...Imagine THAT being your reality.


Now freeze that thought for a moment and now imagine being the parents (mother & father in a sustaining HEALTHY marriage) of a child who was BRILLIANT according to EVERYONE who had ever encountered your child!! Then getting that WORST THAN HEARING DEATH of your child on the phone phone call!! THEN!! imagine being just the mother of this child and seeing your LITTLE BABY who, only 12 years ago was just going through crackling voice and right size shoe issues!! Seeing that child on the television news (along with everyone ELSE in the world-- JUDGING your baby). Seeing the shocking look of dismay, listlessness, disbelief, and STUNNING AWARENESS of HIS OWN devastation to SOCIETY!! Imagine being THAT mom.


I have, one thought that came to me this morning as I did was, I'm SO GRATEFUL for my own children and their "not so appealing" societal qualities. Those qualities that are not THE BEST of human nature and things, in themselves, they could surely work on improving. But those "things" are worked out in the time that my children CHOOSE to devote to them. I can only be GRATEFUL that so far the news I've received on my kids has been low level stuff and nothing that has never been NEWS WORTHY!


But for the families involved in this and the parents of the originator of all this MAYHEM! My heart feels the loss, it really does. It's almost like 911 or the bombing in Oklahoma City when we, as a country, we were so shocked that I KNEW from that moment on, life as we knew it was going to be forever DIFFERENT. Now what I'M FEELING is the loss of that simple time. 


The time when going to a late night show WAS AN EVENT to be excited about (and hopefully that doesn't stop). Going dressed up WAS the point! It showed our PASSION, ENTHUSIASM & excitement of what was to be something OUTSTANDING cinematically!! Only to have remnants of THE MOST TRAGIC events to ever happen in American history being added to the end of what WAS to be ...only just a night out at the movies.


Not that it means anything, and I'm sure all the other late night movie attendees of this particular movie, in other parts of the country, did the same thing. But I was going to attend this late night movie here in my hometown of Costa Mesa. The fact that I didn't is not the point but I did do what others who attended the movie did, I breathed a heavy sigh of relief that that wasn't OUR ending to that night's "EVENT".


This comment is my opinion & I hope this doesn't inflate anyone's beliefs on any of the above or what I'm about to say: but as I see it, what happened in Aurora, Co. is a clear picture of what is happening in this FALLEN WORLD we live in.


I am a tv viewer, I watch mind numbing programs, I watch documentries, I watch SPORTS but mostly I watch the news & shows that are news prompted. I HAVE to stay informed & trust me when I say that I mean that I get my news from other sources than the television! I WATCH for a couple of reasons; 1-very basic,to be informed. It was how I was raised, it's my generation's thing so to speak(that & reading the newspaper, which I choose not touch because of the ink..makes my hands feel disgusting!). But 2- to stay in tuned, as much as possible, with what's going on this WORLD around me & my kids & grandkids. I have to, THEY DON'T!! Watching the news or programs that have something pertinent to say to topical issues today miss my kids unless there is incidents that are relatable & I bring it to their attention. Then they delve into it if THEY feel it's revelent to assisting them in living their life EASIER! But as a mom...who would NOT want to ever get THAT phone call (& has a history of fear and trembling waiting for THE dreaded call about her own children, which to date has only been as serious as being stranded in Vegas), I HAVE to WATCH!!


But from the perspective of my spiritual beliefs I see how evil is, at this point in our time, WINNING in taking over this society. This past weekend one of the pastors at our church gave a BRILLIANTLY stunning sermon on HABAKUK. The sermon was about where was God. Where was He back then when evil ran rampant throughout the Isrealites (God's CHOSEN people) life in society? The very same as it was back then it is today!! No different, not one iota, but I don't ask the question, I already know the answer. 

As we mourn with those families of this tragic event, as you read this I hope you too have God in your heart and just be prepared to HOLD ON! Read Habakuk (even if you're not inclined to read the bible) chapters 1-3. Read how this person went about painfully asking the questions of God that we struggle with today and read how God responds. For me, it gives me footing to stand, on a place to believe that life is.. OK!! My kids are OK!! WE as a nation of believers are going to be....ok. Evil WILL NOT be the victor here!

What a MIRACLE looks like today....LOOK CAREFULLY or you're sure to MISS THEM!!!

Yesterday at a WAL-MART in Georgia a SEVEN YEAR OLD little girl was involved in an attempted child abduction. A 25 yr old parolee (only a week out mind you) out on manslaughter charges picked up the little girl in a toy isle while her mother, who was in another isle, was shopping. The man ATTEMPTED to take the little girl out of the store by covering her mouth but due to her training (now watch it her comes the MIRACLE!!..I'll tell you why in a minute..), knowing about "STRANGER DANGER", the little girl's mouth may've been covered but she knew enough to stay calm in order to kick and squiggle herself free from her potential person who was about to do her harm (....he's innocent until proven guilty in a court of law right..no telling what he had planned for her, he was out on manslaughter). And in doing so she would've made such a spectacle of herself and the man walking through the store that SOMEONE was sure to see them.

FORTUNATELY this is the 21st century and SEEING is rather common in large stores due to SECURITY cameras. No judgement intended, but this guy was BLATANT about his ill-deed and no good could've come from that little girl being taken out of that store by him yesterday. But let me take you off track (I'll bring you right back quicker than a hummingbird can lick somethin!) right here. NOTE  above the words (in this paragraph) in caps, note how they make a statement about our God!! Folks when I set out to write something about something it's because something is stirring in my heart that has to be said. Maybe, like in this case, it's something from my own past experience that struck a chord or maybe, like the words in caps indicated to ME and hopefully to you too, God is still trying to talk to us TODAY!! In a language that we understand through people like me and that little girl yesterday. Because when I look at the news report and see the video of the man attempting to take that little girl, I see in the midst of that 3-5 sec struggle a warrior angel pulling that little girl away from that abductor then making him run. That's what I see......told you I'd bring you back:)  MIRACLE!!

What stirred in me when I saw the video of the attempted abduction was a childhood memory of a similar incident happening with me and my baby brother when I was 13 and he was 7.

Our mother had passed away the year prior to that and we were living with our maternal grandmother at that time (our childhood was very scattered and unstable. My little brother and I never lived together under the same roof for more than 1 year together before or after our mother's passing). We were walking through a neighborhood park from a friends house on our way back home. It was a holiday of some sort because it would've normally been a school day but kids were home and parents were working. For some reason that was important that day.

As my brother and I had made our way into the park as there would've been no easy way to run and turn back out to the neighborhood we just left, I noticed a man in a car looking at us. At first he was sitting on a park bench but after we passed him he ran for his car. He made a call for us to come to him the first time. I turned around and looked at the man and kept walking, not even fast, I thought the man was crazy. It was then I first noticed "THE MIRACLE". It stirred inside me, it told me what parents tell their kids today, what I didn't have when I was a kid. It told me that this was a bad scene and we had to get out of that park or we were sure to die there, me and my little brother. That feeling boiled in me every step we took. .....
There was some intense moments in the park that day, the stranger pursued us around that park for the better part of an hour. My brother and I were like DISNEY KIDS in a HOME ALONE movie that day, but it was no (get ready for the intended pun..).. regular DAY IN THE PARK for me & little Scotty Norful that day..we were in someone's sights to die that day but the BREATH of God was in the wind & upon us that day..(wonder if my brother felt it??!!)

I won't bore you with all the details of how we got out of that situation because OBVIOUSLY we did, but I will tell you that when I saw that video of that abduction, I saw me and my little brother in those grips and that MIRACLE that got us out.

We don't see waters parting today, but short of full out plagues in an isolated area, WE DO SEE if we're looking!!
I bet you've witnessed a miracle too & maybe didn't think to classify it as such. What do you think??!

I am God's??!!!

I am God's ??!!

REALLY!! When did that happen? WHO made it so?

Why am I just now being told and why didn't I get THAT memo?!!

I am God's??!!

I wished someone had told me that a whole lot sooner,
then I wouldn't have been down for so long and NOW just getting in step with my FINE TUNER!


I am God's??!!
MAN! Isn't that good to know!
I'm not just some nobody that will NEVER, EVER not have 
a place to go!


I am God's!!
Praise His HOLY name -
for having such FORESIGHTNESS and 
knowledge of all  today's unHOLY games!!


I am God's!!