Burky's Blog

It sure is feeling spring-like these days.  Will I have to let go my dream of a winter that broke records?

 

Leonard Eby preach Sunday morning about Abundant Life versus Pleasure of Sin.  What impress me is the meaning of "versus".  To me, that is a better word than comparing or judging.  It give appearance of opposites, but not really.  That is exactly what I think about God and Satan.

 

I was thinking about losing your life in order to find it.  The more I thought about it, the more I find it very meaningful.

 

I finish reading Halley's Bible Handbook.  It is so fascinating, that it almost tempt me to be a Messanic Jew.  It make me love the Bible more, realizing that in the Bible is wealth of wisdom that I grew up missing.  At same time, I am reading through the Bible in one year, so I am in Deuteronomy right now.  Reading through Halley's Bible Handbook makes me think about the first 5 book in the Bible, or we can call it Torah.  My mother said she don't see how the Levite priests can remember all that law, but I think they can.  If loving God is the primary law, and the Ten Commandment secondary, it is much easier to remember everything else.

 

The reason people couldn't comprehend is because they are trying to master the whole Bible.  Most of what is in the Bible is just details.  It have history to show how things happen and why.  It has poems or songs.  It has prophecy.  All of the Old Testament give the groundwork for New Testament.  The New Testament give the groundwork for us.  But to make life easier, let us focus and make real the necessary points, especially the primary law as found in Matthew 22:37-40.  Then build from there.

 

Writer's Conference is coming up on first weekend in April at CLP.  My problem in going is that would I have an interpreter?  I don't want an interpreter who is going as a attendent.  I want an interpreter who is willing to be my right-hand servant the whole time there at Christian Light Publication.

 

I got to see pictures from 2008-2009 year at CDI.  I saw a picture of David Oberholzter, and I remember he did enjoy visit there for a short time.  My sister, Susan, was there from January to June 2009.  There even is some pictures of me and I was only there the last two weeks.

 

Those pictures and videos of CDI really make me to re-think of going.  I know I once say I wouldn't go to CDI again.  Since I understood what it means to live a Christian life, especially the fact that I am no longer moody and melancholy, I can enjoy being at CDI.  I know I told Joel before I left to go back home that I still don't feel ready or willing.  At that time, I am not too sure how everything is.  I am glad I didn't go this year, because I am not as ready as I am now.  I probably wouldn't learn what I need to learn if I went.  I don't know.  All I know is I feel I am in God's will.

 

If it is God's will for me to go to CDI again, so be it.  I am ready, willing, and able--after I get my investment return.

 

Oops, for some of you who wonder what CDI is--that is Cayo Deaf Institute near Spanish Lookout in Belize.

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Omar Burkholder
"Burky"