"Gosh, it is so hot!"
"Ugh, this internet is SOO slow!"
"Man, these people can't drive!"

I will spare you from any more. But seriously, do people that complain irritate you? Why do people have to constantly state their discontentment with a specific situation?

I tend to think people that complain either are not aware that they are doing it or they are just miserable (or close too it) and would like to let everyone else know how miserable they are. Whichever the answer to the question may be, I believe complaints are very unnecessary. I welcome criticism any day (as long as it is in good taste); but there is a line between the two.

I will break it down into two "levels." A complaint is something a person states...that is not significant to any other human being, but it is a declaration of one's discontentment with a specific happening within their life. To be honest, complaints most of the time do nothing to help solve a problem.

Criticism is when a person makes an observation and offers helpful suggestions in order that one person become better at a specific task or situation. I am a big problem solver. I love brainstorming to find resolutions for a given scenario, but when someone comes over and is upset and starts rambling on about how discontent they are, that is unnecessary.

Come to me with a legitimate problem and your best solution for it, I will be more than happy to help you in solving that, come to me with an annoying complaint...I am sorry but that does not do anything for me.

You know yourself best. If you are forgetful, make reminders. If you are naturally cold, bring more clothes. For every problem there is a solution. People will respect you more if you are mature enough to learn from your own mistakes.

Complaints do not get you very far in this world. I am sure that what you find worthy of a complaint, does not compare to anything that someone within ten feet of you are going through. Thank you for reading. I tried to not "complain" too much. This is just an observation that I have made the last couple of weeks...and thought that someone could benefit from it.

Thanks for reading. I would like to hear your feedback on what you think!

-Ken

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I posted to Twitter the other day...Why are we as Americans still dealing with racial issues? Everywhere you go, you can see people smirking towards people of other races, other races appearing to be dominant over another, people being chosen over another because of their race...people disagreeing with one another because a conflict of race...and even the dreaded race card being pulled. Ex: "He said I was (insert race here.) I'm offended!" All of these and many others can commonly be found through websites, Twitter, blogs, media and any other form of communication that we as humans interact on.

I ask why?

In my opinion...generally speaking, think that we as humans are raised or programmed somehow to have out race or a specific race dominant over others. Why can we not just get over ourselves and realize that we are different, have one GOD and love others as Jesus would? Why do we have to place racial discrepancies on everything? Why are we still fighting something that should have been settled years ago? Let's forgive each other and move on. It is what God would desire us to do.

-Ken

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One thing that I see that we take for granted too often, is a wonderful gift that we have, which is the gift of life. I personally believe that we are here for a purpose. God has out every moment and breath planned out. He knows when we will struggle, hurt, mourn, cry, laugh, celebrate and even when we will die.

The thing is, He knows when all that will happen, but at the same time we ourselves do not. We can plan...plan...plan, but that only gets us so far. Something always has a way of changing our plans.

We are not guaranteed tomorrow...or even five minutes from now. With the death in my family this week, it really has upset me. It has me thinking about us, as human beings. We take so much stuff for granted. Beautiful sunsets, laughter...and even something as life. I find that we place our wishes on our top priority list, but is that how Jesus would want us to live? I beg to differ.

I think if Jesus came down and gave a seminar to His church, He would encourage us to life for others. Not for us. "Do unto others as that should do unto you." I would personally hate to have my life go to waste. Just think about all of the people that you (or we) can be reaching that we are not?

If you have read this blog, I have prayed for you. It is my encouragement to you that you go out and change the world...one day at a time. Go share the love of Jesus with that one person in your class that seems like they are along and hurting. Go and heal thing with someone you are fighting with. Go to the beach and spend time with the one and only God of this universe. He wants to be your everything. He wants you to live your life just for Him...share the Gospel to the unreached people.

I love you all.
Thanks for reading.

-Ken

Labels: application, Celebration, christ, Jesus, life, others, suffering, tomorrow

Tonight I had the pleasure of being able to be a part of a small group session started by the one and only @jacalopekid (Adam Smith). This is something that he started last week, but due to my school schedule I was unable to attend last week.

Tonight's session was led by @leslieblueeyes. The entire time was a complete blessing after a long and hard day...emotionally. Will post about that tomorrow. But...I was blessed tremendously by many people that I daily interact with on Twitter. Even though we (the body of Christ) were in many different states (possibly even countries...) we were able to connect and grow with one another through video, audio and text chat online. Amazing what technology has allowed us to do.

For all that attended, it was great. Just remember the things that we discussed, and please apply them to your life. I hope we were able to minister or encourage one person...if not everyone that was in the chat room tonight. If you missed it, we therefore missed you as well. We will be having another one next week. Not sure who will be leading it, but I know they will bring a great message and it will be a great opportunity. Plan on attending next week, if you schedule allows.

Thanks for reading. I hope that you all have a blessed day tomorrow and the rest of the week.

To GOD be the GLORY, HONOR and PRAISE!!

-Ken

Labels: Bible, gospel, Jesus, small group, social networking, study, twitter

So, this evening I will be joining in an online small group discussion. I am excited about it, I have a really good feeling about this. If you feel as though it is something that you would like to be a part of, here is the information:

Time: 7PM EST, Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Login to: http://tinychat.com/smallgroup
Password: jackalopekid
Leader: @leslieblueeyes

Hope to see you all then!

-Ken

Labels: Bible, gospel, Jesus, small group, social networking, study, twitter

For fellow Twitter users, you can skip this first paragraph. If you are new to Twitter or do not know what Twitter is and would still like to know, continue reading. #ff (#followfriday) is a Twitter theme for Friday where you recommend people that you follow to others who you think are interesting and are worth following.

I choose to do it later in the day on Friday because there are people in the west coast who may not be able to get on Twitter, because of work or other obligations throughout the day. I do mix it up from time to time, but mostly I do it later in the evening so that they will be more likely to see the tweets. Short blog, just felt that I should share.

If you are not on Twitter, I think you should join up. Let me know (by either commenting on this blog . . . or replying to me) and I will be sure to give a shout out for you. Happy Friday!

-Ken

Labels: #ff, #followfriday, Jesus, social networking, twitter

Trying to get #Jesus in the trending topics on Twitter. Add #Jesus to your tweets. Talk about Him. Tell what He has done for you.

-Ken

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