Value = 0

When I refer to value, I think of what it means to be a Christian.

I think about what it means to be true to yourself, and true to others.

I want to commend people who make it their duty to show others that there is value in multiple aspects of life.

To those that have shared unity with another person for years in marriage, I thank you.

Thank you for displaying that love isn’t short term relationships, and 1 night stands.

For those that devote time out of each day for God; I thank you.

I thank you for showing that a relationship with God is more than just calling upon Him when you are in trouble.

I wonder if value is appreciated anymore when it comes to some things.

I’m not a mathematician under any circumstance, but it doesn’t take a mathematician to realize that the value is decreasing.

There has to be value placed back into education.

It’s time to stop lying; we all know that our children don’t receive the same opportunities when it comes to learning.

It’s time to bring the value from 0 back to 100. People, we have to once again strive to keep it at 100.

Some of us are jumping into marriages with the knowledge that we don’t want to spend the rest of our lives with the person that we are marrying.

Why aren’t we keeping it 100?

It is sad that many of us can go about each day supporting things that no longer have value.

Instead of supporting things with no value we should strive to place value back.

One for the week: Leviticus 27:17 – “If he dedicates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.”

Email me at marcelgamble@ sbcglobal.net to discuss the idea of value.

Lovely Secrets

The Grand Rapids Times

It occurs everyday; millions of people indulge themselves in relationships prematurely.

We experience this thing called love at first sight.

However, unknowingly we ignore the lovely secrets.

He doesn’t ask questions about her, and she doesn’t care to raise questions about him.

The most that many of us know about each other are surface characteristics.

She doesn’t know that he has the capability to take advantage of her; physically, mentally, and emotionally, in the future.

He has no idea that he is just one of her trophies.

The cost is too high to ignore the lovely secrets.

I am someone that once ignored the lovely secrets and someone that once had to learn hard lessons from doing so.

Now, I see young leaders in charge of the future ignoring these secrets.

I see young people jumping in and out of relationships like they’re playing double dutch.

I see young girls continuously hurt, crying more tears then a family attending a funeral.

I see young men seeing more women than a beauty salon on its best day of business.

How is all of this happening – all because people aren’t taking the time to discover the lovely secrets?

It is crucial for people to know their significant others.

Not to put a damper on a blessing such as marriage, but a person can place a ring on your finger one day and place hands on you physically to harm you the next.

Love takes and requires a lot of devotion.

If people are willing to devote the time in effort in loving someone, they should be willing to put in the same amount of time to find out who people are.

We can’t afford to be naïve we have to remember that with love comes the lovely secrets.

One for the week: “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” Ecclesiastes 7:8

Leaves Of Color

The Grand Rapids Times

Once again it is fall; a time of serious weather change and clothing choices.

Besides the changes that obviously affect us during this time, leaves of all different colors, shapes, and sizes hit the ground.

They don’t blow around to segregate themselves; they collaborate on the ground to create tolerable living places.

Today, I looked at all of the different kinds of leaves on the ground and I asked myself an amusing question.

Why can’t my peers and I resemble the leaves?

The government creates zones to seclude some students from attending prestigious schools with other students.

The media isolates many minorities by identifying them with deceitful and exaggerated information.

Some people are deprived and others are hindered by resources that they need and resources that they could unquestionably live without.

Men hold dominance in the professional and social world.

People are defined by their social class and not the content of their character.

Are we capable of being leaves?

Do we have the capability to fall and rise with each other?

Yes, we do; we just have to realize that no matter what, we are all going to be different leaves that fall from different trees.

We all have to be able to land on the same ground with no conflict.

We should be able to attend the same schools.

The inner city shouldn’t be compacted with fast food restaurants when the greater city only has a few.

Churches shouldn’t be segregated when we ultimately are gathered for the same purpose.

We should be like the leaves.

One for the week: May God give you of heaven’s dew and of earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine. Genesis 27:28