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I DO NOT UNDERSTAND NON-BELIEVERS

Non-Believers in this blog post is referring to people who don't believe in God.

I have watched hundreds of posts about God and Faith and Jesus. It amazes me how angry and how upset and how argumentative non-believers get on God. They don't fight this hard about Buddah, Allah or any other religious figure. Not even about Jack Frost or the Tooth Fairy.

If I don't believe in something and you do, I just go my own way. You think Herbalife works and I don't. Great. I accept that because it's your decision. Oh, but not non-believers. They will fight you tooth and nail all night long to argue about God. They are mad that you even believe.

This behavior baffles me. Why does God upset non-believers so.

I've heard all the lines.
"Why would God punish people for eternity? That's not the God I want to worship"
"Why does God let good people hurt and bad people get away with stuff"
"Why doesn't God do any more miracles"
"Your God supports raping women in the Old Testament"
"Your God allowed slavery"

I could go on all day.


Here is what I can't understand. If you don't think He exists then why waste time discussing it?You really don't care about saving me from wasting my time in church. You really aren't trying to convert me to believing nothing. So why the fight. What makes you rage so much that you go as far as curse God in your comments like "F*** God". How can you curse something on one hand when you don't believe it exists on the other.

I believe some are angry because they can't understand. I believe some are angry because they don't like the idea of obeying Him in any way. I believe that waco Christians have made you upset. I believe some is from guilt. I also believe there is a small few in the world that truly don't believe. I can always tell who they are. They are the ones who don't fight or get mad when God is mentioned. They respect my decision to follow my savior and they believe "to each his own".

I wrote this because I want the ones who don't believe and engage against God to ask themselves, "Why do I get so upset about this." And if you figure it out, let me know.

There is a huge majority of non-believers in the world who used to believe and don't anymore. They allowed another human to destroy their relationship with God and for some reason God gets blamed for that happening.

I truly believe the Bible and it has made me a better father, husband and person for it. I believe Jesus died for me and the last thing I would ever do is tell God that His son died for nothing. In fact, if Jack Jr died to save this country and the American citizens said to me that he didn't, I believe I would want eternal damnation for those people, too.

All I am asking from non-believers in my life is to respect my sharing of faith on MY social media. If you don't believe what I post then just move on. You share tons of stuff I dislike, but I never say anything because I respect your Social Media page and right to post it. It's mine to do with what I want.

So if you made it to the end of this blog I hope you thought a little bit about faith and a little bit about your future. I respect whatever you decide to do and will never knock it.

God Bless. I really mean that too. Not just as a sign off to this post, but that God may bless your life as much as he has mine.

THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS......AND BEYOND

It's the day before Christmas and I sit just thinking. I am not sure what I think about more, the past or the future.

The past Christmases flood my head. How fast time flies and all the good memories I had of Christmas as a kid. I remember waiting in our bedrooms until dad had coffee and mom had the polaroid camera. The excitement was more than I could bare. I never forgot entering the living room frantically looking for that special gift from Santa and the overflowing stockings on the mantel. The one thing I remember most is the burning of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls because we forgot they were in the oven. it happened every year and we would laugh every time. You'd think we would have bought mom a timer for Christmas.

The future Christmases come to mind as to how my excitement has shifted now that I am older. The days before Christmas seem to be the most exciting. Helping people this year gives me greater joy than I could have imagined. Watching others be excited and happy and knowing that you had a part in it. I now think how can I do even more for people in the coming years. The possibilities are endless.

The big day comes so fast and seems to end so abruptly that you almost have to fight to not be sad moments after the last package has been ripped open.

So, to keep my engine running, to keep my excitement high I literally make plans. I make goals for the new year. I don't call them resolutions, but more like motivations. The things you can do in the new year are endless in today's times. Here are some of my exciting ideas for the new year.

1. Merchandise: Do I want more hats. Do I want different shirts. How can i market them better and should I give away most of them as prizes.
2. Cooking Show: How can I cook dishes that are more related to the times of the year. Do I do a picnic food summer series where it's everything from cold fried chicken to potato salad. How about doing another Romantic Dinner for Valentines.
3. Health: how can I stay motivated to walk, do a sport, stay active. Do I start playing tennis with Jack jr. Should Tammy and I start bowling again. How about just walking while listening to audiobooks.
4. Eating Better: I need to continue researching foods and eating habits. I can't wait until February so I can see my cholesterol results from abstaining from all meat but poultry and fish. Should I abstain from starch for 4 months and see how that affects me?
5. Family: I should implement Sunday dinners. Every Sunday night the family sits at the table (not TV trays) and eats a traditional dinner with no music or TV in the background. We just share stories and enjoy each other's company.
6. Outdoors: Should I commit to a gardening video series and seriously do a garden. Do I just do a bunch of tomato plants to start? some cucumbers? maybe lettuce?
7. Others: Do I start working closer with a food facility in feeding the hungry?

These are just a few things that get me excited about the new year and keeps me going. It keeps the January blues away. Think about learning how to do stuff off of Youtube videos. Think about
learning a new language. Make a goal or two and try something new. That is what keeps life exciting.

So what are your thoughts this day before Christmas? What does 2014 have in store for you?

HOW TO SWITCH FROM IPHONE TO ANDROID

You might want to read this, since on Black Friday Best Buy is giving away Samsung Galaxy S4 phones for $0 with 2 year contract, and Walmart is selling them for $99 and you get a $100 walmart gift card. Both great deals.

so there are a few things you must do to leave the iPhone and I have listed the steps I took to do just that.

First thing you do is ALWAYS Back up your iphone.


PHOTOS
Export all photos and videos. Even though you backed it up, send it all to iPhoto just for a second copy. If you have Google+ then make sure you switch on the auto upload of photos and video. G+ will always make a copy for you on your G+ account. photos and videos all done.

APPS
write down or take screenshots of all your apps on the iPhone.

MUSIC
Open up a google play account under your google login (also your gmail login).  Then upload all your itunes music to google play music player. This is free. They let you upload 20,000 songs for free unlike iTunes. You can also set up google play to upload anything new added to iTunes in the future. So buy through iTunes and it's copied to Google Play automatically.  Music done.

CONTACTS
Export Apple Contacts. There is a program that will export your apple contacts to a .CSV file. here is the link: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26427/a-to-g
Then go to Gmail and import file. Contacts done.

EMAIL
If you're already using gmail then you're fine. If you're using apple email like .me or .mac or .icloud just set it up to be forward to Gmail account. You can still keep your emails address, just access it via Gmail. Email done.

CALENDAR
Now your calendar. This will have to be transferred over by hand from Apple Calendar to Google Calendar. I went through the year and it took me about 30 minutes. Most stuff was recurring and I only had to enter in once, like bible study or pay rent. With Google Calendar I can share my calendar with my wife even though she's on an iphone. She can add to it and I can add to it. Calendar done.

NEW PHONE SETUP
Now when you get your new Android phone, setup up all your important stuff first, wifi network key, associate Gmail account to the phone and it will always sync.

NEW APPS
The beauty of most apps that we use, your info travels with you because they are all web based. No need to copy files over to new phone. Apps like Evernote, Dropbox, Redbox, Netflix, Pandora, Feedly, Facebook, candy crush, etc. Apps done.

BENEFITS OF ANDROID OVER IOS

1. you get to choose which programs open which links. For example, I don't want samsung internet but I want Chrome to open all web links. I want Youtube to open youtube links. I want my own video player to play my videos, etc. Apple forced you to use Safari and it sucks.

2. Since you get to pick your programs, I choose google maps to open all map links. You can also choose WAZE or other map programs of your choice. Apple made you use theirs.

3. Music storage is free on Google Play up to 20,000 songs. Apple charged you for iTunes Match.

4. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Drive and Google Newsstand are all free and sync in the cloud with all your devices. Apple charged for iCloud.

5. I can backup my phone, upload pics and videos all wirelessly without being plugged into a charger. Apple requires being plugged in.

6. I can unlock my phone via a pattern, face recognition, voice recognition or pin number. I never want my fingerprint stored on my phone or anywhere else. 

7. The camera films frame in frame using both cameras and can film 3 speeds in slow motion and 3 speeds in fast motion. Apple has one slow motion speed and they just got this. 

8. I can replace my battery and I can double the memory size of my phone by buying a larger sim card. Apple doesn't give you any of these features.

9. love the bigger screen. Apple should have went to the bigger screen on the iPhone 5. Still can't read an iPhone worth a darn.

Sorry Apple. 5 years of loyalty got me the same phone each year for the past 2 years. At this point there is no need to be dragged around by Apple who still is playing catch up with android phones. Make the switch!