Rick Beeman

  Today sucked.  It was a very hard day.  I felt like I was punched in the mouth.  I know I don’t share a lot of details in this blog in order to protect some.  As I was telling my broadcasting class today as they were telling their stories, the details are important in order to paint a more complete picture in the imaginations of your watchers/listeners.  When you share only the facts with no details it’s like sketching a picture using only pencil and shades of gray.  When you add details to the story it’s like you are adding colors and pictures.  So my apologies in advance for only sketching in pencil.   Just like a normal punch I was stunned at first and very disheartened.  Then something strange happened….nothing.  Nothing happened yet the further I moved away from the event the more relief I got.  I didn’t even cry out to God nor did I pray or praise.  Instead I just sat in it and didn’t make it worse.  Minu...

  I had a very strong impression a few days ago that this was going to be a very tough week. So I was able to prepare for it…or so I thought.  I did blog about this a couple of days ago.  So I had a bad day on Thursday but a surprisingly good day on Friday.  I thought I was out of the woods.  Boy was I wrong.  Yesterday, Saturday was absolutely brutal.  Did anything bad happen to me to make it horrible? no.  There was just a heaviness on me that I could almost feel.  I was filled with fear, depression and doubt.  It just kind of snuck up on me, right after I finished yesterday’s blog post around 8:00pm.  Some people believe in spiritual attacks and some people don’t.  The great line from the Usual Suspects is “The greatest trick the Devil ever did was convince the world he didn’t exist.”  I felt what can only be described as a dark presence all night last night even waking up in the middle of the night to it. Since this is...

  I believe we were created on this Earth to have Relationship with God.  In Genesis 3:8 it describes God walking in the Garden with Adam in the cool of the day.  Abraham was also called a friend of God.  David was a man after God’s own heart.  So with all this relationship business in the Bible it makes sense that God both speaks and listens to us like any normal relationship.  Too often Christians view communication with God as a one way ticket and use God as a type of Santa Claus.  We don’t spend enough time listening to Him or at least I don’t.  This communication becomes even more muddled with sin in our lives.  I know when I have sin in my life it acts like radio interference.  I try to hear from God but I can’t hear from him clearly like before. The noise sometimes drowns God’s voice or sometimes the enemy comes in and mimics God’s voice taking me off the path.  Both issues happen to me.  The Holy Spirit is a gentleman v...