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Hello Overcomers.....

When you get the chance, read Isaiah 40:18-31.........

In his book "Life Sentence", Charles Colson tells of strolling among the ruins where the Roman senate once met. Recalling his feelings, he wrote: "As I stood snapping photgraphs, my mind flashed back to the Roosevelt Room in the White House, a few steps across a narrow hallway from the President's oval office. At 8 o'clock each morning a dozen of us, the President's senior aides, had gathered around the antique mahogany table; it's polished surface reflected the serious, intense expressions of men who believed the destiny of mankind was in their hands."

Colson continues, " 'The decisions we must make today,' Henry Kissinger would often say, 'will affect the whole future course of human history.' We believed it. Just as the Roman senators dressed in their flowing togas believed it nearly 2000 years ago. Yet here sat their once majestic forum in dusty piles of stone and rubble. Would even this much be left of the Roosevelt Room, I wondered, in two centuries, let alone two millenia from now?"

The prophet Isaiah anticipated that question long before it was asked. Speaking to Israel when they were being threatened by powerful enemies, he looked beyond the movements of men and of nations to the great drama of God's eternal plan. "It is He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth," he wrote, "who bringeth the princes to nothing." We need to remember that. As leaders and lawmakers shape our society and determine our destiny, how reassuring to know that it is God who rules the world, and He will have the final word!

Just remember: The highway of history are strewn with the wreckage of nations that forgot God.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!

HK

should i get copyrights before putting stuff on here?

just curious.

thanks.

For sometime, my group of friends and I have been pursuing an avenue to put faith based comic books on the open secular market. It was our desire to create an alternative that is just as fun and exciting as most non-Christian titles, but ultimately to have a message of hope that would influence the heart of the reader. Somewhere down the line, our pursuit became a vision, our vision became a passion, and ultimately, our passion became an obsession. About six months ago we realized this and we had to take a step back and ask ourselves a very important question, "Why are we doing this?" We had no conclusive answer. The obvious answer was to be a witness, but it wasn't completely true. The next thought was, to create an alternative or an option to modern comics. Yet again, not fully true. Fact is, we had lost the very reason for our motivation; which explains why we were feeling lost and unaccomplished.

My best friend and writer made a simple comment that began to pull things back into perspective for us. He simply said, "I enjoy writing." It made sense. We do it because we enjoy it. I enjoy drawing. Others enjoy coloring. It just seemed to add up. But then I felt a little guilty. You see, I had lost my joy in doing what I was doing. When my passion crossed the line into obsession it became a thing I "had" to do, not just something I wanted to do. I can't speak for everyone, but this made a big difference in my productivity and in the degree of my artwork. It became a struggle to draw. It became cumbersome to pick up the pencil and get to work on projects. Many projects were started, none were finished. Years rolled by and I was no closer to my goals than when I started. I made excuses for my short comings. Most were to blame outside events for taking me away from my work. My circumstances kept me from pursuing my passion (or so I claimed). Bottomline is simple, I wasn't happy.

When I realized this, I had a battle ahead of me; restoring my joy. Joy comes from love and without love, you cannot have true joy. I loved to draw, but when drawing became "a mission from God" rather than something I simply enjoyed doing, it overwhelmed me. I felt that because I was a Christian, I had to use my talents to witness and to testify of God's goodnes and teach others how they could be saved. From that point on, everything I did was inadequate. My art wasn't good enough, the story wasn't profound enough, the testimony was either lost or just too direct and strong. How could I possibly do what I was supposed to do and get the comic books to sell on a national secular level. It seemed impossible, and so that's what it became; impossible.

In three years, we have not finished a single comic book. Nothing was right. The studio and the vision became chaotic. What started strong, slipped into vanity and then contempt and finally into apathy. So finally, I began to pray. Imagine that; prayer actually worked. God began to help me realize that it wasn't my job to change people's lives. Its not my calling to create a story so insightful and impacting that people fall on their faces and turn their lives over just after reading my book. It wasn't my place to strive to be better than anyone else. I was not a righteous judge and I was judging myself and my work too harshly. God said simply this, "return to your joy". Four small words that reinvented not only myself but also my vision. I realize now that if I am obediant to Him and use the talents that he has given me to express my own joy, He will use it to reach others. I can't do His job. I am a tool, a vessel. God has given me a gift and the opportunity to use it. My job is to simply allow my joy to build and flow. It doesn't matter if everyone likes it. It doesn't matter if anyone reads it or is changed by it. That's no longer my concern. Drawing comic books ministers to me. It keeps joy in my life and it allows me to express myself and illustrate some really cool stories. It's fun and it's what I love to do. I draw comic books because God uses them to change me. If others are changed by them as well...

Well, that would be a bonus.

Love God, Love life, love what you do. Let God take care of the details.

In Christ,

G. David Cooper
RabidFrog Productions

She didn't inherit her singing ability from me, but my daughter can sure sing...and her voice is getting stronger by the day!

On Sunday, she sang the below after practicing for only a day!
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Okay...look to the left to see the YOUTUBE embedded video...I think.

Well I decided to start a blog....about what? I'm not sure exactly. I've seen they can be a great tool, so its whatever. LOL :-)

So right now, I'm working on paperwork to sell our condo so we can leave Alaska next year, I'm real excited and so is my wife. We are looking forward to going somewhere new together where we can build our lives somewhere fresh where neither of us have any connection too.

And just in case anyone is wondering the Air Force is sending me and my family to Keesler, AFB Mississippi! Goodbye cold, hello heat and humidity!!! But hey its only 7 hours away from home. Can't be that now can you?

~VCALI~

“FOR US WHO ARE HURTING…”

There’s many in pain, this time of year –

From memories, circumstances, failures and/or fears:

‘Joy to the World’ – is something we can’t see –

Our focus is centered in grief and self-pity...

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It’s easy, and it’s common, for us, every Christmas season –

To get buried in the wrappings, and forget, or miss, the reason:

To get depressed or angry, ‘cause our lives aren’t going ‘right’ –

And overlook, or lose, the blessing of what began that ‘Silent Night’…

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Jesus wasn’t born to give us extended holidays:

He didn’t come to provide us with good music, food or plays –

He chose to come, to live, to suffer and, yes, die for me:

So I could choose to take His gift, and live eternally…

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Eternal life doesn’t wait to start until this life is ended –

It began the moment I believed, and on His Blood depended:

But I get distracted, and forget; as oh, so many do –

That Christmas is a gift from God – addressed to me and you…

Don’t leave it under the tree…

John 1:12 (Amplified Bible) But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name-