Blessings

My wife and I have been reminded about God's love through the process of selling our home in Ohio.  When we first put it on the market I felt that it would take awhile to sell, but that everything would work out.  As time passed the reality of having a vacant home in Ohio became more real.  As my wife and I continued to pray and fast that our home would sell I continued to feel at peace that everything would work out in proper time.  A week ago we finally received an offer on our home.  The offer was very low, so naturally we counter-offered.  Again, I felt the peace that we had felt before - that everything would work out.  The peace continued even when our agent was told that the prospective buyers were near their financial limits (which was much lower than we would accept).  I am prone to worry and fret about things that I can't control, so I know that the peace we felt was from God.  On Thursday of this week we were notified that our counter-offer was accepted!  We are very excited and anxious to close this chapter of our life.

Through this experience I am learning several lessons:
1) Trust in spiritual promptings even when logically things don't make sense.
2) God's perspective is much different than our own.  The feeling that everything would work out has been true, although not what I expected.  For example, we will not have the return on investment for the home that we desired (or think we deserve), but our home has been safe and protected through one of the coldest winters on record.  In addition, my job has provided more than enough income for us to live with two mortgages.  So has everything worked out?  Absolutely.
3) God allows us to be stretched to grow.  My faith in receiving personal answers to prayers has grown through this experience. 

So for people going through difficult times - turn to God and trust in him.


A link to our home is shown below for those interested.

http://dayton.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll

Family Life

My family is amazing and is my greatest sources of joy!  This last weekend we went to Portland, Oregon to visitor center for my church.  The boys had a blast.  Below is one of the pictures from our trek.

David Blunck

Faith and Moral Absolutes

The significance of faith has been on my mind recently.  There seems to be a shift in society away from faith in God and a leaning toward moral relativism.  The latter idea being that there are no absolute right or wrong decisions in life.  As an engineer/scientist this defies everything which I understand.  Science is founded upon absolutes.  If I jump off of a building I will fall.  If I put certain chemicals together reactions occur.  If a balloon is put over a fire it will pop.  Etc...  These actions occur every time, even if I don't understand the reason for it.  To summarize, there are actions in reactions in all aspects of our life.  The pursuit of science then is to better understand the cause and effect of actions.  Just as how there are physical laws that have consequences, so also are there moral and spiritual laws which have consequences.  To acknowledge that there are physical absolutes, but not spiritual or moral absolutes does not make sense to me.  Our job, just like we do in science, is to understand these spiritual laws and then live our life accordingly.

The underpinnings of spirituality is faith.  Faith is believing in something which we can't see, but know is true.  So, how do I have my faith in God and Jesus Christ, both of whom I have never seen or heard?  I know that They exist because I feel it - through the Holy Spirit.  Just as people are motivated by love (which cannot be seen with mortal senses), I am motivated by special experiences and feelings which I have had.  I know that these experiences came from God and I know that other people can experience this as well, if they seek it.  I have performed "experiments" where I have come to understand things in a spiritual sense.  Other people can do it, and if what I believe in really is moral absolutes, then they will receive the same responses.

David L. Blunck