Skip to main content

20 Minutes late…


To understand the value of a year, just ask a student who failed one, to understand a month, ask to a mother who give birth early, to understand the value of a week, ask to the editor of “Weekly News” paper. To understand the value of a day, ask to the lovers are waiting to see each other. To understand the value of an hour, ask to a nurse who is taking care of medication at a hospital. To understand the value of a minute, ask a friend who lost the flight because he was one minute late. To understand the value of a second, ask a person who avoided a car accident, just for a second. To understand the value of a fraction of a second, ask to a runner pursuing to break a record… I can see how important is to understand the value of the time in our lives. Today I was awaken 20 minutes late… Come on… just 20 minutes, I just jump out of bed, and ran to check the live feed… already started. And I missed the recording of the Devotion first part, and I just started the day without my personal quiet time… from that minute until few moments ago, I ran all day long… on the morning, we had several technical difficulties, because during the night we experienced power outages, and caused the cameras to start failing. To explain this on simple words: One camera fails, all the system is down. So at some point all the equipment was crazy, the computer hanging, and we lost signal from two cameras… then another power outage, and we just where about to install the two battery backup for the cameras, and the only one who was working was off too… so we switched to the Mobile unit… (Thanks God we have it ready) and after several tests, we where able to be back on track… after that I was able to start looking at the videos and try to fix the lost morning video adding the scripture some music and then the video. I uploaded on YouTube and I went to pickup my daughters from school and to take them to seek a B-day present for my beloved angel, and trying to be back in time for the Naked Couch Chat… Finally I was able to have a little peace… so I’m going to bed now… and I’m sure, tomorrow I’ll be on time… here are some today’s pictures.
Labels:

Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2007 at 9:41 PM

    Hello Pastor Arturo

    How did your brother do in his surgical procedure today? I will pray for a speedy recovery and a complete healing and restoration.
    Joel Milian from
    Monday Nights Men's

    P.S. When are you coming back and visit and share with us again.

    How are you tonight ?

    I hope BLESSED ! !

    ReplyDelete
  2. Arturo de la MoraSeptember 13, 2007 at 12:15 AM

    Thanks Joe:

    Yes, as soon as we finished with my naked pastor I'll have some time to share with you, I miss my Mondays

    ReplyDelete
  3. chadSeptember 13, 2007 at 8:38 PM

    you're doing a good job arturo don;t worry so much. i hope you and dora take a long break after this you deserve it. thanks for following God and moving to Florida

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thanks for taking a time to drop a comment!

Popular posts from this blog

Truth or dare?

One of the things that is surprising to me today, is the low value that many people assign to their own promises. Teenagers don't believe their parents, because they never fulfill their promises; Couples say "I'll stand by you forever" and few months later they walk on the opposite direction; politicians make promises to earn votes, and once the election is done, they forgot about it. I remember one of the first things I learned from my grandmother it was the value of my word. "A gentleman always fulfill his promises, a man with no word has no honor" and I learned to live by that principle. Few weeks ago, I was having a discussion with one of the leaders on the youth ministry at Flamingo Road Church about some technical difficulties we were experiencing during the broadcasting of our Student Service online, and I challenged him to fix the failures, so if he would complete the task with no errors, I will do my hair like him... (He had a Mohawk haircut with
37 comments
Read more

And they lived happily ever after...

This is where most fairy tales end. The prince and princess marry and ride off into the sunset to begin their new life together as husband and wife, a life full of promise, romance, and above all, love. (Check out Shreck, Sleeping beauty, Snow White and others...) But no one has ever told us how this is supposed to happen, or why it succeeds if it does. How a marriage can be a fairy tale come true, and how to "happily ever after" happens? That is only the beginning... Today, I went to the Pete and Julie's wedding... awesome... a dream come true... great service, great sermon by Pastor Garland, a lot of wishes, toasts, music, joy, party and fun... but... that is not and Happy Ending... is just a great beginning. The Best Man said few words, but the most wise words he mentioned was... "I hope you keep Christ as the center of your marriage, if you do that, I'll warranty you a happily ever after life" That's a true that we have to keep in mind not just at th
1 comment
Read more

The Saints....

According to the Catholic tradition, all the Christian names have a saint, so when you baptize an infant you must give them one saint name to be accepted by the priest. All the saint names are distributed all over the 365 days of the Gregorian calendar and when a new saint is approved by the Vatican, a celebration day is assigned. Why am I explaining all of this? Just because yesterday, was the day of “Saint Arturo”, and immediately I received a phone calls from Mexico, from my sisters, my big brother and two cousins. I used to celebrate my “Saint day” with a big party, and in order to be invited to the celebration, you had to call me by phone, congratulate me, and there you where invited. I was used to receive between 80-120 calls… The first one it was always my mom, I loved that call… I missed that call yesterday. After that, call, after call, and my answer, was “thanks for remember I hope to see you tonight after 9 p.m. will be fun” I used to had live music and some times there was
2 comments
Read more