All for the love of God

I sing for the joy He has braught to my soul. I sing for His healing my heart. I sing for the love He has showered up on me for Christ my King I sing. I sing for the love of God. All for the love of God. I sing for the glory of He who has saved me. I sing for the glory and love of God. I sing for the way that His endless grace, has covered me when I have sinned. I sing for the way that He teaches me and brings my Soul close to Him. I sing for the love of God above. All for the love of God... I sing for Salvation I sing for His glory and the beauty He puts in my heart. I sing for the glory of God. I sing I sing, and surely forever I'll sing of my Saviour and God. All for the love all for the glory I sing for the love of God.

Provisions

O Lord who art in Heaven, yet still Thou art so near,
Teach me to rejoice more fully in Thy provisions, and that Thy voice I am able to hear.
Thou hast blessed me with Salvation, love and helth,
and by Thy grace I am saved and have escaped damnation, condimnation and Hell.
Thus my heart should be singing for thou hast given me a new song!
A song of praise glory and honor to Thee and thy name alone to you this song belongs.
I Thank Thee O god that These things Thou hast let me see amen.
Mark

the rain

Well, it is raining outside as I type and these words come to my mind.
O Lord in Heaven, even as the rain so gently falls from the clouds to the ground, giving it life, Shower me with thy grace and mercy, and wisdom that I may walk right. Restore me, direct me, fill me and clear me I pray. Til I am but a pure child of Thee living for Thee wholly. Living in Thee and for Thee till Thee infullness I see amen.

Those J I N G L E bells

Well, I will have to say I baught an edgacational cd the other day! I do not offten buy things for myself, but here lately, I have been on this clasic Christmas music kick. Well, the other day when I was in town doing my Christmas shopping, I found a Christmas cd by Frank Sonotra.(I do not know if that is how you spell his name or not, but perhaps that is close) So, I baught this cd and the first song is Jingle bells, and the song begins with his back ground singers singing in harmany
"I love those J I N G L E bells, O! thos holliday J I N G L E bells."
Now this came in handy for me, because just the other day I was wondering to myself "I wonder how you spell jingle bells?" So now I know! I told my mom "I have an edgucational cd here!"
It's pretty good because he does a good job, in my opinion, on all the songs on there, and it has fun songs on it, as well as some of the more worshipful carols which I will get to presently. Another song that is on there is that one about wishing you a merry Christmas and talks about people wishing one another merry Christmas and fulfilled dreams and such, and then it says, "and this song of mine in three quorter time wishes you the same thing to." Now I realize Christmas is so much more than just wishing good and merry things for one another, but still I think that is a pretty song and to it holds some good memories for me. Mayby I should not poast names on the net for the world to see I don't know how that works so I'll do like my friend who sort of inspired me to start this blog and I'll use letters.
The first time I ever heard this song was about this time of year last year, I was with M, and P, and we were doing some running around in Taulsa, and she baught a Christmas cd, I kind of wish I could have found that one. Anyhow it had that song on it, and I also remember it had O Holy Night on it. We were driving back and M turned it up pretty loud when O Holy Night came on and we listened and then she said in that certain voice tone that she uses when she is really tuched or moved about something
"thats a good song."
That was such a fun trip because then she and I and I think P, P was supposed to anyway, we all started singing Christmas Carols on the way home. Awe how sweet it was and it is with faundness that I remember those times. I miss them, yet God has ben so gracious to bring so many things and good people in to my life over the years. It is really neet.
Like this year I had the joy of C going to the SiloamSprings Christmas parade with me. That was such a joy we walked around the park and sung, and even when we wasn't quite in toon with each other it was still beautiful to me, and so refreshing. We sang songs like "Joy To The World, and others." Which reminds me I was going to talk about some of the carols on the Frank Sonotra CD.
It has the first Noel, and I like the wording of his virsion. For at one point when he and his background singers are singing about how the star gave light he says "and to the darkened land, it gave great light."
I love that choice of wording, for truly this land is dark, yet there is indeed hope. I was just thinking the other day when I was Christmas shopping how thankful I am that alot of stores are stillplaying Christmas music, and some of it is still the songs that tell of Jesus and His birth and the joy He can bring. Yes there is always hope. For I have Jesus, if you my reader have excepted Him you have Jesus, and then Christmas means so much more to us, or at least, it BETTER MEAN MORE! than just those J I N G L E bells. I figure it like this.
I like the fun things of Christmas, still, I must say that to me it means much more than Jingle Bells,
FOR to me it means freedom from sin, self, and Hell.
It means that I now have a new hope a hope of eternal life my friend,
That I shall live forever in the presence of Jesus, a life that Has no end.
And now I would that all who believe with me this year would rejoice,
and that we would all give praise to Jesus, to His praise and glory let us lift our voice!
Let us tell of His marvelous works and the salvation He has braught,
and let us live our lives in Him so pure and fully, that the world might know whom we've got.
Then, we to, like the star can be a light, a light to a darkened land,
all because of long ago when Jesus came to earth as a man.
Now may you have a blessed Christmas and remember what I say,
Jesus is the reason and He is the cause, that we should cellabrate Christmas day.
Thus, let us believe in Him, let our hearts not leave Him, may our lips never sease from praising Him and especially our hearts. For the true heart that pleases God must give Praise to His Holy name. The true heart must know Him, in order to stand against the powers of sin. Thus most Gracious Father in the name of Christ keep us close to thee and increase in us much light I pray amen.
If you are reading this, blessings and love to you my reader in the strong name of our Lord Merry Christmas!

a poem I think

O Lord in Thee to I put my faith,
Now teach me to trust in Thee and on Thee to faithfully wait, amen.
I bless the Lord who has given me life,
and allowed me to be a spot that is bright.
Bright, bright in the lives of so many and to Thee I owe it all,
For with out Thee I am nothing I would surely fall.
Let me love nothing that will in time come to not
but those things which stand in you for ever let me love with all I've got. For thy glory
Mark

a joke or two for the day

There was a certain lady on a jet airplane. I am unsure where she was flying to, but the announcer came on the loud speaker and said
"we have lossed one of our engines, so we are going to be a half hour later than planned."(this jet had four engines) A little layter the speaker came on again and said
"we are sorry for the inconvenience, but we have lossed power to another engine, so we will be approximently and hour late."
After a while the speaker came on stating that another engine was down and they might be as much as 2 hours late. At last in frusteration the lady turn to the person sitting next to her and said,
"man, if we loos another engine we will be up here all day!"

Here I Am

well, here I am, I think... I don't know much about this type of thing, but if things are going like I think they are, I have a blog account now, and I am presently typing my first poast, that any one who wishes will be able to read.
"What, don't you know whether or not you have an account,"
you may ask? Perhaps you might add
"and if you are typing a poast how could you not know if you are or not??"
Well, I'll tell you. I am a blind user. I use a screen reading program called Jaws, and some of these blogging things are so very confusing to me. But here I am at last, I think. And if I were not, I don't think I could be typing like this, we will see what happens. If you are reading this entry, you will know my account was a success. I think it is going to be just going by the way my computer is acting, I think I've done it right...
I've decided to try this blogging thing because, well, xanga is to hard, and face book works well, except, I think you must be a face book member inorder to read my face book notes. So, encase someone wants to read a blogfrom me, and doesn't have face book, they can read this.
What do I plan to do with this blog?
I'm not sure yet. I do not consider myself a very good writer when it comes to spelling, grammer and such. I don't see why that should stop me from writing on a blog site like this though. Thankfully I am getting better at spelling, I think... The excuse I make for my spelling is my blindness, but that is probably all it is, simply an excuse. Being blind, does make a difference though. You see I don't offten see words spelled out. Even when reading in braille! This is because in braille there are a lot of contractions. For example, in braille, the letter c, stands for the word can. Dots 4, 5, 6, before the letter c stands for the words cannot. So when reading braille I hardly ever see the word can or the word not spelled out, and this is just a small example, the list of words that you don't spell out when brailling goes on. Words like spirit, father, character, do, rejoice, rejoicing, and so many more words are not spelled out, you simply use contractions. This is inorder to save space as braille takes up so much space, I'm talking alot of space. My bible is made up of 17 or 18, I forget the exact number, but just say 18 big books in braille. So spelling is a challenge, and I fully admit, that I have not taken it nearly as seriusly as I ought. I'm working on it though. As far as grammer, now I do believe there is a place for proper grammer, and a time and place when it does not matter so much. I have a friend, who has told me that she can teach all my friends who are english majors and I a "gooder" way to talk, but for some reason, I am a little uneasy about this, so I have not asked her how to go about inroling in her classes.(haha this is sort of a little joke between this friend and I, and probably a prighvet joke at that. Hope she don't kill me when she reads this... I don't think she will though, she is a graceful person, and not only that, but she has to find this blog first.)
That is enough on that, so now let me get back to my erijanal question. What do I plan to do with this blog account, if indeed it has been a success? Time will tell. I just find that sometimes I like to write and there are times people seem to really be blessed when I do so. So why not. I mean thats enough reason to write is it not. I could list more, let me just do that for you. Since it is a cold day outside, and it's sunday, and I am not holding service tonight at church due to the forcast, and, well, let me get on with my reasons.
One, sometimes I bless people when I write. Two, it offten blesses me and helps me see and think things threw better when I write. Three, I am not sure if there are enough guys writing, especially from the Christian prespective. Four Ann does it, and I enjoy reading them. Five, people that want to read and have time to read, might get to know me better, or might learn something, for example did you know those things I stated above concerning braille, or did you know how I am able to use the computer even though I am blind. Six, ah, I'm tired of listing reasons, and about ready to end this poast. It will take me for ever to edit and correct what spelling and typing mistakes I catch or care to take the time to katch. I can type a 3 minute email to someone and spend 15 or more corecting it to make it half way presentable. But I am not complaining, I just praise my good Lord that I have the means to do as much as I can and do. Wow talk about grace... So having said all this, if you are reading this, for whatever reason you are doing so, you will now know that I worked hard on this perticular poast, and for whatever reason you are reading, know that I appreciate it, and I pray God bless you for it.
I do not know how this blog is going to work out, how offten I'll be able to write, nor how many readers I'll have. But I'll give it a shot, and I'll strive at least for a while, to give you something worth you're read. If I have someone reading this, and if you would like comment or email me at mark.rotramel@gmail.com, and tell me what kind of things you'd like to see on this blog site. What do you readers want from me? Is there anything spesificly I can do for you, or just something you want from me? Okay, thats all for now, I'm out of here, I'll leave you with this.
It's cold and messy out saide today, but nice and warm in here, kind of like the soul of mankind when it is reality that God is near.
Love in Jesus
Mark
p.s if you are reading this blog, I am no longer presently typing this spesific entry as was stated above