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Pastor Adham Farid

Thanks Nadim for this beautiful video. He will truly be missed.

Learning about suffering!!!

In the past two month there has been a constant topic that comes up when I am chastened by God. This topic is of Suffering. I remember back in December listening to a message by Mark Driscoll about suffering. The premise of the message is about how we look at suffering and how sometimes it is misunderstood. Then that same week I heard a message at my church about suffering and I even blogged about if God is trying to get me ready or teach me something. I don't know if Adham's death is what I was being prepared for. All I know that suffering sucks.

Adhem...

I simply don’t know where to start. This weekend was probably the most difficult weekend of my life. You see there are certain people in your life that you meet, that you know they are a treasure. People that know how to listen. People that know how to speak. People that know how to teach. People that know how to love. People that know how to care. People that know how to be real. People that know what to do and say all the time. I would love to tell you about a person like that. His name was Adhem.

Adhem was a husband, father, pastor and a true follower of Christ. He loved his wife, Vicki, like he was commanded to do. He did not do it because of that, he did it because he understood what love is. It was based on his relationship with God. He loved his 3 daughters, Michelle, Heather, and Jessica, in a way that if most fathers in this world loved there daughter, I grantee you that there will be less women with “daddy issues”. He was a pastor to a young church that he ministered to like Paul ministered in the New Testament to churches in Rome, Corinth, and Ephesus. He pastored people by mentoring them and investing countless hours in them in different places like Dennys, Starbucks, and his office. He showed them what is the true mean of being in a healthy mentorship relationship. He was never shy to speak truth to someone, but he did it in a way that was so graceful and loving that you were left speechless. He never said no when you called him up and asked if he is available to meet. He truly listened and then told you what you need to do. Simply put he was real. He was the best example a person would ask for to understand the true mean of what is a follower of Christ is. He did not do anything because he felt like doing it or because he had a right to do it. His actions were based on the fact the he was a follower of Christ. He lived his life like an example of grace and truth, and dare I say he was the closed example I saw of what Christ is.

Adhem to me was a spiritual dad. He is the one person that I knew that would love me and challenge me to live life to the fullest. I remember when I was going through a dark time, I did what I know to do best, I tried to hide and do nothing. I called him and asked if we could meet, as usual he said yes. We meet in his office and talked. He did not shy away from pointing out that I might be in this dark place because I was not serious about my faith. It had been a couple of month since I attend church and about a year since I read my bible. He was firm yet full of grace. He prayed with me and made sure that I know that my position in Christ has not changed because I might have failed or not achieved what I thought my calling was. He simply modeled Christ to me. For that I am beyond blessed and forever changed. To put it in simple words, Adham never gave up on me.

I hope I did Adhem justice. He was a person that I would have loved to see grow old and impact my life more. I tried to give you a glimpse of what an amazing man he was.

Adhem thank you for being a person full of:
Integrity
Love
Devotion
Care
Wisdom
Hope
Peace
Knowledge
And above all for being a true follower of Christ....

You will be missed and thank you for blessing a fallen man like me.

Suffering

I have been hearing about suffering all day today. Is God trying to say something????

Once again...

This time NO one knows....

Hilton and God...

The only reason I am writing about this because i was hanging out with some friends last night that i have not seen in a couple of years and we talked about home it was unfair for Hilton to go to jail. My opinion is that she got off easy, What person with a DUI conviction gets stopped twice for being under the influence and only serves 45 days (which turned on into 23 days). In her first interview she said she had a new look at life, we shall see what the heck that means. My favorite part of the interview is this part

During her 23 days in jail, she said she meditated, read letters from fans, talked to other inmates through the vents, wrote in her journal and read the Bible, though she couldn't cite a favorite passage when asked.

I don't even know what to say about it...Read whole interview here