Be angry! And sin not! Ephesians 4:26 Not so easy, huh? The basic virtue is the fear of God. This is the beginning of all wisdom and the fear of God = passionate hatred of sin and intense thirst and hunger for righteousness. (Proverbs 1:7,Proverbs 8:13, Matthew 5:6) I don’t know about you but every […]
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A POSITIVE SPIN
We have all heard the saying, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” As people of faith, this actually makes sense. The world wants me to take God’s gifts for granted, find fault with my reality, compare with the illusion of other’s reality and wish my reality would just magically change. / Faith suggests that […]
Did you ever notice at the rock concert how everyone fights to sit at the back and leave all the front seats empty? Or was that at the ball game? Come to think of it, it was at church wasn’t it? When we were homeschooling, I noticed the children constantly asking, (if not in these […]
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BLESS THEM THAT CURSE ME
As I watch others’ behavior and evaluate whether they’ve done well or not, I need to work at balance by finding all that is good. The negative comes easily. I can do this especially by putting a positive spin on their actions and finding a word from the following list to bestow on them. This […]
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BEING PICKY POSITIVE
I need to take heed to myself, get the beam out of my eye, see the other as supremely important and find ways to encourage and build them. Which do I focus on more: what I want God to do for me/what God has already done for me? My brain is naturally wired to be […]
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RESENT NOT–STRESS NOT
My brain sometimes feels that I will protect myself from further hurt by circling round and round on the details of past hurt. Once I accept that I am powerless and can’t change something, having obeyed and done the little that I can with God’s help; then I need to cast all my care on […]
What’s there to be grateful for? Would you be grateful for what I’ve been through? Gratitude is not a reasoned response to how good my present condition is making me feel. I am commanded to be grateful always FOR everything! Ephesians 5:20 Gratitude is the act of worship that: sees beyond my present or past […]
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FUSSING
A Russian comedian, newly arrived in the US, noted that we complain about the weather, the government, the roads, our jobs, our families, our food, then we call it HAPPY HOUR! God’s opinion on food-fussing may be found in his response to the Israelites in the wilderness, “manna manna manna” they complained. God was providing around 2 […]
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GRATITUDE—most unnatural!
This last week even at church they were talking about football. Is that America’s favorite American thing to spend time on? NO. A counselor was teaching on my inpatient unit and he had everyone ponder what they spend their most time doing. Was it sleep, eating, working , commuting etc. NO A Russian comedian once […]
As many of you may know, my father is slowly sinking out of this world. He shared with me that he had a vision of climbing Jacob’s ladder into heaven with the Lord waiting for him at the top. I think he is about on the last rung and expect him to move on this […]
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