Amydeanne of “The 160 Acre Woods” created this work from one of the many books she read and this one particular is by Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe for one of his many books, “Be Authentic”.
What a great thought to think about isn’t it!
Okay, it’s technically not the first day of the New Year, but it is a New Year…..and last year, is well…last year.
I’m not big on making New Year’s resolutions, because with the busyness of lists and everyday life, as is, it’s bound to be broken, but I do make resolutions, in and through our Heavenly Father.
They’re nothing grand really, but just the simple things in life.
Then there is this: It’s the Resolutions of John Edwards, that was passed around, during the New Year, and as I read them, while listening to the video, thought, hey…these are pretty good:
We’ve been blessed with a New Year dear friends!! Prayers our Father blesses you and your family with overflowing blessings!
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;his mercies never come to an end;they are new every morning;great is your faithfulness.”The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”Lamentations 3:22-24 (English Standard Version)
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There’s a pro and con to clothes line drying.
The pro is that we are using a renewable energy source (wind and sun),and it’s cost effective due to a significant drop in our electricity bill, however the only cons I’ve discovered have been:
However, because of a conscious effort not to let laundry accumulate, it’s really made a significant change in how often we do laundry as well.
Over time, I’ve notice that not only do we have an established schedule (woohoo, always a good thing) in when we do laundry, but our load has dropped considerably due to the turn around rate.
See.
Clothes dry faster on a line and there is a fast turn around rate, but with it, there is a significant drop in loads to be cleaned and dried (unless you have a big family then that will not apply).
I wonder if it’s because we are more conscious of when and how we do the laundry ,that we are being more conservative.
I mean that ,in the sense, clothes just aren’t left to pile in the laundry basket anymore to be cleaned but are often done, in small loads, quicker and reducing the amount of laundry that needs to be done.
Now if it’s large scale, say bedsheets, yes…that’s a day out of that, but for the most part….smaller loads are done on shorter spans and then quickly brought outside to dried.
The argument could be, we are still using the washer and consuming energy, but here’s the thing.
The washer isn’t running as often.
We found we could do more with less (i.e. cut our water consumption so another side effect is we noticed our water use has dropped) and also by being more conservative how and when we wash.
In the beginning,we were talking big loads…but we made it a day (or two) of just doing the laundry, getting them hung, hanging the clothes, repeat, then I noticed a trend.
Clothes in the laundry basket dwindled.
Laundry day(s) reduced to a laundry day and even then, we are talking one day out of the week versus maybe one, two or three.
For the size of our family, that worked.
But, it’s funny the reactions.
“It’s the 21st century…..”
Well..yes…yes it is, but there are communities who out of necessity still use clothesline.
I’ve had shared, that when people go out hiking, they “gasp” use a clothesline to dry their clothes. It’s using a renewable power source,plus I thought being green was cool.
Did I miss out on the what’s cool thing again?
“You can buy a dryer that is environmentally friendly and conserve energy….”
Thank you.
Are you offering to buy one for us?
How is using a consumable, finite, power source we have to pay for better really than a renewable, free, non-costly (except for time and energy I spend hanging and taking down and folding) better?
Confused.
Thought not having to pay an arm and leg for electricity was a good thing. Not to mention. Cool thing. Did we miss out on something again?
Confused.
Not to mention….why pay for the “fresh linen” or “outdoor breeze” fabric softeners when we are getting the real thing….for free…
Would love to hear from anyone else who uses clothesline in the 21st century.
I received this, this morning and it was a story that just prompted to want to share it.
Biblical Literacy: The Perfect Antidote to Postmodernism by Dr. Michael Youssef
I read a story recently about a church who had just received a new young pastor. Intent on visiting every Sunday School class, the eager young man began his first Sunday on the job by visiting a boys’ class.
While meeting with them, the young pastor asked the boys, “Would you tell me please, who knocked down the wall of Jericho?” The boys immediately fell silent and began to look at one another, saying, “I didn’t do it! I didn’t do it!”
Shocked and dismayed by their lack of biblical knowledge, the pastor called a parish council meeting the next week to discuss the incident.
After hearing what happened, an elder of the church stood up and said, “Minister, let’s just get some money out of the repair and maintenance fund and fix the wall and get on with it!”
Unfortunately, this lack of biblical knowledge is more true than not! Knowledge about the Word of God has decelerated drastically among Christians, especially over the past 100 years.
We go through this life with such speed that it has isolated us from the Word of God like never before.
I will spare you a history lesson, but experts agree that our generation is in a period of time called “postmodernism.” And while the term itself is relatively new, the root causes of postmodernism are as old as time itself.
Back in the Garden of Eden, Satan asked a very simple, yet damning question when he asked Adam and Eve, “Did God really say that?” With this one inquiry, Satan cast doubt on God and eventually neutralized what God had said to Adam and Eve in the Garden.
And so it goes today; Satan neutralizes the power of the Word of God by the mantras of postmodern thinking: “Truth is relative.” “Morality is obsolete.” “Authority as a concept is passé.” “Honesty is for fools.” “The pursuit of truth is meaningless.”
Do any of these sound familiar? Beloved, we are dogged with postmodern thinking… with Satan’s deception… every day. It is endless, from the moment we wake up to the time we go to bed!
It’s in the movies we see… the TV shows we watch… the internet we surf… the books we read… the words teachers teach… and (most sadly) even in some of the sermons we hear preached.
There is no way on God’s earth that two hours of church one day a week are going to neutralize the impact our postmodern culture has upon you.
Think about it. The Bible makes it clear that Satan bombarded Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with continuous doubt about the words of God. And eventually, Eve got weary, threw in the towel and gave in.
So many in the church react to Satan’s bombardment the same way. And I desperately want you to avoid this same reaction! That’s why I want to challenge you to ingest the truth of the Word of God on a daily basis.
God tells us in Proverbs 14:12, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” Did you see that? Man’s postmodern way of thinking leads only to death.
I want to make you a promise. It’s not just a promise based upon my own experience over the course of 30 years, but upon the testimonies of thousands upon thousands of people:
If you make the decision to read, study and obey the Word of God on a daily basis, it will change you. And it will change you for good!
I pray you will make a daily commitment to spend time in God’s Word.
Trust me, it will bless you in ways you never thought possible! Your life will be radically changed as you make the truth of God’s Word your daily diet.
Thank you and God Bless You, Gentle Reader for reading my post,
Is Someone in Your Life on Soak Cycle?
By Marijo Phelps
I had gotten a new washing machine. No more trips to the Laundromat. I had waited literally years for this moment.
The machine had many features including one called “soak cycle”. It was for those times when you had really dirty clothing, from an afternoon in the garden complete with mud and weeds. That cycle let those clothes soak with only a rare agitation. This went on for 20-30 minutes and then drained out all the dirt so you could place those items on a regular wash cycle. I was a gardener and this cycle was totally wonderful.
A good friend was going through some incredible struggles. I was trying to make things “all better”. Actually I was trying to fuss, flutter and fix. One day after a failed attempt to comfort and console I felt that still, small voice of my Lord Jesus telling me that He had my friend on “soak cycle” and I was coming along trying to push every button. God did not want those buttons pushed. He wanted my friend right where He, the Lord, had him. Soak Cycle.
What a good visual for me. I then took my hands off, backed off and quit trying to make things “better”.
Soak Cycle was probably an answer to prayer as my friend didn’t know my Jesus. Basically, I had prayed for the Lord’s intervention in that life and then was trying to “fix” things when the Lord answered my prayer.
As soon as this became clear to me I backed off to let the Lord do His work without my help.
There aren’t any scriptures which speak specifically to “soak cycle”. There are many scriptures about allowing the Lord to do His work and how His ways aren’t always our ways. I have found that most often my well intended ideas are not exactly what the Lord had in mind, how about you? But He is faithful to lead and guide us if we but listen.
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This came about as I found myself debating how to explain to some acquaintences that I knew, that I wasn’t really interested in attending a get together they were having.
Not that it wasn’t interesting and I’m pretty sure it would be, but just that, it wasn’t really my cup of tea. It led me to thinking about our lifestyle as a whole and I summed it up pretty quick,”We’re really not that exciting”.
Not boring either, but pretty average. We don’t take exciting vacations and a lot of time they are “Stay-cations” due to being a one income family we have to budget carefully for everything, but still live a comfortable though average life.
We try to keep things to a mininium and though we don’t keep up with the Joneses or heading out every weekend somewhere, we try to once or twice a year do something out of the ordinary. I dont’ mean sky-diving or bungee jumping, but a nice vacation that includes my mother in law since my father in law prefers to stay at home.
Other that that….we’re (drum roll)….pretty boring.
Which goes back to, I didn’t really feel like meeting up with the acquaintenences. It was more of a “Girl’s Night Out” but unfortunately it was pretty easy to know where the conversations was going to go and I just didn’t want to be a part of it, plus I felt awkward around them.
Most was single but those who weren’t, worked and their kids went to public school and I was pretty much the only stay at home mom who homeschool and it was hard not to feel left out around them.
Sometimes, I felt like jumping up and down and waving my arms in the air and saying, “Hey, just because I homeschool doesn’t mean I’m not a normal mom. I like to talk and even share how my kids are doing in school even though school is at home and I’m the teacher.”
“Ask me how my kids are doing or how I’m doing, but I feel left out that I feel like they are talking over my head and not to me”.
Then there’s just the whole, back in high school trying to fit in a clique feeling.
So it’s easier to stay at home, because ironically, the moms I get along best with are the ones who are in the same boat as I am. They stay at home, are one income, know what it’s like to budget and have “meatloaf” nights just to make meals stretch out till the next paycheck, and we can talk “shop” about what the kids are learning or teaching styles or did you check out the latest post on the homeschool blog.
I like how we talk about curriculum finds like the guys talk about their latest hunting adventure, instead of guns though, it’s coupons and internet searches and book sales and library book sales are the best.
Those are the things that make the adrenaline flowing as we brag about how many books we were able to get and did you see what a bargain I found last week?
The bottom line truth, they understand what it means that an average day means getting up, taking care of daily household chores, schooling, making dinner and its the same thing the next day.
It’s both a lifestyle choice and reality for us and many whom,often as a one income family,it means sometimes this week or month, it’s going to the park or sometimes field trip is simply an hour longer in the backyard for nature observation.Getting away for us is going to the library but besides that, that is life for us. Nothing exciting.
So I sigh and yet I know too that we are thankful for the choice we had made for our family.
Lot of times it can be pretty boring and a lot of times it can be pretty difficult.
Often I’m just thankful that I can find what I need at the library because otherwise we couldn’t be able to have access to it.
But it can also be difficult.
It’s hard to just smile and not feel like having to justify why we are one income and one vehicle, because of budget and choice. Yes I can get a job or work from home, but it’s deviating from what we are currently doing and intefering.
For me, homeschooling, being a stay home mom, taking care of the kids and the home is a full time job in itself and to work from home or get a job outside, means sacrificing something from the kids and the home. I can’t get that back as I can easily (well maybe not in the current economy) get a job.
There’s always going to be an opportunity to get a job, but there will never be an opportunity for me to get back the times I miss from my children.
So it’s difficult for me when I am around my aquaintances and they dont’ understand why I don’t attend “Spa Night” because of modesty issues and truthfully, just not comfortable with “work talk” and “gossip” that I feel is more distracting then uplifting and encouraging.
I feel bad because when they say they “are glad the kids are in school because they can’t handle them during the summer” and end it with “you know what I mean”, the truth is, I dont’ know what they mean, because for me, I enjoy being around my kids and in the summer time, we are utilizing the warm weather before it gets too hot for vacations and nature walks and then when it gets too hot, we head to the library since it’s free and still engaging in on and off topic studies during the summer.
Or the,”You must be able to afford staying at home”. No, we really can’t because it means giving up on luxary items and we dont’ take expensive vacations.
Vacations for us is stay-cations of places that are within a short drive for us or we stay with my in-laws and that is our vacation. Sometimes vacation is in our backyard where the oldest practice his baseball and football tand the youngest and I are taking “walking tours” of a garden that I have no luck growing, lol.
Me staying at home means, I can’t buy new clothes on a whim or we go eat at resturaunts but it means that hubby and I actually cook together and make meals from scratch and quite truthfully, I feel embarrassed to say that we prefer that over eating out. It’s not only healthier but we tend to be more creative in our cooking and I cherish the bonding time he and I have while cooking or bbqing, because that is time we get to spend together after him having a long day at work.
Or if he’s tired from work, he sits at the kitchen counter and watches as I cook and we talk about his day, about the next day or just whimisical things that come to mind.
Sometimes he turns on Reggae music (yes we love Reggae) and an impromptu dance happens in the kitchen as he, I and the kids laugh and dance and just enjoy our time as a family.
We dream and talk about opening our own resturaunt on a Caribbean island, though he and I know that will never happen but it’s not that, which is what fufills us, but just the time he and I spend together.
We really dont’ have much at least by today’s standards. We dont’ have the latest gadgets, and most I have or do, I either try to make by hand, improvise or pray that if it’s really worth having that our Father paves the way that we are able to gain whatever it is we need.
In this case, a sport’s net that we were able to get for $5.00 but well loved and will be well used for our home.
I don’t cut my hair, but rather let it grow long so talking about the latest hairstyles just isn’t big on my list of interests. The neighbors and acquaintences go to the beauty salon to get their hair cut, while I just smile and nod but not sharing how I have hubby help me trim the very ends but other than that,beauty salon to me, means brushing my hair in the morning before tying it back so it won’t get in the way of house cleaning.
It’s hard sometimes to not think about this in the back of my mind and think, really….my life is pretty quiet and boring.
Then again, I watch movies like Jani Oake’s “Love comes softly” and think…I would probrably feel more at place out on a homestead then I do in the city.
The acquaintences talk about the latest clothes and I sit back quietly thinking, I really really really hope I get a sewing machine, finally, this year so I can just make my own skirts and dresses for my youngest and hopefully save more money that way.
I struggle with, for us, it’s living with what we need, not what we want, though we are human and there are times I long to just be able to buy a planner and not just over months time, put one together to have for the next year.
I would like to participate in conferences and go to one, but one, it’s out of my league and two, I really want my family to come with me. I want my husband to participate since it’s about more what we are doing for us and our family then just what I want to be done or on a group level, but that isn’t possible with his work and even then, I am one of those weird ones who just like to be able to do and share this with the family.
Maybe if my mother in law was more into homeschooling, she and I would one day go together, but till then, it’s really just me and my husband and I’m just that weird, shy, not into going by myself.
Which brings to another thing…how do I explain to the acquaintences, I’m really not snobby or anything, but just that really…I’m pretty shy and tend to keep to myself. I feel. awkward. in social situations in any type.
Even online, it’s hard for me to know what to say or know what to think to say and even then, I tend to pretty much keep to myself. I tend to like to just sit back and observe and listen then jump in and participate. It’s just the way I’ve always been and funny thing, I share with people that ,”Yes I went to public school and was never homeschooled and even went to college and even then was never the social butterfly”.
It’s not that I’m being snobby, but often I just don’t know what to say or I’m really too busy in my real life or just rather daily life, to fully participate or be a social butterfly like everyone else.
Lot of times, it’s also because it’s easier for me to protect myself from being hurt after many years of being burned and backstabbed and well…just hurt from sometimes not so well meaning people that I would after a time, open up to, only to later be betrayed or un-friended and well…just hurt.
So….there’s this big thing going on this week and I’m contemplating why I just didn’t want to go. I know everyone means well and even wants me to be friends with this one individual, who really, I dont’ have anything in common with and just don’t feel comfortable around.
Nothing personal. Just we dont’ click and right now just not the time or season for us to be friends with.
Plus she doesn’t have kids and not that it’s a huge requirement but as a stay at home mom who homeschools and is slowly growing and praying that our Father will refine and humble and strengthen in her walk, she and I don’t see the same things eye and eye and I worry too that it will be a stumbling block not an encouragment.
Not to say I’m perfect.
For the record. I’m not.
I’m beyond so imperfect and grateful we serve a God who is perfect and loving and knows I can use all His help. LOL
Just a quiet. Really quiet. Meek. Girl.
The bookworm in the corner who pushes her reading glasses up with one finger while a stray hair keeps getting in my vision as I try to read or write.
They mean well, but maybe meet me for coffee. Let’s have a lunch, but after 5 p.m., unless it’s church related or homeschool related, I live a pretty boring life.
I love my Heavenly Father. I love my husband. I love the life we choose. We, hubby and I, both decided and were convicted about me being a stay at home mom, not a work at home mom, but a stay at home, and we see the benefit of what WE chose, for OUR family.
I say that because people forget that it’s a personal choice that works for us and our walk, not for them and their walk, or the people next door, or the town or society…us…my husband and I and our family.
Nothing personal except, to us.
So it irks me when they turn around and encourage me to, “just find a job, we do it and well..just couldn’t do what you do”. “Okay,” I think,”That’s great, but this is my life not theirs”.
I won’t get a job or put my kids in school or daycare to make people on the outside feel better….that’s not in my job description or my job; I’m not their therapy. Our Father has laid it in my life to serve Him, my husband and my family first and foremost. That is my calling and my ministry starting at the home.
I wish I had exciting adventures to share, but often, it’s just quiet, little ol me. Nothing to see.
Most days, my life is boring. Really.
Get up. Breakfast. Clean or School.
Maybe we have those odd days when everything is caught up, there’s no school and we’re curled up with a book or a busy day project.
Other than that….nothing else much to see or hear.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (Romans 8:18, New King James Version)
We just recently came back from vacation and on top of a thousand loads of laundry and getting back to routine, it was really a great vacation and getaway, but I found myself having to readjust to the routines of today.
There were errands that had to be put off on top of the fact of books to be read and reviewed and did I mention we have a major holiday less than two weeks away and barely a clue of what to do for that.
Between it all there were just the paper cuts of life to contemplate; You know, the hurt feelings, maybe the passage of friendships that had run its course, and the daily motions of life itself, but as I read Romans 8:18, it was a reminder that yes, life can be difficult at times and there is no denying of that, but oh how temporary things really are in the long run when we allow our joy to be robbed by the business of everything else.
Matthew Henry Commentary shared the following aboout Romans 8:18,”
The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and but for a moment. How vastly different are the sentence of the word and the sentiment of the world, concerning the sufferings of this present time! Indeed the whole creation seems to wait with earnest expectation for the period when the children of God shall be manifested in the glory prepared for them.
There is an impurity, deformity, and infirmity,which has come upon the creature by the fall of man. There is an enmity of one creature to another. And they are used, or abused rather, by men as instruments of sin. Yet this deplorable state of the creation is in hope. God will deliver it from thus being held in bondage to man’s depravity. The miseries of the human race, through their own and each other’s wickedness, declare that the world is not always to continue as it is.
Our having received the first-fruits of the Spirit, quickens ourdesires, encourages our hopes, and raises our expectations. Sin has been, and is, the guilty cause of all the suffering that exists in the creation of God. It has brought on the woes of earth; it has kindled the flames of hell. As to man, not a tear has been shed, not a groan has been uttered, not a pang has been felt, in body or mind, that has not come from sin. This is not all; sin is to be looked at as it affects the glory of God. Of this how fearfully regardless are the bulk of mankind!
Believers have been brought into a state of safety; but their comfort consists rather in hope than in enjoyment. From this hope they cannot be turned by the vain expectation of finding satisfaction in the things of time and sense. We need patience, our way is rough and long; but He that shall come, will come, though he seems to tarry. (Ro ‘m8:26)
Like all of you, I hurt, I rejoice, I get tired, I feel full of energy; I’ve been betrayed and I’ve been lifted up-It’s just human to have those feelings and it’s okay, but it’s also a reminder that while we are on this earth, nothing will be perfect but far from it.
There is only one hope and one salvation and that is in and through our Heavenly Father. In the meantime, we live in a world where as MHC shared,”From this hope they cannot be turned by the vain expectation of finding satisfaction in the things of time and sense. We need patience, our way is rough and long; but He that shall come, will come, though he seems to tarry.”
It’s not going to be here on earth, but only in His Kingdom and till it comes, we can just only hold on to the hope and promise in and through our Heavenly Father.
A great example was shared in a devotional I read today,
“Imagine that your friend called you and complained, “My business card was drawn out of a fish bowl at the convention and I’ve won an all-expense paid trip to Paris, but I suffered a paper cut when I opened the envelope announcing the prize. I’m very upset.”
You’d say, “Why be upset? A little paper cut isn’t worth considering, compared to the excitement of a trip to Paris.”
Funny how we can let our grudges, our determination to be top dog, or whatever the euphresim it is to fit, over rule our judgements and blind our eyes to the true goals in our lives.Maybe the laundry didn’t come out just right and it ruled the rest of our day, or as some would say, ruined our day. End all…it doesn’t matter when it comes to the true picture that is at the end of this long journey of ours.
Paul was beaten, flogged, expelled, treated like a dog, bound in stocks, shipwrecked, suffered inhumanity at the hands of other men and yet….that didn’t deter him from the bigger picture of God’s World.
We all have a moment of glory together as His children and it’s not going to matter who is top at the end of the day. In His eyes, we are all first to Him. Instead of just living…try experiencing His Word, His grace, His love, in our lives while we are here. After all…it’s preparation for something much bigger and better than all of us.
10 “ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
12 “ For you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall break forth into singing before you,
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree,
And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree;
And it shall be to the LORD for a name,
For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” (Isaiah 55:10-13, New King James Version)
It’s snowing…It’s really snowing.
Watching the snow falling down, normally, it doesn’t say winter for us, until we have the tree up, the fireplace going, marshmellows and hot chocolate, but this, this says winter.
The Christmas decorations are up, we haven’t gotten a tree yet and considering what the weather forecast is like, may wait till Saturday when the weather is much warmer (?), or at least the roads safer to venture out. The snow though…that is a beautiful blessing from Our Heavenly Father and just a reminder how Awesome,He is.
This is a blessing and just a fingerprint reminder of Him, reminding us what this time of year is all about; A reminder that a Son, the King of kings was born to bring us hope and salvation to you and I.
So what makes it “winter” for you?
I know. It sounds so silly to say, but I hope for Christmas I could get some pink slippers.
Most of the day, I wear socks and I’m happy with that, but it would.just.be.nice.to.wear.pink.slippers.
Start off the morning, with a cup of coffe that a Vanilla Chai has been soaking in and add a little creamer and then pick up God’s Word and as I read that morning’s reading, the pink slippers will be covering my toes.
Sigh.
Just a random thought.
LOL, but just thinking out loud…I would like to get some pink slippers.
While passing time, I stumbled across this poem via,”Everyday Christian Mom” , and it left a “Hmmmmm” moment of thought.
I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phones?
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we used it to receive messages?
What if we treated it like we couldn’t live without it?
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it as we traveled?
What if we used it in case of an emergency?
What if we upgraded it to get the latest version?
This is something to make you go, hmmm, where is my Bible?
Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cellphones, we don’t ever have to worry about our bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill!
What if our bible was like a cell phone?
How many of us keep His word next to us to reference at all time and not just on Sunday’s or for daily devotions, but for all moments?
When we leave the home, do we have one in our purse, bag or backpack, for quick reference or for those with iphones, have an ap for it, to share with someone who is new or unsaved or just to read to pass the time and use breaks we get to catch up and study and read His word?
When looking more into this poem, I stumbled on a blog by a “Paul” who offered these helpful tips about things we can do to keep ou Father in our constant day to day life:
1. Place a small bible in your car
2. Hang a cross in your car
3. Add a bible or a religious magazine to your reading material in the bathroom
4. Place small cards with bible verses on your bedroom door, or in your office or locker at school
5. Write a reminder in your planner to say a quick prayer of thanksgiving to God
He also raised some interesting questions:
…….. do we concern ourselves with our bible like we do with our cell phone?
Do we spend hours looking over the new models of bibles before we purchase one?
Most of us probably have one family bible, and if we are lucky our kids received one from the church to use in class.
But we make sure our kid have a TV in their rooms and a gaming system along with the newest games.
Once again I am not suggesting that that you get rid of all that, but I am suggesting that maybe we need to look at how we spend our money and time, could we not get a game and a bible as a gift, or a book on our faith along with the latest cell phone?
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