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Am I Resentful?

Posted on June 27, 2012 | Leave a comment
     ……. whether it’s the annoying fly interrupting my needed nap, the thoughtless words spoken by a trusted friend, the new ding in my twelve-year-old car, or the old hurt that generates fresh pain, resentment never helps the situation—never serves a redemptive purpose. Like the devil, it only steals, kills and destroys.  Scotty Smith
Am I a resentful person?  To be honest I would have to answer that question with a “yes”.  Things happen every day that I do not think should be happening to me.  I become resentful and angry.  But the real question is what do I do with that resentment.  Do I let it harbor in my heart taking it out on others?  Do I carry it around with  negative words and thoughts?  It is true all this resentment only leads to killing and destruction….killing and destroying relationship with God and others.
My prayer today is to be kind, compassionate and forgiving of others.  Can I do it?  Yes, I can with God’s help.
The godless in heart harbor resentment.Job 36:13 
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.Eph. 4:31-32

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Can We Change Anyone?

Posted on June 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

Relationships sometime seems so difficult.  I do not know why the people I love and care about can not see  and do things the way I do…. No matter how much I try to change them it only brings me anger, resentment and overall unhappiness.  What to do about this….deep in my heart I have known the answer and like always it is hard to put in practice.

We can’t change the person we are married to—even when we want to; we can only work on becoming the person God has called us to become. –Sarah Flashing

I noticed that this is a work in progress. So today and everyday I am going to try to work on “becoming the person God has called me to become…..

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How Do Others Experience Me?

Posted on June 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

The other day my dear sweet husband asked me to move my daughter’s car.  I will admit that I was a little irritated….I was in the middle of drinking my morning coffee and reading the newspaper.  As I was getting into my daughter’s car, he asked me if I was mad at him.  (I was not really mad….just irritated that I had to leave my morning coffee and paper.)  So, I said, “No, why do you ask?”  Well, his response is that I looked mad.

I hate to think that I wear my emotions and thoughts so easily on my face.  I do not want to be thought of as a grouchy, irritated, mad person.

This morning I came across this prayer.

  Lord Jesus, as someone chosen in you before the world began, holy in you, and dearly loved by you, help me stay aware of how others experience me. Convict me when I come across as a minefield of irritability, a self-righteous porcupine, or a rigid control-meister. I don’t want to be the kind of person who makes others feel the need to tiptoe around or avoid me. Through the resources of the gospel, help me to see, own, and deal with the ways I love poorly. Scotty Smith

Much to think upon today…….

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What Would You Do If You Had Complete Control?

Posted on June 13, 2012 | Leave a comment

Control and freedom aren’t mutually exclusive. If we let them, they can act as entirely complementary notions.

Control isn’t allowing outside forces, like a goal or plan we (or someone else) created weeks or months ago, to shape our actions.

Control is taking full responsibility for how we spend our time, right here, today. And in that control lies freedom: we get to choose.

What would you do if you had complete control—the freedom to do whatever you wanted today?      Georgina Laidlaw

What would I do if I had the freedom to do whatever I wanted to do today?  Now   that is a very good question.  From the definition above control is taking full responsibility on how we spend our time.   Time…I hate that word.  I am always running out of time.  I am always wishing I had more time in the day to get things done.  I feel controlled by time.  I work in a job when I have to account for every minute of my day.  We have little timers that we have to turn on and off while working on clients or while doing administrative things.  I am always wondering what it would be like not to have to put down every second of one’s work day.

I think from my ranting above that if I were going to do whatever I wanted it would not be working at my job.  But I need to be responsible with my choices.  I do need money to pay for food, shelter and that never ending pile of bills. So I guess that my choice for today …. is to go to work.  Maybe I need to change my attitude.

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All Is Vanity

Posted on March 26, 2012 | Leave a comment

It is that time of year where I am drowning in preparing tax returns.  Since I am working more hours the extra money is always nice at first.  But then after a few weeks of no time off, working seven days a week the money is no longer as attractive as it seemed at first.  I miss time with my family, working in the yard, being with friends and even household chores.  This is what comes to my mind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2-3  “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.  What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?”

This is the greatest wisdom – to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world.  It is vanity, therefore, to seek and trust in riches that perish. It is vanity also to court honor and to be puffed up with pride.  It is vanity to follow the lusts of the body and to desire things for which severe punishment later must come.  It is vanity to be concerned with the present only and not to make provisions for things to come.  It is vanity to love what passes and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. – Thomas a’ Kempis

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Expired – Am I Going To Die

Posted on March 4, 2012 | 1 comment

This morning I was fixing my breakfast and I decided I would eat my favorite breakfast – yogurt, fruit, and granola. As I was gathering the ingredients to make this fantastic breakfast, I started looking at the yogurt container for the expiration date. I knew I have had this container for just a little bit over 10 days. Then to my horror I noticed this on the container.

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I thought yogurt was like milk – you could use it until that expiration date. So far I have not died of food poisoning but from now on I will be more mindful of eating up the yogurt.

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Who or What is Supremely Valuable?

Posted on January 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

Many professing Christians give little evidence of valuing Jesus more than the latest movie they have seen. Or the latest clothing they bought. Or the latest app they downloaded. Or the latest game they watched. Something is amiss.

We are not God and cannot judge with certainty and precision what’s wrong. There is a glitch somewhere. Perhaps a blindness going in, a spiritual deadness at heart, or a blockage coming out. Or some combination. Christ doesn’t appear supremely valuable. Or isn’t felt as supremely valuable. Or can’t be spoken of as supremely valuable. Or some combination.   John Piper

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Thought for the Day – Is My Love for God Cold?

Posted on January 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Matt. 24:12-14

Lord Jesus, this is a sobering warning, indeed—”The love of many will grow cold.” What could be worse than to lose, leave or leak the love we have for you? When the fire of affection for you chills, then all of our other relationships suffer as well.

We become critical and cynical, instead of compassionate and kind-hearted. We keep indelible records of the ways people hurt and fail us, instead forbearing with and forgiving one another. We become fragile or hard, insecure or indifferent. We despise weakness in others, while denying our own. We marginalize the needs of others, while maxi-sizing our own. We don’t care for the poor, because we lose our own poverty of spirit. Have mercy on us, Lord Jesus, have mercy on me.  – Scotty Smith

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