A Familiar Face

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Suffering

I just liked this line and wanted to highlight it here:

"We must be ready, not only to suffer ourselves, bt to allow those we love to have the privilege of suffering too." (Italics mine)

It's so easy to get caught up in that - to overly protect or worry for someone, when maybe they need that suffering. I know it probably applies to loved ones in all our lives now (and today I am thinking of a special coworker, whom I found out is planning to move back in with her less-than-loyal-and-gentle guy.)

Your Turn!

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Bar Soap

An intimidating thought! I know it is easy to get stuck in that "I am invincible" mode. When your "soap" runs out, what legecy do you hope to have left? Are you using each moment to make a good impression on those around you, to reach out and show love to everyone?

Every day I walk in to work, past dozens of people - students, teachers, hospital employees, worried parents of hospital patients... and we are such a separated society! It is rare that someone I walk past will make deliberate eye contact with me (and, I must admit, there are days I prefer it that way.) And if they do, you may get an obligitory half smile. But it is so rare to see a genuine smile from someone! I have seen one such girl here at the hospital who smiles a bright, deep smile when I see her. I don't know her name, or what she does. But when she smiles at people, it is so big that I just can't help smiling back!

If nothing else, I think that is a goal for me as I use my "soap" daily - that just maybe I can make one other person smile broadly during the day!

Locks and Key

The lock

Revelation 20:3

He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

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Home is Where the Dishes Are

Ah home, a word Amy says is tied with love (or, at least, we sure Hope it is!) But, as the previous post touched on, the home can also be filled with mundane tasks.

So, in leu of mom's drudgery from dishes, a poem I read!

Thank God for dirty dishes;
They have a tale to tell.

While others may go hungry,

We’re eating very well.
With home, health, and happiness,

I shouldn’t want to fuss;

By the stack of evidence,

God’s been very good to us!

Perhaps I should frame that and post it on the wall above the kitchen sink... it may be very good for me to keep in mind!

Enjoying the Previously Mundane

Another lecture I listened to also talked about this similar topic - how everything we do is something that can be done with gladness! She spoke also that everything we do is something that is holy. Christians are filled with the Holy Spirit, therefore, everything they do is touched with Holiness!

What mundane things do you do daily, that you can retrain yourself to do with gladness? We had discussed earlier about using coffee as a trigger to pray for those too poor to afford coffee (oops! I have a McD's coffee - I shall say a prayer in a minute here!) But not only should we pray for those poor, but be glad in our riches and our coffee! :)