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FEELING WEAK? IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU NEED A LITTLE JOY BOOST!

July 16th, 2009 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

The Bible says that “the joy of the Lord is our strength” (Neh.8:10) and “laughter is good medicine for the soul” (Prov 17:22). Recent brain science research^1 seems to indicate that the right hemisphere of our brains has the capacity to receive and transmit joy (e.g., the key to regaining strength)?

Try this on someone you want to lift up today: Engage with them off and on throughout the day by smiling at them particularly in the left eye (which connects with the right hemisphere of the brain). The truth is that when someone smiles at you and conveys that they really like you (e.g., they are glad to be with you), you can’t help but smile back. Joy is received and then transmitted back. It’s a win/win for all. You’d be surprised by the results.

It’s our goal to be life givers both to individuals that we interact with each day and those we work with in our business. We hope this “mooving thought” encourages you in YOUR life.

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^1 The right hemisphere of each brain holds an emotional regulation structure called the control center … The capacity of the brain’s control center is built through experiences of joy in our significant relationships … (through) right-hemisphere-to-right-hemisphere communication from a trained control center in one person to an untrained control center in another person. For more information on the subject, See LifeModel.org.

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GIVING AWAY OUR HEART – OUR LIFE PURPOSE

March 10th, 2009 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

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Here are some thoughts on Proverbs 12:11 (NAS):

He who pursues worthless things lacks sense (Literally, heart).

The promise of Ezekiel 36:25-27 was that God would create in us a new heart.  He says, “I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes.”

How I read this is … At Salvation, God places within each of us His Seed … which is a deposit of His Nature in us.  Through the workings of His Spirit within us, He works (in time) to “trump” anything in our heart that is not in line with His.

At the same time, His Spirit enables us to pray in the spirit, worship in the Spirit, receive gifts of the Spirit, etc. …. all as a Gift … a Gift that is not a function of the condition of our heart … Yet, it is all for the purpose of transforming our hearts to be like His … which, technically, is the “new heart” we are given … His heart joined with ours.

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The Essence of Prayer – Living in the Divine Plus

February 13th, 2009 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

For the last several months, my focus has been on reading, studying and writing a Bible Study (that my friends and I have been going through) on Prayer.  It is a conglomeration of things I have learned from several of my favorite teachers plus what the Lord has taught me individually.  Here is the Conclusion of my study:

The end result of the prayer process is to manifest Christ …. to bear Fruit … to be about our Father’s business “in union” with Him.

For a believer in Christ, deep with in us, we desire this because He has placed within us His Seed, which is Him, His nature, His desire, His Limitless Love, His Power that is always at work, which desires to manifest, to bear fruit, to be about our Father’s business.  Our spirit IS willing (even though our flesh may also feel very weak at times).

In order to get there, we must deal with the “Old Man.” Another term for the Old Man is the “False Self.” The false self is everything/anything which is false about us, not consistent with who Christ made us to be. It’s me living independent of Him, but it’s me not being true to who I am either. Living independent of Him doesn’t work because it creates a falseness within me. As we grow in life, we discover this.  Deep within I know that there is falseness in me and I don’t feel good about it.  God’s objective is to get us to become honest about who we are and how we feel – the good, the bad and the ugly, learn to live from the True Self.  He works through the true, the real us, not the someone we think we’re supposed to be.

It’s a process, of course.  But He wants to reveal to us that He likes us! He loves us! We have value just as we are! He wants to live a “joined” life with us, the true us! So much so that He died to make it happen! When we stand in who we truly are, which is the truth (the Truth), His Light can then shine forth in us and through us. As the False Self decreases, the New Creation (Christ in me) comes forth, a self that is both emotionally mature and filled with His nature.

This process is not about denying “Me,” the True Me. It’s not a denial of self through striving either – I’m not going to do that because it’s wrong. It’s a denial of the False Self – I don’t want to do that because it wouldn’t be true to the Real Me – Christ in Me. We can do this because honestly living in the True Me (Light) dispels falseness (darkness) naturally. Christ in me is more powerful! Christ in me IS me!

We also have within the Old Man, a lot of STANDARDS of right/wrong, things we define as bad or good, things we were taught by our parents, school, the Church, and just our experiences in life.  They are our standards of right and wrong.  They tend to be black and white and often, while they may have some legitimacy in their reasonings, they often are not standards that the Lord would agree with, especially in EVERY given situation.  The problem is that we filter just about everything through OUR standards.  The bottom line is they often prevent us from hearing the Lord accurately when we are praying for direction.  Our job is to challenge these standards … and to determine what the Lord really thinks on the subject.

In conclusion, here is an excerpt from a devotional written by E. Stanley Jones that synopsizes what we are trying to achieve in prayer:

“If two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven” (Matt. 18:19). The word “agree” is a word that expresses the harmony of two perfectly attuned musical instruments – the word “orchestrate” would express it. If two of you shall orchestrate – be attuned in perfect harmony – anything is possible. When the Holy Spirit and we orchestrate – think, feel, and act together – then identified in purpose we are also identified in power. … What He transfuses, He transforms. His Resources become our reserves. We can call on them for everything we need to do. We then find ourselves literally doing things we can’t do. We are a surprise to ourselves and others. Everything we do and think and say has a Plus – a Divine Plus added to it … You can’t tell where your energy ends and His begins, and where His energy ends and yours begins. You are a very ordinary person linked with Extraordinary Power and you leave results all out of proportion to your powers.[1]

For more information or if you would like me to forward to you the study material, you can either call or email me.

[1] Christian Maturity, “An Impossible Standard?” by E. Stanley Jones, p. 301

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SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD – A Simple Invitation

November 18th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

We all know that Jesus is supposed to be the focal point of our Christian walk. It is interesting how often we can lose that focus though. There is much to learn in life and about life but if Jesus isn’t the focal point, whatever we are doing will fall short of God’s best for us. It’s not that the other things are bad, just not the best. I don’t know about you but I want the best. Knowing Jesus, that’s the best!

How do we know Jesus? The Gospels, of course, are a great place to start. Every time I start reading and seeking to know Jesus through the Gospels, it always amazes me how much of a non-conformist Jesus actually was (and is). I so admire that! He wasn’t hooked into the demands of others. If something or someone placed another demand on Him that didn’t conform to His father’s wishes, He just refused. He was fixed on listening to the Father and then doing only that! Independent but submitted. Strong but meek.

And, it’s not that He refused to do what others wanted because He didn’t care. He just did not fall into the trap of doing only the obvious. He was always working the bigger plan … a plan that was inspired with the Father’s heart, a heart of compassion.

“Seeing the people, He (Jesus) felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a Shepherd.” Matthew 9:36 NKJ

It is interesting to think about what all that actually means. He was actually quoting from Ezekiel 34 (which to a Jew was not just one verse but the whole context of the one verse). That particular chapter actually was a very strong denouncement of the then Shepherds of Israel. The gist: they were feeding themselves and not the sheep, they were using the sheep for their own purposes, they were NOT doing what they were supposed to be doing: bringing back the lost, healing the wounded, binding up the broken. And the result: The sheep were scattered and becoming prey to the wild animals. Not a pretty picture concerning the condition of either the shepherds or the sheep.

What comes to my mind in all of this is a phrase that I have mentioned before. The phrase is “Wayfaring Strangers.” I woke up one morning last year with that phrase rumbling in my mind (I always know that the Lord is speaking to me when a very unusual thought comes to my mind as soon as I wake up). Obviously, I have pondered the thought often and have to date felt like it very much describes the people that we are drawn to and those that are drawn to us.

So, add to that, this Scripture and I wonder some more …

What I have NOT focused on before was the idea that those wandering actually become prey to the wild animals. One could make a very strong case that some or much of what afflicts many believers is due to the fact that they are scattered and not being fed properly. Bottom Line, the point is: We need each other! We need to be together and we need to be fed and we don’t need to be FED UPON!

The good news is at the end of Ezekiel 34. God makes a promise to search for them HIMSELF and to seek them out HIMSELF, to bring them to a place of safety and to feed them, to lead them to rest.

All of that was what was stirring in the mind of Jesus when it was said that “Seeing the people, He had compassion on them … (He saw them as being) … sheep without a Shepherd.” He was the Shepherd that God has sent!

What good news! Compassion (according to dictionary.com) is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. The Hebrew word for compassion also brings in the idea of loving deeply … having tender affection for another.

The question(s) then …

If so, we’re here … What that looks like, I’m not sure … We’re here in a lot of different ways, I suppose. You can call either Buddy (210-508-1606) or me (210-535-9463) or email us and we’ll try to discern that with you.

Truly, this is not an advertisement, it’s just a simple invitation … an invitation inspired with the heart of Jesus Himself!

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RELATIONSHIPS DISINTEGRATE WHEN THEY BECOME ABOUT NEEDS

November 10th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

Have you ever been in a conversation with someone that you TRULY cared for and the conversation got so convoluted that by the end of the conversation you felt downright CONFUSED. Motivations (both theirs and yours) were being misjudged, hurtful feelings and confusion pervaded. When it was all said and done, it wasn’t so much about being angry (although confusion and anger are hard to separate), it was about feeling hurt, confused and WHAT THE HECK WAS ALL THAT JUST ABOUT?

It is likely (if examined more closely) that the conversation was a MY NEEDS/YOUR NEEDS conversation (a close cousin to a I’M RIGHT/YOUR RIGHT conversation). These types of conversations are always a NO WIN.

I’m not saying Needs are not legitimate. I’m saying that they can’t be the focal point and when they have become that, then there has already been a relationship breakdown.

Most people simply are confused on the subject of needs and relationships. We think that relationships are about meeting needs so we make it about getting our needs met. NOT SO!

Relationships are NOT about meeting needs! Relationships are supposed to be about (1) Companionship and (2) Sharing Life together (Finding Joy in Life together).

Needs certainly are valid but they are not to be the focus*. Needs are naturally met in healthy relationships. But, when they become the focus, the relationship breaks down. The truth is you can’t mandate needs being met just like you can not force the development of a relationship. They just happen or they don’t. The only thing you can really work on is creating an environment where true relationship can exist.

Relationships work when people feel:

1. SAFE

2. SECURE

If our relationship is motivated by FEAR (I must do what you want or you’ll be mad) or SHAME (I must do what you want or I’ll be bad), then we don’t feel secure. All this is rooted in the statement: This relationship is about you meeting MY needs. That’s not relationship … it’s slavery.

3. UPLIFTED – ENCOURAGED

People want to be uplifted and encouraged. We communicate our feelings. Our friend cares about us. He /she encourages us to be all that we can be.

4. JOY FILLED – FUN FILLED.

Healthy people want to be “WITH” someone that is fun and full of joy. It is a natural action/reaction. They are either DRAWN to you or they want to PULL AWAY because of who you are. It works both ways. You also are either DRAWN to someone or want to PULL AWAY based on who the other person is.

If the relationship:

you’re just NOT going to be drawn to it.

On the other hand, if all of the above components are present, you will likely WANT to be with that person. Joy multiplies. My joy becomes your joy and your joy becomes mine! It’s a win/win and needs are naturally met in that environment.

5. A Kindred Spirit

Buddy and I refer to this as being LIKE KIND. There is such variety in this Earth and not every one will you want to have dinner with. There has to be commonality in order to want to be together. That doesn’t make one person more valuable than another; it just makes them more like you than another. The longer I live on this Earth, I have grown more and more grateful when a good relationships actually comes around.

I think sometimes we TRY too hard. Lighten up let relationships develop naturally. Do your part but realize that they can’t be forced. What’s your part:

Change begins with a change of thinking. Relationships just aren’t about meeting MY NEEDS/YOUR NEEDS. Refuse to make it about that. It’s about companionship and sharing joy. Needs are met when the right components are present. If you’re in a relationship like the one I described above, back off and regroup. Obviously, if you care about the person, it’s not about backing off completely. Just back off and regroup. Refuse to take actions that are rooted in fear or shame. Rather, take the action that is healthy and explain your reasonings (if possible). Tell them that having a healthy relationship is what is important to you. Make the right choices and let the relationship have an opportunity to change over time. The other person will either adapt (they want to have a healthy relationship with you) or retreat (they somehow get something out of unhealthy ones). Either way, you are learning to become someone that other people are drawn to which is how true relationships are discovered.

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*The only guarantee/promise of our needs being met is from the Lord. See Phil. 4:19. However, even in our relationship with the Lord, if our needs become the focus, even THAT relationship suffers. Relationships are always about (1) Companionship and (2) Sharing Joy … even with the Lord.

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WHAT REALLY IS FORGIVENESS?

September 24th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

We all know that in order to truly “learn” something, you have to go through a “big something” to get there. That’s true in the natural as well as the spiritual. Well, I’d have to say, for me, this last year has been “chock full of opportunities” for learning what real forgiveness is. Not sure why … but there have been an especially large amount of different hurtful scenarios this year … which brings me to my first point about Forgiveness:

The need for forgiveness comes from a wounding and you have to acknowledge that you are hurt.

It doesn’t matter whether the hurt is a single wound (the obvious procuring cause) or whether it be the procuring cause combined with a previous wound that has been aggravated. Regardless, you need to acknowledge that there’s a wound and wounds hurt! It’s silly to expect that if a person were to cut you with a knife, you could immediately look them in the face and say, “It’s OK. I forgive you! I won’t hold it against you.” Many people think that that is what forgiveness is. “Just suck it up and say it doesn’t matter!” Not so! Actually, we were made in God’s image to be people who feel hurt as well as joy, who cry as well as laugh. That is part of being human and it is not good for us in our humanity to deny or reject that.

Our wounds need to be tended to.

Most people never really learned good self care in life. Actually, that is part of being a healthy, maturing person. Most parents didn’t know how to do it themselves … so they didn’t teach it to their children. For the last six or so months, some friends and I have been focusing on what it means to “Return to Joy from Difficult Emotions.” That concept can be found at www.lifemodel.org. It’s a really interesting website with a lot of good information … but Returning to Joy from Anger is a skill we all need to work on.

Our natural response to a wounding is Anger.

When we respond in Anger, we cry out, “That’s wrong!!!!” On the surface, anger has a good purpose … to stir change: We say, “This must stop!” and we make it stop. However, anger (not dealt with properly) can also tap into (and attach to) a very DEEP part of what is often referred to as “our sin nature.” It’s called that because, left undealt with, it will cause any of us to sin.

Sin are ACTIONS that are rooted in seeing life ONLY though our own eyes (not God’s or any one else’s) and then rightfully (or self righteously) TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS. I call this the “Kingdom of Self.” We are at the center. We dictate the rules. We condemn based on the rules. We enforce the rules. We become the Legislator, Judge, Jury, and Hangman and we’re at the center of all of it! The problem is that when we hurt and then take matters into our own hands, our actions more often than not will have negative results. The kingdom can work so long as all is going well for self … but when it doesn’t, OH BOY!

The truth is that we will never be able to walk in God’s Life if we are operating out of King Self. WE JUST AREN’T SEEING CLEARLY! And when you don’t see clearly, you can’t judge rightly! Especially not righteously!

The first step toward Forgiveness is to Acknowledge our Inability to See the Situation Accurately.

We only see in part. We don’t understand the motives of the other person’s heart … what stirred them … what their needs are … what their past is … What God is doing in their life or wants to do in their life, etc.

By acknowledging this, we do not EXCUSE the current wounding, what we see as right and wrong. We just acknowledge that we don’t see the whole picture.

The second step toward Forgiveness is to Acknowledge our Inability to Deal with the Situation Rightly (or Righteously).

God is the only one who sees perfectly and can judge RIGHTEOUSLY. Righteous judgment “RIGHTWISES” the situation. It redeems it … tries to bring good from the bad!

Face it! By ourselves, we just do not have the capacity to figure all of that out! All we tend to do is to try to bring about good for ourselves (e.g., we’re just taking care of “King Self”). And, the truth is that taking care of King Self just doesn’t really feel good to the soul. It feels like we had to TAKE something … and that does not feel good, does not feel like Life.

We must lay down our way and pick up God’s way of Living … the only way that “RIGHTWISES” the situation … truly brings righteousness.

The third step in Forgiveness is to use our Will Choice (the only power that we truly have in life) to RELEASE the other person to the LORD.

Forgiveness is actually a RELEASE. It’s as if you are releasing them into another person’s custody. We can willfully do this because we know that other person (the one we are releasing TO) is better suited to handle the situation. We know that the other person, God, can RIGHTWISE the situation, bring Life out of it … not just for me … but for ALL! Remember, God is concerned about all parties and we have to be OK with that too. It’s not as hard, though, if you think about it as a RELEASE!

The Final Step is to Tend to The Wound while looking for our Redemption.

Tending to the wound looks different for each person but the result is the same: There is a healing that enables us to move forward without bitterness. However, one thing for sure … we must not forget that God always responds to our response to Him. His goal is always relationship. We give Him something … He gives us something else in return. I’m not saying that we get to dictate how that Something will look. I am saying that He delights in our obedience and loves to reward it. God’s Life is an Exchanged Life.

So, after you respond to Him, don’t forget to ask Him what He has in return for you. He might bring you a real, delightful revelation of more of Him and His ways! He might give wisdom on how to restore the relationship! He might bring a new relationship! He might bring a new grace! Each scenario is different … but there’s always an exchange because He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6.

We are called to a Lifestyle of Forgiveness. The truth is that offenses actually imprison US, not the other person. Our unforgiveness keeps the pain aggravated … it keeps us from tending to the actual wound.

Aren’t you tired of being imprisoned by unforgiveness? Let us be a people who live a Lifestyle of Forgiveness. It’s oh so much free-er! Comments encouraged!

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LEARNING CONTENTMENT

August 28th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

Philipians 4:11b (NAS) For I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

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This particular Scripture has always been difficult for me … in the sense that I thought it was quite noble … but beyond human possibility … at least in MY humanness. I care about way too much in life … not just about the things that we probably should care about … but those things that cause worries, anxiety, etc. So, when things seem to go down the “not so positive” path, I tend to think of the idea of contentment as being a “pie in the sky” possibility. I’m just being honest here! Sometimes I wish I didn’t care so much.

But how do you NOT care about all of the stuff in life? Hmm! Well … I’ve tried the denial path and believe me, that doesn’t work … just shuts you down … which isn’t so good for the abundant living, full of peace and joy life we are looking for. I’ve tried the venting, the crying out to God path … which works better … Certainly, God responds to our cries … but still no real resolution … at least with regard to the problem of caring too much about life’s issues.

Lately, I have had a statement stirring within me. It’s a German phrase that I learned back in my youth when I stayed in Germany two Summers. The phrase is, “Es Machts Nichts” (pronounced, S-Mox-Nix). Literally, it means, “It matters not.” The Germans use it in a way similar to the way we might respond to a question, “Do you want the brown one or the black one”? “It doesn’t matter to me. I don’t have a strong opinion. I’m neutral.” Sometimes we Americans even say, “Whatever!” or “I don’t care.”

Which brings us back to our CARING TOO MUCH theme.

So the cry in my being (of late) has been, “Lord, I want to be able to look at life and all of the “stuff” that happens (both good and bad) and say, “Es Machts Nichts (S-Mox-Nix). It matters not. I’m neutral. I don’t care.” But not with a defeatest, non-motivated, kindof attitude but rather,”I’ll take whatever comes my way, trust You in it, and trust that You are working good in it and out of it and in me and through me! I’ll step into it with faith, listening for that Good, that Purpose You have in it.”

Why DO things matter so much anyway? Why can’t we be neutral about things? Two points to ponder on this subject, no explanations, just points to ponder (taken from the book, The Shack, by William P. Young, that I have just read):

1. “You try to make sense of the world in which you live based on a very small and incomplete picture of reality.” p. 126

2. “The real underlying flaw in your life … is that you don’t think that I (God) am good.” p. 126

Extremely poignant. Selah! (which means “Think about it!”)

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GIVING INTO PRESSURES IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN

July 10th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

“God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Life presses against all of us every day. There are pressures … things that we feel, or others feel, we just MUST take care of … They cause us to want to act … to figure out what to do … JUST DO SOMETHING! Get this pressure off me PLEASE!

And yet, hasty decisions made under pressure often bring terrible results.

Looking at the life of Saul, for example, we see that he gave into the pressures and lost dearly:

1 Sam 13:6-14

6When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in cliffs, in cellars, and in pits. 7Also some of the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 8Now he waited seven days, according to the appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him. 9So Saul said, “Bring to me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering. 10As soon as he finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. 11But Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash, 12therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the LORD.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.” 13Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14“But now your kingdom shall not endure The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”

How many of us have have acted because business and/or those around us “were scattering,” what we are waiting on “did not come,” and our enemies “were assembling against us”? Sounds like a great deal of pressure, huh? I can SO relate!

In terms of Saul’s life, God was looking for a leader and Saul failed to act like one. He was following, not leading!

In terms of our life, God is also looking for those He can trust with His purposes in this Earth.

Mistakes happen when we take action and make changes that truly are not ours to make. According to the Serenity Prayer (which seeks a life of serenity, I think something we all want!) what we really need to discern in life is what we actually have control over, what we have the capacity to change. Once discerned, then we ask for the wisdom to know what and how to change what we have control over and then the courage to actually do it.

Otherwise, we accept what we can not change … which means being comfortable with non-action … Giving God His portion to deal with.

316020010_834c7b9914-wholepie.jpgKnowing our portion and living in our portion. It requires focused attention … Acting under pressure simply is not the answer.

Rather, first submission! “Lord, I realize I don’t have the capacity to change all things here. What do I truly have control over here? What portion are you giving me to change? What portion is Yours? What wisdom will you give me to walk this out?”

Knowing our portion (and God’s) and then trusting God enough to let Him work out that which we can’t!

Difficult? Yes! Yet it is the path of true serenity!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and Lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path. Proverbs 3:5-6

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HOW DO WE LIVE OUT THE DAILY GRIND?

July 8th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

Tuesday – 7/8/8 – How do we live out the daily grind?

13And so faith, hope, love abide
[faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things;
hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation;
love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three;
but the greatest of these is love.

Happy Tuesday–

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OUR VALUES

April 16th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures

There are different seasons in people’s lives. During each season, we value things differently (e.g., what’s important to us). We try things in life (put our hearts into things) and, at that stage, we believe what we are pursuing is most important. One season is not better than another. It just a different season. It’s all about discovery.

What we value determines who we want to be with … We are all looking for those we call “Like Kind,” those with similar values to our own. Here’s a list of what we value.

Our Values

We seem to be drawn to people we call “Wayfarers” or “Wayfaring Strangers,” probably because we are wayfarers ourselves. Some traits that describe these wayfarers are:

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