God has tendency to use things like the Our Daily Bread devotional to not only introduce areas where I need to focus my prayers and discipline, but also beat me over the head until I listen! ha! Just kidding! God uses this devotional and many other things in my life to gently remind me of the things he wants me to learn. I am grateful for his loving kindness.
I have used that term at least twice today -- loving kindness. The devotional talks about this concept when dealing with others. I never cease to be amazed about how God times these devotionals. He has been working with me to be kinder and to say things in a more loving way. Yes, I still have to say the tough things that most other folks won't say. I don't get off the hook for having a prophet spiritual gift! I need to temper everything I do and say with God's love. Like the devotional says, we do not know the burden the other person is carrying!
The tag line of the devotional says it best:
If you are tempted to lose patience with another, stop and think how patient God has been with you.
Lord, help us love like you love, to be kind and patient with others like you are kind and patient with us.
Simply Saturday
I thought I would share some pictures from the last week or so of my life. I got the first stage of my home theater done last weekend. Here is a pic of the mounted screen and projector. I will continue to work on it as I have the time and money. Yeah, it is a man cave...
I had a great time at the Cleveland Indians game last night. I lucked out and got in on a bus load of friends going to the game. Catered food. Box on the first base line. Very nice. Visited the new casino in downtown Cleveland (not that great...)
I decided to put my Tuesday blog entry to the test. I made a plan for happiness and I started executing the plan this week. You might think that executing a plan for happiness is selfish and against the will of God for a Christian. For me, it is more like a plan for NOT doing the things that make me unhappy as well as focusing more on the things that do (like the privilege of serving God!). It has been a good week.
Finding your place in the world...in God's plan...at least for now is a very good thing. I don't have to know where the road goes as long as God is leading...
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Let go, my friends! God will be there to catch you and hold you in his loving arms!
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