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Learning to Dance in the Rain
Sunday was both my birthday and Father’s Day. I had an overwhelming number of people wish me a Happy Birthday and I truly had one. At the end of the day I was very overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude. Somewhere around 80 people sent me Happy Birthday greetings via facebook. These were people from every aspect of my life. I was so moved by it that I made … Read entire article »
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Daily Intentions, A Key to Having Great Days
Every day when I wake up, before I even get out of bed, I say to the world, “I greet this day with joy for I am blessed.” I say it with a smile and I say it repeatedly as I head into work. Sometimes I say it out loud. It gets my mind and heart in the right place. Specifically, I am focused on what is positive and good and I … Read entire article »
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Ghost Dose #8, Replacing Your Thoughts for Spirit Thoughts
Verse: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-25 Meditation: In yesterday’s verse we were urged to set our minds on the Spirit that we might live by … Read entire article »
Self discipline exercises
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7) Last night I was watching a video with my son Matthew that was part of an online course we are taking together. It is a course in developing online products. The instructor actually gives away a number of products to participants in the course. They are completely free to reproduce them and put them online. In the video the instructor was addressing the concern that if he gives the products away won’t the market then be flooded to the point that his students can’t realistically compete. The short answer was no. Mainly because he explained that the sad reality is that 99% of the people who … Read entire article »
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Eliminate your “to do” list and never “have” to do anything again
“Do all things without grumbling or questioning.” Phillippians 2:14 So much of whether we experience life as joyful or drudgery depends upon the mindset we choose. Grumbling whether out loud or with the committee in you head is a sure way to make yourself unnecessarily miserable. In a recent post on taking mundane chores and making them Christ-centered, I shared two biblical mindsets that are spiritually healthy to adopt: Do all thing with Gratitude (Col. 3:17), Do all things as if you do them for Christ (Col. 3:23-24). You nurture those mindsets through tiny interventions when you find yourself complaining. How we frame our work is important as getting it done. In fact, its more important. If you go at your work whether it be preaching or cleaning toilets with a reluctant heart that … Read entire article »
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How do I take a mundane chore and dedicate it to Christ?
Last night I received the following email from PD reader Angie in Missouri and wanted to share my reply with all my readers because she has a great question. Yay – Lent starts tomorrow! I am full of anticipation for Lent! It is an incredible feeling. :) There’s this guy I know who’s been talking it up for practically all of 2010! It’s got me all excited. :) Anyway, I need a little help with what I want to do for Lent. I want to do something along the lines of your 40 days of 40 bags of clutter. I want to spend 40 days working on getting the basement organized. That space just upsets me b/c it is so chaotic and things are in boxes and just no organization what-so-ever. I can’t … Read entire article »
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