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Whatâs Your Plan?
Create an emergency preparedness plan.
Creating an emergency preparedness plan will be determined by which emergency it might be.
Is it flood, fire, water spout? Is it earthquake, tornado, or tsunami?
If youâre rising high to avoid the flood plains, the tornado is going to call your name. If youâre digging under to avoid the quake, the tsunami might find its way through the tunnel. If spreading waves to avoid the flames, the water spout might feel too comfortable to join.
Emergency Preparedness Plans must be in tact for all disasters; yet, one plan is often over looked and forgotten.
What about your heart? Does your heart have an emergency preparedness plan?
This one isnât really complicated. It doesnât take a lot of time nor do you have to buy a thing.
Just have a little talk with Jesus. Tell Him all about your troubles. Repent of your sins, and believe.
Thatâs it. Itâs that easy.
And youâll be prepared for life.
Youâll be ready for anything they might come!
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
Pride or Purpose?
Having purpose is so important, and it is motivating. But when your purpose becomes an attitude of competition only to put down someone else, that pride will be your downfall. That downfall may not come to you immediately, but it will come. Eventually, it will come.
Purpose should be an inner competition of better self. Purpose should be an outward vigor of thriving through hardships. purpose should be an omnidirectional display of helping someone else to achieve their dream.
When purpose meets awareness of another, that purpose becomes a superpower that is not easily stopped. When purpose meets denial of self for the life of another, that purpose becomes almost invincible.
Choose purpose over pride. Self-denial over self-absorption. Compassion over competition.
And youâll be amazed at the world you can create.
Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. He who heeds the word wisely will find good, whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he.Proverbs 16:18-20
Really!
What is a word you feel that too many people use?
Really is a word that is often overused by too many people. And sometimes, I can be that people. âReallyâ is an adverb that is used for convenience and often, also, as my English teacher grandmother used to tell me, itâs used out of laziness.
When you say, âThat elephant was really big!â, you could have used a more descriptive words and made the sentence more interesting: âThat elephant was ginormous!â
We are often too lazy in our descriptions and in our speaking, and if we would use better words, our stories and conversations could be much more enjoyable and intriguing!
Silly Saturday
Funny Friday
Modern or Vintage?
Vintage or modern?
Which are you?
Traditional or trend?
Old fashioned or contemporary?
One isnât better than the other.
One isnât more important.
Yet, itâs the soul of the matter that counts.
If classic is your standard, yet youâre unyielding to learn something new, your rust will begin to show.
If state-of-the-art if your thing, yet youâre ridged to receive wisdom from the past, your polish will begin to chip.
Conventionalism without adjustment for change doesnât allow for growth.
Modernization without adjustment for proven failures doesnât allow for depth.
It takes both to progress beyond what has been.
It takes both to establish success moving forward.
Truthfully, one without the other only brings certain death to both.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell together in unity!Psalm 133:1
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 27:17
Donât Teach Tolerance
Not really a whole lot to add here.
Itâs just good old fashioned truth.
Letâs do better. Letâs live better. Letâs be better.
Tolerance and intolerance is subjective to whoâs defining it and whoâs regulating it.
Good and evil is clear cut from absolute truth.
I know. Truth today has been relegated to relativity that has made it cheap and sold to the highest bidder.
But real truth, the Only Truth, can be found.
We might just have to search for it a little deeper than just below the surfaceâŚ
Jesus said to him, âI am the way, the truth, andthe life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:6
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32
Acts of Love
Ever have someone in your life who pushes back on your new opinion?
Ever have someone who says, âDonât go that way,â and it just gets under your skin?
Ever have someone close to you give you a sharp rebuke with no apologies, no wavering, no rebuttals?
Ever have someone challenge you to be better, to go deeper, to go farther, than you ever thought you could?
If yes is your answerâŚ
Donât get mad, offended or hurt.
Donât resist, ignore or refuse.
Donât turn away, push away or reject.
If that person is above reproach and has been a faithful friend,
Embrace that person because he or she cares.
She cares enough to tell you where to get off at.
He cares enough to tell you the truth.
They care enough not to leave you on the wrong path or fill you with poisonous flattery.
True love will always be truthful.
For true love cares more about the soul.
Open rebuke is better
Than love carefully concealed.Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.Provers 27:5-6
Funny Friday & Silly Saturday
Well, my posts ran out in early July, and I didnât realize it until we returned from vacation at the end of July! So, hereâs a double take for all those who follow, and we should be up and running normal by next weekend! đ
In honor of my recent vacation to the West. If youâve been there, youâll understand⌠đ¤Ł
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