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Our children, work, and church activities can pull us in many directions. “But that doesn’t excuse us from….”
Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Use the comment section below to give your way of finishing the hanging sentence:
Our children, work, and church activities can pull us in many directions. “But that doesn’t excuse us from….”
Some comments and some questions, none of them intended to be political even though they reflect on and about a political issue:
I’m prone to see the ominous dark clouds of the gathering storm. Storms, really — religious, societal, political, military, cultural, financial, spiritual.
I also notice the diminishing space as the dark tunnel’s walls close in at an alarming, hope-crushing rate.
Then yesterday morning I saw the January 6 entry on our day-by-day For the Love of a Friend flip calendar:
Oh my! 😳
I went back again and again to have another read.
And below the above quote, this from Psalm 39:7….
How easily I forget! 😥
Last night I read this comment by Crusoe:
(No, not that Crusoe; rather, the one in Flight of the Eagles, the first book of the Seven Sleeper Series by Gilbert L. Morris.)
Oh, and another clarifier: tear above is the kind that comes out of our eyes.
So…I am thankful for all these reminders. And for the hope I have in Jesus Christ.
A few minutes ago.
As I saw in my peripheral vision.
Out the window.
(A south window.)
Evidence of the sun hanging low in the sky.
(The western sky.)
I wondered.
“On which liberty does the sun set today?”
Never to see daylight.
Again.
And I thanked God for freedoms.
Yet had.
The Birth and Reception of Jesus
Have we become misdirected in our gift giving?
God freely and generously gave His best to those who had never given Him anything of significant value. God even gave His best knowing that most would give nothing in return. We have become conformed to the world in our Christmas-time gift giving. Has the time arrived when we should come to an agreement in our churches and in our families that we will give their gift and their card to the needy instead? “And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same” (Luke 6:33; see also 14:12-14).
(Written way back in 1992 sometime.)