Perhaps I am not the only one grieving what was as it is sinking in that what was shall not return. The days of ease, the days of creature comforts for the common man, the days of plenty, freedom to go and come and just be – these days are waning. Quickly.
Perhaps I took them for granted. Perhaps I wasted them. I do have regrets.
Perhaps I’m not the only one.
The world has been driven mad – forming at the mouth mad – like a rabid dog. What I think I am seeing, spiritually speaking, is hordes of rabid dogs off-leash. How do I protect myself from a rabid dog, Spiritually speaking?
Perhaps I’m not the only one.
May I soon cease to grieve what was and embrace what IS with eyes of faith and the arms of His Love and provision in this Land of Lack.
I am rambling this morning. Actually, I have been rambling for a few or is that several days now. Not necessarily with unpleasant things you know good things pile in too. Okay. On with this.
Have you ever been asking the Father about something and then after it came out you realized what you said and that it was for you quite profound and needed to be asked? Me too. Here’s today’s profound:
What am I doing to stay Your Hand rather than moveYour Hand in this situation?
I’m waiting on an answer.
And yesterday I wrote a little spiel and I want an outlet. Are you game?
Kneading bread gives time for thoughts to roll around, not just the dough.
The professionals say and in this case, I believe they are correct.
Little humans learn by repetition but that’s not the most effective way they learn.
They learn what they SEE and what they FEEL. (By the way, adults learn this way too.)
They learn what they WITNESS.
That which is done to others in their presence and to themselves.
So if we want our little ones to be KIND, they must witness adults in their lives being kind to others and to them.
If we want our toddlers and preschoolers to SHARE they must witness the adults in their lives sharing. They must witness their adults practicing “what I have I gladly give to you” (if they need it and it’s healthy for them. And if it’s not, perhaps we don’t need it either.)
If we want our little ones to be neat and orderly – what must they witness? You got it. The adults in their lives practicing neatness and order.
If we want our little ones to read well – They need to witness the adults in their lives reading – a lot. And be read to even while still in the womb and thereafter; even while nursing and until —–.
If we want our children to speak well, communicate well with dignity and respect – that’s right. This is what they must witness in and from the adults in their lives.
In summary, we must consistently model desirable behavior even when we don’t know they are watching.
What our children become is LARGELY what we teach them to do/be, not by our words BUT by our being.
I do wish I had read this when I was 21.
My children would like reading more than they do today.
End of rambling. I have squash to cook.
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Always in a hurry. Hurry rarely comes from GOD. I know about hurry. Hurry and I are well acquainted. We are too acquainted. I am praying for distance from hurry.
I can think of only one time YESHUA told someone to hurry. Do you know who?
Just this one time I remember Him saying hurry. Hurry and come down. It is good for us to HURRY to JESUS. To make haste. To hurry to JESUS in repentance. Like immediately when sin raises its ugly self and we see it poised to take hold, make haste and run to JESUS for help. Help to repent. Help to live free!
It is good for us to hurry to JESUS, but when we get to Him, stay and walk with Him timely – walk as slow as He leads; let us take in all He says to us.
Hurry is almost always a waste, except when it is running to JESUS.
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