Celebrate by not taking your presence for granted. Present yourself as a gift identifying with others that they may celebrate today as if it was their birthday.
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Magic in simple circumstances that appear complicated. The right word first changes one's attitude so the view is more of reality that what it feels to be. It's the attitude that simplifies. It's the right word that sanctifies and purifies the attitude.
Gem workout.
Most people can't wait for the end of a question before answering it. Not seeing where one is led by the question causes us to fall into conversational traps-public or private. Hesitation allows for a bit of ambiguity to control the communication by bringing clarity. By doing this simple yet uncomfortable step, our next sentence doesn't miss what was said nor is it controlled by their last or a former remark.
A 10 second hesitation before speaking and then waiting an additional 10 seconds has not only resolved much conflict by bringing a calm to the moment, but has often allowed lagging insight to be discovered in real time that logic could not reach by continual talk.
Try it. You may learn to like it.
I don't like you because you don't listen to me, but I don't like me because I don't listen to you. Can you listen to me while thinking about me not listening to you?
Receptive and responsive.
The Mat is where it's at!
Unfolding of the mat gives light to purpose and prize
as unfolding of God's Word gives light, making the simple wise.
The mat is protection to the athlete from the fall.
It softens the blow when you give it your all.
It's boundaries are there to guide and to direct
as well as determine the fullness of effect
which is the grace of God for the elect.
On it flow tears of joy and celebration
as well as suffering and false accusation.
Limiting experience to it's presence by rules of law
it's the Spirit of such that removes the flaw.
To win and not lose seems the task,
The crown of victory is the mask.
Guidance by the eye of the Father
through which to trust and obey.
It's not to win or lose
but Grace to be able to play.
To be "Pro Wrestling",
you're "For the Struggle"
now limiting other choices
that were hard to juggle.
Whether and how you endure
with a spiritual and/or physical limp
It's God's strength that makes the weaknesses and temptations exempt. 11/27/2003
A knowledge of the truth depends not so much upon strength of intellect as upon pureness of purpose and the simplicity of a sincere dependent faith. Humility of heart seeks for divine guidance as angels of God draw near. The Holy Spirit is given to open the rich treasures of the truth.
Truth and daring is endearing as I champion my faith by getting back to the basics more basic than physics which is expressed as "I am what I am by the grace of God".
Since I know who I am, I will know what I'm doing.
When our breaking point becomes a turning point. This happens to the least of these in the smallest of things. An incremental step of hope through faith rather than a leap of faith. Leaps often just land us in a heap rather than hope.
Short prayers are long enough. They are a strength that multiplies even when things don't add up.
The gentle(compassionate) violence against your feelings as it leads to the action of movement or stillness where the miralculous moments are born.
Ours, not hours. Agreement, not appeasement. Communion of union, not a rally of two or more based on fear, suspicion, anger, or hatred. Timeless value brought through meaning and purpose.
The process of bringing out the person from behind the behavior.
Relentless unceasing tenderness that can be shared practically and experientially to strengthen and reroute if needed.
Open heart surge.
Mercy trumping judgement.
With our culture placing so much emphasis on external appearance, we have learned to become increasingly observant. Our commercials sell us products we don’t always need, and tell us that unless the product we’re buying into isn’t fast-acting, long-lasting, cheap, and appealing to the eyes, then it’s a waste of time. We follow suit when we are quick to throw out answers to questions that aren’t being asked to us, and even more so, giving solutions to problems we haven’t fully understood. What is inside of us that needs direct, on-the-spot problem solving, and how do we practice out and live by a deep-running faith that bears fruit of patience and understanding? It is not enough to just be observant or a servant. People who are keenly observant are often know-it-alls, and no one likes a know-it-all. Why? Because they don’t gain understanding from the facts they acquire, they just want knowledge, and they are hardly ever equipped with useful wisdom. Whimsical servants are often the ones on the front lines of the battle fields, but they don’t really know why they’re doing what they’re doing. While a willing heart might be good to help you move into your new house, we need leaders who ask for more than the work, but also the wisdom that is often found in the work.
An observant servant is one who is slow to speak and quick to listen, one who lays down his life for his brothers, not just when it’s convenient. It’s not enough to be able to call it like you see it (Matthew 16:1-3) or be a never-ending Yes Man, because both of these attributes without the Spirit are dead works.
In effective leadership, we must understand the difference between guessing and leading, obligation and servanthood, and between observation and discernment. There are gifts the Spirit gives that surpass every bit of earthly logic, if we would only just recognize that Spirit within us. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is also finishing a work inside us. With patience and kindness, we are being renewed, with an open invitation into life-giving change. We ought to extend the same invitation to ourselves and to those around us.
Witless wittiness or should I say misguided use of humor that requires a victim rather than affection.
Be a man or woman! Go and do without affection. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps into the deceit of thinking through your feet. Kick ass rather than wash the feet of others first. In truth let your feet be washed by someone first in order to know the humility of another to enable you to see the path that you may also walk in peace with power.
Let eye cons be eye cons.