Month: January 2014

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A New Thing

We are now nine days into the year and almost through the first working week.  I hope that you are noticing differences in your thoughts.  I hope that you are beginning to see the start of the transformations you dreamed of last week.  And I hope that you are able to shout this!

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:19 NIV)

Now of course, this is not really a reference to making changes in your heart.  This is really a message of the Creator making changes in Israel and bringing salvation around again.  However, I think this is a verse that you could ponder throughout the day. As you turn it over, I am sure you can discover the rich connection it has with the renewal we experience through the Christ and his new thing – complete forgiveness, mercy and grace.

 

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Snow Miser

Well that Polar Vertex was/is something else.  Unfortunately, I traveled to the south-west and missed most of the major impacts.  That being sad, I was not lying on a warm beach feeling the heat from the sun!

The really neat thing about extremes like this is that the magnificence of God is on display.  I hope that during this time of lower than normal temperatures you took a moment to look at the way ice formed on your window,  the way the grass bent as it attempted to find a place of warmth, and the way the sky was so unbelievable crystal clear.  I hope that you noticed other new and wonderful things.  Wonderful things designed and made by your Creator.  Yes, it’s dangerous as well – another indication of the attributes of the Creator.

So, find a nice blanket and protect yourself, but also take time to recount and to look at this world,  HIS world. Then, let us be humbled and be thankful we have such a God on our side.

He sends his command to the earth;
his word runs swiftly.
16 He spreads the snow like wool
and scatters the frost like ashes.
17 He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
Who can withstand his icy blast?
18 He sends his word and melts them;
he stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow. Ps 147:15-18 NIV

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No Try

As the year gets off to a rip-roaring start, I think it’s time to revisit one of the great master teachers – Yoda.

 

Do, or do not, there is no try.

What great sound advice for 2014.  No trying, only doing!

23 Whatever you do, do your work from the soul, as for the Lord and not for men, Colossians 3:23  (NASB)

 

 

 

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Best Day Ever

This quote from Emerson is a great way to start Monday, which I assume for many of you is the first working day of the year.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

How you approach today is certainly up to you! Make each one count!

teach us to keep account of our days so we may develop inner wisdom. Psalms 90:12 ISV

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Counting Marbles – 52

It’s the first Friday of 2014, which means the first weekend of 2014 is right upon us.  There are only 52 of these bad boys this year, so let’s make each of them count!  That’s sort of the thing you do when you plan to spend the year focused on doing.

Speaking of counting, I found this great app that allows you to count down to an event or a time period.  It’s based on the common practice of placing marbles in a jar and removing one each day or each week as a visual reminder of the time that you (might) have left.  You can see the app here.  Download it and start marking the time you have.  It’s a great motivator.

I know I shared this verse just a few weeks ago, but for some reason it is at the forefront of my mind, so it doesn’t hurt to consider it again.  Especially as we approach the end of week number 1.

 

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.  Psalm 90:12 (KJV)