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Colors Day

Today is colors day, or Show Your Colors Day.  The day at the start of the College Football season that you are to wear the colors of the team that you support.  It’s not a new day here at the Buffet,  I have written about it the last couple of years ( here and here).

I am working from home today as I get ready for the big holiday weekend – and to save a little gas, since the prices shot up at ae ridiculous rate this week.  Anyway, since I am working at home, it’s harder for me to show my colors, so I will do it with this little video, which also serves as a motivational tool.

Without Challenge, There Can Be No Mountaineers.

I love it!

Even if you are not a Mountaineer fan, I have you can take a little inspiration for the need to face challenges, and how those lead to advancement.  Challenges make you better, challenges hone your skills and challenges provide the path to reward.

Tackle the challenges in front of you.

 

17 Our temporary minor problems are producing an eternal stockpile of glory for us that is beyond all comparison. 2  Corinthians 4:17 Common English Bible (CEB)

 

11 We don’t enjoy discipline when we get it. It is painful. But later, after we have learned our lesson from it, we will enjoy the peace that comes from doing what is right.  12 You have become weak, so make yourselves strong again. 13 Live in the right way so that you will be saved and your weakness will not cause you to be lost.  Hebrews 12:11-13 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

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Telling Stories

Lately I have thought about how to tell a good story.  I think it’s imperative to learn good story telling to become a great communicator.  Maybe I am wrong, but that is where my mind has circled since last Thursday.

Sometimes I struggle to tell stories, and I think that even if I have great ideas they ideas are less effective because they are not packaged in the great wrapper that a story brings.

Of course, over time that has also let me to a few moments of thinking about making sure that now only could I tell good stories, but that the way I live also tells, or is telling, a good story.  That may even be the harder part!

What story is your life telling others today?

7 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we. 2 Corinthians 10:7 English Standard Version (ESV)

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Just Like Bathing.

It’s that time of the week again – Friday. And today I am pulling a little motivation from Mr Positive Thinking, Zig Ziglar

Yes, each and every day.  Each day you get to buffet yourself a little bit and keep working out the kinks!  Keep finding motivation, keep reinventing, keep pushing forward, and keep bathing!

16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16 English Standard Version (ESV)

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Quick Abs

When you watch the Olympics over the last few weeks you say way too many abdominal muscles. Yes, the ladies where showing 6 pack abs and flat tummies in almost every sport.  That seems to have produced some ab-envy in a lot of women (and men) around the world.  In the UK, the demand for liposuction services has greatly increased, and I find this quote recording in the U.K.’s Daily Mail from Donnamarie McBride, owner of LoveLite clinic owner just fascinating:

Since the Olympics started we’ve had a lot of women coming to us with pictures of Jessica Ennis saying they want to have a torso similar to hers, but they have said they need a bit of extra help because they struggle to get down to those levels with just a couple of gym sessions a week. … They all said they wanted to have a tummy like Jessica Ennis and they wanted to have it done as soon as we could fit them in.

Hm, instant abs!

Forget all the work all those Olympians put in to develop and tone those muscles – we want it right now!

And as we know about ourselves, we are the same in our spiritual life.  We see those who have great walks with the Creator and we want a relationship like that as well.  But we forget all the discipline and effort and work that it takes to establish those deep relationship and the complete surrender it requires.  In both instances – the physical work of the Olympic ladies and in the spiritual work of many others – they have given away themselves for their goal.

Lets make sure we put the work in we need to put it in  –  there is no spiritual liposuction! And the great thing is spiritually, we already have the promise of the Gold, we are actually working and disciplining ourselves because we have won!

“Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1 NIV

 

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Eternal Glory

Yesterday I finished my first triathlon.  What a great experience, and what a fantastic physical test.  I was really surprised how much transitioning from event to event took out of me – and how my focused waned as my strength decreased.  I am such a slacker.

However,  In many ways, it reminds me of the effort it can take through the day to keep your  eyes on the prize and your focus of reflecting the Light for those around you.

But when you hang in there, and keep grinding, you will be successful.  So today, be the light, and stay focused.

I know I shared this verse last week, but it’s still in my brain, so here it is again in a different form.

 

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 New International Version (NIV)