Chosen [adjective]: selected as the best or most appropriate, marked for favor or special privilege But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9 NIV Even before he made the world, God…
Month: August 2022
Choosing
Choosing [verb]: picking out or select (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life. Joel Osteen Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good. C. S. Lewis Discipline is…
Choice
Choice [noun]: the act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities Your personal choices matter. And you have the power. Use it. Gloria Feldt I have chosen to be faithful; I have determined to live by your regulations. Psalm 119:30 NLT Managing the power of choice, with all its creative…
Creating
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth … Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us … Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!Genesis 1:1, 26a, 31a New Living Translation Research show that everyone is creative, which…
God’s Joy
I found this in a book I’m reading (LifeSpace: the practice of life with God). It sings to me of God’s amazing creative joy. Morning PersonA poem by Vassar Miller God, best at making in the morning, tossedstars and planets, singing and dancing, rolledSaturn’s rings spinning and humming, twirled the earthso hard it coughed and…
Give & Take
Life is full of give and take: give thanks and take nothing for granted. (unknown) It’s easier to take than to give. It’s nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime. Joan Marques
“Give”
“Take” usually partners with the word “give.” Give grace … give honor … give encouragement … give witness … Give to the Lord the glory he deserves! Psalm 96:8a NLT Give gifts … give help … give money … give flowers … Give to everyone what you owe them … and give respect and honor to those…
On the “Take”
English is a funny language. Take, for instance, the word … “take.” We “take” a lot of things: Take a shower. Take medicine. Take a hint. Take an interest. Take a moment … take a break … take a breath … take a look … take a nap … Take a walk … take the…
Sunflowers
I didn’t think I liked sunflowers, until one planted itself in my garden. Now I think they are the perfect embodiment of August. Sunflowers are about hopefulness and positivity. Even on cloudy days, sunflowers follow the sun. The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it…
Music … Rests
“There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by “rests,” and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts,…