Complaining is like singing a praise song to the enemy of our soul.
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· You choose to pick your battles, as opposed to reacting to every little situation.
· You become less concerned with what is popular, and more concerned about what is right.
· You recognize that boundaries are meant for protection, and not as a barrier to the good stuff.
· You become less concerned with quantity, and more concerned with quality.
· You spend more time focusing on the big picture, and less time worrying about minor issues.
· You become less concerned with your own well-being, and more concerned with the welfare of others.
· You stop feeling the need to push your way to the front of every line.
· You become less impressed by people’s accomplishments, and place a greater value on their character.
· You find yourself being more driven by what needs to be done than by how you feel about it.
· You spend more time being grateful for what you have than you spend worrying about what you don’t.
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There is a rather significant difference between forgiveness and trust. Forgiveness is simply a matter of releasing a transgressor from their debt. But when trust has been violated and thereby lost, it takes substantially more to rebuild a relationship. Transgressors are fond of thinking that if they’ve truly been forgiven, everything will return to the way it was, but that is not true. While God does command us to forgive, He does not require us to place our trust in those who have proven to be unworthy of it.
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Time has no conscience. It is indifferent to our lack of preparation, our confusion, our fear, and our pain. It will not stop for us when we stumble, and it will not slow for us when we fall behind. It is unrelenting, unforgiving and unrepentant.
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Given the requisite age of rock stars from the late 1960s, and early 1970s, it’s not really surprising that many of these pop culture icons are passing away. This last week has seen two significant figures from the world of rock and roll step into the annals of music history. First it was David Bowie, whose eclectic collection of musical styles, and personas, made him impossible to categorize. If you’ve never listened to his music, here are ten cuts worth seeking out:
- Space Oddity (from the 1969 album, “Space Oddity”)
- Changes (from the 1971 album, “Hunky Dory”)
- Ziggy Stardust (from the 1972 album, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars”)
- Suffragette City (from the 1972 album, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars”)
- Rebel, Rebel (from the 1974 album, “Diamond Dogs”)
- Fame (from the 1975 album, “Young Americans”)
- Golden Years (from the 1976 album, “Station to Station”)
- Ashes to Ashes (from the 1980 album, “Scary Monsters”)
- Fashion (from the 1980 album, “Scary Monsters”)
- Under Pressure – w/Queen (released in 1981 as a single, and included on the 1982 Queen album, “Hot Spaces”)
In recent days, Glenn Frey, of the band “The Eagles”, also passed away. After starting out as background singers for Linda Ronstadt, Frey and drummer Don Henley went on to form what became one of the most successful rock bands of all-time. Though detractors have often criticized the groups soft-rock, country tinged sound, the music buying public devoured their records, and turned out in mass for their concerts. If you’ve never listened to their music, here are ten cuts work seeking out:
- Peaceful Easy Feeling (from the 1972 album, “Eagles”)
- Desperado (from the 1973 album, “Desperado”)
- Bitter Creek (from the 1973 album, “Desperado”)
- Best of My Love (from the 1974 album, “On the Border”)
- One of These Nights (from the 1975 album, “One of These Nights”)
- Lyin’ Eyes (from the 1975 album, “One of These Nights”)
- Hotel California (from the 1976 album, “Hotel California”)
- Life in the Fast Lane (from the 1976 album, “Hotel California”)
- Wasted Time (from the 1976 album, “Hotel California”)
- Seven Bridges Road (from the 1980 album “Eagles Live”)
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I believe that we as “Christians” like to think of our hardships as suffering for Jesus’ sake. But unless we are partaking of the “divine nature”, genuinely attempting to follow the leading of His Spirit, and/or manifesting the character of Christ, it is doubtful that we are actually sharing in His sufferings. More often than not, we are simply reaping the consequences of acting in our own strength, and doing what is “right” in our own eyes.
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It seems to me that life is lived amidst the tension between who we were created to be, and who we’ve always been. And that in moments of forced sobriety, and silent lucidity, we are confronted by the sense that there must be more to life than what we are experiencing. Though we like to think of ourselves as victims of circumstance, we come face to face with the reality that we are far more responsible for the state of our condition than we’d ever care to admit. The fact that we make bad decisions does nothing more than qualify us as members of the human race. But a steady refusal to learn from those mistakes, or to change direction, will ultimately brand us a fool.
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Thought for the Day – Growing Up
February 2, 2016 by bjcorbin
There is a rather significant difference between getting older and growing up. It is similar to the contrast between voluntary and involuntary muscles.
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