In picking a partner for beach volleyball it’s undoubtedly preferable to choose ability, strength, endurance, perseverance… over how one might look in a bathing suit. I would also suggest this strategy when looking for a life partner.
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Thought for the Day – Picking a Partner
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged ability, endurance, life partner, partner, perserverance, picking a partner, strength on September 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Through Your Eyes
Posted in Free Verse / Poetry, Heart of "The Father", tagged alone, beautywithin, broken, clarity, crushing, dimly, disillusionment, exterior, failure, frustration, gain my life, get even, grace, hope, judgment, leaning, liberating, lose my life, mercy, patience, pessimism, pleasing, pride, renewing, righteousness, roiling sea, self-sufficiency, Spirit, strength, tattered rags, through your eyes, trust, unpleasant, vulnerable, walking on water, weakness on June 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
What I see as a failure (2Cor.12:9)
You see as learning
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What I view with self-sufficiency (Prov.14:12)
You see as pride
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What I see as a chance to get even (Matt.6:14-15)
You see as an opportunity for mercy
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What I view with frustration (Isa.40:31)
You view with patience
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What I view as crushing (2Cor.12:9)
You see as renewing
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What I view as being made vulnerable (Matt.18:3)
You see as an opportunity to trust
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What I view with pessimism (1Pet.3:15)
You view with hope
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What I view as my own righteousness (Isa.64:6)
You view as tattered rags
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What I view through a broken exterior (1Sam.16:7)
You view through the beauty within
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What I see as unpleasant to the body (Gal.5:17)
You see as pleasing to the spirit
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What I see as disillusionment (John 8:31-32)
You see as liberating
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What I see as an opportunity to gain my life (Matt.16:25)
You see as the threat of losing it
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What I view as an occasion of my weakness (2Cor.12:9)
You see as an opportunity to manifest Your strength
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What I view in judgment (Matt.7:1-3)
You see with grace
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What I see dimly (1Cor.13:12)
You see with absolute clarity
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What I view as a roiling sea (Matt.14:30)
You view as a chance to walk on water
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What I view as being alone (Heb.13:5)
You view as being alone with You
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Lord, help me to see through Your eyes (Isa.55:8-9, 1Cor.3:19, 2Cor.4:18)
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Thought for the Day – True Strength
Posted in Commentaries, Opinions, Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged challenged, strength on November 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The strength that actually matters in this life cannot be forged in the gym. Though we should endeavor to maintain some level of reasonable health, we are rarely called upon to bring substantial physical power to a situation. On the other hand, we are challenged intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually, on an almost daily basis. Thus, qualities like the ability to think clearly when chaos reigns around us, or to put others needs above our own, or to continue to love when our heart has been crushed, or to hold onto our values in the face of rampant compromise, or to have faith in the midst of the storm… prove to be of far greater worth. Yet, as a society we seem much more focused on our physical state, while these other aspects of our being remain weak and under-developed. One day, our bodies will be buried in the dirt, and it will be what we did with the rest of us that ultimately determines how we are remembered.
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