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“Remember, you’ve only got so much time in a day.”

A thought by James MacDonald (2010-05-03) from his book, 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever (Kindle Location 2992). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Now this thought needs to be a push to prioritize your life.   And James says that after God, family must be the first priority that all others must go through. He emphasizes, “You just don’t have room at the top of your priority list for things that don’t immediately concern you and your family. Causes are fine, but your greatest efforts need to be serving the people under your own roof or who bear your name. You don’t have the capacity to be involved in every good cause and driven by every worthy mission. If you try, you’re just going to wear out your family! Priority choices come right after capacity choices because priorities help us assign our limited capacities to whom and what is best served.” He goes on, “What’s more, you can’t be everyone’s

“Worry keeps you from doing what you can do today to affect a better future.”

A thought by James MacDonald (2010-05-03) from his book, 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever (Kindle Location 2570). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Oh if we would see this and learn this and make the right choices.   James says, “Fear focuses on what you cannot control. Worry keeps you from doing what you can do today to affect a better future. Worry chokes your ability to make good choices today. Fretting about the future does not alter it.” Here check out some of our worries… James says, “Worrying about the future doesn’t change my health, but it does insulate me from doing the positive things that affect my future today.” “I can love my family today, first and foremost. I can pray for them, forgive them, and ask forgiveness of them. I can serve them. Worrying about them might help me feel like I’m involved somehow, but all I’m doing is spinning my wheels in the mud. I have to admit I can’

“Many of us know we’re lugging around too much baggage from the past.”

A thought by James MacDonald (2010-05-03) from his book, 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever (Kindle Location 2059). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) James goes on, “But we also have a sneaky suspicion that we’re stuck with it.”   It is so easy to feel that way isn’t it?   Maybe that is how you feel. James then says, “Has anyone ever told you that God didn’t make you with the capacity to carry forward the residue of all the negatives from your past? He doesn’t expect you to store it or ignore it. We call it emotional baggage, but parts of our past are really more like toxic trash or radioactive waste. It’s unstable and explosive. We can’t throw it in a mental hall closet, lock the door, and hope for the best. If we try, the pressure will build until the closet explodes, throwing serious shrapnel on everyone around us.” And so many people live that way.   Maybe you do.   What kind of emotional bagg

“Some people treat the Bible like rental car insurance.”

A thought by James MacDonald (2010-05-03) from his book, 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever (Kindle Location 1660). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Now the Bible is God’s Word.   His word has the power to do unbelievable things in our life.   As James says, “The Bible is the decree of God. God has eternally determined that what is written there will happen. That’s why, in the face of temptation, Jesus said, It is written . . . it is written . It will be as God said.” But so many of us don’t treat it like that.   As James says, “ So me people treat the Bible like rental car insurance.” He says, “I would guess that most people waive the extra rental car insurance. If you’re like me, you think to yourself, The rental car costs plenty already. Now they want me to add $ 35 a day for the insurance? I haven’t had an accident in ten years. What are the chances that I’m going to have an accident today? S