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A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment (Kindle Location 182). Kindle Edition. There are so many choices to be made in a moment but only a few that will make a difference, only one or two that are divine moments. Have you ever realized that you were living a divine moment, that you were being used by God to make a difference?   For sure of all the choices it was not the easiest one to make.   There was some effort on your part, maybe even some risking and for sure there was an inward battle but there is always a reward.   Sometimes you reap the reward immediately but most of the times it is down the road but there will be a reward. For me writing has a divine twist to it but it always has some difficulty attached to it.   I mean there is always some reading ahead of time and that takes effort especially the right kind of reading.   I love reading mysteries.   I just finished one mystery on my Kindle and just

A thought by Kyle Idleman (2011-05-24) from his book, Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus (p. 62). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. Kyle gives an illustration that really emphasizes this point.   Let’s say you are taking your son fishing.   He is going to be with you and he is so excited.   But as the day goes by the fish aren’t biting and you slowly grow frustrated and disappointed.   As you are going home you are quiet and clearly upset.   Now what that shows is that catching fish not spending time with your son is clearly more important to you.   That is clearly a wrong priority. Now to the son, just being with his dad is exciting no matter how many fish he or his dad catches.   His only disappointment possibly would be in realizing what was important to his dad, catching fish, not being with him. What do your disappointments show is clearly a priority to you?   Is it a misplaced or a correct priority?   Now this is a great way to search out and

A thought by John C. Maxwell, (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 6). Center Street. Kindle Edition. Yesterday afternoon after I had written my blog I was reading it and realized that I had left a word out and I had also misspelled a couple of words.   I had already sent it out on the internet super highway with these mistakes.   Now I had a couple of options.   I could have gone to my dashboard and deleted the whole blog feeling ashamed and defeated vowing to never write a blog ever again or I could add the word and fix the misspelled words and then repost and come back again today striving to do better proof reading and here I am today.   Now I don’t like making mistakes but at least I am trying to make a difference, mistakes and all.   I like another statement that John made, “To become intentional about growing, (which we were dealing with in yesterday’s blog) expect to make mistakes every day, and welcome

A thought by John C Maxwell,. (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of   Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 3). Center Street. Kindle Edition . You see there is work in improvement. Do you every watch any of those TV shows where those people are walking through Home Depot dreaming about what they could do in their house and this guy comes up and he says he can do it in three days.   They then have to make a decision of whether they want it or not.   I mean they are going to have to kill themselves for three days in order for it to happen.   And some people don’t take the risk and lose out. On my other blog, bill’s front porch , I just finished looking at setting goals at the beginning of the new year to make improvements in ourselves.   Only 5% of people set goals and they are the most successful people around.     They realize that you cannot reach your potential without being intentional about it. Now the real reason why I write this blo

A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his book, What Matters Most: How We Got the Point but Missed the Person (Kindle Locations 2277-2278). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition . So many don’t really realize it but the most important thing in our lives is our relationships.   God showed that by His creating us so He could have a relationship with us and Christ showed that by His coming to earth.   Adam our representative broke the relationship with God and Christ came to heal it through His death. Now that is also true with us and our broken relationships with others.   Remember how Jesus said, “ Father… forgive us the wrongs we have done ”, that is healing our relationship with God, “ as we forgive the wrongs others have done to us”, that deals with our broken relationship with others.   That means in order for us to have a relationship with God we need to ask for forgiveness of our rejection of Him and also the wrongs, the sins we have done against Him.   Then w

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment (Kindle Location 1925). Kindle Edition. That statement really hit me as I just read it.   Somewhere we have gotten into our minds that this is heaven.   That we live an existence of continual peace and we are given everything we want on a platter.   That if we have obstacles in our task that God has given us to do then it must mean that we are not where we should be.   When in reality we may be exactly where we should be. Life is good but it may not be easy.   I am reading the story of Jesus over and over and His was not an easy life.   What would have happened to us if He would have run from battles that He faced every day?   We would not be experiencing the opportunities and the privileges that we have every day in our life. I am retired from the responsibilities of being a pastor of a local church and I sometimes slip in to believing that I am not still a part of the ba

A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his book, Viral: How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Revival (p. 19). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition. That is so true.   I am right now sitting at a Starbucks writing this.   When many people find out that I spend a lot of my time at Starbucks they will usually say something about the coffee.   And I want to jokingly say, “Oh, do they serve coffee?”   I don’t come to Starbucks for the coffee, I come for the people.   It is a place where I can connect with people.   The truth is I have found that “life is at its best when it involves other people.”   Have you found that out yet? If you have spent any time on my 2 blogs, you know that I am retired.   For 3 ½ years my wife Margaret worked at home.   She would work but it also meant that we could have lunch together.   In other words, she was accessible to me but now she works in an office.   That means she leaves at 7 am and comes home at 6 pm five days a week.   That