Just Continue That Thought...

A thought by Maria Goff (2017-03-07) from her book, Love Lives Here: Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want (Kindle Location 1522). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) That is such a good realistic thought.   But it is something we don’t always do, is it? Maria says, “More than once, when Bob has walked in through the front door and our first interaction doesn’t feel like the kindness and compassion we’re shooting for in our relationship, I’ve sent him right back outside. I make him get back in the car and we take it from the top again. I’m not kidding. Good love sometimes takes some do-overs. In fact, it insists on them. Don’t miss out on the chance to use a couple of your own. Each time you do, it’s like putting a flag in the sand declaring what kind of love you want to inhabit your home. Raise that flag every day. It’s a flag representing both surrender and resolve. Do whatever it takes t

A thought by Maria Goff (2017-03-07) from her book, Love Lives Here: Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want (Kindle Location 1384). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Margaret and I live in an apartment.   What that means is it becomes easy to be annoyed with a barking dog or the noise from a party next door or the stomping on the floor upstairs.   But Jesus said one time that we are to love our neighbors.   They are very important to Him. Maria said, “Our neighbors aren’t our projects and we’re not theirs. I’ve learned most of what I know about loving my neighbors by being on the receiving end of the kind of love Jesus talked about from them. When I was in elementary school, a neighbor invited me to go to church with them for the first time. I felt included and it made me feel loved. In college, when my friend in the next dorm room asked me to join her for the weekend to visit family, I fe

A thought by Maria Goff (2017-03-07) from her book, Love Lives Here: FindingWhat You Need in a World Telling You What You Want (Kindle Location 920). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) So, do you want to make a difference for God today?   Maria said, “When our kids were really young, we took them up to the place where the Rose Parade floats were being made a few days before the event. They didn’t know I had sat on top of one of the floats so many years earlier. It didn’t matter to them or to me. Each of the kids glued a petal or two on the float. You know what’s crazy? When each of the kids was done, they felt like they’d made the whole thing. They hadn’t, of course, but what they did do was contribute. Sure, what they had done was as small as one flower petal, yet it was huge to them. They were no longer spectators, they were participants. They were part of adding just a little bit to the beauty. It’s what we