Today is a day with other priorities... I will try to write later, but may have to wait until tomorrow...
I hope that GOD will watch over us all.
15 JULY 2015 :: Starting the day with prayers...
I stated my online duties early today... and actually was able to open my Bible for reading again. I wound up in Deuteronomy 5/6 where there is another passage about the 10 Commandments. It is always a difficult reminder of how far we have fallen from what is best. I was looking for a good verse to share at my Etsy forum thread for Bible sharing... and wound up summarizing the ten big concepts plus a few verses that follow it.
When I went to my Facebook page, there was a need for prayer. I have taken to writing prayers as I go... the best I can, for all to see, so that the prayer is actually made. It is too easy for me to say I will pray and then not follow through. I do the best I can.
When I went to my Twitter account, I decided to add some short prayers... and wound up with more than one. I think Twitter may be the place I do this more often. I have been trying to decide what to do at each site... I already add daily "Today I am thankful for..." posts at Facebook and another Etsy Team thread.
I am finding these all help me keep my focus going in the right directions, especially when I am more homebound than I have been in the past.
It is hard to keep our lives in touch with GOD and all that He is. We can fill our days with a lot of activities, and many of them have no meaning in the global sense, or deepen our spiritual levels, or affect either us or others. Household chores have to be done, we have to eat and sleep and shower and shop, and there is always some kind of "work" to do for our money needs.
When I remember to start the day with reading the Bible, it is a totally different kind of day. My time with the Bible reminds me of my relationship with GOD, the expectations we have for each other, and my commitment to what is right and good.
A young person came to the door the other day, sharing the gospel of OSPIRG (currently antibiotics in our food supplies). In talking to this person, I mentioned that the real issues is morals. If people were governed by a moral code (Biblical standards), they wouldn't be doing the things that are causing havoc in our world. The rest of the world has no moral code or a different moral code than the Bible. What standard is the best? How does a government operate without some kind of moral code? (It becomes the moral code of the dictator if it isn't a separate document, but we can see that documents are subject to interpretations by the current populations -- so they don't guarantee success, either.)
I came across a Facebook post last night that was also focused on how we make our decisions, and was prompted to enter a comment about how our beliefs create our behavior. I found it and have pasted it below ::
We become like the people we are surrounded by... no matter who we are, where we are, or what we are trying to accomplish... work, play, school, prison, family, neighborhood, charity, and all the activities that we become involved in. That can be a good thing or a harmful thing...
I made a decision to follow the influence of GOD, the words He has shared with us in the Bible, and the boundaries they present. It has changed my life and helped me in ways that cannot be explained to either believer or non-believer. We each have a personal relationship with GOD even when we are sharing the same Bible.
I have tested GOD, tested His Words, and I would challenge anyone to do the same. GOD is GOD, He doesn't lie, and we can depend on Him, even when we don't like what is happening in our lives. Once we understand that HE is the authority, we can begin to interpret the words that we read in the Bible for ourselves.
This is important because each man is at a different place in the learning process and has a different task in the Kingdom... we see the "elephant" with different eyes, so our sharing with the rest of the world becomes based on what we see at that time.
I am not saying that any part of what the Bible says is wrong... I am saying that GOD is the authority, not the men we sometimes put in a place of authority. You need to test GOD for yourself and make sure you know what is true and what is not.
When I went to my Facebook page, there was a need for prayer. I have taken to writing prayers as I go... the best I can, for all to see, so that the prayer is actually made. It is too easy for me to say I will pray and then not follow through. I do the best I can.
When I went to my Twitter account, I decided to add some short prayers... and wound up with more than one. I think Twitter may be the place I do this more often. I have been trying to decide what to do at each site... I already add daily "Today I am thankful for..." posts at Facebook and another Etsy Team thread.
I am finding these all help me keep my focus going in the right directions, especially when I am more homebound than I have been in the past.
It is hard to keep our lives in touch with GOD and all that He is. We can fill our days with a lot of activities, and many of them have no meaning in the global sense, or deepen our spiritual levels, or affect either us or others. Household chores have to be done, we have to eat and sleep and shower and shop, and there is always some kind of "work" to do for our money needs.
When I remember to start the day with reading the Bible, it is a totally different kind of day. My time with the Bible reminds me of my relationship with GOD, the expectations we have for each other, and my commitment to what is right and good.
A young person came to the door the other day, sharing the gospel of OSPIRG (currently antibiotics in our food supplies). In talking to this person, I mentioned that the real issues is morals. If people were governed by a moral code (Biblical standards), they wouldn't be doing the things that are causing havoc in our world. The rest of the world has no moral code or a different moral code than the Bible. What standard is the best? How does a government operate without some kind of moral code? (It becomes the moral code of the dictator if it isn't a separate document, but we can see that documents are subject to interpretations by the current populations -- so they don't guarantee success, either.)
I came across a Facebook post last night that was also focused on how we make our decisions, and was prompted to enter a comment about how our beliefs create our behavior. I found it and have pasted it below ::
Your beliefs create your behavior... and peer pressure, running with the crowd, and gang affiliations, all create your behavior because they become the way you think.... People who believe in the Bible strive to discover what GOD thinks and make it part of their lives, and it translates into their behavior. --- I think your beliefs come before your behavior.
We become like the people we are surrounded by... no matter who we are, where we are, or what we are trying to accomplish... work, play, school, prison, family, neighborhood, charity, and all the activities that we become involved in. That can be a good thing or a harmful thing...
I made a decision to follow the influence of GOD, the words He has shared with us in the Bible, and the boundaries they present. It has changed my life and helped me in ways that cannot be explained to either believer or non-believer. We each have a personal relationship with GOD even when we are sharing the same Bible.
I have tested GOD, tested His Words, and I would challenge anyone to do the same. GOD is GOD, He doesn't lie, and we can depend on Him, even when we don't like what is happening in our lives. Once we understand that HE is the authority, we can begin to interpret the words that we read in the Bible for ourselves.
This is important because each man is at a different place in the learning process and has a different task in the Kingdom... we see the "elephant" with different eyes, so our sharing with the rest of the world becomes based on what we see at that time.
I am not saying that any part of what the Bible says is wrong... I am saying that GOD is the authority, not the men we sometimes put in a place of authority. You need to test GOD for yourself and make sure you know what is true and what is not.
14 JULY 2015 :: Looking ahead...
Today was a day of getting ahead of the messes... doing laundry, cleaning my dishes, etc. I wrote a letter to my son in prison. Prayed for all of my sons. Ate too much. Had to rest. and then hit the computer to get to here.
I write a message of thanks every day now... and I have expanded the posting of it to both Facebook and my original Etsy forum thread. This was today's entry.
Tuesday, 14 JULY 2015
Another day filled with fun! :-)
Today I am thankful for ... I'm not sure...I did a lot of household chores today... so I guess I am happy I have running water, access to a washer and dryer, a shower, shampoo and soap and toothpaste and a toothbrush... I am very thankful I am a Christian and see the world through the eyes of GOD because it changes everything... I am thankful for little furry animals that think they are fierce when they attack anything that moves... and I am thankful I don't have much left to get done and will be able to go to bed soon. :-)
I am trying to rebuild my website, but there are issues preventing me...so I keep trying to plan what it might become. I will make a section somewhere with links to all the places I am connected with, like Facebook, Twitter, my thankful posts, all of my blog topics, and Etsy, Fiverr, etc. Once I have them all in one place, and listed at Working Together, I will feel like they are connected and accessible. Right now I haven't figured out how to do that, so writing blog posts seems to be futile. My website will have new links to the things I want to sell through/for Working Together to provide for its income needs. Waiting is hard, but GOD is big enough to deal with all the issues I am praying about.
I watched an old movie about a Los Angeles earthquake, but I am wondering about the theme... it was definitely low-budget, and it had a "subway" -- I don't remember a subway in Los Angeles. Nothing in the film seemed to identify the location, and the transit name was "CTA" -- City Transit Authority. :-) I kind of recognized some of the characters... long time ago people. I have no idea when it was made. I was laughing at some of the old film techniques, like a fire in a closed tunnel that doesn't eat up all their oxygen... and breaking open a water main that they think will somehow stop flowing on its own (it doesn't)... and a lot of angry characters that make peace with themselves and the world by the end of the movie. :-) I suppose a new version would have a lot of computer-generated "reality" and be... I'm not sure, I have seen the new movies.
It was hard for me to believe that Pluto has a heart shape on it. Is that like the cheese the moon is made of? :-) I think it is great something is leaving our solar system... I hope it sends back some really great photos...and we finally know what is out there. I don't know how it lasted this long. I would have thought an asteroid or space debris of some kind would have destroyed it by now. How does it stay out of the path of everything??? The spaceship Enterprise is probably being built right now, we just don't know it yet. :-)
On Iran... I wonder who believes they will actually honor their agreement...
I may have to start making more comments on what I hear in the news... I may end up with ten pages of text! :-)
See you tomorrow, GOD willing.
I write a message of thanks every day now... and I have expanded the posting of it to both Facebook and my original Etsy forum thread. This was today's entry.
Tuesday, 14 JULY 2015
Another day filled with fun! :-)
Today I am thankful for ... I'm not sure...I did a lot of household chores today... so I guess I am happy I have running water, access to a washer and dryer, a shower, shampoo and soap and toothpaste and a toothbrush... I am very thankful I am a Christian and see the world through the eyes of GOD because it changes everything... I am thankful for little furry animals that think they are fierce when they attack anything that moves... and I am thankful I don't have much left to get done and will be able to go to bed soon. :-)
I am trying to rebuild my website, but there are issues preventing me...so I keep trying to plan what it might become. I will make a section somewhere with links to all the places I am connected with, like Facebook, Twitter, my thankful posts, all of my blog topics, and Etsy, Fiverr, etc. Once I have them all in one place, and listed at Working Together, I will feel like they are connected and accessible. Right now I haven't figured out how to do that, so writing blog posts seems to be futile. My website will have new links to the things I want to sell through/for Working Together to provide for its income needs. Waiting is hard, but GOD is big enough to deal with all the issues I am praying about.
I watched an old movie about a Los Angeles earthquake, but I am wondering about the theme... it was definitely low-budget, and it had a "subway" -- I don't remember a subway in Los Angeles. Nothing in the film seemed to identify the location, and the transit name was "CTA" -- City Transit Authority. :-) I kind of recognized some of the characters... long time ago people. I have no idea when it was made. I was laughing at some of the old film techniques, like a fire in a closed tunnel that doesn't eat up all their oxygen... and breaking open a water main that they think will somehow stop flowing on its own (it doesn't)... and a lot of angry characters that make peace with themselves and the world by the end of the movie. :-) I suppose a new version would have a lot of computer-generated "reality" and be... I'm not sure, I have seen the new movies.
It was hard for me to believe that Pluto has a heart shape on it. Is that like the cheese the moon is made of? :-) I think it is great something is leaving our solar system... I hope it sends back some really great photos...and we finally know what is out there. I don't know how it lasted this long. I would have thought an asteroid or space debris of some kind would have destroyed it by now. How does it stay out of the path of everything??? The spaceship Enterprise is probably being built right now, we just don't know it yet. :-)
On Iran... I wonder who believes they will actually honor their agreement...
I may have to start making more comments on what I hear in the news... I may end up with ten pages of text! :-)
See you tomorrow, GOD willing.
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