Today, upon rising, I felt really grateful for my good health and the ability to enjoy the precious gift of another lovely day.
Feeling a sense of awe that I am blessed in so many ways, I make my way down to breakfast awaiting me in the dining room.
Today, I would like to see those around me with fresh eyes. How can I concentrate on seeing hearts, not just appearances.
I believe I am often blind and too occupied with visible things to recognize my Heavenly Father’s Presence around me and in other’s lives.
I pause for a brief chat with one of our servers, who obviously begins her day very early — just to be here to graciously serve me and others. I was glad to have that moment to share my appreciation with her. "...man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7b).
I would like my life to be more about, "the heart of things.”
The endless bombardment of ads, trains us to have eyes for much that is not always that important, as they often absorb our minds with shallow surface things.
These days, the subject of "sex” and the #Me
Too Movement seems to be confronting us — front, back and centre on the newsstands and in our daily news broadcasts.
The long over due silence surrounding abuse, but now confessions from the clergy, many would say, is a positive step in the right direction.
A recent report — during the years between 1960 and 2016, we’re told, 6,700 priests have been accused of abusing children. Victims were silenced, as the abuse was covered up with the Catholic church destroying the files.
Now, the news media seems to think they have to expose the past sins of some of our former politicians. Perhaps it might help us to remember that we live in a fallen world, and all of us have and do sin in one way or another, and is one sin any greater than another in God’s eyes?
It might help us to remember — Numbers 32:22
"You may be sure that your sin will find you out."
— beulah
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