Your Pride Will Flatten You!

Pride is a certain path to defeat and failure. A man's pride shall bring him low. Your pride is no different! (Neither is mine.) DEATH TO PRIDE!

Pride is a certain path to defeat and failure.

I know — experience ain’t complicated on this one!

I know — the Bible ain’t complicated either!

Pride will bring people low.

Pride puts individuals on a collision course with divine resistance.

That is true of pride in general.

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2013 Things To Do in 2013

The key to resolutions (new year's or otherwise) is to make them when they need to be made. If you need to do something different, don't wait til January 1.

I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions.

I also do…

  • Old Year’s Resolutions. (They happen toward the end of a year.)
  • New Day’s Resolutions
  • New Week’s Resolutions
  • Today’s Middle-of-the-Day’s Resolutions

The key to making effective resolutions is to make them when they need to be made. If you need to do something different or new, don’t wait til January 1!

Without regard to this post’s title, some items on my 2013 To Do list: Read it all

Looking at a Towering Stack of Failure?

If you are, may I entice you with hope in the midst of failure, defeat, and discouragement? All things are possible with Christ! He is the God of all hope.

I just read From this day forward by Andrée Seu Peterson. Wow!

Before giving you the link to her article, some excerpts to entice you with hope in the midst of failure, defeat, and discouragement:

He has given me a husband who lost 30 years in addiction and 12 years in prison and who assures me constantly it’s not too late because God will use every bit of it for our good, our children’s good, and His glory, and will restore all the years that the locusts have eaten.

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Trouble and Tea Meet in Dorcas Smucker’s Teapot

I pour myself a cupload for the hilarity...and am not disappointed. Then I discover the life lessons...and am blessed.

Closing his devotional at a recent Hopewell business meeting, our former bishop remarked that he’d been reading a new book that afternoon and had a quote for us:

When he concluded with “by Dorcas Smucker,” I knew which book he’d been reading. 🙂

A few days after that, I was chatting a bit with one of my high school Spanish students. She had just slipped back into school from her first round of chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Read it all

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