"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might" – Ecc9:10
The personal blog of Michael J Pierce
Relating my testimony as a follower of Jesus Christ
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Gerald: [the men are discussing the prospect of going to war with the North] And what does the captain of our troops say?
Ashley: Well, gentlemen, if Georgia fights, I go with her.
It’s a beautiful Sunday morning.
There is a gentle breeze that moves the various chimes and bells I’ve accumulated, to produce a heavenly twinkling of sound. The morning sunlight is absolutely GOLDEN and rains have greened the grass and the garden.
I’m on the back deck, studying the Bible, contemplating that which has happened to me, and that which is still to be faced. My spirit is soaring and I am reminded of this beautiful hymn.
I believe more strongly than I ever have and am, this morning, filled with a sense of gratefulness and praise for this beautiful morning.
If you don’t pitch a fit every once and a while, are you truly alive? You go through life, and nothing makes you really happy or really sad, or really mad?
The only way I know is not to care. Don’t have skin in the game. Stay where it’s safe.
I don’t want to be like that. I want to take sides. Believe in something.
Here’s to pitching a fit, whether you’re right or wrong.
Oh, yeah, How ’bout Them Dawgs!!!
“Disappointments are inevitable, discouragement is a choice”.
That quote was heavy on my mind, as I navigated the truck from Columbia back to Loganville. As I worked my way through the Kubler-Ross Model, I admit that I lingered on step 2 for quite a while.
Throughout my life, I’ve kept so many sayings, quotes, and stories that I often lose attribution, who said that?
What I have learned in the past shapes the person I will be in the future, so it is in these crossroad moments of disappointment, that I make choices to heed the learnings or ignore the learnings. My capacity for “breaking bad” is high.
Finally, I confronted step 4 and that saying popped in my mind: “Disappointments are inevitable, discouragement is a choice”. The choice was obvious for me: I won’t get discouraged.
This morning I googled the saying to get who said it. Wow #20!. The bread cast out over the waters has come back.
In my bible study this morning, a Spurgeon devotional:
When we sail in Christ’s company, we may not make sure of fair weather, for great storms may toss the vessel which carries the Lord himself, and we must not expect to find the sea less boisterous around our little boat. If we go with Jesus we must be content to fare as he fares; and when the waves are rough to him, they will be rough to us. It is by tempest and tossing that we shall come to land, as he did before us.- Spurgeon
And now I have another story in my head, waiting to console me, at the next inevitable disappointment.