who's footsteps are you following in?
are you really doing what you want or copying what you've seen done from the person before you?
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My top pickks for the day.
Proverbs 18
2 Fools have no interest in understanding;
They only want to air their own opinions.
8 Rumors are dainty morsels
That sink deep into one’s heart.
13 Spouting off before listening to the facts
Is both shameful and foolish.
14 The human spirit can endure a sick body,
But who can bear a crushed spirit?
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sadMan, you make me sad.
...God please help me
..to just let go.
Sometimes...
to let go of your past..
you have to let go of the people who were apart of it...
And sometimes you finally come to that realization that no matter how hard you try and fight to hold on to them....
their gonna slip away...
Just because... its their choice to do so...
and theres nothing you can really do to keep them with you...
Because the person you miss isnt the person they are now...
Letting go of old friends is really hard...
As stupid as this may sound....
i really loved you and appreciated our friendship.
You got me through some of my toughest times...
...
i'm sad we've come to different paths in our life and have to take different roads...
maybe someday we'll meet up again...
idk...ill keep you in my prayers friend.
I miss our old times together...
but would never want to go back to being the person i used to be when i was around you...
Good bye friend...
im done trying to hold on to something that had died along time ago.
Maybe the way i had thought things worked the best....
Don't work at all.
Maybe I'm not half the things people say I am.
I try to be different.
I try to do more then others.
I try to beat the stereo types.
I try to be there the best way i can.
I dont expect a thank you.
I dont expect a hero section or a spot in a stupid blog.
I dont expect anything in return.
but what i am getting is not what i had expected.
not in the least.
I don't deserve this.
i feel unappreciated.
disrespected and walked on.
Main Entry:
Pronunciation: \ˈmen-ˌtȯr, -tər\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, from Greek Mentōr
Date: 1616
a: a trusted counselor or guide
I learned some really cool stuff off of Joel Osteen’s pod cast today.
Did you know every morning we start off with joy?
But it’s our choice whether or not we keep it throughout the day.
Joy is something that God has given us
...even if our life is hard.
We have a roof over our head and a place to sleep.
And we’re still breathing, right?
So that is something to be joyful about.
But sometimes we allow situations to get the best of us and end up exchanging our joy for the emotion that comes with that situation we are facing.
Meaning you could be joyful until someone does something that irritates you or gets you angry. You'll have Joy until your mom comes in your room and starts yelling at you or you find out one of your "friends" at school has been talking about you. In that moment, you have a choice, whether or not your going to allow that persons actions to affect your attitude for the rest of the day or to keep your Joy. We have to approach life differently. Let’s not let anything steal our joy from us. Let’s keep it for us. It’s a gift from god. You wouldn’t trade your $300 Ipod for a used cassette player would you? No. Then why trade something God has given you for something the enemy wants to destroy you with.
We need to maintain a constant peace in our mind and allow God to do with us what as he wants. Although we may have our day planned or set intentions of how something is going to work. God has bigger plans and his plans might not match up with ours and things might not go the way we want. But let’s allow him to change our plans. Let's not get angry or irritated but let’s maintain a positive attitude and keep our Joy. God is going to use every change to implement his perfect will for you.
Another thing is that the enemy is going to use the things that used to irritate you to try and destroy us. When I heard this I thought "what do you mean used to? These things have always irritated me and got me upset." but then I thought to myself… the always isn’t always the present and the used to is the past and the past is the person I used to be. When I accepted God into my heart I buried my old self and all the old tendencies and habits I used to live for. My spirit was made new but my mind hadn't grasped that yet. The enemy attacks us in our minds the most. It's the battlefield at which he plays. He tries to use our past to destroy us and it takes a matter of us no longer feeling guilty for who we used to be and embracing who we are now. We have to begin working on our minds so that it can catch up with our spirit. Inside we feel God's love and know it's there and if God dwells inside of us we have the potential to keep all the fruit of the spirit which are; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. We have all of these in our spirits now! But the enemy tries to tell us we only have opposite.
His mission in life is to destroy us. If we end up listening to him long enough we allow him to.
Let’s keep our joy! Maintain our peace! Love one another. Be patient with others, because at one point in time someone was patient with us. Let’s be kind and good in all we do. Let’s keep our faith and hold on to hope. Let’s not worry about others and how they try and make us feel but let’s tightly grasp onto our joy and refuse to trade it with any emotion the enemy tries to throw at us.
Eventually if we stop feeding these irritating negative emotions they’re going to end up dying and no longer bother us like they used to. It’s just a matter of us refusing to feed them.
We are in charge of our own happiness. No one else or nothing else will help you maintain that except God. “Any thing you have to have to be happy is something the enemy is going to use against you”-Joel Osteen. Let’s remember that next time we think about the “if only’s in life. “If only I could have this…. If only my family knew God… if only that boy liked me back….” Temporary happiness will come from the world but permanent joy comes from God and lasts all of eternity.
The way we feel is normal, we’re only humans but what we do with how we feel determines whether or not we achieve the victory.
John 14:27, 16:22
Joy belongs to us.
peaceful
contemplative