Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds…
…wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Work

While reading our bible is certainly beneficial it cannot compare to to the benefits of studying and applying it in our lives. This type of work brings eternal and wisdom that is unparalleled in other forms of work.

Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgement, which every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Pete Lewis, Halsey, OR Beside the Still Waters, Vol 26, issue 6

For where there is envy and selfish ambition there is disorder and every evil practice.

We may forget God’s blessings and what he has placed before us.

Father, help me celebrate the work you are doing in my life and in the lives of those around me.

January 2023

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness though we have rebelled against him.

The world does not know this kind of generous love.

Though I frequently disappoint myself I find time and again that I haven’t disappointed you which is a marvelous mystery. Fill me with the light of love again today.

Hope for today, Sara Perry, 2023

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To let go is not to cut myself off, it is the realization I can’t control another.

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, it is to make the most of myself.

To let go is not to care for, but to care about.

To let go is not to fix but to be supportive.

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To let go is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to deny, but to accept.

To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and to correct them.

To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes, and to cherish myself in it.

To let go is not to criticize and regulate anybody but to try to become what I dream I can be.

To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

To let go is to fear and to love more.

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Dobson’s Emotions Can We Trust Them

Jesus’ heart, though broken for the sins of the world, bled forgiveness.
Forgiveness only requires that we let go and let God handle the heart of the one who committed the wrong (errored JMWP emphasis).
Blessing comes when we release the debt and are free from the weight and burden in our hearts.

Question:
How will you resolve any hurt or broken relationship in your life that needs forgiveness?

Request:
Lord, help me to forgive others with my heart as you have forgiven me.

Journey 2023

Quincy not the spirit.

PSALM 51-6:7

Behold thou desireth truth…
…thou shall make me to know wisdom.
Purge… and I shall be clean.

PSALM 51:10-11

Create in me a clean heart; O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

…mercy triumphs over judgement.

Mercy is the way of the cross. When we follow Jesus we see there is no other way to live like him unless we are choosing to continually live in love. That sounds easy, right? It is surely the more costly way. When we lay down our lives in love, we forgive instead of seeking revenge, we are kind to those who ridicule us, and we sacrifice our own comfort for the truth.

… That should bring us pause. Are we living with mercy as our covering, or are we keeping love at a distance by judging others continuously?

Sara Perry, Hope for Today, 2020