Planting a young tree we will never live to enjoy the shade from is the same as being kind without future expectation.
(everybody catch the photo caption?)
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Category: Stuff We Do
Unknowing, Brian Brooker helped
Do you follow certain RS feeds, have email subscriptions to writers and thought-leaders? Me too. Here’s an excerpt from Brian Brooker’s Daily Word email I subscribe to:
“I got a phone call this morning from a dear friend of mine who lives near Orlando, Florida.
He made what I thought was an amazing comment. He said : I like your devotions best when you talk about yourself, because I know you and I want to get to know you better.” That’s what friendship is all about!. . . getting to know each other better.
If we can have this kind of passion to get to know each other better, then shouldn’t we also have the same passion to know our Savior deeply and personally ?
Christ Himself said that this was at the crux of eternal life, knowing “the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou (God) hast sent.”
That was also the heartbeat of the Apostle Paul. He wrote to the church at Philippi “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:8
My friend took a few minutes out of his busy schedule first thing this morning to let me know he wanted to know me better. Should that not be the attitude of every believer? Let our prayer this morning simply that we might know Him”!”
Brian Brooker serves Auburn Baptist Chucrh and you can subscribe to his Daily Word here.
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A favorite spiritual Holiday memory from childhood
As a young boy, the nativity set Mom would stage on the fireplace mantle filled me with awe and wonder. How could a King be born in a manger in a stable?
A few years ago, Mom passed the nativity to me. Thank you Mom.
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Dear Lord, please help me help my stupid self
Stay healthy, have fun… stay healthy, have fun… stay…
Dear Lord, please help me help my stupid self. Seven days until the test. Six days until the flight. A couple days practice between now and then. Dear Heavenly Father, please help every Baby Boomer live by, “Stay healthy, have fun”, especially one prone to over doing it.
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Where is one of your favorite spiritual places?
Where is one of your favorite spiritual places? How often do you visit. Why do you visit? How did you discover your special place? Will you ever stop going there?
In two days, we go to our favorite Florida vacation destination… Sanibel Island. But first, out the door to teach all day… a mile walk from the Marriott at Brooklyn Bridge.
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