Being Positive

I just read a blog that talked about being positive. It is a great idea. I used to be a more positive person when I was younger but I happen to live with a person who is a negative person. So after 45 years it has rubbed off on me a little bit.

I also have a positive pledge list posted on my wall in front of my computer so that I am reminded everyday to have that positive attitude.

When I am thinking positive I feel so much better. When I get those negative thoughts I am so tired and run down all I want to do is sleep. My whole body hurts more and it is just not worth it. So I am changing my ways and looking on the good side of things. God has a purpose for everything. Some things we don't understand why happen, but He knows about it. So we can go to Him and ask Him why. He may not tell us, but we can talk out the problem with Him.

We can also go to Him when things are going good. Sometimes we forget to do that. But it is always good to say thank you for a good day, a good time, etc.

So a challenge from me to you is to have a positive outlook on life.

Fear-Charley Stanley

I truly receive a blessing from listening to Charles Stanley messages and today was exception. So I am posting his web site so that you can hear the message and take your own notes if you want to.

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Who Do You Know That Does Good?

I just read a blog in which it asks for the one reading it to write about someone who is kind, caring, helps others, and so thought would take the challenge.

I would have to say it is my daughter Kimberley. The boys are great too and also is my husband. Kimberley is one who is always there for others, but not always for herself. She has an older woman that she takes places when needed too just because she wants to help her.

She calls us everyday and sometimes more to see that we are doing ok. I tend to be ill a lot. When I needed to go in for some kind of surgery she would always came and so she could see me before I would go in and then be with her dad as I went through the surgery. She is a great mom and a very good wife.

She loves the Lord and makes sure that she is in church whenever she can be. She helps cleans the church and she sings with her children, in the choir, and in a ladies' group. She likes going to the Ladies' Advance in June so she can get more teaching on areas she needs help in and be with her friends.

So it is so great to have a very special family and I especially am overyjoyed that the Lord gave me Kimberley.

Learned Something New

I don't know about you but I enjoy learning something new. And as I was doing my own daily devotions today I learned a few things and I would like to share them with you.

I am reading in the book of Genesis and today's chapter was chapter 8 and here is what I learned.

1. God remembered Noah and all the animals in the boat and He sent a wind to blow across the waters, and the floods began to disappear.
2. The underground water sources ceased to flow.
3. And the rain stopped. I knew about the rain but didn't know about the underground waters until I read chapter 7.
4. Five months after the flood started the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. I didn't know there was more than one mountain.
5. It was another two and a half months later that other mountain peaks could be seen.
6. It was not to after 40 days before Noah sent out the first bird.
7. Noah was 601 years old, ten and a half monhts after the flood began.

I like how the Bible translation told about the wind blowing and the underground stopped. And how long the flood lasted and how old Noah was.

Children Are So Special

I love working in the children's department at the library where I work. It is the best job ever. I love to listen to children as they play. One child today was playing with one of our stuffed animals, which happened to be a dog, and she was saying to it, "It is ok, I will take care of you." It was so sweet.

Then sometimes when the mother tells her child to use their quiet voice, or listening ears, or walk don't run they will say, "We left them at home, or school. So they continue on with loud talking, running, or not listening to their parents.

Then we have others, on their own, will say thank you when I have finished stamping their books so they can take them home.

I am so glad that the Lord led me to this job. It is so right for me and just where I should be at this time.

How Shall We Live?

How shall we live was part of my Pastor's message yesterday. And his message was taken from Malachi 4. The last book of the Old Testament.

Verse 4 was the key thought and it reads (KJV) "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statues and judgements."

Now we don't live under the law any more but by grace of God. But the law was to show God's people the Israelites a standard of living. God knew that no one could keep all these laws but they given as an example of how God wanted His people to live.

The law that the Pastor was talking about and the Bible verse is found in Exodus chapter 20:1-17 and we know them as the Ten Commandments. These Commandments today have been taken mostly public places. But I thought it would be good to review them.

1. Thou shat have no other gods before me. (TV, computers, spots.) Those would be our gods of today and there are other things that if they come before God they are gods.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.  Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; (or misuse His Name) for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in in them is, and rested the seventh day: where fore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's hours, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Some of the things mentioned we don't have today as they did when these commandments were written. But we have other things in our time that could replace the things that are different.

So how shall we live? Loving the Lord and trusting in Him that He knows what is going to happen in our lives and have a high standard of living so that we can please the Lord.

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