“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” Leon Trotsky No matter how calm you are most of the time, you will [...]
Tag Archives: peace
A Lesson from my Dad: What Makes Us
Who we become Who we are and what we manifest comes to us through a series of a million tiny chemical reactions, neuropathways, interactions and experiences that shape us into the individuals we ultimately become. If you have been following my posts, you know that one of the things I speak about frequently is finding [...]
Gratitude: Not Just for Holidays
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. “ William James Shiny New Toys People often feel discontentment with their lives and their surroundings. It is no small wonder. There is a whole industry devoted to making us feel wholly inadequate. We are [...]
Getting the crap out of your stream / life (Just say NO!) [2]
We all have people, things and situations in our lives that we don’t want there. We feel powerless, but we are not. They take away our sense of self, our self-control and our peace of mind. We know this, so let’s try to get some perspective on how to move forward. What gets to us is [...]
Getting the crap out of your stream / life (Just say NO!) [1]
Bullying A few days ago, a cyber friend seemed a little down and out of sorts, lamenting the brutality of some of the people she has come into contact with on Twitter. Perhaps brutality is too strong a word. Why don’t we try calling it self-centered or just plain inconsiderate? In the last few [...]
Looking for Peace in all the Wrong Places
Paul started this discussion about returning to peace by saying the warring factions need to have a change of mind. Then he said that a proper attitude toward our circumstances will give us peace in our minds. Finally, he said that we must take active control over what we allow into our mindsbecause our [...]
Where is peace? 8
Picking up the threads from last week and our discussion about peace, we’ve got theApostle Paul in prison, the disciple Peter standing on the water and Peter of the Pan flying around the room. This second Peter is advising his wards that they just need to…”think lovely, wonderful thoughts and they lift you up [...]
Where is Peace? 7
In continuing our exploration of where peace can be found, we are with Peter, Jesus, the disciples and the storm. Peter is out on the water, but he hesitates. Some of us sit in relative safety in the boat with the disciples. And, although its rocky, we are trying our best to maintain control [...]
Where is Peace? 6
Paul is separated from his friends and facing the worst punishment of his day. He is sitting in a Roman prison, possibly in stockades, and as far as he knows, awaiting death…and he tells us to rejoice. “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” The text goes on to tell us [...]
Where is peace? 5
Lets move back into Paul’s exhortation found in Hebrews. (Hebrews12:15) “See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile [or destroy] many. When we allow bitterness and anger to go on without dealing with it, we will not only destroy ourselves, we [...]
Where is peace? 4
Eu-o-dia and Syn-ty-che, who have become such bitter combatants that they are disrupting the church, have forgotten all about being freed from their own past indiscretions and have gotten sidetracked with unimportant issues. They had forgotten that their job #1, their number one priority was to win people to Jesus. All that other stuff [...]
Where is peace? 3
Little problems kill! The Apostle Paul, well probably Paul, as the writer of Hebrews chastens us further about not dealing with problems early on in chapter 12, verse 15. “See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile [or destroy] [...]
Where is peace? 2
Webster has defined peace for us stating that it comes from getting rid of something or getting away from something. I’d like to make the case that peace comes not necessarily by getting rid of our problems, but refocusing our thoughts to what God wants us to think about. “Peace is that calm of [...]
Where is peace?
This is an old story, and perhaps you have heard this one about a certain beauty queen? She was a beauty queen inVirginia several years ago. Shortly after crowning her successor, she drove 250 miles to seek revenge on her ex-boyfriend for jilting her and marrying another. She took along a pistol, a hammer, [...]
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