C'est La Vie!

The last couple of days, I've been at an emotional low. Life can be hard or perhaps shall we call it unfair sometimes isn't? You put in so much effort and at the end, it doesn't give the desired yield. Yea, Life is hard, but such is life!

I've just read through one of my previous posts - Pressing Forward (http://www.incredible-courage.com/2015/08/pressing-forward.html) before writing this. I used it to encourage myself. When things get rough, the tough get going. I've used the "Call a Friend" card also. Thank God He's given me a wonderful crop of friends who help me at varying points of need.

When one door closes, we feel like we lost something. I want to believe it's a way of getting us to look around and see the other doors God wants to take us through. During one of my MBA courses, we did the selective attention test (see video insert).

Selective Attention Test - Copyright 1999, Daniel J. Simons

It is widely used to show how much we miss when we focus on a single item. Thinking about that test again, I am encouraged that there's a gorilla of fortune that I've probably overlooked all this while because I was focussed on this other thing. The best is surely yet to come!

Recently I had cause to tell a friend that God has her back. I'm telling myself the same thing. God's got my back, and as my people say - One with God is majority.

C'est Fini!

I'll leave you with a song from many many years back -  C'est la vie Papa by Vicky Leandros

Blessings on you and yours. Have a great week.

So Earthly Minded?

Hi Everyone,

Now it has really been a loooooong time. I have been really busy but I thought I'd share something from someone I've followed for many years and who I believe has a unique ministry - Jeff Larson. His ministry is sharing life's issues and God's word using cartoons. I hope you enjoy this one, and if so, please visit his page - www.the backpew.com. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Blessings on you and yours.

I like the old saying ‘That fella is so Heavenly minded, they are no Earthly good.’ This describes a person that is so into church and ‘churchy’ things that they don’t add much value or function outside of church walls. 

Over the years, I have smirked at a person or twenty that fits that description, BUT I have come to believe the bigger problem today is that too many people are too EARTHLY minded to be much HEAVENLY GOOD. 

It's just too easy to be caught up in this pace and 'stuff' of life (good and bad) to where God is put on the back burner.  Instead of starting my day quiet before God, reading my Bible, and prayerful I often clutter my life with the very real demands of work, family, rush hour traffic, and.. maybe what is on the TV and become simply more EARTHLY MINDED than HEAVENLY GOOD.

The real irony is - When I drift from God is NOT when I am too busy or stressed but instead when life is going well. No immediate worries or concerns so I relax my dependence, praise and appreciation of God to again become so earthly minded.

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So while I don’t want my life to look as out of place as an Amish folk high rollin' in Las Vegas, I do want my spirit, and life to start and end with God. A place where my personal faith shows through in all that I do and say.

May God bless each of you this day and always with a life in love with God, and a life where God is not fit in around the details of the day.  May this be a life blessed and USED by God in ways that have both Heaven and Earth in mind.

Jeff