Monday, June 4, 2012
MY WORD FOR JUNE 5 IS LESSON!
MY WORD FOR JUNE 5TH IS LESSON
As I have said before, my high school English teacher told
me, “I was the only student that she couldn’t teach how to write.” This was a lesson that I supposedly
couldn’t master. There have been
many lessons that I have taught to students in twenty-three years. Some lessons aren’t successful, but
when not successful the teacher doesn’t give up they try something else. Writing is a difficult task to teach,
but when taught with a variety of tactics a writer can be made out of
anyone. There are tricks that
students use to make their writing become a work of art. Organizing what the writer is
going to write is just as important as the finished product. Figurative language can be used to make
words have style and voice. There
are ways to make sentences have more breadth and depth. When teaching writing, breaking the
process down into segments makes the process easier, beginning with the
hook. Just like a good book, the
writer has to hook the reader.
Once you have the hook in you have caught them. Writing is a way that gives a person an
outlet to express how they feel. Writing
to me use to be a chore, now it is a blessing.
Life lessons can be easy or they can be difficult. Much like a piece of writing, our life
is organized, just not on paper.
God had our life organized for us from the day we were born. He has a plan. Every segment is joined together
through a series of life lessons.
We sometimes try to rearrange our life, organizing it differently than
the way God has put it together.
It doesn’t work when we try to reorganize it or adjust it. We aren’t the teacher we are the
student. When we follow the way
the teacher has organized our lives for us we will flow much like a graceful
flowing stream. There are tactics that make our lesson of life easier. If we put our lives in God’s hands,
being led by Him, our lives will have style and voice, giving us purpose. Some parts of our written lives can be
difficult, but by changing just a few things here and there our lives will
become examples of the good, and not the bad or the ugly. It is never too late to start your
writing piece over. Throw your
junk in the trash. Don’t dwell on
the lessons that may have stolen your peace, even though you can’t erase it you
can learn from those lessons.
God has already written your story, it is up to you to live
it. Learn from God’s life lessons
for you, don’t think you can’t, and add some tricks to spice up the life
intended for you. You can and you
will, by living with God. During
2012 take the challenge and learn from God’s lessons.
Jeremiah 1:8 NIV
Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue
you, “declares the Lord.
Dear Lord thank you for teaching us, even though some of our
life lessons we don’t like, we know that we can learn from them. We realize at times we are difficult
students, either not following directions or finishing the task, but we know You
won’t give up on us. Thank You for
believing that “we can” and thank you for not giving up on us. During our journey of 2012 keep helping
us turn the pages of our written life so that we will enjoy the wonderful days
ahead that You have planned for us.
MY WORD FOR JUNE 5TH IS LESSON
As I have said before, my high school English teacher told
me, “I was the only student that she couldn’t teach how to write.” This was a lesson that I supposedly
couldn’t master. There have been
many lessons that I have taught to students in twenty-three years. Some lessons aren’t successful, but
when not successful the teacher doesn’t give up they try something else. Writing is a difficult task to teach,
but when taught with a variety of tactics a writer can be made out of
anyone. There are tricks that
students use to make their writing become a work of art. Organizing what the writer is
going to write is just as important as the finished product. Figurative language can be used to make
words have style and voice. There
are ways to make sentences have more breadth and depth. When teaching writing, breaking the
process down into segments makes the process easier, beginning with the
hook. Just like a good book, the
writer has to hook the reader.
Once you have the hook in you have caught them. Writing is a way that gives a person an
outlet to express how they feel. Writing
to me use to be a chore, now it is a blessing.
Life lessons can be easy or they can be difficult. Much like a piece of writing, our life
is organized, just not on paper.
God had our life organized for us from the day we were born. He has a plan. Every segment is joined together
through a series of life lessons.
We sometimes try to rearrange our life, organizing it differently than
the way God has put it together.
It doesn’t work when we try to reorganize it or adjust it. We aren’t the teacher we are the
student. When we follow the way
the teacher has organized our lives for us we will flow much like a graceful
flowing stream. There are tactics that make our lesson of life easier. If we put our lives in God’s hands,
being led by Him, our lives will have style and voice, giving us purpose. Some parts of our written lives can be
difficult, but by changing just a few things here and there our lives will
become examples of the good, and not the bad or the ugly. It is never too late to start your
writing piece over. Throw your
junk in the trash. Don’t dwell on
the lessons that may have stolen your peace, even though you can’t erase it you
can learn from those lessons.
God has already written your story, it is up to you to live
it. Learn from God’s life lessons
for you, don’t think you can’t, and add some tricks to spice up the life
intended for you. You can and you
will, by living with God. During
2012 take the challenge and learn from God’s lessons.
Jeremiah 1:8 NIV
Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue
you, “declares the Lord.
Dear Lord thank you for teaching us, even though some of our
life lessons we don’t like, we know that we can learn from them. We realize at times we are difficult
students, either not following directions or finishing the task, but we know You
won’t give up on us. Thank You for
believing that “we can” and thank you for not giving up on us. During our journey of 2012 keep helping
us turn the pages of our written life so that we will enjoy the wonderful days
ahead that You have planned for us.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
MY WORD FOR JUNE 3 IS COOK!
My word for June 3rd is COOK
Katie is home for several weeks before she goes back to
college for summer classes. While
she is home one of the things that we are doing together is cook and put all
the recipes in “Katie’s Cookbook”.
Katie, since living in a house next year, wants to learn how to cook
different meals. She is a natural
in the kitchen, so it doesn’t take much to teach her the details of
cooking. She whipped up tuna salad
the other day, boiled eggs and all.
We’ve made chicken and noodles, party potatoes, chicken kabobs, Alf redo
sauce, and have many more items on our list. You never know what we are going to come up with; we may
come up with something new during this cooking journey.
Our lives are much like cooking using a recipe. Just as a recipe there are many
ingredients involved. We
were born with certain ingredients and as we grew different ingredients were
added. Our family, our friends, and
our experiences add extra ingredients to make us who we are today. These other ingredients that are added
make us better and full of flavor or bitter and full of hate. It depends on what we add as to what the outcome will
be. Some ingredients are
mandatory, while others are just extra to enhance the flavor. After the proper ingredients
are added they are mixed together, mixing so that we have a smooth concoction hopefully
not lumpy. Even if lumpy, these
lumps can be stirred out. After
the mixture is placed in the pan to cook it goes in the oven. The oven of life may be at the correct
temperature or it may be too hot or too cold. The temperature of our oven can be the determinate of the
outcome. When our oven is too hot
we will get burned, but when at the proper temperature we will be cooked to
perfection.
While cooking
the recipe for the perfect life we must do the following, first we must put God
first. He has to be
number one in our lives. We must
have faith in Him and His plan for us.
Next pray to Him taking
time out of your day to spend time in your quiet place, asking for forgiveness,
mercy and peace. Even though
sometimes hard to do, we must love everyone, even those that seem unlovable. We can’t forget the ingredient of
patience. It isn’t our timing it
is God’s timing. It may not happen
quickly, it may take a long time to be cooked all the way through. Last but not least, find peace living with God through His
word. The bible gives us answers
to every question that we have.
It tells us the rights and the wrongs, the good and the bad. It even tells us how to ask for forgiveness
of our sins. God wants us to have
a healthy life. He will prepare us
and bake us to healthy perfection.
Even if we add the wrong ingredients or burn the recipe we can try
again. God never gives up on
us, even if He has to wait for us to be blue ribbon ready.
Just as we want a finished product that taste of perfection,
god wants a finished product that he can be proud of. A finished product that is heaven ready. Be sure as you are walking this road of
life you add the correct ingredients to make you the person God wants you to
be. Your recipe of life should be
one that is God ready. It will be
an award winning one that is ready for the bake sale of life.
Heb 4:2 "For indeed the gospel was preached to us
as well as unto them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not
being mixed with faith in those who heard it. "
Dear Lord help us cook up the perfect life. We want to add ingredients that will
assist us in sharing peace, love, and joy with those around us. Keep us away from those ingredients
that make us bitter and not better.
Add into our mixing bowl what only You know that we need. We want our life during 2012 to be
cooked to perfection for You.
Continued reading:
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf230377.tip.html
Thrifty Fun
http://fofminetwork.ning.com/profiles/blogs/recipe-for-a-fruitful
Friends of Faith Ministries International (FOFMI) Network, Recipe for a
Fruitful Christian Life, Latrice L. October 28, 2010 at 10:33pm
Friday, June 1, 2012
MY WORD FOR JUNE 2 IS POTHOLE!
My word for June 2nd is POTHOLE
My favorite YouTube ad is the Geico commercial with the
talking pothole. A fancy car
speeds around the corner and hits a large hole in the asphalt. Immediately the car has a flat tire. As the tire goes flat the pothole
begins to speak. I don’t know what
is funnier to me the pothole talking or the sound of the voice. It sounds much like a southern accent. The pothole says, “Oh no did I do that,
your tires all flat and junk”. I
love it, I can watch it over and over and it makes me laugh. I even have the whole commercial
memorized. The pothole continues
by saying, “let me get out my cellular device and call you a wrecker, oh I
forgot I don’t got no cellular device”. The tone of the pothole’s voice however sounds as if
the pothole really doesn’t care if it gave the car a flat or if it gets help. Shame on that pothole!
Life is much like hitting a pothole. We may be riding down the road of life
minding our own business enjoying the day and all of a sudden we hit a
pothole. Potholes, the disruption
in the surface of the roadway, can damage us beyond repair if we aren’t
careful. They can tear our tires
apart and leave us stuck in a rut. We all hit potholes; no one is immune to
them. When we hit a pothole we
have a choice, we can either stay in the pothole or we can jump out of the
indention and move on. How long we
waste sitting in the pit of our pothole is our choice, the longer we sit the
deeper we will go. Potholes are
only temporary stop signs in our journey.
There are however many lessons to learn from the bottom of the
pothole. We have the choice to
grow from a pothole instead of being buried in it. Let it make you stronger. Call on the Lord for help. He purposefully puts potholes in our road to get us where He
needs for us to be. When we hit these potholes of life God
is there to fix our flats. He
inflates us with his spirit and sends us riding down the road again.
As we drive down this road of 2012 we may hit potholes. These potholes may give us a flat or we
can realize to just hit them and move on. Traveling with God will enable us to
understand these holes in the road and use them as a life lesson instead of a
death sentence. When you hit the
pothole get on your cellular device and call God, he will fix your flat.
In Jesus, all things are possible (Luke 18:27)
Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these other
things will fall in place (Matthew 6:33)
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