What exactly is the heart? To me the heart is the core; it is where I develop my guiding principles, it is my belief structure. To me keeping my heart on the right path is to nourish myself with the knowledge of the Bible. In modern times there are so many distractions that can cause …
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Nov 21
Gratitude Day 21 – guard your mouth
Today is the first Saturday I have actually had off in I don’t know how long. My work schedule has changed to where I actually am off on Saturday. I was able to stay in bed and cuddle with my wife. How often do we engage our mouth before we engage our brain? When you …
Nov 19
Gratitude Day 19 – Listen to advice
I am grateful for those that have come into my life to give me advice, sometimes though I failed to follow the instruction and had to repeat the lesson. Oh how many times did I hear my mom and dad so don’t do that? Oh how many times did I get burned from not listening? …
Nov 18
Gratitude Day 18 – The ears of the wise
I am so grateful for my ability to listen. God has given us two ears and two eyes and one mouth for a reason. Great knowledge comes from listening to others and seeing what others are doing. This challenge I put myself on for writing 30 days of Gratitude started off easy and now I …
Nov 17
Gratitude Day 17 – Use of words with restraint
While reading the today’s proverb, I chose to highlight the couple of verses that I have the most trouble with and as we get closer to the holiday season. Last night I delivered a speech titled “Choices are”; there will be increased traffic in the coming days as more people decide they want to spend …
Nov 16
Gratitude Day 16 – Commit to Succeed
Here we go again another beautiful Monday. I had a wonderful weekend went to the District 16 Toastmasters Fall Conference in Oklahoma City. Had some great educational training. Met some friends I hadn’t seen in a while and then met some new friends. I listened to 6 great Humorous speeches and was thankful I wasn’t …
Nov 15
Gratitude Day 15 – Don’t Reject Correction
I am grateful for my daughter. She is my middle child and for her protection she is sandwiched between her brothers. She may not enjoy the protection but I don’t have to worry about troublesome young men; her brothers take care of it for me. Yesterday driving down the road my driver front blew while …
Nov 14
Gratitude Day 14 – a fool’s talk brings a rod
As I write this I realize it may be a bit incendiary but with the past couple of days post I have to say it. In the news I have seen people doing foolish things and then have issue when the consequences of the actions bring down the rod of correction. Maybe that is the …
Nov 13
Gratitude Day 13 – A Wise son heeds his father’s advice
As I write this it dawns on me that today is also Friday and the 13th so many have superstitions about the date but realize it is just a fear tactic; don’t let fear rule you overcome it. Growing up I had many learning opportunities a few that my father tried to steer me away …
Nov 12
Gratitude Day 12 – Discipline and Stupidity
As I saw today’s Proverb I just had to put together some things I have learned in the past and bring it forward to today. When I was growing up and was in school there was to forms of discipline. The first discipline was to buckle down and study do the course work and show …
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