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Emotions are intensified for youth and young adults. I just realized the truth of that yesterday.
I was having a bad day for no apparent reason. Small irritants that are a part of life made me angry. I had a good cry when I went to bed. But my emotions are not as strong as they were when I was younger.
In a previous post I quoted Eric Lidel, the Olympic gold medalist – “God made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure.”
I like that quote.
Lidel says when he does what God gave him the ability to do, God is happy with that.
In the book of Matthew in the Bible, chapter 8 recorded the well-known event of Jesus calming the storm.
The disciples were in the boat with Jesus when a violent storm kicked up. Much to the disciples’Â irritation, Jesus was asleep. The disciples called, “Save us, Lord! We’re going to drown!”
When my children ask me to buy them something, I hope they know me well enough to ask me for something that they know I would approve of. I hope they don’t ask me to buy them a video game rated “mature”, or an outrageously risqué outfit.
I’ve studied the book of Acts many times. But I am forgetful. I never remember all the history of Paul’s travels, who the Roman and Jewish rulers were at his trials, and how all the other books of Paul are related in the timeline of Paul’s travels. So I am studying it again.
Before the days of cherry-flavored additives, medicine used to taste bad. My mom used to give us the medicine in one spoon, and quickly with another spoon stick some sweetened condensed milk in our mouth to get that yucky taste out. I actually looked forward to the medicine to get the sweetened condensed milk! To this day, I associate sweetened condensed milk with bitter medicine.
Here’s another thought I had about George Muller.
His first desire was to be a missionary. He left Prussia to go to England to receive training to reach the Jews, with the intention of going to Russia after his training. However, while in England, he saw the great needs there and decided he can share the gospel there rather than spending time in learning Hebrew.
Most people have heard at least a little bit of the life of George Muller. He is most famous for starting an orphanage that eventually served thousands of street children in Bristol, England.
I finished reading the biography of George Muller, the easy version written for elementary age level in the “Christian Heroes: Then &…
If you know me, you know I’m a Hello Kitty fan. I don’t like cats, but I make an exception for Hello Kitty.
On our recent trip to Japan, I saw Hello Kitty everywhere! She was in temple souvenir shops, museum souvenir shops, in the sake factory, in the sushi restaurant, dressed in kimono, dressed as a longevity black egg, dressed as a Ninja, on key chains, necklaces, shirts….EVERYWHERE.
While teaching the kids on Sunday at church, the lesson was to continue to trust God even when things do not go well for us.
Me: Sometimes God doesn’t answer our prayers the way we want.
Chris: Yeah, like if we pray for a DS, God won’t answer it.