Win a free Kindle with Eric Alexander’s The Summit included - The JohnFlurry Blog. Filtering Your Tweets - The JohnFlurry Blog. Just like the colander you have in the drawer below the kitchen knives, strainers filter out stuff we don’t want. We filter what we say to our friends, spouses and colleagues. Some of us filter too much and some too little. Our mothers have told us “if you don’t have anything nice to say…” you know the rest. These same filters apply to social media and especially Twitter. Since writing my first tweet a year ago, I have had many moments where I knew I could not post what I had just written. My finger hesitated over the delete key and then, from those internal filters, a decision arose, and I blasted the 140 characters into oblivion.
I write for myself here at Flurry Creations, as well as for Soma Games, and Conservation Biology Institute. Is this useful to anyone and am I promoting something I really think is remarkable? Use these or come up with your own. What are your filters? Farming for Dummies (Like Us) - Home. Holy Experience : Ann Voskamp. If Anything Matters…Everything Matters! « Windrumors | The Official Site of Wm. Paul Young, Author of "The Shack" "If anything matters… everything matters" – comes from the conversation in The Shack in which Mack is wondering (as he anticipates his return to ‘real’ life), if what he does in his day-to-day experience even truly matters (has any significance).
I think there are a lot of us who wonder that, especially in a world that reduces individuals to numbers and statistics. What is significant about the daily routine of getting up, going to work, cleaning the house, making meals, doing laundry, changing diapers etc.? In addition, there is such a drive for performance, especially in religious circles, but also in the culture at large, that the question easily morphs a little into, "Does what I do matter enough (to God, to others, to the expectations of others etc.)? " Like any legalism, the answer is inevitably ‘no’, failure is just around the corner.
In my opinion, one of the most fundamental lies resides at the core of this issue, and that is, "Significance is related to Doing (Performance)". Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy With My Blog and Building My Brand. ’skine.art - Moleskine Art. Compassion « Glory to God for All Things. The Elder speaks on the circumstance of being harmed by a brother in Christ: If it is necessary to grieve at all, then we should grieve for the loss of that person who has harmed us, not for the loss of our possessions. For, that person has done injustice to himself by being cast out of the heavenly kingdom. ‘Wrongdoers shal not inherit the kingdom of God’ (1 Cor. 6:9). As for you that have been done injustice, the person that has wronged you has in face procured life for you.
It is indeed said: ‘Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in Heaven’ (Matt. 5:12). Yet, instead of grieving over the loss of one of Christ’s members, we sit and weave thoughts about corruptible and insignificant matters, which are easily lost and worth nothing. In effect, God has placed us in an order of many members, which have Christ our God as their head, as the Apostle said: “Just as the body is one and has many members, and the head of all is Christ” (1 Cor. 12:12). Ken Davis | Christian Comedian. Jon Dale. Heading to England to Chase a Wild Goose. I am sitting in the Nashville Airport en route to Chicago to catch a connection to London. My friends Joy Carroll Wallis and Karla Yaconelli are going to pick me up at Heathrow, and then we are heading to the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham. I want to strongly encourage you to check out the Greenbelt website to learn what this event that has drawn 22,000 people from all over the UK since the early 1970′s is all about.
Here’s why. Plans to put on a Greenbelt-like gathering in the US in June of 2011 are moving forward at breakneck speed. A year and half ago a group of people who had been touched through their speaking at, performing music at, or just attending the Greenbelt Festival over the years, got together and said, “Isn’t this “the moment” for a Greenbelt-like festival to happen in America? Given the contentious and polarized climate we live in, isn’t it more important than ever for us to have a similar gathering on our own soil?” (I’ll write more on this later). Time to go. ONE YEAR!!! « Innocent Lamb. One year ago today a little dark-haired girl walked into a room in China, saw us, and ran to us yelling “Mama! Baba!” Changing our lives forever! Here is a video my sweet husband made of Rachel’s first year with us: I can hardly believe that it has been one year! Rachel and I have been talking a lot about China lately. Last week after asking me about coming to live here again, she thoughtfully said, “Sometimes I like my home in China, but I like this home better.”
This past year has been quite a ride, but it’s one that I would not have missed for the world! Like this: Like Loading... Bigger or smaller? Every decision we make, every encounter we have... we get a choice. Are we opening doors or closing them? It's so tempting to shut people down, to limit the upside, to ostracize, select and demonize. It makes things a lot simpler. Not seeing means you don't have to take action. Just about all the things we treasure in our world were built by people who were intent on making things bigger, enabling things to be better, opening doors for us to achieve. [Please don't confuse this with the issue of focus. Folk wisdom and proofiness. "Is it feed a cold, starve a fever, or the other way around, I can never remember? " Does it matter if you get the rhyme wrong? A folk remedy that doesn't work doesn't work whether or not you say it right.
Zig Ziglar used to tell a story about a baseball team on a losing streak. On the road for a doubleheader, the team visited a town that was home to a famous faith healer. While the guys were warming up, the manager disappeared. He came back an hour later with a big handful of bats. "Guys, these bats were blessed and healed by the guru. According to the story, the team snapped out of their streak and won a bunch of games. Mass marketers have traditionally abhorred measurement, preferring rules of thumb, casting calls and alchohol instead. As the number of apparently significant digits in the data available to us goes up (traffic was up .1% yesterday!) It's important, I think, to understand when a placebo is helpful and when it's not. Proofiness is a tricky thing. Life Stream Ministries. Creators Image. Kalns Studios - Home. Redeeming Relationships. What IS this, the One Post a Year Blog? So I remembered this blog today. I was thinking, I should write something short and sweet.
Something not-too-taxing, but not-too-light either... Instead, I have to warn you that this is not a short blog, and it will probably make you think, so if you object to either of those things, you don't have to read any further. :) It's sunny out today. And my answer would be... yes. "I believe it is unfair to saddle Christian artists with the awkward expectation that they must convey an explicitly Christian message through their art.
As a writer, these words made me smile and sigh at the same time. Why is it that I have to do that? I'm a writer because I love to read, and I love to tell stories. When I tell people that I write, they look interested at first. In one of my favorite books for teens, author Robin Jones Gunn wrote, "Love God and do what you want". As I got older, this idea got lost in the pressure to get a good education and a good job and the right husband and ... just to look good. Grace and Freedom from Blame and Shame: Truefaced. A perfect life or a perfect God « Tears in a Bottle. Something happened this week that triggered hurt and angry emotions for me….this hasn’t happened in such a long time…a trigger that seems to push my “buttons” is when someone says something to me that makes me feel “foolish” or “stupid”…and then shame soon follows and doesn’t want to let go…it hangs on with a tenacity that sucks the life right out of me.
And then I find myself “beating myself up” again, emotionally….feeling totally defeated. It’s an old pattern that trips me up from time to time. Then the next day I was taking a day trip so I had a total of 7 hours of driving alone. It gave me time to pour out my heart to God, to talk and to listen….. As I drove, with tears blurring my eyes, I simply spoke aloud to God all that I was feeling His Words back to me in the silence of the car was simply this: “you extend grace to others so easily, when are you going to extend grace to yourself?” He nailed it!!
I read today that God does not demand perfection in you. Like this: Like Loading... Your Truth, Or Mine? Comparing Beauty | Conversations Journal. Or, How Visiting Italy Introduced Me To The Concept of ‘Contemplation & Action’ “This time last year.” Do you ever find yourself thinking that? Perhaps this time last year you were just entering a new stage of your life?
Maybe this time last year you were starting a new job, or finding yourself without a job? This time last year could have been the beginning of a really difficult year—and you didn’t know what was ahead, so as you reflect on this time last year you find yourself wanting to go back… I do, I want to go back. Our journey started in Rome. As we hiked the Cinque Terre (a national park/hiking trail that connects the five villages along the Italian coast) we discussed man-created beauty vs. Sometimes in my journey with God I have “this time last year” moments. We learned the important distinction between travel and vacation on that trip. Want More? The Prayer of St. Join the Conversation Have you, like Joannah, thought fondly about your past with God?