Youth group this Sunday was simple and straightforward - be thankful because Jesus was thankful. The speaker said that if we want to be Christlike, to be filled in the Spirit as Ephesians 5:18 says, we must deal with situations as He did. As 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 commands: "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." What a challenge.
I need to be careful to be very patient at all time and give thanks for every situation. I was frustrated just yesterday by someone driving slow. :( I always go the speed limit and so for the past six months (the summer) I've had cars piled up behind me, not the other way around. Now that it's winter, some people actually drive below the speed limit on the icy roads, and yesterday when I thought what I had to do was so important, it was infuriating. I forgot to be thankful that I was arriving safely, or that I even have my own car to drive around.
In the holiday season I start looking forward to a break from school. Maybe in anticipation of that, I expect that things will begin to get easier. In reality, there's a crunch to get everything done in time and the alleged break turns hectic. I pray that I can continue strong this next week before the break actually starts and work on the fruits of love, peace, and patience.
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- Richard Gianforte
- Bozeman, Montana, United States
- I am currently attending Caltech in Pasadena, though I will always be an alum of Petra Academy.
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win" - JFK
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne "Meditation XVII" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne "Meditation XVII" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions