WHAT DO YOU FEED YOUR CHILDREN?

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A little boy looked up at his father and said :’Daddy, I love you as much as God can count.”

And the father thought of all the times he had been weary but still he went to his child’s bedroom and still told him a story…or rushed from work to make a ball game that meant so much to his son…and he remembered a host of times when he did not sacrifice or was too busy…and yet his son could say it and mean it, “I love you as much as God can count.”

And he thanked God for his little boy. And he prayed to have more stamina and to do what was right when he could hardly find any stamina…because “Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.” Colossians 3:21

Ah yes, I thought as I wrote these words. We feed our children's memories...oh but what do we feed them...and how the memories are golden or dross...and how it is never too late to improve the menu.

Yes, even if these children are now grown up and have children of their own.

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IF YOU FIND ANGER QUICKLY LOSE IT QUICKLY

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Her name is Captain Lisa Nowak and she shall be remembered for the rest of her life as the woman who let anger rule a portion of her life until it succeeded in ruining her life. Educated, skilled she had let the wind of anger blow out the lamp of her mind.

She was an astronaut and had enough brains to know better but anger is not known for reasonable behavior.

She was in love and another woman was stealing away another astronaut away from her.

It made her more than angry. It promoted an insane reaction that only got worse with the passing of each day.

So one day she followed Captain Colleen Shipman, the object of her anger, and said she just wanted to talk.

She ended up pepper-spraying her. She said she had no intention of harming her, yet police officers found in the trunk of her car a steel mallet, a heavy knife and a BB gun.

The most bizarre par of the story was that she drove all the way from Houston to Orlando wearing a diaper so she would not have to stop.

That was a long drive, a lot of hours, one would think that worn down she would finally have lost her anger but she didn’t.

Instead, for hours on end she fed it.

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Ecclesiastes 7:9 “Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.”
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HE HAD TO BE DIVINE

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Someone once said of Jesus, “He had to be divine. No mortal man could have been that patient.”

Indeed, Jesus could not have loved so much if He had not been patient so often.

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James 1:19-20
”My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” (NIV)
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WHAT’S EATING YOU

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Once, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister in England during the Second World War had been listening to a long-winded ill tempered vituperation of an angry opponent.

At the end of the tirade he rose to his feet and said, “My honorable colleague should, by now, have trained himself not to generate more indignation than he has the capacity to hold.”

Perhaps an oyster is one of the finest examples of patience in action. It takes an irritation and makes it a pearl.

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“And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety).” 2 Peter 1: 6

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LOVE!…PLEASE DO NOT LET GO OF ME

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In the 1930’s, Roland Hayes, a gifted negro singer, stood before a hostile Nazi audience in Berlin’s Beethoven Hall.

As he tried to sing, they called him every dirty name that his race had ever endured.
In telling of the incident, he says “Resentment began to swell up inside me. I began to feel toward them what they felt toward me, and then, for some strange reasons, I remembered a sermon I heard as a little boy.

The old minister standing there in the pulpit in my old home church, talking about Jesus before Pilate. About the angry crowd and the insults…and hoe he said…
“They pushed Jesus, they pushed Him real hard, but He never said a word, never a mumblin’word.”

And remembering His love, his forgiveness, I looked out at the crowd booing, hissing, insulting and I prayed silently, quietly, intently.
For ten minutes they never let up.

For ten minutes, I prayed not to become like them.

Then slowly, they quit and when it was quiet, I began to softly sing a song of Shubert.”
I first heard when I was still a boy and I never forgot it. I had gotten quite angry and my father who was the most patient man I ever met said it to me, “Son, just remember…you can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

And so I learned early to let patience overwhelm me rather than anger...and how this lesson has saved a lot of pain for me and those around me.

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Corinthians 13:4-5
“Love is patient, love is kind. it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”

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SPIRITUAL LEVITATION

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Handel wrote the “Messiah” in a little more than three weeks. During this period of time, he seemed in the world, yet not of the world.

He forgot to eat.

He forgot to sleep.

When Part Two was finished (which contains the Hallelujah Chorus), he walked to the window and with his eyes glistening with tears, said “…I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself.

There have been moments I would hope for you when you have been almost like this.
When the gravity of earth seemed to let lose and your soul expanded and God was more near than ever before.

It may have been in a foxhole and it was dark and you were afraid in that war of so long ago.

It may have been on a mountaintop real and lifted high above a fog below or it may have been on a mountaintop of your own making for you had fallen to your knees.

But whether fear or fascination, if you have experienced God in such a greater moment, you still remember and you will never forget.

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"The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms" (Deut. 33:27).
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WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU…ME?

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In the book “Babitt” by Sinclair Lewis, a man by the name of Paul Rieslinge has a vindictive scolding shrew of a wife by the name of Ella.

Lewis describes her in the following manner, “Zilla’s face was wrinkled like the Medusa, her voice was a dagger of corroded brass; she was full of the joy of righteousness and bad temper.

She was a crusader…who exulted in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue.”

And people talk about us all the time and write us about us in emails. What do they say? We are in control of what they say to a large degree for their words simply mirror what they see and hear.

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Philippians 4:4
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all.
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