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High marks for finding the best part of this picture.

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Balancing it as Best I Can! What About You?

Balancing it as Best I Can! What About You?

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January 31, Romans 4: 4-5

If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

Romans 4: 4-5 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

Here’s hoping you are not trying to earn your way to God.  Do a good job, yes, in all that you do, but don’t think even for a second that all those good works are payment for earning God’s graces.  They are not.  They are a beautiful and satisfactory manifestation of all the God-given gifts that you are endowed with; and how fulfilling it is to see them put to good use!  To get in God’s good books, however, it is not how much we do, or how well we do however much we do, that impresses God.  If anything, acknowledging that you cannot do everything on your own, and need God on your side to help you — or just do it for you! — is actually even more impressive to God.  You are placing your trust in God, and that is what pleases God.

 

 
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Yes, I Hear You Honking!

Yes, I Hear You Honking!

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Stuff I Do Not Need!

Stuff I Do Not Need!

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Time for a Beautiful Change: When My Kitchen Rises Up to Greet Me

Time for a Beautiful Change: When My Kitchen Rises Up to a Greet Me

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“…yet we speak of other things…”

Vestibule

by Chase Twichell
What etiquette holds us back
from more intimate speech,
especially now, at the end of the world?
Can’t we begin a conversation
here in the vestibule,
then gradually move it inside?
What holds us back
from saying things outright?
We’ve killed the earth.
Yet we speak of other things.
Our words should cauterize
all wounds to the truth.
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Upmau with a Potato-Onion-Pepper-Sausage Hash and Tomato Pickle: Did You Say Breakfast?

Upmau with a Potato-Onion-Pepper-Sausage Hash and Tomato Pickle: Did You Say Breakfast?

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