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Out With The Old

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Do you have junk? Not the kind inside your soul, but in your personal surroundings. Do you ever think about how stuff can weigh you down, hold you back, keep you from being all that God created you to be? Old Items with New Purpose This is exactly what God is teaching me. I went on a craze, almost a passionate obsession of seeing everything as re-usable. It sounds really green to be recycling old things into new usable items, and a lot of fun. My only problem is a kept picking up broken, discarded, unwanted items and saw a purpose for them, a new life. (Sounds like some people I know, llike me...) Maybe that is why I had such an overall compassion for seeing the good in what most regarded as trash. But collecting trash, old, broken, worn-out, needy things doesn't work if you never have the time or energy to spend with each item to allow it to become a usable treasure. It just stays junk. I think God is showing me quite a few spiritual applications in my life, but I don'

The Greatest of These

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Enjoying a day with my husband of 26 years is something I don't get enough of during this stage of our raising teens life, but yesterday I was with him and he poked fun at me being the only person in the world that would be as excited about reading a 1917 book I found in an antique store. I unofficially call myself a historian, because I LOVE to read real life accounts of people - not fiction, but true impressions of life as they lived it. I know no better way to experience history in its purest form. And in turn to gain a deeper understanding of what the world must have been like with an eye witness account. The author, Owen Wister. The book, The Penecost of Calamity. The topic, Germany before and right after world war I. The insight, Hatred was the motivation. And what was the creed of the German people, their declaration of faith, of decades to be only ratified by actions of destruction of human life... "The German claim must be: Educate to hate.... Organization of

How Much To Share?

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 I have been doing some contemplating. Anyone that knows me deeply is now rolling eyes and possibly fallen off their chair and about the ground... because that is an understatement of my life... contemplating... Bits of Information Mulling Around Do others mull as much as I? I do not know because I only really know what goes on in my own soul. Thoughts, ideas, passion... are ever moving... like dough being kneaded over and over... given time to rise in thought and then punched down to rise again... Do you constantly do this too? It is not that I doubt my soul. It is that my receptors are usually open, taking in odd bits of information, sensing all about inside and out, and trying to let what doesn't grab me pass along to another day or time. How much do you share? Do you think it is a result of what you take in ....  think about... read... see? Are am I an endless circle of data on overload? Thinking too much about thinking... Lindy- Writing Inside Out

Friends Again - Finding Golden Friends

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“Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other is gold.” As a little girl I sang this traditional Girl Scout song. Long after the meetings, campfires, and badges are a distant memory of my life, I recall singing with a smile on my face and a warmness in my heart, but as a child its lasting value evaded my understanding. Every occasion presents a new opportunity for God to bring spiritual blessings to our life. We should live life always expecting, in anticipation of what God is going to do. Just a few weeks ago, I stood in the church parking lot so hurt, sharing my heart, crushed by a person in church who lacked grace. After listening, my wise pastor told me not to worry about it, that the person did lack grace, but to hold on because "God is doing a new thing!" Those few words gave me hope to hang my heart on as I walked to my car smiling knowingly repeating those words inside... "God is doing a new thing!" As Christians we are c