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There have been things that have been going on in my life right now that have been very hard to handle. (Sorry, I can't go into detail yet-- There are still a couple of people I need to talk to personally before the information goes "mychurch.") Well, I was talking with a close friend yesterday who is also going through a rough time. We realized that instead of complaining and feeling sorry for ourselves that we needed to change our attitude. As a result, we decided to play the "Glad" game. For those of you who have never read the book "Pollyanna" (which is a MUST for every girl!), the main character Pollyanna makes up a game called the "Glad" game. In this game, whenever Pollyanna feels sad, she thinks of something for which she is glad. I've decided to start the game on here. Here is my top ten list for which I am most glad for tonight. I encourage you to post your own list. Beware, though: Only play this game if you want to feel better aftwerwards! Here's my list:
I'm glad that . . .
1. I'm healthy
2. Most of my family is healthy
3. I got to spend time playing with my niece and nephew today
4. I got a hug from my someone today
5. My closest friend got to spend the night last night instead of just stopping by like she planned
6. I get to spend another day with my brother and his family tomorrow as we head to the lake
7. My aunt let us borrow her car so that we could afford to drive to my brother's house today
8. I have understanding and caring relatives
9. God is teaching me to have joy in all circumstances
10. It's quiet because everybody is in bed--which means I get some time to myself! :D
Okay, now it's your turn . . .What are you most glad for?
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My mind runs a hundred miles an hour and is always trying to understand everything.
As I grew up, I was often mislabeled as disrespectful or a smart aleck because of it - and I sometimes still am.
I didn't see the correlation when I was younger but now I understand that many of my teachers found me frustrating because most people value control over truth and hate change. In other words, anywhere we are trying to maintain control, we tend to resist questioning or reassesment of what we are doing.
As I think about how damaging this really is, I'm sobered.
This is exactly why most businesses fail.
It's one reason people get trapped in false religion and never find truth.
It's the cause of many hurt's I've had.
In what ways can we guard against this natural tendency?
In a time when Oprah is telling the entire world the Jesus isn't the only way to God, can we afford to not ask questions?
Are we prepared to debunk universalism? Do we know how what we believe fits into history?
Lord, help us learn that it's okay to ask the hard questions and to really consider the answers.
Lord, help us to allow, and even invite others to ask them too, and help us never answer with a canned response.
PS: Do my questions bother you? Let me know what you're thinking guys.
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Life of fullness
I am longing for a life of fullness, one in which everything can be used
where nothing will go in a spare parts bin
and all my talents are expanded, expounded, multiplied, compounded
by the Holy Spirit anointing upon me
to bring the good news that saved my life over and over, still now again
He brings to light every evil thing
every belief,thought or thinking processes that are life sucking sin
Enter in Holy Spirit of God enter into me
Be all to all through me as the time comes to see what you have for me
You through me all you and no me
All the pain I have survived under your tearful watch will relate to many
Every walk of life I have somehow trod
All the while I see your smile, the pain in your eyes at times you'd sob
In my short 33 years of what wrongly appears as an average life
So many shoes I walked in before I became a wife
Like~
Livin the lie, on the sly, tellin the air I breathe at night that I want to die
Never knowing the reasons why
Every time I'd try
continually I'd be
Rejected
Dejected
Knocked Down
Locked Out
Focus of Ridicule and Judgement
or perhaps the most painful
Invisible
Now I see what you reveal to me
How my Perfect Father has until now hidden me
Strategically, lovingly in the feathers of the shadow of His almighty wing
Until the fullness He would bring
in a time when I will sing~
dance- twirl and fling like on the air of your wing!
Wheee! Dadeeey! You are swinging me, and leading me, and thrilling me and bringing me, in a swirl of emotion and completion of your word to me, to a
Life of ***fullness*** of ~Destiny~.
Glory Jesus! Glory to your awesome name for your mercy and your grace, your loving UNDERSTANDING and tender kindness. Walk with me the rest of the way to fullness yet to come, thank you that you tell me I am on the brink of that promise of fullness ~Your Daughter the Princess JenBoat!~
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Written when I was 18 years old, this same time of year and laying on a picnic table at my Aunt and Uncles' house where I lived as a nanny. I was in tank top and shorts, for those of you who know Indiana weather, you know that is strange. For those of you who don't know, right about now- this week it is about in the 30's and that is a big step up. Snow still on the ground as I type now. TODAY I WORE FLEECE IN THE HOUSE AND WAS COLD ALL DAY! lol- Here is what I wrote as I looked up into the powdery blue skies feather-dusted with wispy clouds that day. I can still see and feel it now, 15 years later.
February
sunny powder blue skies
visited by birds and warm friendly winds
if ever I believed love can be "in the air"
it is now, accompanied
with this spring time feelings
and the essence
of NEW BIRTH
a fascination is born
within me for romance again
I'm hoping for true love again maybe
I will find elation
in him
but just like sunshine
in February
it will not last
Now I am called to think of a few things here, for one, Lord, let me feel this deeply and be this connected to my true spirit and true needs in my thoughts of You Lord, only knowing that the "elation" that is from you is not a temporary high as the whirlwind romances of my youth! You are a rock steady love, and that is what you have given me in my husband too. So secondly Lord, remind me of the elation I find in him, my husband, when I know that it isn't anything like "sunshine in February" that will not last, but Lord it is the Jan/ Feb/ March through Dec sonshine from your son direct to me and my life via my husband lovingly shining it down on me. Let me be that carefree 18 yr old girl in your arms, in his arms, and those sunny skies wouldn't be bad either, Lord!!!!!!
Just wanted to share with y'all!
Love you all so much and miss you too.
JenBoat~
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What comes to mind upon reading "out in the name of Jesus"?
I am being shown what this means in my life, by the works of my hands, the words of my mouth, the thoughts in my mind. Where is my heart? Where is my focus and attention? What hinders me from having free flowing frequency with Jesus and with the Holy Spirit as if he is on standby on my blue tooth ear piece... always talking to him, always hearing him... what is in the way of that???? Whatever it is... it needn't be there, so out, in Jesus name.
What is that thing that distracts me from knowing what my purpose is today? Is it a preoccupation with my daily responsibilities, then that is a wrong mindset and living in my own strength. Is it a preoccupation with bodily pain? I need to learn at times to do what I would have formerly considered "giving in" to the pain and just crawl up in my Daddy-God's lap and let him nurture me and impart comfort to my spirit through his Holy Spirit. Am I bound by too many practical demands on my time, thoughts, money and overall resources? Am I burning out? Do I have enough fuel to feed the passions God created in me?
If these things aren't right, then I say "out in the name of Jesus!" anything, Lord that comes between you and Me, reveal it to me so I can come into agreement with the way you want me to think, act, love and live. I am ready for what is to come in you Lord, bring it on, and get all the junk in the way OUT in your precious name I pray. Get out those old mindsets that keep me from intimacy with you, give me your mind, your thoughts, your eyes of perception. Kill and expel those things in me that will suck the life out of the fuel you have given me to live with purpose and passion every day, all the way. Refill me with the healthy protection from you, that keeps those things from taking root in me again. Amen.
Love Y'all
~JenBoat :)
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