Happy Labor Day weekend. So happy to be off and able to enjoy it. It is gorgeous out. Not a cloud in the sky and the forecast looks bright through Wednesday. It is a nice treat to be able to enjoy the pool through September before it closes. But I get a lot of things done in the off summer months. And this will be no exception. I am busier now, more active than I was when I working a full time job outside of the home. Hmmm.....very strange. But I recognize and am so appreciative for this opportunity to steer my life in a new direction. Outside of the conventional way of things. Funny how when my husband and I worked full time people viewed us as a successful couple. Yet my husband held a full time commission's job. Which meant he could work a whole week and commute 2 hours a day and come home with zero dollars at the end of the week. But because he left the house everyday and went to a "place of employment" he was successful. And now he works and serves the churches and local schools and is happier and more productive than ever and people view that as "beneath society's standard". Hmmmm....very strange to me again. People measure their own success by viewing other people's life and those same people judge others by what they see on the outside. Maybe today we all should take the time and pray for one another. Maybe today we should all take the time and life up one another. Maybe today we should all simply be obedient to God and love one another.
Mark 9:42 recites and when you read the life application in the NIV version it states.."It is possible for thoughtless and sefish people to gain a measure of worldly greatness, but lasting greatness is measured by God's standard. What do you use as your measure-personal achievement or unselfish service?"
You may be the richest, most successful, most educated, and maybe even the most honored person on this planet but if you don't have love you are NOTHING! Love lifted me! Thank you Cindy for always allowing God's love to move you to continue to love me even when I was wrong.You are an amazing woman. God is great in the lives of loving people. Don't be weary in well doing. God will continue to exalt you!
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