Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
Write down your vision, and act on them…
“I would like to work towards better maternal health, like pregnancy. I’ve had three babies born in my family last year. One, the baby went home, but the mother was still at the hospital. Another one, the baby was helicoptered off to a hospital four hours away, but the mother wasn’t taken with her. I think babies and mothers should always be kept together no matter what. That baby should never have left her side. I think mothers need their babies as much as babies need the moms, and when you separate them, you’re just creating trauma. That’s something that recently has really come to my attention that in this day and age in this country with the healthcare that we have and the science that we have available and the funds that we have in a first-world country, we do not keep the mother and baby together. It just seems really a natural, normal thing that we should do and I don’t know why we don’t do it. I also think that this country needs to make more allowances for paternity leave and maternity leave.” Melissa Joan Hart
“I would immediately work toward sensible gun control. Red flag laws. A man who has been accused of domestic violence, who has committed domestic violence, should not get to own a gun. Bottom line. Start there. Then you ban assault rifles. We don’t need military-style rifles on our streets. I would not take away the Second Amendment. I would just apply sensible gun laws. Background checks. Universal background checks. That’s maybe first day in office. Then I’d raise the minimum wage, so people have a living wage and equal pay. Women still make seventy cents to the dollar. Women of color, less. It’s ridiculous. I would make sure that my cabinet is at least 50 percent female, representing and reflecting what our country is.” Christine Lahti
I bow my head, close my eyes, lace my fingers together and begin to pray. “Dear Lord, I’m coming to you today as your child. I recognize your power and goodness. . .” Suddenly, my eyes snap open. I remember that my son hasn’t finished his history project, which is due the next day. I recall that he has an after-school basketball game, and I imagine him awake until midnight finishing his schoolwork. This leads me to worry that his fatigue will put him at risk for the flu!
C. S. Lewis wrote about distractions during prayer in his book The Screwtape Letters. He noted that when our minds wander, we tend to use willpower to steer ourselves back to our original prayer. Lewis concluded, though, that it was better to accept “the distraction as [our] present problem and [lay] that before [God] and make it the main theme of [our] prayers.”
A persistent worry or even a sinful thought that disrupts a prayer may become the centerpiece of our discussion with God. God wants us to be real as we talk with Him and open up about our deepest concerns, fears, and struggles. He is not surprised by anything we mention. His interest in us is like the attention we would receive from a close friend. That’s why we’re encouraged to give all of our worries and cares to God—because He cares for us (1 Peter 5:7). By Jennifer Benson Schuldt
Dear God, You know what’s on my mind today. Help me to experience the peace that comes from sharing my concerns with You.
When I complained that a friend’s choices were leading her deeper into sin and how her actions affected me, the woman I prayed with weekly placed her hand over mine. “Let’s pray for all of us.” I frowned. “All of us?” “Yes,” she said. “Aren’t you the one who always says Jesus sets our standard of holiness, so we should not compare our sins to the sins of others?” “That truth hurts a little,” I said, “but you’re right. My judgmental attitude and spiritual pride are no better or worse than her sins.” “And by talking about your friend, we’re gossiping. So—” “We’re sinning.” I lowered my head. “Please, pray for us.”
Lord, please keep us from falling into the trap of comparing ourselves to others. Mold us and make us more like You
“The first lesson I learned when I was very young: When you fall off the horse, get back on. (It’s a matter of when you fall, not if.) Resilience is what you need to tackle the challenges associated with a time of tremendous uncertainty. The second lesson is the importance of running the business like it’s in startup mode. Ariat is in its 27th year, and we have 550 employees worldwide, but we emphasize being flexible and agile, and we keep risk and opportunity top of mind. We work together to emerge stronger.” — Beth Cross
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
