995) My students find out quickly when they arrive in my classroom at the beginning of the year that if I say, No about something, I will not change my mind 10 minutes later. It’s usually about a month before they stop asking again. I guess some of them are a little slow at learning this.

I’m not the only one who also means exactly what I say, God does too. In Romans 8:38-39, God said that nothing can separate him from his children. It doesn’t matter how mean, rude, hateful, impatient, or unfaithful I am, he will not leave me. Nothing will. If we could understand and grasp this, our life would be richer, lighter and full of thanksgiving.

When God says something; he means it too.