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Love without Pain

1932) This life is full of wonders. We experience love, happiness, hope, passion, anger, awe, pain and more. What is easy to remember in our emotional realm is that pain is present because we love and hope. If we didn’t care, we wouldn’t consider events, betrayals, mistakes and poor choices painful.   1 John 4:8
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Pay Up

1931) The last time I read a statistic, money issues were the number 1 reason for divorce. When someone handles your money poorly, it often brings with it bad tempers and division. If you did a service for someone, and they don’t pay or are pretty casual about it, it can bring out the worst
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Not Just for Kids

1930) We teach children they should be careful who they choose for friends; especially through the tween and teen years. Why? Because who they choose to spend time with influences who they are. Yes, we nod our heads.   Yet, we adults need to be careful who we spend our time with because the truth
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Seeking Council

1929) One way I approach verses which are familiar to me is to think about what the verse doesn’t mean. Confused? Let’s look at Proverbs 15:22.   This verse tells us without council plans fail, but with many advisers, they succeed. (ESV) What the verse doesn’t tell us is to solely ask other people what
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Poor Spending

1928) As I work toward being the person God intended me to be, I still find it hard when someone doesn’t like me or tries their best to close me out of the world around them, which is often connected to me.   When this happens, my gut reaction is to try to appease the
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Help!

1927) There are so many things in life that are best described as dichotomies. For example, if emotional pain exists, so does love, or the hope of love. Another example is found in Mark 9:24. In this verse, we read the statement, “I believe; help my unbelief.” When I was young and read this verse,
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Sort Of

1926) Luke 1:37 holds an attribute of God I have always accepted, sort of. Those two little words, “sort of” are important to note.   This verse tells us nothing is impossible with God. I can read this and nod my head. Yes, God can bring healing. Yes, God can create the world. Yes, God
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Jealousy Examined

1925) There are so many things I don’t understand about God. I suppose many of them will be understood in the next life, but for now, I continually dig for information.   A verse, actually several verses that allude to the same thing, I’ve struggled to understand is Deuteronomy 4:24. Here, God is being described
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Read it and Reap

1924) If you grew up in the church such as I have, you will be familiar with Galatians 6:7. You may even have a grandma who would frequently say, “You’ll reap what you sow.”   I have always felt Paul’s words here are specifically aimed at our bad choices, but it is also equally true
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A Big Lie

1923) I was talking with someone recently and he commented on the fact that when he talked with his kids about drugs, he emphasized the danger is that they make you feel good (at least at first).   It would be easy to think, how can something that makes me feel good be bad? Of
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