Sorta excited to see what's inside.It would be so easy to start judging the owner.But I refuse to.
Opportunity is weird, making it invisible. What I thought might be a chance for an interesting material discovery, was really an opportunity to learn about myself.
The opportunity to wonder about the lives of the people who lived here. The opportunity to pray for what appears to be squashed dreams.
More often than not, all we have to do is ask for a seat
How is your courage these days? Stronger than ever, about what it’s always been, or at an all time low? The beautiful thing about trying and failing is that we also succeed. Not every time, but often enough to see the pattern. You do see the correlation between risk and reward, right? The spirit is always willing, but the flesh (or the courage, in this example) is weak.
The Lord has been known to use people to help spread his message, to help those less fortunate, to spread love where there is hate, to comfort the broken-hearted.
Do you ever feel like he is using you? This was difficult for me to comprehend until He started, noticeably, transforming my life. He put the opportunity in front of me to become a public speaker, in 1998.
It was neither an opportunity sought, nor wanted.
But it was, indeed, an opportunity.
A huge opportunity. A once in a lifetime opportunity.
And it created in me a confidence I’d never known.
And provided an education money could never buy.
To teach is to learn twice.
To teach, and to write, is to learn thrice.
And in the past three months, I humbly submit to you the growing fruits of this labor.
Three-quarters of a million hits.