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Making Lots of Mistakes

Posted in Action, Choice, Endurance, Faith, Michael Phelps, tagged , , , on July 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Michael Phelps, 2008 Olympic Gold-Medalist

I’ve made thousands of mistakes, but I’ve never made the same mistake twice.

— Michael Phelps, winner of 8 gold metals in the 2008 Olympics1

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Slow Checkout Lines and Jesus

Posted in Belief, Bible Characters, Christ, Endurance, Faith, Healing, Jesus, tagged on January 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

“A man named Jairus besought [Jesus to] come into his house: For he had one only daughter … and she lay a dying.

But as he went the people thronged him. And a woman … came behind him and touched … Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they … said, … the multitude throng thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? … [finally the woman] came trembling, and falling down …

While he yet spake, there cometh one … saying … Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.” — Luke 8:41-49

Whichever line I choose at the store stops. Five people checkout at the next line while I wait with two items for the one person in front of me to get a price check, call an absent manager, have a credit card denied, and/or fill out a return receipt. I don’t know how I do it!

I get impatient though I have nothing important compared to Jairus; his daughter was on her deathbed, Jesus her only hope.

How Jairus heart must have sunk as Jesus was stopped along with the way for a discussion about feelings! How he must have felt such urgency — right up to the point when the bad news came! Too late!

But Jesus is never too late, even if it takes a lifetime of waiting.

Jesus … answered …Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole” — Jesus (Luke 8:50)

— fritz

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Fruit Season

Posted in Endurance, Faith, Fruit, tagged , , , on December 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season,” — Psalm 1:3

Fruitfulness is a longstanding metaphor throughout the Bible. Corrupted Israel was compared to summer fruit (Amos 8, Micah 7); Jesus said fruitless branches are removed (John 15); vineyards and orchards, wheat and weeds — all metaphors with meaning sometimes lost to urban readers.

Something to remember about fruit in the very first Psalm — it’s produced in its season. We expect “fruit” all the time and when things aren’t spiritually popping we think something is wrong when it could be that it’s just not the right time/season.

God’s admonition is to keep pressing on, keep praying, keep meditating on God’s word (the Bible) — fruit will come in its season.

— fritz
Also see: “The Church Clock” – July 30, 2010

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