One End Is a New Beginning

Amazingly the year is coming to a fast yet subtle end.  The drama of yesterday has subsided, the worries of today have calmed and although I didn't exactly conquer the world I'm pleased with the events that have unfolded throughout the year.

I tried almost everything that I wanted to.  I failed more than I succeeded.  I embraced my talents and found new ones yet through it all I am genuinely pleased with what has unfolded.  Now I want to take these last few day's, weeks, hours to reflect.  Give inventory on how I WILL improve.  How my next move will be my best move. 

However, like a relationship that must have it's proper closure I will remain loyal and focus to give careful thoughts and attention to the days that remain.  After all the end is only the beginning to our next chapter.
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Joy Busters: Anger (An Insensitive Reaction)

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Dr. David Jeremiah

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1

Recommended Reading Ephesians 4:25-32

If you've driven a car or been a passenger in one recently, you don't have to be told that anger is an issue in our society. Nearly half of car accidents are speculated to be caused by road rage. It seems that conflicts on the road bring deeper issues to the surface. And, unfortunately, tempers are often the vice of the virtuous. But the Bible clearly tells us that love is not provoked (1 Corinthians 13). Yes, it's possible to be a Christian and struggle with anger. But we should bear in mind the words of theologian Jonathan Edwards, "The grace of God can live with some people with whom no one else could ever live."

So how do we encourage love in a society that tends toward anger? The next time we're faced with an angry person or a situation that would normally warrant an angry response, we can choose to respond in love--allowing that soft answer to turn away anger. But in order to be capable of a gentle, loving response, we need to be constantly connected to the source of love--Jesus Christ!

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul.
John Piper

 This message forward and shared via e-mail and is not my piece.  However I found it awesome enough to share

Cherish Life

Last night I was having a heart to heart.  It was kind of hap hazard out of the blue.  Nothing sparked it, nothing provoked it. I just found myself sharing intellectual ideas of life.  Okay, before I bore you let me explain, I am in no way Confucius, or Gandhi or any other deep spiritual guide that sits and ponders the purposes and reasons of existence and for those who may be wondering, I wasn't high!

No, it was just a breeze of reality that smothered my thoughts and the question came to me, if your were to relocate today or tomorrow who would you keep in contact with and if any drastic affair of life were to occur who would be there for support?  Now I am not thinking of any outro or exit that I plan to extinguish my time, before time, but these were my thoughts.  Has my life effected or contaminated anyone enough to be compelled to continue to nurture my children or to lend a helping hand? 

Whose life did I plague to the point that the idea of my disappearance gives relief, who valued my existence enough to find it not robbery to help and aid or nurture me back to the state they once knew of me.  Names went through my mind and many names I thought surely wouldn't allow my legacy to go die, but how long would that zest for another's life continue?  Now I know I took you somewhere I said I wouldn't but these were the thoughts of my heart.  Friends come and go, family grows through birth's and new engagements and decrease by the hand of death and the question is who after the laughter is over, after the tears are cried, the wounds are healed and the victory won will be by your side and care even after the smoke has settled? 

Cherish life not just because you never know when jail, distance, illness, betrayal, or death may come, but cherish it simply because you desire to celebrate the low valley's and the triumphant mountains of life because after all is said and done you never know.