Fruit of The Spirit, Part 4-Longsuffering (Patience)

Galatians 5:22-23

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Patience is one of the hardest things to practice, whether it’s focusing on a hard project, teaching a young child, or even just putting up with some people. Whenever you are having a hard time being patient, remember how patient God is.

Many times in the bible, God keeps giving second chances to many people, including the Jews, and many other people, including Paul the apostle. Paul was persecuting and arresting Christians, but God gave him a second chance, and he trusted Christ as his savior, and was able to do so much for God.

He has patience with us as well, and even though we do some pretty stupid things, and he always gives his children so many chances to follow him.

-Natalia

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff- Week 4

Hello everyone. Welcome to “Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff” week 4. I know I keep saying this but I need to. Please remember that everything in quotation marks is straight from the book.

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“Nothing helps build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves  the willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, to take the focus off of yourself and to imagine what it would be like to be in someone else’s predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It’s recognition that other people’s problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Compassion is something you can develop with practice. It involves two things: intention and action. Intention simply means you remember to open your heart to others; you expand what and who matters, from yourself to other people. Action is simply the What do you do about it?  You might donate a little money or time ( or both ) on a regular basis to a cause near to your heart. Or perhaps you’ll offer a beautiful smile and genuine Hello to the people you meet on the street. It’s not so important what you do, just that you do something. As  Mother Treasa reminds us, “We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love.”

Compassion develops your sense of gratitude by taking your attention off of all the little things that most of us have learned to take too seriously . When you take time, often, to reflect on the miracle of life - the miracle that you are even able to read this book - the gift of sight,of love, and of all the rest, it can help to remind you that many things that you think of as big stuff are really just small stuff  that you are turning into big stuff.”

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Well thats all for today see you next week. 

                                 Sophie Shearman

Psalm 46

God is our refuge and strength,

    a very present help in trouble.

² Therefore we will not fear though the earth give way,

    though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,

³ though its waters roar and foam,

    though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah

⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

    the holy habitation of the Most High.

⁵ God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;

    God will help her when morning dawns.

⁶ The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;

    he utters his voice, the earth melts.

⁷ The Lord of hosts is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

⁸ Come, behold the works of the Lord,

    how he has brought desolations on the earth.

⁹ He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;

    he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;

    he burns the chariots with fire.

¹⁰ “Be still, and know that I am God.

    I will be exalted among the nations,

    I will be exalted in the earth!”

¹¹ The Lord of hosts is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

Friends, be still. Know that He is God. Even in the trials and tribulations you just need to rest and let God take control.

-Bryar