I’m Telling

2498) If you grew up around younger siblings or cousins, you probably heard, I’m telling hundreds of times. After a while, you may have looked over your shoulder and parroted, go ahead. I dare you. When I think of the words, I’m telling, I think of Matthew 18:15-17. Here we are admonished that if we
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The Lions in my Life

2497) I have never been to a circus, though I have seen enough of them on television to picture what happens in a show. One of the things I think I would have been scared to see as a child is a lion in the same cage as a person, and the lion is riled
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Divided Loyalty

2496) In spite of their age, children are smart. Most realize that manipulating the right person can bring a better outcome. For example, some of us knew which parent to ask for permission to do something and which one would say no. We’d, of course, go to the one most likely to give us what
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Valuables

2495) One of the things I collected as a child was pretty rocks. I had in my old cigar box a collection of my favorite ones. As I would look through my rocks, I mistakenly thought I had some valuable ones, yet in reality, they held no monetary value. There was intrinsic value in them;
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Where is the Love

2494) It’s always interesting to me to observe some of my young scholars fall in love. They usually swing all the way toward bliss, feeling as if they’re walking on air, and then, almost as quickly, swing the opposite way in their feelings. As adults, we learn, hopefully, that yes, love carries strong feelings, but
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Pain Spotlights Beauty

2493) As a creator and writer, I examine things a little differently than others. I have noticed that within the hurricane of pain, there is the eye of beauty. I have noticed those who have survived rape, infidelity, cruelty and more, who have been able to turn their pain into a blueprint of how they
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Comparisons

2492) It seems to me that comparing my life, job, marriage, and income to those of others is non-productive. It can lead to ingratitude and only sometimes something good. Taking a look at what I have versus what others have can be a door that opens to resentment, envy, and the subtle poison of complaining.
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Grace is Complicated

2491) As an evangelical Christian, raised in the South, grace was not spoken of much. I don’t know if it was because there’s an unspoken fear that if we live under grace, we’ll run out and do any wicked thing we want, knowing we’ll be forgiven. Maybe. But grace isn’t as simple as: do what
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Know and then See

2490) I have read in several places that many have “life verses” from the Bible they cling to. I don’t really have one, but if I did, Job 19:25-26 would be a strong contender. It reads, I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after
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Dividers

2489) There are people who seem to enjoy stirring up trouble. I suppose there are many reasons why they do this, but the why doesn’t really matter; they just do. Titus 3:10 tells us specifically to have nothing to do with people like this. Why? Because when a wedge is placed within a group or
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