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  • Many Bad Works – One Good Fruit – Living Contentment Weekly

    Many Works – One Fruit Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS Most of us are familiar with the passage from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Galatia: But the…

  • Remember…..you will die -Living Contentment

    Remember…..you will die -Living Contentment

    Remember – You Will Die Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS Memento Mori Latin – “Remember death” Not exactly a pick-me-up St Jerome – Caravaggio 1605 But to be…

  • what about the hard times?

    what about the hard times?

    Hi Reader, This is not a regular Living Contentment -but just a quick update. As many of you know, a very personal struggle for my family and me has been (still is) trying to find God’s goodness, mercy, justice….and trying to find contentment as we suffered a violent, armed attack in our home…

  • Don’t know what you have….

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS They say ‘You don’t know what you have… until it’s gone.’ OK fine – I recall hearing “don’t know what you got ’till it’s gone” ……

  • #65 – But Who Am I?

    READ THIS The story of Moses’ life is one we all know pretty well. Even those with no Biblical knowledge have images of him boldly leading the people of Israel through the raging storm while crossing the Red Sea, or know of his bold, impassioned demand to the most powerful man on earth when he…

  • #64 – Getting Back to Basics

    READ THIS We’ve spoken about this before – but it bears repeating. (if for nobody other than me) One way to live a life of contentment is to be aware of the good things in life. Be mindful of the pleasant.Be conscious of what you do enjoy. Remember what God has done for us. That’s…

  • #63 -What if the Sky is NOT the Limit?

    READ THIS Limits I think we’re hard-wired by our culture to hate them – or at least see them as obstacles to be overcome, avoided, or loop-holed. We are told we can only drive so fast, that our bodies actually need so many hours of sleep, that our brains literally cannot multi-task, and that we…

  • #62 -Don’t Be a Hummingbird

    READ THIS Earlier this week, I was sitting on a high, steep hill overlooking Kigali. As I looked down, I noticed an enormous bird circling. (It was probably a Yellow-Billed Kite – for you Bird Nerds.) It was amazing to watch how it circled upward without ever moving its wings. It merely rode the updrafts along…

  • #61 – What Did You Expect?

    READ THIS Simeon. We don’t know much about him at all.He merely occurs in this familiar scene from Luke 2 where Mary and Joseph take their 8-day-old baby Jesus to the temple. In Jerusalem at the time, there was a man, Simeon by name, a good man, a man who lived in the prayerful expectancy…

  • #60 -Did You Notice this Facet of the Diamond?

    If you missed any of the reflections – here they all are: Intro to Psalm 23 – Not Just for Cross-Stich any more. He Leads Me – Not So Sure about That​ He Makes me lie down in Green Pastures – Do What to the Grass?​ He leads me – Path to What?​ I will fear no Evil – Not…