Light in a Dark World
We visited our home Sunday School class this morning. While there, we discussed our reactions to the shootings at Virginia Tech. One comment someone made was regarding our culture’s obsession with shock value. In this past week’s case, the indication of such is how much we saw and heard about the gunman, why he may have done it, what his past was like, etc. Although we heard mention of the victims’ lives, it was in no comparison to the mention of the cause.
Local news is the exact same way. On most nights one would have to hope for a simple glimpse of positive things going on in our world. I’m going to try to change that by being intentional in each of my posts to mention something good from my day no matter how big or small it is that God has done. Some of the good things I mention may seem futile but that’s what I want to change about myself…. discounting God’s tiniest gestures.
Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father (James 1.17) and I want to fully experience that.
Today’s good: We got to see two of our good friends at church today. We don’t get to see them much so we were really excited when they invited us to go out to lunch. What a beautiful day to sit out on a patio at a Chinese restaurant! To top off the experience, our friends bought our lunch. Thank you guys. We feel loved and love you, too.
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May 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
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[...] Today’s good: We offically broke 100% support!!!!!! [...]
May 20th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
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May 23rd, 2007 at 10:34 pm
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June 1st, 2007 at 4:46 pm
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June 6th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
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