As I begin today I am remembering that faithful day that so many lost their lives in service of this great country that we live in and I take this opportunity to honor them and thank God for them. It makes me angry when some blames this country for all the ills of the world. I give thanks to God for the men and women who have served in the military in the past and I give thanks for the men and women that serve today. I also pray for God's strength to be with the families that are left behind and those who have lost loved ones in this service. May God bless them and May God bless this great country.
Scripture: Colossians 4: 6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Observation: My daddy use to say that if you couldn't say something good about someone don't say anything at all.
Application: I can also say to this part of my journal today that my dad was a very quiet man, as I remember him. I never heard him talk politics, but I know he read and listened and he voted. I never heard my dad discuss religion in a negative way, by which I mean he judged how and where other worshiped, but I know that he read his Bible and studied commentary and I am sure he prayed a lot. I know that because he raised five children, which by experience, requires a lot of prayer. My dad was also faithful to his beliefs and to the church he was a part of and he did all he could to resist evil.
I have learned through life and from I have observed and what I have taught that it is important to include grace in all that I say and do. I know that when things don't go my way and anger over something is included in the mix, somtimes grace gets pushed aside. That is part of my imperfection.
Prayer: Lord, I pray that grace would be in my every thought and answer; also, that grace would be in my every action. Help me reach that goal in my life. Love Stephen
Yieldedness: I yield to the presence of God's grace in life and in my being and may I pass it on.
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