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Friday, August 16, 2024

Better-Awareness

Sometimes we misunderstand things because we don't wait for the finished picture!
It takes time for an Artist to complete His (or, as below, her) work

Better to be patient in waiting
Than impatient and settling for far less than God would grant...


After she completed the swing set I thought she was done,
and I praised her drawing but, after she studied it briefly she returned to it.
Something seemed wanting.
Then she added grass, sky, clouds and people!
A much prettier picture than I was ready to settle for 💝






Better to be reprimanded than to flourish in deceit
To obey is better than the pomp and show of sacrifice
Better to be bowed in bearing, washing fellow-traveler's feet
Than to be proud and uncaring; always counting giving's price

Better to be poor and gentle than world-wealthy and unkind
Better to be robbed and beaten, than to be the one that steals
Better to walk by faith daily, than coast through life, seeing-blind 
Better to be led through fire than to trust in how one feels 

Better to be mocked and hated than applauded for sin's fruit 
Better this, to suffer wrongly than to live without a care 
Better to be wild with hunger than succeed in greed's pursuit
Better, tossed by trouble's tempest than smooth sailing without prayer 

Better to be God's-grace strengthened than to never know its need
Better to grow wise in waiting, than a fool, soon gratified 
Better to trust in the Lord than lean on Logic's shaky reed/lead 
Better to be stumble-humbled than poised on tight-ropes of pride  

© Janet Martin

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love 
than a fattened ox with hatred.

Better a dry morsel in quietness 
than a house full of feasting with strife.

Better one handful with tranquility 
than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.

Not every aftermath  is instantly visible
as outlined HERE 
but without a doubt,
we reap what we sow! 

Deut.10:12-21 BSB

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you
but to fear the LORD your God
by walking in all His ways, to love Him,
to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD
that I am giving you this day for your own good?

14Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens,
even the highest heavens,
and the earth and everything in it.
15Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them.
And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,
above all the peoples, even to this day.

16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
17For the LORD your God is God of gods
and Lord of lords,
the great, mighty, and awesome God,
showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow,
and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
19So you also must love the foreigner,
since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

20You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him.
Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
21He is your praise and He is your God,
who has done for you these great and awesome wonders
that your eyes have seen.

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