Too many people are thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, when they ought to just water the grass they are standing on. – Amar Dave
This reminds me of the devotion I read today regarding being thankful. It seems like sometimes we are always looking at the glass half empty instead of half full. We are always looking at the negative in our lives instead of the positives.
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Yesterday was my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary! Fifty years of marriage is a long time and it hasn’t always been easy but they are stronger than ever in their marriage after 50 years.
The secret is to keep Christ in the center of your marriage. But my mom said they have also had to keep patience and love and kindness in the center of their marriage as they worked through the trials over the years.
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Yesterday I went to see the movie, The Fault in Our Stars. If you haven’t seen it, you should……….but take your Kleenexes. There was a part in the movie where three teens were talking about giving eulogies at other people’s funerals and how they should “practice” before someone dies so that the dying person can be present at his own funeral. Even though it sounds a little morbid, it was a part in the movie that you felt yourself smile and even laugh a little.
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The ship is safe in the harbor. But ships weren’t meant to stay in the harbor.
We feel safe when we are in comfortable surroundings – like the ship in the harbor. We feel safe when we are at church. We feel safe when we are around our Christian friends. We feel safe in a routine. We feel safe with the familiar. But God didn’t create us to stay safe in the harbor.
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