Today felt like a record-breaker, temperature wise. It was 94* here and humid. It poured down rain when I was at work, but I only got half way home and the roads were dry and the skies clear. My grass could have used a good drink! It still doesn’t need cut after 10 days. The best thing to do was stay inside and be cool.
I listened to Kyle at Hempfield. He was on the 3rd fruit of the spirit, PEACE. To give us peace, Jesus had to walk both sides of the conflict, right through the middle between God and sinful Man, to resolve the conflict. Peace, Kyle said, is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God. If we rejoice in the Lord always, the peace of God will be given to us. The fruits, especially Joy and Peace, are something we can HAVE, or FEEL – there is a difference. Just because we don’t feel peace doesn’t mean we don’t have it. We must give our concerns to God and we will have peace. And there’s more than just claiming peace as our own; we are instructed to be peace-makers: To do so we must enter the conflict, hear the hurts and distress of others, and let them talk. Then we walk through the conflict to find the solution. God’s got this! Seek peace and be a peacemaker!
On this day in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was read to George Washington’s troops in New York, and in 1842 the Notary Stamp Law passed (not sure what that was – some notary I am!). In 1956 Dick Clark made his first appearance as host of American bandstand. Zachary Taylor (12th president of the US) died at age 65 in 1850, and in 1952 Fred Rogers married Sara Joanne Byrd. O J Simpson was born in 1947, Tom Hanks in 1956. And today my friend and fellow author Kerry Mountain is celebrating a birthday. Check out her books: The Parson’s Christmas Gift and Wyoming Promises (historic fiction!!)
Today is National Sugar Cookie Day – hope you enjoyed one! God bless …
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