Any runner, cyclist, or truck driver will have experienced this phenomenon. When you are going into a headwind, you notice it. The wind buffets your efforts, you feel every moment of discomfort and pushback. However, when you go back in the other direction, when the wind is at your back, you don’t much think about how it is pushing you along, if you are even mindful of it.
The headwind is constantly fought and on your mind; the tailwind isn’t as noticed and quickly forgotten.
It’s not just a wind issue. The problems and difficulties of life tend to be right in our face, a constant reminder, yet the blessings we receive, the good parts, we tend to let slip away.
Is it any wonder we are miserable?
Right now if I asked you to tell me things that are wrong in your world, you could answer in a moment and probably have a hard time limiting them to five. However, if we really sat down and thought about all we have and how we have been blessed, the list of good to bad would out weight it astronomically.
Next time you curse the headwinds of life, you are wondering why things are so hard, why everything seems so wrong, stop and check the wind. I bet the headwinds of life are not much more than the tailwinds. Count your blessings. Think about the advantages you have. That thankfulness will help to offset the obtrusiveness of life’s problems.
“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits” (Psalm 103:2)
~~ Barry Haynes, Hope AR
Out of love for one another…….
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35 ESV)
Scripture of the Week
“Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in Him. Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous, sing, all you who are upright in heart!” ~~ Psalm 32:10-11
Something to Smile About
I told my boss three companies were after me and I needed a raise to stay at my job. We haggled for a few minutes, and he gave me a five percent raise. Leaving his office, he stopped and asked me, “By the way, which companies are after you?” I responded, “The gas, electric and cable company.”
Think About It
MY SHADOW
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by” (Acts 5:15).
There is an old song, “Me and my shadow” Yes, each of us does have a shadow, it is called OUR INFLUENCE. As the tiniest hair will cast a shadow, each life casts its shadow of influence. We all have been influenced by the lives of others, for better or for worse; and we have and will influence others.
We pass this way but once, so it is utterly important for our influence to cast a shadow of blessings.
The converts of the early church were won to Christ not by books and sermons, but by observing how Christians lived their lives.
Somebody has once written these words: “No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”
“THE LIGHTEST BREEZE THAT EVER BLEW
SOME TENDER GRASS WAS WAVERED.
THE SMALLEST LIFE I EVER KNEW
SOME OTHER LIFE HAS FLAVORED.”
If I walk with the Lord in the light of His Word, what a glory He’ll shed on my way. He will make my SHADOW A BLESSING!
