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How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 4

How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 4

© Jennifer Slattery, JenniferSlatteryLivesOutLoud, printed with permission Read Part 1 here Read Part 2 here Read Part 3 here Our real life, the life which we were created for, the life which will bring us the greatest joy and fulfillment, is hidden in Christ. We discover this life by throwing off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and running with perseverance the race marked out for us (Hebrews 12:1). Our real life is found not in promotions…

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How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 3

How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 3

© Jennifer Slattery, JenniferSlatteryLivesOutLoud, printed with permission Read Part 1 here Read Part 2 here It’s relatively easy to serve Christ in our safe Christian bubbles or in our planned and church-supported outreach events. It’s another matter entirely to live for Christ in our neighborhoods and at the workplace. Especially if the environment is hostile to us and our faith and shows no signs of improving. But I believe God won’t expand the boundaries of our reach until we prove faithful…

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How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 2

How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 2

© Jennifer Slattery, JenniferSlatteryLivesOutLoud, printed with permission Read Part 1 here Pause to consider the successful individuals you know. Look past their actions to their character. Perhaps some rode on family wealth or landed a lucky break, but most inched forward because of hard work, perseverance, patience, and dependability. In fact, I’ve heard coaches say they prefer a hard worker over a natural star any day because ability has a limit. They’ve learned success without struggle is momentary, faltering the moment…

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How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 1

How to Find Meaning in the Mundane – Part 1

© Jennifer Slattery, JenniferSlatteryLivesOutLoud, printed with permission Do you ever feel like your days run endlessly together? Wake up, go to work, come home to innumerable chores, go to bed, repeat. Where is the abundant life God promised? Are you missing it? Is it possible to find purpose in the predictable and meaning in the mundane? If we are followers of Christ, the answer is yes, for nothing done in surrendered obedience is ever wasted. At each moment, God uses…

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Seeing Irony in God’s Perfect Plan

Seeing Irony in God’s Perfect Plan

© 2001-08, By Tom Brown Sometimes life’s wake-up calls are the equivalent of being hit by a two-by-four. In my case, a long prison sentence has served this purpose. It’s the ultimate irony that I had to lose everything to find out what real wealth is, and I had to come to prison to learn how to be free. Life’s cycles with its twists and turns often make it seem like we’re living many lifetimes within this one. Each step…

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The Blame Game

The Blame Game

I read an article earlier this year about how we are living in an increasingly blame-oriented society. And when shopping for a birthday gift for a friend recently, I saw a sign that said, “I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you!” A recent project placed me right in the middle of this very issue. The project was several weeks behind, nothing seemed to be going in the right direction, and to make matters worse,…

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Flesh or Spirit

Flesh or Spirit

A question we should ask ourselves every day is: “Am I living in the flesh, or am I living in the Spirit?” Chinese church leader and Christian teacher Watchman Nee explained it this way: the flesh is linked with Adam; the Spirit is linked with Christ. To live in the flesh is to do something “out from” myself as in Adam. It is to derive strength from the old natural source of life that we inherited from him, so that…

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Getting The Help You Pray For

Getting The Help You Pray For

I had a dream that I was traveling with an African American couple. We drove for hours and stopped for the night. The black couple is your earthly spiritual helpers and will accompany you on your Spiritual Journey. This has nothing to do with ethnicity, only that black in a dream always means “unknown or unfamiliar.” Stopping for the night means there will be rest periods between lessons. They paid for all the expenses on the drive and when we…

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Called

Called

Choose earnestly the Spiritual Journey. There are 7 divine calls of God to each person. The call to salvation. We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He…

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Watch Your Step

Watch Your Step

A good friend of mine phoned me last week. She had stepped outside onto her patio and there was a snake. She had to watch her step, as suddenly seeing this amphibian made her rather uncomfortable. A few days after her call, I was pulling into the garage and smacked the side mirror of the car on the garage door frame. What was I doing? I had one eye on an area where I had just planted some flowers and…

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