December's Lesson: After a draining week the Sabbath is how we fill our souls back up with life (John Mark Comer). I’ve been reading The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer this year. Quotes from it have been my Lesson of the Day literally dozens of times over the past few months, … Continue reading December’s Lesson: After a draining week the Sabbath is how we fill our souls back up with life (John Mark Comer)
Month: December 2020
November’s Lesson: Technology interruptions break our hours into confetti
November's Lesson: Technology interruptions break our hours into confetti (Ashley Whillans). How many times a week do you catch yourself thinking or saying something like: if only I had more time? We promise ourselves and dream that we’d do x, y and z if only we had more time. The truth is, we already … Continue reading November’s Lesson: Technology interruptions break our hours into confetti
October’s Lesson: Love chooses to move at the other person’s pace rather than requiring them to move at ours.
October's Lesson: Love chooses to move at the other person’s pace rather than requiring them to move at ours. There are many definitions of love and what it looks like, but this one was new to me. I know that a convoy can only move at the speed of its slowest member, but I … Continue reading October’s Lesson: Love chooses to move at the other person’s pace rather than requiring them to move at ours.
September’s Lesson: Prayerlessness is a sure recipe for falling into temptation
September's Lesson: Prayerlessness is a sure recipe for falling into temptation. We need to pray more. That’s not exactly a revolutionary statement – I think many of us have thought this at one time or other – but do we take prayer, or the lack thereof, seriously enough? This statement was one of … Continue reading September’s Lesson: Prayerlessness is a sure recipe for falling into temptation
August’s Lesson: Since we can’t earn more time, we should be more concerned about budgeting our hours than budgeting our money.
August's Lesson: Since we can’t earn more time, we should be more concerned about budgeting our hours than budgeting our money. Time is money, or so the saying goes. True enough, to a point. Time can be used to earn money and lost time can mean lost income. On the other hand, though, time … Continue reading August’s Lesson: Since we can’t earn more time, we should be more concerned about budgeting our hours than budgeting our money.
July’s Lesson: Lay down tracks of truth for your train of thought to follow
July's Lesson: Lay down tracks of truth for your train of thought to follow. This fantastic sentence was originally written by Jeff Lucas, and it was my wife who introduced it to me in July. She was inspired by it so much that she wrote an entire devotional on it, which you can check … Continue reading July’s Lesson: Lay down tracks of truth for your train of thought to follow
June’s Lesson: Silence speaks. Don’t let the fear of saying too much for some or too little for others lead you to say nothing.
June's Lesson: Silence speaks. Don’t let the fear of saying too much for some or too little for others lead you to say nothing. This post is the latest in a new series based on the main lessons I’ve learnt in 2020. Keeping up the habit I started in 2018, I write down one lesson that … Continue reading June’s Lesson: Silence speaks. Don’t let the fear of saying too much for some or too little for others lead you to say nothing.
May’s Lesson: The fastest way to kill something is to compare it to something else
May's Lesson: The fastest way to kill something is to compare it to something else. This post is the latest in a new series based on the main lessons I’ve learnt in 2020. Keeping up the habit I started in 2018, I write down one lesson that I’ve learnt each day. Then, each month I look … Continue reading May’s Lesson: The fastest way to kill something is to compare it to something else
April’s Lesson: Good and bad are both incomplete stories – you never know what will happen next
April's Lesson: Good and bad are both incomplete stories - you never know what will happen next This post is the latest in a new series based on the main lessons I’ve learnt in 2020. Keeping up the habit I started in 2018, I write down one lesson that I’ve learnt each day. Then, each month … Continue reading April’s Lesson: Good and bad are both incomplete stories – you never know what will happen next
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