After starting a new diet, I altered my drive to town to avoid passing my favorite bakery.
I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and there in the window were a host of my favorite goodies.
I felt this was no accident, so I prayed, "Lord, it's up to you... if you want me to have any of those delicious goodies, create a parking place for me directly in front of the bakery."
And sure enough, He answered my prayer. On the eighth time around the block, there it was!
"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction."
- H.A. Ironside
A mathematics teacher came into the faculty room after she'd been watching a basketball game. Her face was glowing.
"I've got the greatest idea for teaching!" she exclaimed.
"What do you mean? What's the idea?" asked a couple of colleagues.
"Well, you know how hard it is for us to really teach fractions? The kids just don't seem to be motivated to learn them."
"Yes, it's true," said a fellow math teacher. "So?"
"Well, the solution is to change the system of scoring in basketball. A free-throw, 2 2/3 point; a basket, 3 1/7, and a foul, 7/8 points!"
"Let us make war, not with other people, but with our own unbelief. Unbelief in the promises of God is the root of anxiety, which, in turn, is the root of so many other sins."
- John Piper, Solid Joys Daily Devotionals
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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"What if, today we were grateful for everything?"