Message from @Powder π
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Is there anyone here who can recommend a Business Attorney related to an HVAC company? My husband has cancer and I have lots of questions- I just researched all that I could such that I would not sound dumb as a rock. His children want no part of the business and I have no idea how nor do I have any interest in the business myself. It is a small mom-pop business- sole proprietorship - and I have to think ahead. If I have offended anyone by asking please forgive me. I live in East Tn and he has had this business for 25 years. He has downsized from a muli-million dollar business to a very very small business just enough to pay our bills and live normally. No lavishness for us-he only has one employee and it is not me., LOL! Any guidance to someone who knows this would be greatly appreciated!
@Harpazogirl I'm praying for you & your husband. For healing and a solution for finding a proper attorney.
Praying for you @Harpazogirl π
For what it's worth..
I struggle with my faith too..
It's like a barrier I sometimes break through..
But the cost is unbearable..
I want to feel close to God..
I want that connection..
So I hold on tight until the next time I can't hold on anymore..
And then I wait for Him to meet me at my weakest..
While the world judges me for my mistakes and sins..
I wait for Him to tell me unconditionally that it's okay..
And then I wait for Him to create my shattered pieces into another beautiful mosaic..
Because He can..
Because He will..
Because He always has..
He makes new again..
And that is the simple truth of my faith..
-Sarah Beth Mc Clure
Youβre blessed when youβre at the end of your rope..
With less of you there is more of God..
Matthew 5:3
Birds of a Feather
People do make mistakes..
But I think everyone deserves a second chance..
We are not the mistakes..
Some of us are just a product of them..
Forgive.. and let it go..
If we won't forgive people we have no right to ask God to forgive us...
Every person has a dark side.. What defines a person with good character is not a spotless life of constant kindness, smiles and even temperament.. But rather, itβs the yearning to learn from your mistakes, applying it, making amends for them and choosing not to repeat them that defines good character.. These are the friends to keep in your life because they have stared adversity in the face and became a better person because of it...
-Shannon Alder
Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. --Acts 6:3
Let us watch that we do not slide imperceptibly to a state where the women do the praying and the men run the churches. Men who do not pray have no right to direct church affairs. We believe in the leadership of men within the spiritual community of the saints, but that leadership should be won by spiritual worth.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? All things else being equal, a praying woman will know the will of God for the church far better than a prayerless man.
We do not here advocate the turning of the churches over to the women, but we do advocate a recognition of proper spiritual qualifications for leadership among the men if they are to continue to decide the direction the churches shall take. The accident of being a man is not enough. Spiritual manhood alone qualifies. We Travel an Appointed Way, 16.
"Lord, don't ever let me have leadership that I don't deserve. Don't ever let me become careless in prayer. Don't ever let me rely on the women to pray while I lead. Amen." A. W. Tozer Sermon: Men Who Do Not Pray
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Sleep well
Sometimes..
Therapy brings you to a whole new way of understanding all the things you need to see..
Today.. I saw darkness..
I am understanding why I am where I am..
Yet it is a hard road to grasp..
I am told I will be stronger as a result of seeing with these new eyes.. I am understanding where the fear has come in my life..
Fixing that little girl..
Learning to love me..
-Lori Brough
God can restore what is broken..
and change it into something amazing..
All you need is faith..
Joel 2:25
Then I remembered what I had heard about surrender..
Something I thought I could never do..
My pride just wouldn't allow it..
But I knew that on my own..
I wasn't going to make it..
So I asked for help..
And getting down on my knees..
I surrendered..
-Eric Clapton
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate..
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..
It is our light.. not our darkness that frightens us..
We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
Youβre a child of God.. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us... it's in everyone! And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same..
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others..
-Marianne Williamson
There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable..
There is a sorrow beyond grief which leads to joy
and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength..
There is a hollow space too vast for words
through which we pass with each loss,
out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being..
There is a cry deeper than all sound
whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open
to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole,
while learning to sing..
-Rashani
Birds of a Feather
I realized there is NO real growth when you are still willing to stay focused on the world and it's ways..
Your ways are not my ways..
Your thoughts are not my thoughts..
Declares the Lord..
Isaiah 55:8
I want to stand up and rise..
I want to grow and learn..
I want to resemble Jesus..
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together..
Colossians 1:17
Art: Nancy Tillman
Again, that world-shaking event, the crucifixion of Christ, is stated in four words, "There they crucified him." One shudders to think what fanfare and buildup such a stupendous event would require if written by the shallow novelists or dramatists of our day. To represent such a solemn event on the stage would cost thousands of dollars and would require enough words to fill a dozen pages of script. The reason for the difference is of course that the evangelists felt the crucifixion and instinctively spoke of it in few words.
To follow this thought further, it is only necessary to note the simple brevity of the announcement of our Lord's resurrection. The "young man" told the inquiring disciples the story in three words: "He is risen." These needed no eloquent preface to such a wondrous announcement. Where there have been mighty deeds, there need be no multitude of words to tell of them. Many words are required only where the deeds have been too feeble to speak for themselves.
A. W. Tozer Sermon: Mighty Deed and Empty Words
Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet...
There is nothing they wonβt tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness...
They donβt want to hurt other people...
It is against their very nature...
They want to make amends and undo the wrong they do.
Their life is a wave of highs and lows...
They live with guilt and constant pain over unresolved situations and misunderstandings...
They are tortured souls that are not able to live with hatred or being hated...
This type of person needs the most love anyone can give them because their soul has been constantly bruised by others... However, despite the tragedy of what they have to go through in life, they remain the most compassionate people worth knowing, and the ones that often become activists for the broken hearted, forgotten and the misunderstood...
They are angels with broken wings that only fly when loved...
-Shannon L. Alder
Make me a channel of Your peace..
Where there is hatred let me bring Your Love..
Where there is injury, Your pardon, Lord..
And where there's doubt, true faith in You..
Time is like a river..
You cannot touch the same water twice..
Because the flow that has just passed..
Will never pass again..
We can't go back and re-live..
But we can take this time before us as allow the flow to create the best of what we have right now..
This very moment..
Report: Iran Increased Persecution of Christians in July https://hopeforourtimes.com/report-iran-increased-persecution-of-christians-in-july/