Trust Is ...Written by Joyce C. Lock
Honoring God as only One with all answers for our circumstances.Seeking God for those answers. Waiting for God's answer. Listening for God's answer. Receiving what God has revealed as all we yet need to know. Walking in that faith. Believing God will continue to give instruction, as needed. Letting God do rest. Respecting character of God knowing, when He gives a promise, He has to be faithful because God cannot lie. Accountability in not calling God a liar. Remembering what God has done for us already. Accepting that God has proved Himself trustworthy to trust again. Realizing we can even ask God for help with our unbelief. Acknowledging that God is not a respecter of persons, that however He loved people of old, He actually wants to love us, too. Recognizing whenever something touches our heart, that is God; as that is where He dwells. Discovering that God will always do most loving thing possible. Putting weight of world back on God's shoulders, where it belongs.
| | Are We Happy, Really?Written by Joyce C. Lock
Are we getting just old enough, and on so many medications,That we don't realize how down right irritable we can be? Or, have we not realized how unhappy we really are? Upon first entering workforce, I was in shock, and sometimes thoroughly angered, to discover authoritarian, legalistic, generation of adults who (had controlled our every thought and being) didn't even have their own act together! Only then, these adults were deacons, Sunday School teachers, and like ... with a different code of ethics in workplace. Evidently, all that lust and greed wasn’t answer, because they still aren't truly happy. Now, my youngest is having her first experience in workforce and she, thoroughly, loathes her job ... not because of employers or even co-workers, but customers. It isn't just an occasional cranky old biddy. As she says, "Mom, it's all of them!" Customers make same purchases, over and over, with same gripes. She's in food business. So, there is pre-knowledge that food will taste same, be wrapped same way, customers will be charged same ... every time. My daughter questions, "If they really don't like our product, why don't they go somewhere else?" Evidently, customers do like product, as this store is a multi-million dollar business. Though, multitudes do appear unhappy, as retailers well know. Maybe we can keep it all neatly tucked, take it out on clerks and waitresses, none wiser. Now, that's a plan!
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