Lesson(s) Learned

Found this old writing of mine on my computer today, and it made me smile.... so, I'm sharing it here (I’m guessing I wrote it when I was about 26 because there are 26 things listed...Maybe I should consider doing a revised one this year for the big 4-0 😳) Quite a few years ago, I wrote a list of "things I'm learning…" It contained advice, quotes, and sheer observations about the life I was living and the life that was carrying on all around me. Well, today, I thought about that list for the first time (in a very, very long time) and thought perhaps I should re-create it, in a sense, based on where I find myself in life right now. at this very moment. Nothing came from quote websites or the like… it's all fresh from my little Rosemary brain. Hope you enjoy it, and it brings some encouragement and comfort and COURAGE your way - no matter where you find yourself along life's journey today. :) Things I'm learning... 1. Assume that everything ...

The verse that God brought to mind this morning on my way to work was this: "Love not the world neither the things that are in the world." He's actually brought this verse to my mind several times over the past couple of days. As I was thinking about this verse this morning, I noticed that God never said, "Do not love the people of the world." We are all people of the world. Some are redeemed, and some have yet to be redeemed. God makes it very clear that if we love the world and we love the things of the world, then the love of the Father is not in us. Yet, if we love the people of the world (not the things they do, or their worldview, or their selfishness and "me first" mentality), we are being Christ-like. When we love the people of the world, we are, in essence, acting on Christ's behalf as His hands and feet in this present-day world. Christ said we would know who his disciples were by the love they had. Mohammed ...