The Winds of Willows

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Christian Friendship Teens & Young Adult

Miracles with Fragilities (pf)

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

Depending on who we listen to.

More importantly,

Who we hear.


Today, after all is Sunday.🙏🏻


A Sunday school quiz for all ages, all generstions:


”When we look down on another person, is it bad.”

True?

or

False?


Mull and ponder. Because, it, the question, may address more questions than just the one true or false answer.


Yes. We are all “here” for a reason. Maybe even for just a season.

Like Springtime.

And Bunnies.

And Flowering Sunnies.


Would you rather shuffle off to Buffalo.

Or.

Live with the constant peserverance to stay on our feet.🙂


Walk the walk.

Talk the talk.


The proper echo of all things good and kind and helpful.


Truly helpful.

Who wants to end up on their “keester”.

Not me.😊😣


As this is springtime, a time of faith and growing. For instead of simply blowing in the wind, try reaching out.


The taking.

Of another’s hand to lift them up.

Not push them down.

Life on the playground of our lives in 2024. Can be tough.


And instead of “in person”, pushing down. We have succumbed to virtually and AI-ally taking on the thinking that “I am gonna take you on.”

”I am gonna take you down.”

Ugh.


And I will have the evidence for your lifetime.

Ugh again.


HaHaHa. On you.


Ugh.


So.

We perform the tap dance of all tap dances.

With our own digits😳👋🏻👏🏻🤜🏻🤛🏻🫵🏻.📱📲


Character assasination of the worst and most insidious kind because we think it is invisible. What is really showing is how ugly inside our own insides can be.


Enter.

A time of standing up for advancing in a better way.(Pf). Great achievement is achieved over time. When we feel our lowest, when we feel our highest.


Live with constancy and perseverance to stay on our feet.(pf)

Not shuffling.

Really. Staying on our feet.


So.

What to do? Do what?


One word.

One gesture.

One word or gesture of love.

One word or gesture of love for someone.

One word or gesture of love for someone who cannot reciprocate.


Why not?


Take your life into your own hands.

Take the hurt of life from someone else’s hands.

By reaching yours out with a springtime smile and “pick me up”😊


☕️, peanut butter and jelly sandwich,🥪.


Get up.

Walk with others.

Let yourself be picked up by their kindness.


There is no such thing as a small act of kindness.


Springtime is a time of colorful colors. Quite opposite of the repressive inertia of the shades of gray.(pf) Beautiful take your breath away colors opening themselves up for all of us to see and enjoy.


We feel fragile.

Unworthy.

Not in “The club”


Or feel we may be clubbed to death in the spirit of the clubby-ness.


Live with the constancy and peserverance to stay on your feet.

Shuffling and bluffing is for the bluffers.


Be sure of yourself and who you follow.🙏🏻 He never disappoints those who trust Him. It may not seem like it every minute of every day. Like the true/false quiz above—He tests us in small and large ways.


We need to deliver.

On our promise to Him to live by His promises.


He is ready. When we go down the wrong path. He extends His hand to pull us back up. (Hint: Kinda an answer to the true/false quiz question above😃).


Disclaimer: This writer is one who cannot keep a secret😊. Good secrets. Or. Bad secrets.


It kinda just busts outta me like up chucking.

When I feel fragile.

I stand up.

Dust off the dust.

Start all over again.


Clean.

Tidy up.

All the things of noise and news of clutter and confuse.

Used to clutter and confuse our minds and our existences.


When you find you have no good hand to play next.


Play your own hand. As they often say, there is no rest for the wicked. So, it behooves one to stay on their toes. Stand up.


Block’em baby, Block ‘em. From penetrating the existence of your mind and honest to goodness thoughts, words and actions.


The devil is in the details.

And. The devil never stops trying to intrude into the details.

Of you.

Your life.


So.

Stand up.

Don’t wait for it.

Don’t expect it.


Hypomone it.

Don’t moan about it.


”A lie has speed. But the truth has endurance.”


Yes.

Hypomone it.


Understand its meaning with all your being so when you choose to stand up.


YOU. Will.Not. Fall. Down.


Evil lies in the nooks and crannies of all our existences.

Be steadfast soldiers, warriors and stewards-in-training.


Pick the best footsteps to follow.

Please.



Say what? You ask.


Grow in your faith to love and serve the Lord.


Be steadfast soldiers for others, too.

Never be boastful about what you do.


”Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfast and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. (Thess1:4)


Endure the endurance with Him🙏🏻

And you will never go wrong, down the wrong path.

Are allowed to do right by your fellow man, do good and live in peace along the way.


A WIN-WIN!!

How can you lose?


Well.

By not accepting the winds of change as the winds gently directing you where to go. Listening to their calls and springlike existences with the goal of gentle direction for you and your life.


Stop.

Look.

Listen.

To the calm and gentle branches reaching out to take your hand in order to live a life of no distractions, no evil doing, the chance to enjoy the springtime flowers and their colorful beauties. To share with others.


See the tiny birds as they visit the branches and how loudly they are capable of singing with their tiny little voices of beauty and welcome.


”May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.” (Thess1:3-5)


March with steady knees good soldiers, warriors, and stewards-in-training.

Stand up. ready to go.


Remembering that there is no such things as a small act of kindness.


The answer to the true/false quiz above lies deep within you and who you believe in.


I believe in 🫵🏻








April 28, 2024 14:38

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