Claim OwnershipDOING LIFE: Daily Devotions For Finding Peace in Stressful Times
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We live in a world that has been driven to the brink by natural disasters, political divisiveness, and a pandemic that threatened to crush the world's socioeconomic infrastructure, no less the health and welfare of every individual. Dr. Thurston draws on a lifetime of experience in medicine, his formal theological training in seminary, and his love of music, sailing, animals and children, to bring you these first 365 devotions. Through laughter and tears, each will reorient you to what's truly important in life, and provide you with new approaches to finding lasting peace and contentment! Anyone dealing with stress or grief, or simply feeling lost, will find solace in these podcasts!
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." (George Bernard shaw)
Today you are you! That is truer than true. There isno one alive who is you-re than you!
Prejudice means not seeing another human being but only your concept of them
Do you ever feel like you're really just "faking it" with your faith? I mean can all this story really be true? Everyone doubts. Ask the Holy Spirit to help your unbelief! (Mark 9:23-24)
When we start to feel proud of ourselves for all the good we do, remind us that the Glory goes to God, not to us! Pride goeth before EVERY FALL, that's why our Lord taught us humility.Our lives should be the same in private as they are in public.
"Your whole self, ruled by the flesh, was put off when you were circumcised by Christ." Col 2:11It is the heart which is circumcised by faith. We testify to Christ as our Lord not through a sign of the flesh, but the actions that come from our hearts.
Understanding redemption!
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart..." (Psalm 3:5)
"Show me the way I should go, for to You I entrust my life." (Psalm 143:8)
"Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; Learn to labor and to wait." (H.W. Longfellow)
"The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change and the pragmatist adjusts his sails." (William Arthur Ward)
Let us be like Isaiah, when the opportunity arises, shout out "Pick me! I am here!"Fix opur eyes on the Source of the Light
Creation is truly marvelous and we need to take the time to observe and appreciate what God has wrought!
"If there is a God He is infinitely incomprehensible....." (Blaise Pascal)
Its genius to approach people with love, and music expresses it best.
There is a Right and a Wrong
In God is Our Trust
Let the Holy Spirit urge you to meet your potential and use the gifts we've been given.
We all call on God more urgently when we feel we have hit rock bottom!
We can see out imperfect selves mirrored in the heroes of the scriptures!
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