Random Musings

It’s Christmas night and it has been a long time since I have published a blog post. All through November, I took advantage of Facebook to post about things I am thankful to God for; from December 1-December 25, I opened a different gift each day on Facebook. Most of them involved a spiritual “gift” from God, the others were lessons I had learned around life’s sometimes bumpy, hard road. On this Christmas, I am going to write about a few things on my own. Here goes:

*One can’t be too careful of the music one listens to, the food one eats, the books one reads, the movies or TV shows one watches and the news (including social media posts) that reads, listens to or watches. Have you ever listened to a song that sounds great, exciting or beautiful, yet later when the song lingers in your mind it can alter your mood. Maybe it makes you lonely or sad or even angry. The same thing can be said of food that we eat. I myself am so bad to eat food that tastes so good to me, but later it makes me feel bad. It may be from heartburn or sickness or just feeling bloated, but the food literally weighs me down as do things that are not good for me that I watch, listen to or read.  We all need to lay aside these “weights that so easily beset us” (Scripture reference Hebrews 12:1)

*Just because one is dirt poor doesn’t mean that one has to have dirt on their body. Resolve that as long as soap and water are readily available to be clean. As evangelist John Wesley said, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” My pastor, Retis Flowers, said that it is in his Bible because he wrote it in there himself in the first verse and the first chapter of the Book of Retis.

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