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His love and patience with me covers the many years since I became a Christian, and even longer because he planted the seed in my heart and into my family line. Take your daily worries and anxieties and begin to offer them up to God and bring Him into the middle of your challenges, and it becomes a prayer. Courage to Change: One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II continues this thought with, “Although we have our unique qualities, all hearts beat the same under the skin. The person planning the surprise party may hear from her partner about the whispered conversations or sudden silences he experienced when he walked into a room, which felt scary and suspicious.International speaker and author John Burke shares stories from people who have died and have come back to life, along with the incredible wonders they experienced. To include WHI in your will or have questions about planned giving, contact Nancy Green, Chief Development Officer at nancy. Jesus established the church to seek out lost and hopeless people and to offer them life and purpose. I’m still learning that I cannot change those around me, but I can change how I treat them – with dignity and respect.

He is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas—America’s largest congregation—where more than 45,000 people attend services every week. Yet God made us in his own image, and desired to have fellowship with us because he loved us, his own creation. Gardening was mostly at a standstill except watering a little in an attempt to keep the garden alive.Because I share with my home group members week after week, they know my innermost secrets and flaws. The ad that promises fantastic weight loss in days and the investment opportunity that promises to double your money fuel the fantasy. As Epictetus advises, “Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

This is often because an experience does not live up to our expectations, and the difference between those expectations and reality mutes our experiential joy. Jesus talks about this in Matthew 13 in the Parable of the Sower, who was planting seed in his field. We live in challenging times and are saturated by information, activities, and senseless expectations. I stayed inside most of the time and dealt with life from there, though the smoke smell permeated the house long after the fires were gone. It is human nature to plan for the events of the day, but each day also needs a dose of hope—the hope that comes from knowing that the God of the universe is also our personal friend and Savior.We work to create market-based and community-driven enterprise solutions that empower, protect, and build resiliency through innovative, environmentally conscious, and transformative projects. Joyful anticipation is so important to my sense of well-being, in fact, that I almost always plan for something to look forward to.

Disappointment can provide opportunities, wanted or unwanted, to revisit expectations and the relationship itself.She knows all of this, and yet her wishes power rich and robust imaginings, dreams even, of the event. marks the 50th anniversary of Lakewood Church, which was founded in 1959 by Joel's parents, Pastors John and Dodie Osteen. This wishfulness along with the imaginings tends to smother the rational mind, resulting in untethered expectations. With that anointing, David was able to not get bitter about his father and brothers not believing in him.