Time Management—Are We Busy or Fruitful?

How many times have you said, “If I could only find more time, I would …” (fill in the blanks). Time is precious here today and gone tomorrow. Time is never lost, only wasted.

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I do a lot of stuff. Actually too much stuff but I am totally woking on that saying “No” thing. Hey, I’m getting there. Two days ago I finally earned my fourth stripe on my white belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. For those who don’t know, in BJJ, you are a white belt forever. It takes anywhere from a year to a year and a half to earn a blue belt. My next level is blue belt and I am stoked. 

In BJJ, the blue belt is almost as big of a deal as black belt because most people never get that far.

My Jiu Jitsu brothers.

But I constantly hear people say things like, “Oh, I’d love to write a book. I just can’t find the time.” “Wow, I’d love to do Jiu Jitsu. If I could only find the time.”

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Deep Water

Another great post from our family to yours.

Throw Me A Life Ring

You know that feeling you get when it seems like you are not making progress? Are you filled with busyness and feel like you are on autopilot going in circles? My friend Alene has some good practical advice that can help you find rest.

http://www.positivelyalene.com/overboard/

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Faith

Faith is believing in the unseen. Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as “the is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

I thought I would share this post about faith from one of my blog followers.

http://dreambigdreamoften.co/2015/06/08/im-just-keeping-the-faith/

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Why Everything Does Not Happen For A Reason

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
This Bible verse does not mean everything happens for a reason. What does it mean to you?

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john pavlovitz

That phrase.

We’ve all received it personally gift-wrapped by well-meaning friends, caring loved ones, and kind strangers. It usually comes delivered with the most beautiful of intentions; a buffer of hope raised in the face of the unimaginably painful things we sometimes experience in this life.

It’s a close, desperate lifeline thrown out to us when all other words fail:

Everything happens for a reason.

I’ve never had a tremendous amount of peace with the sentiment. I think it gives the terrible stuff too much power, too much poetry; as if there must be nobility and purpose within the brutal devastation we may find ourselves sitting in. In our profound distress, this idea forces us to run down dark, twisted rabbit trails, looking for the specific part of The Greater Plan that this suffering all fits into.

It serves as an emotional distraction, one that cheats us out of the full measure of our real-time grief and outrage. We stutter and…

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