Listen To This: Giving & Receiving: Ernestine Hendricks with Dr. Doug, WTWG. Do you allow others to run you? Have to continue to give gifts when they are not appreciated? Is it selfish to expect someone else to live by your values and your agenda? Do you expect someone to give you something back when you give them a gift? Do you know that expectations can be premeditated resentments? Rather than focusing on what you don’t have you can pray: “God help me want what I have.”
“Times are hard,” I said. “I’ve never worried so much about money. I keep asking myself if we’re going to make it!”
“I know,” He replied. “Times like these try men’s souls–you find out what you’re made of.”
“I would willingly work but I need a job!” I stated.
“It’s hard for most people,” He replied. “Many are counting on food banks and food stamps. Their houses are upside down with more debt than value.”
“I’m frustrated with Washington,” I continued. “Neither the President nor Congress are helping. The …
Has Christmas been lost to commercialism? To Santa Claus and expectations about gifts? To the stress of getting the right present, sending cards, decorating the tree and your house, fixing a meal that everyone enjoys? Have we lost the birth of Jesus Christ and His message for the world? Are we focused on what other people think of us– like the gift we gave?
Do you realize that your idea of God will determine your life? That who you are is more powerful than what you …
Part 3 of Hope: the Story of King Theo and Lydan the Sage
“Your idea of God will determine your whole life.”—Emmet Fox
“If you pray and meditate and sit quietly in silence,” replied Lydan, “if you empty yourself sufficiently so as to die to your self, if you give up knowledge and power and can be just who you are, then one day it may happen that you will awaken from the dream to enter a new and wondrous world. Your life …
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