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Category:
Self-Help
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN-10: 1494313197
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 388
Copyright: November 2010
ISBN-13: 9781494313197
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
Life is a classroom. Learn from it and always keep improving.
Are you angry, tired, depressed, envious, filled with anxiety, bitter, or feeling hopeless? You are probably a POW - Prisoner of the World. In that case you may need to perform a little "heart surgery" and perhaps stand back and re-access your life. Only through faith and courage to concentrate on the positive can set yourself free from the things in life that weigh you down. These daily readings will aid in helping you find a way to set yourself free from the worldly chains that bind and encourage you to have a relationship with the Lord.
You are a work in progress. Life is your classroom. Every day brings with it new challenges. It also gives you an opportunity to grow and learn. Events from your personal past, history or someone else's past can be your teacher. History does repeat itself. You can learn from it, make changes in your life and improve your future.
In this book you will find 365 daily readings that will make you laugh, cry, remember and think. As you read, you will find encouragement to make the changes you need to make in order to become a better you. As with any trip you take into the unknown, you will need a guide. The Lord is quietly waiting to be invited on this journey with you. If you allow Him, He will direct your paths, and you will never be alone.
Excerpt
January 1
New Beginnings
On January 1st every year we welcome a new year! New Year’s Day is a time for reflection. We ponder the past year… the events, our achievements and our failures. We consider our foibles, and how we can improve ourselves. Many of us vow to lose weight, start a workout program, eat healthier, or in general, decide to become a better person.
The wonderful thing about January is that it is the genesis of the year. Genesis is the start or beginning of something. No matter what the past year was like or what it brought to us, when January comes, it is a chance to begin anew. We take the blank slate of a new year and an unknown future and put together plans, goals, hopes, and dreams. Or we build on what we have already started in previous years.
Not only is January 1st a time of genesis, but every day we wake up is a new beginning! How blessed we are that 365 days a year, we can experience genesis! Every morning we awaken with a fresh slate before us! Our hearts fill with excitement as we anticipate the new adventure that the beginning of each day brings. It does not matter how good or bad the previous day was to us…this new morning starts the rest of our lives!
It is up to us, with the Lord’s help, to determine how we handle and plan for our new beginning. As a New Year or new day approaches, we can look ahead with hope. It doesn’t matter whether we encountered tragedies, dealt with disappointments, or failed at something we felt was important. What is past cannot be changed. Now we have a chance to let the past go and move forward.
The same can be said for each day we have been given. We can move forward and let go of the past on a daily basis. God gives us another chance to do better, heal, and begin anew, and it starts now…on this day.
When we look forward with hope, we honor life in tragedy, convert disappointments to positive resolve, and it gives us another chance to turn our failures to successes. Every January and every morning, the Lord gives us a chance to begin again…to start fresh. However, it is up to us to make the most of the opportunity, use all of the resources and be thankful for the blessings the Lord supplies to us.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “a plan to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
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