How high?

How high? (08.02.21– Potential! –Hebrews 12: 2-3)

My friend, may I ask you a question? Keeping our hearts open to finding potential in the midst of the mundane is rewarding. But isn’t the essential question that, we need to believe we can?

My friend, Life’s a story, welcome to This Passing Day.

I'm M. Clifford Brunner.

A little good advice: be happy you have something to do no matter how mundane every day. Even though you might be forced to do it, doing your best, however boring or monotonous it might be, breeds virtue, endurance, and a potential that comes from necessity. Remember the old adage: "Necessity is the mother of invention?" There's a lot of truth in that old, wise saying. For example, I've been working on some pretty tedious fence-building projects around here at Beech Springs. Pounding in posts, stringing and tying wire can be pretty monotonous, tedious and, yes, boring. It's monopolized the better part of my weekends for the past few weeks. But in the process of putting up the fence I ended up building a gate. The gate needed to open in a certain way and had to be designed so that Annie, our rescue dog, couldn't jump it. Suddenly the monotonous became novel and the boring became challenging. But it was the monotonous and boring that had led to the potential for invention.

Keeping our hearts open to finding potential in the midst of the mundane is rewarding. But, we need to believe we can.

Here's a story: Flea trainers have observed a predictable and strange habit of fleas while training them. Fleas are trained by putting them in a cardboard box with a top on it. The fleas will jump up and hit the top of the cardboard box over and over and over again. As you watch them jump and hit the lid, something very interesting becomes obvious. The fleas continue to jump, but they are no longer jumping high enough to hit the top. Apparently, Excedrin headache 1738 forces them to limit the height of their jump. When you take off the lid, the fleas continue to jump, but they will not jump out of the box. They won't jump out because they can't jump out. Why? The reason is simple. They have conditioned them- selves to jump just so high. Once they've conditioned themselves to jump just so high, that's all they can do! (Author unknown.)

Many times, people do the same thing. They restrict themselves and never reach their potential. Just like the fleas, they fail to jump higher, thinking they are doing all they can do. Sin limits us to reach our potential in Christ. In fact many Christians act defeated as they can't seem to overcome an addiction. If only we could keep our eyes in Jesus, and put our trust in Him, victory would be obtained and our potential could be reached! Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. We can do anything in Christ; but there is one condition. You and I first have to open our hearts to the potential of that power and then believe it dwells within us. Only when we do will our potential ever be known.

We pray. Heavenly Father, Often we restrict ourselves, not reaching the potential you set for us. Like trained fleas in a box, we fail to jump higher, thinking they're doing all they can. Sin limits us to reach our potential in Christ. In fact we often act defeated unable to overcome sin. If only we could keep our eyes on You, put our trust in You, victory would be obtained and our potential reached! Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author of our faith who endured the cross, scorning its shame, sat down at Your right hand. We can do anything in Christ; but we know there is one condition. We first have to open our hearts to the potential of that power and believe it dwells within us. Only then will our potential ever be known. In Jesus name we pray. Amen!

Therefore my friend, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry for itself; each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt 6:34) This Passing Day. May this passing day honor our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and be a blessing to you and everyone you meet. Find a stranger and say hello. Don't let another day pass without your day blessing someone else.

If you have a special prayer request, please send your request to ”This Passing Day!”

<thispassingday@gmail.com> From Beech Springs, God bless you for Jesus sake.

How high?

How high? (08.02.21– Potential! –Hebrews 12: 2-3)

My friend, may I ask you a question? Keeping our hearts open to finding potential in the midst of the mundane is rewarding. But isn’t the essential question that, we need to believe we can?

My friend, Life’s a story, welcome to This Passing Day.

I'm M. Clifford Brunner.

A little good advice: be happy you have something to do no matter how mundane every day. Even though you might be forced to do it, doing your best, however boring or monotonous it might be, breeds virtue, endurance, and a potential that comes from necessity. Remember the old adage: "Necessity is the mother of invention?" There's a lot of truth in that old, wise saying. For example, I've been working on some pretty tedious fence-building projects around here at Beech Springs. Pounding in posts, stringing and tying wire can be pretty monotonous, tedious and, yes, boring. It's monopolized the better part of my weekends for the past few weeks. But in the process of putting up the fence I ended up building a gate. The gate needed to open in a certain way and had to be designed so that Annie, our rescue dog, couldn't jump it. Suddenly the monotonous became novel and the boring became challenging. But it was the monotonous and boring that had led to the potential for invention.

Keeping our hearts open to finding potential in the midst of the mundane is rewarding. But, we need to believe we can.

Here's a story: Flea trainers have observed a predictable and strange habit of fleas while training them. Fleas are trained by putting them in a cardboard box with a top on it. The fleas will jump up and hit the top of the cardboard box over and over and over again. As you watch them jump and hit the lid, something very interesting becomes obvious. The fleas continue to jump, but they are no longer jumping high enough to hit the top. Apparently, Excedrin headache 1738 forces them to limit the height of their jump. When you take off the lid, the fleas continue to jump, but they will not jump out of the box. They won't jump out because they can't jump out. Why? The reason is simple. They have conditioned them- selves to jump just so high. Once they've conditioned themselves to jump just so high, that's all they can do! (Author unknown.)

Many times, people do the same thing. They restrict themselves and never reach their potential. Just like the fleas, they fail to jump higher, thinking they are doing all they can do. Sin limits us to reach our potential in Christ. In fact many Christians act defeated as they can't seem to overcome an addiction. If only we could keep our eyes in Jesus, and put our trust in Him, victory would be obtained and our potential could be reached! Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. We can do anything in Christ; but there is one condition. You and I first have to open our hearts to the potential of that power and then believe it dwells within us. Only when we do will our potential ever be known.

We pray. Heavenly Father, Often we restrict ourselves, not reaching the potential you set for us. Like trained fleas in a box, we fail to jump higher, thinking they're doing all they can. Sin limits us to reach our potential in Christ. In fact we often act defeated unable to overcome sin. If only we could keep our eyes on You, put our trust in You, victory would be obtained and our potential reached! Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author of our faith who endured the cross, scorning its shame, sat down at Your right hand. We can do anything in Christ; but we know there is one condition. We first have to open our hearts to the potential of that power and believe it dwells within us. Only then will our potential ever be known. In Jesus name we pray. Amen!

Therefore my friend, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry for itself; each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt 6:34) This Passing Day. May this passing day honor our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and be a blessing to you and everyone you meet. Find a stranger and say hello. Don't let another day pass without your day blessing someone else.

If you have a special prayer request, please send your request to ”This Passing Day!”

<thispassingday@gmail.com> From Beech Springs, God bless you for Jesus sake.