Whole nine yards?

(08.26.21– Carrying Others –Galatians 6:9)

My friend, may I ask you a question? People are linked by moods, no doubt. But, similarly, but are they also linked by the lives they choose to link, or not to link?

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

I'm M. Clifford Brunner.

I'm not normally a moody person, priding myself in being able to temper the good along with the bad. However, as I'm not perfect, there are those days when for whatever stressful reason, I'm not able to find that balance. Such was the case recently when returning home from the office I just couldn't disguise my foul mood. Things hadn't gone well that day and a number of things were on my mind. I didn't greet Holly as I normally do with a smile and a kiss. She could see that I was frowning the moment I entered the kitchen. It wasn't long before my frown became her frown. As the old saying goes, "frowns, like smiles, are catching." She caught it and it wasn't long before one bad mood had become two.

People are linked by moods, no doubt. But, similarly, they are also linked by the lives they choose to link, or not to link.

Here's a story: A rat saw a farmer opening a package that contained a rat trap. Retreating to the farmyard he shouted a warning; "There's a rattrap in the house!" The chicken clucked, and said, "I can't be bothered by it." The rat turned to the pig and told him. "I'm sorry," sympathized the pig, "but there's nothing I can do about it. You're in my prayers." The rat turned to the cow. She said, "A rattrap. I'm in grave danger? Don't think so." So the rat returned to the house, dejected, to face the rattrap alone. That very night a sound was heard like a rattrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she didn't see that it was a venomous snake. It bit her and the farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with chicken soup, so the farmer butchered the chicken. His wife's sickness continued so that neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them the farmer butchered the pig. Finally she died. So many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them. Moral to the story: The next time you hear that someone's facing a problem and think that it doesn't concern you, remember, when there's a rattrap in the house, the whole farmyard is at risk. (Author unknown.)

God's word tells us to "not weary of doing good" (Galatians 6:9). Our lives are linked by the good that we choose to do or, for that matter, choose not to do. Doing good, like good and bad moods; is catching. The funny thing about it is this: If we choose to ignore carrying other people's burdens, believing it doesn't concern us, the day may come when the burden we passed off on someone else becomes a burden that chooses us and not us–it. Smiles sure beat frowns and the joy of help- ing someone as a choice beats the burden of helping someone whose burden chooses us. We're all in this together. When one person in God's family is hurting, the whole family is at risk. Be alert and, in love, be ready to lend a hand–always.

We pray. Heavenly Father, we want to do good, and in so doing, link our doing to have good moods that are catching. However, if we choose to ignore carrying other people's burdens, believing it doesn't concern us, the day may come when the burden we passed off on someone else becomes a burden that chooses us and not us–it. Forgive us Lord. Smiles sure beat frowns and the joy of helping someone as a choice beats the burden of helping someone whose burden chooses us. Lord, we’re all in this together. When one person in Your family is hurting, the whole family is at risk. Make us alert and, in love, ready to lend a hand–always 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.

Whole nine yards?

(08.26.21– Carrying Others –Galatians 6:9)

My friend, may I ask you a question? People are linked by moods, no doubt. But, similarly, but are they also linked by the lives they choose to link, or not to link?

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

I'm M. Clifford Brunner.

I'm not normally a moody person, priding myself in being able to temper the good along with the bad. However, as I'm not perfect, there are those days when for whatever stressful reason, I'm not able to find that balance. Such was the case recently when returning home from the office I just couldn't disguise my foul mood. Things hadn't gone well that day and a number of things were on my mind. I didn't greet Holly as I normally do with a smile and a kiss. She could see that I was frowning the moment I entered the kitchen. It wasn't long before my frown became her frown. As the old saying goes, "frowns, like smiles, are catching." She caught it and it wasn't long before one bad mood had become two.

People are linked by moods, no doubt. But, similarly, they are also linked by the lives they choose to link, or not to link.

Here's a story: A rat saw a farmer opening a package that contained a rat trap. Retreating to the farmyard he shouted a warning; "There's a rattrap in the house!" The chicken clucked, and said, "I can't be bothered by it." The rat turned to the pig and told him. "I'm sorry," sympathized the pig, "but there's nothing I can do about it. You're in my prayers." The rat turned to the cow. She said, "A rattrap. I'm in grave danger? Don't think so." So the rat returned to the house, dejected, to face the rattrap alone. That very night a sound was heard like a rattrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she didn't see that it was a venomous snake. It bit her and the farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with chicken soup, so the farmer butchered the chicken. His wife's sickness continued so that neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them the farmer butchered the pig. Finally she died. So many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them. Moral to the story: The next time you hear that someone's facing a problem and think that it doesn't concern you, remember, when there's a rattrap in the house, the whole farmyard is at risk. (Author unknown.)

God's word tells us to "not weary of doing good" (Galatians 6:9). Our lives are linked by the good that we choose to do or, for that matter, choose not to do. Doing good, like good and bad moods; is catching. The funny thing about it is this: If we choose to ignore carrying other people's burdens, believing it doesn't concern us, the day may come when the burden we passed off on someone else becomes a burden that chooses us and not us–it. Smiles sure beat frowns and the joy of help- ing someone as a choice beats the burden of helping someone whose burden chooses us. We're all in this together. When one person in God's family is hurting, the whole family is at risk. Be alert and, in love, be ready to lend a hand–always.

We pray. Heavenly Father, we want to do good, and in so doing, link our doing to have good moods that are catching. However, if we choose to ignore carrying other people's burdens, believing it doesn't concern us, the day may come when the burden we passed off on someone else becomes a burden that chooses us and not us–it. Forgive us Lord. Smiles sure beat frowns and the joy of helping someone as a choice beats the burden of helping someone whose burden chooses us. Lord, we’re all in this together. When one person in Your family is hurting, the whole family is at risk. Make us alert and, in love, ready to lend a hand–always 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.