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Don't Bear False Report

One of my pet-peeves lately is people posting or forwarding things to me without checking out the validity of them first.   It looks like something they want to share, and so they share it and they don’t really care if it is accurate or not.   Putting things out into the world about politics, religion, the army, the church, and the list goes on and on.   So often, we hear something that we are shocked with and then don’t go and check out the validity of the statement.   I remember in high school the facts got skewed and I was ultimately threatened to be “beat down” because of something that I never said.   One of the “snob squad” was dating someone or another and approached me and said that I had no right to call her a “slut”.   I hadn’t called her one!   Somehow, somewhere, someone said something about me and it grew and grew without my knowledge and ultimately, I almost go beaten up about it.   After being shoved down to the ground my he...

Anxiety in Action...

I am at a cross roads today.   God is going to point me in one direction or another.   Something is going to happen either today or tomorrow that will change my life.   I have been evaluating how I feel about this the past few days.   I haven’t had an appetite; I have checked my e-mail about 600 times since Friday; I have lost sleep knowing that this decision, whether it is what I thing it is going to be or not, is going to change how I have been living; my stomach is in knots and well, frankly I just want it to be over one way or the other!   I keep telling myself to STOP CHECKING MY E-MAIL, but I just can’t.   I feel like I am in limbo.   I HATE being in limbo.   I am someone that likes to have a course set out.   As the destination gets closer, I like to ensure that the course has a direct plan and purpose, but right now, that course isn’t clear.   How do you get through the days when your course isn’t clear?   How do you...