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I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. - Jesus
Any thoughts?
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A informational chart about how to make one of my favourite things… Coffee.
I love Coffee
(via sharonlane)
Ash Wednesday, marks the first day of lent. 46 days until Easter.
Lent, in how I’ve grown up, it was most of my Catholic friends who participated. I remember this one girl in high school giving up meat. Geez… that’s extreme. I didn’t know Catholics did that. Such a chore. Participate is the right word, rather than celebrate, because they usually give up things like meat.
Really, lent is meant for everyone who believes in Jesus. It’s a period to give something up to remember what Jesus did on the Cross for entire humanity, in anticipation for easter - what He did for me. It’s a bit of a somber period, but rightfully so, because the gravity of sin in our lives and world weighs heavy, it’s a time of repentance, and to be holy. To not sin.
So this lenten season, I’m giving up coffee. Yes, coffee. I drink it almost twice a day. I drink it through a french press, I grind my own beans and I’m meticulous when it comes to making it at home or at the office. I’m the only one that has a french press at the office. Then when we go out for coffee, I get the Americano, expresso in hot water - the only time you should ever have coffee that hot is when it’s an expresso.
The money saved with the coffee habit will be given towards some sort of charity or homeless person I come across. When, I begin to have withdraws from not having the caffeine fix, it’s a reminder of the season of lent, and what Jesus did on the cross. It will force me to say a pray for someone else, or to acknowledge the simple fact that I am a sinner and need God even more.
It’s not so much a chore, but a celebration. It’s a yearning for something more - a realization, a reminder, of who we are, and why we need Jesus.
What are you going to give up for this Lenten season? How will this draw us closer to God?
You shall not go out with haste, … for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard
— Isaiah 52:12 For the coming new year, I figure, reading this verse for this turn of another year. I’m reflective, living now, and hopeful.
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.
— Mother Teresa
A leader isn’t good because he’s right. They’re good because they’re willing to learn and to trust
— Gen. Stanely McChrystal (US Army ret.)
I wonder if this is what is happening in Thailand, for those hardcore bikers.
