Category: Proverbs
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Grace Garland
“Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.” Proverbs 1:8-9 (NET) Sometimes, we don’t have parents to instruct and teach us the right way to live. We don’t…
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Know the Difference
“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.” Proverbs 26:4-5 (NIV) In my profession, I must send emails daily. Many, many emails. From behind a computer screen, I interact with…
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Lesson Learned
“One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a slob; They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down.I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened:“A nap here, a nap there,…
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The Love of Money
“Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.” Proverbs 23:4-5 (NIV) In the summer of 2018, I woke up from a nap suddenly after…
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Teach them well
“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6 (NIV) In 4th grade, I sang “The Greatest Love of All” by the late, great Whitney Houston for a school talent show. Hopefully I didn’t butcher the song too much. One of…
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2023’s Pursuits
Proverbs 21:21: “Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity, and honor.” (NIV) On December 8, 2022, I wrote a list of my 2023 goals. I had five areas I wanted to focus on in 2023: spiritual, financial, health, social, and parenting. Under each category, I wrote specific actions I needed to take in order…
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