What Are You Wearing?

Mark Farley October 27, 2022 0 Likes 234 Views

GROW Through What You Go Through

Mark Farley October 26, 2022 0 Likes 345 Views

**Embracing a challenge….**

When it’s all said and done, we basically have 2 choices with respect to challenges.

***We can either let fear win and stop us from moving through it, or we can park our fears and walk straight into the challenge with faith, hope, and perseverance.***

**Think about it. It is our own mind that usually stops us from embracing change.**

***We tell ourselves through negative self-talk that we can’t.***

**Heck, we even try to rally others around us to reinforce this thought and gain their agreement that we can’t.**

This makes it easier not to even try.

**How about looking in your heart?**

***That is where the Holy Spirit lives and usually, if you listen to your heart, your head quiets down with the negativity…***

Check your experience…

***“For if (we) failed to perfect and enlarge (our) spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, we could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead” Big Book pgs. 14-15***

*Lord, let us embrace a challenge knowing we can learn and grow from it, AMEN.*

***“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.” Romans 5:35***

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Good Deeds and Motives

Mark Farley October 25, 2022 0 Likes 307 Views

**He sees everything…**

I love watching people.

I learn so much from others.

***It’s interesting to me to watch folks as they interact with others.***

My experience has been that different situations bring different actions and behaviors.

For instance, at the fast-food drive-through, the focus is on the order, as both the attendant and the customer are centered on the purchase of a pre-established menu item, pretty much a no-brainer.

Then there is the grocery store and the need to be in the shortest line.

**The type A personality versus the passive is fun to watch.**

The Type A will go all out directly to the short line and heck with whoever has the misfortune of being in their way.

While the passive personality will be aware of others and see the Type A and clear out of the way letting them go first.

**My favorite is unexpected assist.**

One night a while back, I observed a mom with a toddler attempting to fit all of her bagged purchases into one hand while deftly grabbing car keys and freeing the other arm to hold the baby because the cart would not go outside of the store.

While shoppers ignored her and moved around her as they exited the store.

She almost went into shock when I asked her if I could help.

After the shock wore off, she saw my smiling wife and figured out quickly I was not a psycho stalker, she politely refused and gave us a heartfelt thank you for caring enough to ask.

***Remember folks, keep the eyes of your hearts open to see who the Lord puts in your path.***

**It’s always good to offer assistance for the right reasons…**

Check your experience…

***“It depends on us and on our motives.” Big Book pg 70***

*Lord, let us perform good deeds with the only motive of being of service to others and not for personal gain, AMEN.*

***“In the same way, the good deeds of some people are obvious. And the good deeds done in secret will someday come to light.” 1 Timothy 5: 24-25***

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Change Must Come From Within

Mark Farley October 24, 2022 0 Likes 250 Views

When the Going Gets Tough

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Weed Control

Mark Farley October 22, 2022 0 Likes 355 Views

**Pull the weeds trying to grow near your heart…**

Static noise and visual distractions are everywhere these days.

Our tablets and electronic devices are bombarded with visual ads trying to distract us.

I just learned that highway billboard are now electronic and change ads in front of our eyes as we drive!

The ads on “free versions” of Internet radio interrupt our music filling our heads with “offers and specials”

Peyton Manning humming the Nationwide jingle is still stuck in my head!

**We experience the same type of distractions with our Spiritual walk with Jesus.**

***Worldly clamors distract us trying to allow fear, worry, and pride to fuel our self-centered minds away from seeking and doing God’s will.***

**How many times daily are your good thoughts challenged with earthly interruptions?**

Check your experience…

***“His presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself.” Big Book pg 12-13***

*Lord, please let us focus on your love and will for us despite all of the earthly distractions around us, AMEN.*

“The seed that fell among the thorny weeds is like those who hear God’s teaching, but they let the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life keep them from growing and producing good fruit.” Luke 8:14

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A Design for Living

Mark Farley October 21, 2022 0 Likes 220 Views

**Keeping our eyes on our own paper….**

Remember hearing that when we were in grade school?

**The temptation to look at our neighbor’s work is based on the fear of doing something new and is a basic part of growing we all go through.**

***This temptation takes a twist as we become adults.***

**Instead of looking at our neighbor’s work to get the answer, we want to look to compare.**

***It’s now a pride issue and not a fear issue.***

We want to either catch them doing it wrong or pat ourselves on the back for being better than them.

**Either way, we are stuck in a self-centered motive fueled by pride and the outcome is never healthy**.

***Think about it, our best learning comes from working with others and not against them.***

**When we focus on doing our best and not on the other person’s work, we are fulfilling a spiritual principle**…

Check your experience…

“What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God. A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, “a design for living” that really works.” Big Book pg 28

*Lord, let us look at our motives and efforts to see that we are doing the best work that we can, AMEN.*

***“Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else.” Galatians 6:4***

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Be the change you want to see

Ron P October 20, 2022 0 Likes 225 Views

There are times in my life when I don’t like the direction I’m going. What do I do? To many times I point fingers. I may blame others, or the situation. What I didn’t do enough in the past was ask myself, ”what can I do to change things? What is in my control?” I didn’t have the courage or confidence in the past to do anything. I let life control me. That has changed. As I continue to grow in my relationship with Jesus, and the men He has out into my life, I am getting better at taking over the things I control. I am taking action. If I want to see things differently in my life, I have to take a step. One step at a time! If I want to see change in my life, it has to start with me. I have to be the change in my life that I want to happen.

Truth or Lies?

Mark Farley October 20, 2022 0 Likes 296 Views

**Exchanging the truth for a lie…**

***Part of being human and having free will is dealing with the constant challenges we face daily for our attention and focus.***

There are all kinds and types of never-ending noise around us attempting to grab our attention and take us hostage emotionally.

We are led to believe by many tricksters and false prophets that their product or service will fix us and make us complete.

**It never ends, or so it seems…**

The gift of free will is that we can consciously choose what we focus on and what we allow to grab our attention.

***The person, place, thing, or situation that we allow to dominate our mind will eventually invade our heart and drive our behaviors.***

**It becomes our God.**

***So the suggestion I want to make today is to take a long look in the mirror and ask ourselves, what or who is our God? ..***

Check your experience…

***“We had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing.” Big Book pg. 53***

*Lord let us open our hearts and minds daily to turn our will and lives over to You to be free of the worldly false Gods, AMEN.*

***“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.” Romans 1:25***

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Get a Grip

Mark Farley October 19, 2022 0 Likes 414 Views