It takes time for something to become a habit. Habits are things that are created when we continue to do over and over again.
If I smoke, this is a bad habit, because it is common knowledge that smoking is bad for your health and can lead to cancer. Now, this doesn't happen to everybody, but do I want to be the statistic that this does happen to?!
If I brush my teeth twice a day, every day, this is a good habit. Taking good care of my teeth cuts down on cavities and overall oral health.
If I want to get rid of a bad habit, I have to replace it with a good habit. I can replace all bad habits with good habits in every area of my life - one thing at a time, one day at a time.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Blessed to Still Be Living
It is amazing how many people are so vain about their age. Some would rather die than tell how old they are. Remember when we were kids, and someone would ask how old are you? We would reply whatever our age was, always trying to be older by saying something like 8 1/2 years old. Once we hit that magic mark - which I guess is 29 years, we dread that awful 30. Really! For real? Stop the madness.
Whatever happened to growing old gracefully? People are trying so hard to delay the inevitable. A lot of people are having plastic surgery done, and, unfortunately, some of these people are left looking fake. How is looking fake better than growing old gracefully and looking natural - which is like a real person?
Every day that we are still here, especially in these last and evil days, is a blessing in itself. The older we become we can stake a claim to having overcome somethings big and small; happy and sad; joyful and tragic, health and sickness, and so on, but we are still here. We grow older and wiser. I've had both, and I wouldn't trade wisdom for youth for nothing.
I will be 52 years old on January 18, God willing. After all the sinning I did back in the day, I should be dead and in my grave, but God said not so. I am blessed to still be here. I'm even more blessed to realize it, and I thank my God every day for allowing me to see another day that was not promised to me.
"Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn't He your Father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?" (Deuteronomy 32:6/NLT)
Whatever happened to growing old gracefully? People are trying so hard to delay the inevitable. A lot of people are having plastic surgery done, and, unfortunately, some of these people are left looking fake. How is looking fake better than growing old gracefully and looking natural - which is like a real person?
Every day that we are still here, especially in these last and evil days, is a blessing in itself. The older we become we can stake a claim to having overcome somethings big and small; happy and sad; joyful and tragic, health and sickness, and so on, but we are still here. We grow older and wiser. I've had both, and I wouldn't trade wisdom for youth for nothing.
I will be 52 years old on January 18, God willing. After all the sinning I did back in the day, I should be dead and in my grave, but God said not so. I am blessed to still be here. I'm even more blessed to realize it, and I thank my God every day for allowing me to see another day that was not promised to me.
"Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn't He your Father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?" (Deuteronomy 32:6/NLT)
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Stop Child Abuse
Child Abuse is rampant. Nine times out of ten our children are abused and sexually abused by people they know (dad, granddad, mom, grandmom, uncles, aunts, brother, sister and cousins. We must stop the madness. If you know that a child is being abused, don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution. Report abuse.
"You must never have sexual relations with a close relative, for I am the Lord." (Leviticus 18:6/NLT)
"You must never have sexual relations with a close relative, for I am the Lord." (Leviticus 18:6/NLT)
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