Verse 1 stopped me short today, "Don't brashly announce what you're going to do tomorrow; you don't know the first thing about tomorrow." This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Right after Jesus teaches us the Lord's Prayer (i.e. give us this day our daily bread), he says, "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes."
How do we deal with things (good or bad) when they happen? Consider these verses on the importance of friendship:
Friendship refreshes the soul.
Better a nearby friend than a distant family.
You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another.
The reason I'm so hardcore about knowing people's names is that God tells us things like this, "Know your sheep by name; carefully attend to your flocks; Don't take them for granted." At Faith, we're more than friends, we're family.
Thank you for keeping Connie and the rest of Sarah's family in your prayers.
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I really appreciate how good you are with names! Definite gift of yours.
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