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#1) The Things of Earth will Grow Strangely Dim

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#1) The Things of Earth will Grow Strangely Dim 

     Raising a teenager is not easy! I've only been into it for about a year now and some days I feel like I am fighting a loosing battle. After getting upset with my son about not knowing how to properly unload the dishwasher (not really for sure if I have actually shown him how, shouldn't he just know?), I added a day to his previous NO TV grounding, to which he rolled his eyes. Oh, how I hate that! 
 I respond by saying “Do you want to add another day?” His response of course,
  “I don't care!!” Oh man, he had me now. I just kept adding on days because I didn't like that response either. 

     Later after we had both left the scene, cooled off, and regained focus, I apologized for my behavior. “I'm sorry son, I over reacted. I can't except you to do something the right way if I've never shown you what the right way is.” His response, “Mom I wasn't being a jerk or getting an attitude with you when I said I didn't care about the TV. I really don't care. I've been reading my bible and praying in the morning and evening. I don't miss my TV.” 
 Yes, that is what my teenage son said!! I was so embarrassed by my behavior. My son was using the discipline to gain perspective on what's really important. The thing that he previously thought he had to have has grown strangely dim.

  Sometimes it's not until our Father disciplines us that we begin to gain perspective. Sometimes when He takes things out of our lives it’s so we can begin to focus on Him. 


 “Lord, your discipline is good, for it leads to life and health. You restore my health and allow me to live!” ‭‭Isaiah ‭38:16‬ ‭NLT‬‬

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Verse of the Week

Romans 8:26-28 Message

Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

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