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Growing up, people would always say "You learn something new each day.". Well; I am learning that it is true. The word New, means "lately coming into knowledge, fresh or unused, unaccustomed, or recently/lately". So it doesn't necessarily mean that you have never before heard something but that it has now finally become knowledge. And the word Learn means “to gain by experience, to become informed of or acquainted with". So really the new thing I/we learn is just some fresh information. Or it can also be something that we are unaccustomed to that we gain by experience. I don't believe that when you hear something you learn it. You learn it once you can apply it physically or mentally. You learn it once you understand it. I also believe that everything happens for a reason, and that we come to realize things on certain days for a reason. So everyday I will be sharing with you the new thing that I learn or realize, hoping that you can learn from it as I did.

Feel free to comment or even post about your own realization or new thing that was learned.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Open hands and Coffee

I was having coffee with a friend and he was telling me about a conversation he had had earlier that he wished to share with me. He told me to cup my hands together, and so I did. He told me that with all of the things in your life, we should hold with our hands wide open ready to give them to God. He then told me to make my hands into fists, so I did. He told me that if we hold on to things too tightly God will have to pry our fingers open to get what we are holding on to and it is going to hurt. But if our hands are open wide we will be happy to give them to Him.
So if we just keep our thoughts open then He won't ever have to pry. They will just be there for His taking and molding.
If we keep our plans and thoughts flexible to God then when it does come for Him to make alters to our plans it won't hurt since we are holding them out to Him.

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