#27150 - 02/22/05 04:32 PM
Re: Ch. 7 "As a Child"
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Wow. I don't know what I was thinking when I posted those questions. Hmm. Absolutely, people do need positive reinforcement as adults. In fact, it's something I've been trying to get across to my husband (as a manager at work he needs to remember to positively reinforce his employees); it's also something I've been trying to get across to my pastor and our church leadership. If we don't encourage people in our church and positively reinforce their efforts to make a difference, they'll just sit back and quietly fade away.
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#27151 - 02/22/05 04:42 PM
Re: Ch. 7 "As a Child"
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Exactly. Apathy sets in when we believe that who we are and what we do does not matter to anyone else. What causes that belief? The absence of feedback to the contrary, and nothing more. (Negative feedback and nothing but, can also cause demoralization & demotivation, but in a different way.)
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#27152 - 02/23/05 10:38 PM
Re: Ch. 7 "As a Child"
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Often He expressed the gladness of His heart by singing psalms and heavenly songs. Often the dwellers in Nazareth heard His voice raised in praise and thanksgiving to God. He held communion with heaven in song; and as His companions complained of weariness from labor, they were cheered by the sweet melody from His lips. His praise seemed to banish the evil angels, and, like incense, fill the place with fragrance.
I love this passage! For me it emphasizes the need to hide God's word in my heart...and one way that can be done is through song.
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#27153 - 02/24/05 12:16 AM
Re: Ch. 7 "As a Child"
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I always wished I could be that kind of person -- the sort that brings cheer to others -- but I'm always the one who ends up getting weary, frustrated, and worn to a frazzle before anyone else. I hate it. I hate this vast yawning uncrossable gulf between what I want to be and what I actually am, even in Him. Even in Him I can't be what I should be.
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#27154 - 02/24/05 05:40 AM
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I understand how you feel. But the thing is you do bring cheer to others, even though you may not think that you do!
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#27156 - 02/24/05 07:08 PM
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#27157 - 03/01/05 04:31 PM
Re: Ch. 7 "As a Child"
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Another example of what it means to be like Jesus from this chapter: (quoted from Messiah)
"Through all those years in Nazareth, Jesus’ life flowed out in sympathy and tenderness. The elderly, the sad, those with heavy burdens in life, playing children, little creatures in the trees, the donkeys and oxen at work; all of them were happier when He was around. The One who set the planets in place would stop to help a wounded bird."
Can we often say that people are happier when we are around?
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#27158 - 03/01/05 11:21 PM
Re: Ch. 7 "As a Child"
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"Through all those years in Nazareth, Jesus’ life flowed out in sympathy and tenderness. The elderly, the sad, those with heavy burdens in life, playing children, little creatures in the trees, the donkeys and oxen at work; all of them were happier when He was around. The One who set the planets in place would stop to help a wounded bird."
Can we often say that people are happier when we are around?
Heh good question. For me no. How do we get to that point though? One way is to continue to abide in Him, so that we may have the fruit of Galations 5:22-23.
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#27159 - 03/03/05 06:26 AM
Re: Ch. 7 "As a Child"
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Hey Jerry, I am so glad you posted this. Your post was implanted in my mind and a light switch went off in my head this morning at work. I was thinking "Why do I have such a grumpy scowl all the time. I try to be "holy" at work, and I just sit there being a stoic constipated monkey." And then your post really hit me, and He told me to stop focusing on myself, to look around, see all my interesting coworkers with volumes of life stories in them, ask them how they are doing, get to know them! In return I felt blessed. So thank-you Jerry!
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