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WHAT do YOU do WITH minor Irritations of LIFE?

Light Keeper

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Greetings every one.
May I share the following?

What's Under Your Skin

There once was an oyster, whose story I tell;
Who found that some sand, had gotten into his shell.
It was only a grain, but it gave him great pain;
For oysters have feelings, although they are plain.
Now, did he berate the harsh workings of fate,
That had brought him to such a deplorable state?
"No," he said to himself, "Since I cannot remove it,
I'll lie in my shell, and think how to improve it."

The years rolled around, as the years always do,
And he came to his ultimate Destiny...stew.
Now the small grain of sand that had bothered him so,
Was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.

This tale has a moral, for isn't it grand,
What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand?
Think... What could WE do, If we'd only begin,
With some of the things that get under OUR skin?

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How DO you handle the minor irritations, remembering that they may be Gods Testing Time !
 

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This will be good for all to discuss. For myself, not necessarily understood at times, I seem more now that I am older not to look at irritations as irritating. I look at them as questions and ask, in JESUS Name for guidence and the lesson to learn from them. In other words, what can I do to better myself from a situation that may seem uneasy. Is it uneasy for me because it is true? Have I missed something. And then how can I change it. GOD does put me in situations to search my soul on how to become a better person in HIS word. I find it so refreshing that, when faced with a problem, that when I pray for guidence, I can open my Bible and the answer is there in front of me. Isn't GOD just the best FATHER and friend there is!!!!

God bless you my friend

Janice
 
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Light Keeper

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Greetings Raphe and newlamb.
What would you do if the answer came back, "gone fishing" or the chemist could not put up the perscription?
We are talking about minor irritation, these come upon the saint as well as the sinner, yes we go to God in prayer but what do we say if He replies, this is a time of testing to bless you?
(try 1 Cor 1:3 & 4)
 
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Just trust in His grace, grow in that grace, and know that you will be able to come out on the other side of that one day with His covering and help. If it goes well, then thank and praise Him - if not, well, put that day behind you and press on towards the goal that we have in Him.

Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
 
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It is nice to know what I should do. So far today I have shouted at the kids for not eating their breakfast, the drivers who cut me up and sulked at work when my tasks have been dull.

I think a little more effort may be required.
 
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I do not understand your post. Do you mean more is required of my post or do I need to include scripture?

For Scripture I cannot include all of Proverbs.

In requiring more of my post. I should say that yes everyday life can be trying. But what I was trying to say was that the answers can not be found from others but they can be found in what you have learned through HIS teachings. You can not make anyone do anything really. You can suggest but the decission is theirs -even children. I know I opened a can of worms but if you think about it they have to learn through their mistakes also. I think children learn more on making the right choices when they are presented with possible outcome of making the wrong choices. They start to think. I used to say to anyone on my job or anywhere when someone would try so hard to irritate me - God Bless you and have a nice day, evening, night. I found no irritation from that person by using the very name of GOD.
 
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Chilldogg77

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I have learned a lot on this subject from St. Therese the Little Flower. You may want to check out her website, http://littleflower.org Please do not discount her because she was Catholic and you might not be, I assure you she was a wise and holy woman. All of our sufferings, large or small, can be offered up to God as a sacrifice, united with the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. We are taught to deny ourselves and pick up our crosses daily. Any sufferings God sends our way are to be embraced as a way to glorify God interiorly. I'm not explaining this as well as St. Therese...but you get the idea.
 
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