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Saturday 21 April, 2007 subscribe | unsubscribe | discuss | archive |
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Double trip by Bruce Wadd
I am sure you must be tired of my bush stories … but there seems to be so much to learn! Recently I was walking through an open forest area without a path. I needed to be more watchful than normal with each step.
With a big laugh, mainly out of frustration, I picked myself up, noted no skin lost and kept walking. But it made me wonder …
How many times do you get caught out? Not by the first thing that happens, but as you are negotiating a particular circumstance something else catches you unawares, and you trip up.
Maybe it’s the flat tyre, the child vomiting as you’re leaving home, the cancer diagnosis, the broken relationship, the job sacking, and the spouse’s nasty words? All are a part of life … and may cause you to trip twice!
TODAY, I wanted to give you another way of looking at these trip ups. Facing challenges is a part of life, but I am learning that we – you and I – are instructed to take charge of this earth, to not let circumstances rule our lives.
“You have put him (every human on earth including you and I) in charge of everything you made; everything is put under his authority.” Psalms 8:6
TODAY, how will you respond to this direction? Let me know…
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I
stood on a stick (nothing unusual about that) but it did something
rather weird. As I lifted my back foot over the offending item
another part of the dead branch rose up and caught my second foot.
I briefly stumbled and fell.