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Nov 27

Daily Dose 38: Cannon Balls and Sand

How about another personal favorite Picture for My Mind?

C. H. Spurgeon wrote in his Sword and Trowel of a man filling a large box with cannon balls. Needless to say, it did not take too many balls before the box was full. Not so, says Spurgeon. The box would only be full of cannon balls, but it was not truly full. The space around the cannon balls could be filled with shot (think BBs, modern America), and when no more shot would fit, then a quantity of sand could still be poured into the nooks and crannies. There is an infinite point-number line-math lesson in there somewhere!  Read more

Nov 25

Daily Dose 36: Concentration Cycles

Let’s see, we are supposed to be automating routine tasks and attending to exceptional ones, making a process for everything, organizing files, and never neglecting a single thing we think is important (even if we never realized how much work it would be to do….) Read more

Nov 18

The Front Door

A distinctive front door is a little piece of art all in itself. I remember being so taken with doors in England. Both times we were there (oh, that it could be more!), were ongoing searches to take pictures of doors and their equally delightful doorknobs. My door fascination makes the front door of the priority house a very special part of the home for me. Read more

Nov 18

Daily Dose 29: Shelving Values and Priorities

If you have been dabbling in the priority gathering experiment, several little lists may be piled in front of you by now: verses, responsibilities, Titus 2 priorities, dreams you were brave enough to commit to paper, answers to long-range questions. Now what? Well, it’s just about time to box them up, set them on the shelf, and forget about them for awhile, that’s what!  Read more

Nov 17

Value Questions

Value Discerning Questions

Use questions like those below to help you identify your values for yourself. Go ahead write the musings that lead to the answers in your notebook. They’ll be fun to read ten or twelve years from now:

1. Is it a lifelong challenge?

2. Is it the outgrowth of a deeply held belief?

3. Is it the outgrowth of an unswerving conviction?

4. Will pursuing its fulfillment lead me along acceptable scriptural paths?

5. Does it demand or expect God to do something that may not be within His will for me?

6. Does it adequately express a secret longing, far-fetched dream, or deep-seated desire?

7. What about my personal character will hinder accomplishing anything I call a value for my life?

8. Can I identify blind spots for myself that might be hindering me from seeing biblical values clearly for myself?

9. Is there someone I can ask about this topic of values and blind spots ?

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