In Search of Wisdom by Joyce Meyer
Life-Changing Truths in the Book of Proverbs Buy the Book • Library Catalog This is a notes pages complied of my personal thoughts from the book and quoted material. Effort has been made to give proper credit to the author. I received complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review. #Sponsored by FaithWords. Informal Summary In Search of Wisdom by Joyce Meyer is a commentary/guide on the 31 chapters in the book of Proverbs. Joyce shares personal examples and brings to light seven foundational principals repeated in Proverbs: wisdom, understanding, prudence, knowledge, discretion, discernment, and the fear of the Lord. Some links on this post are affiliate links, which are…
Empty Out the Negative by Joel Osteen
Audiobook • eBook • Printed • Library Catalog This is a notes pages complied of my personal thoughts from the book and quoted material. Effort has been made to give proper credit to the author. I received complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review. #Sponsored by FaithWords. Informal Summary Empty Out the Negative encourages you to remove daily your most common negative thoughts—guilt, resentment, doubt, and worry— and how to overcome them. Further, he shares how emptying out the negative gives room for a positive perspective and attitude. Joel shares some methods he personally uses.
There’s another way
To this day, I remember my first computer/typing class lesson in middle school. There’s three ways to do everything (on the computer), she said and proved her statement. While I already used a computer (clumsily), the concept of multiple ways intentionally built-in computers to complete one action was baffling. Why do we need more than one way? If one way is correct, and it does the job, then why do we need to learn the other ways? And if there’s more than one way to do something on the computer, maybe — there’s more than one way to do things in “the real world.” This idea has stuck with me. While…
How are we spending our time so far?
We can all agree April 2020 has been one of change, and the creeping of new norms/patterns as we adapt. Sill, if we don’t step back to check if the new patterns are positive or adjust them, we can adapt a rhythm that can drift us into an unhealthy/unfulfilling path. A clinical psychologist shares his insight on this from recent conversations over the last few weeks (during this COVID-19 season). What’s happened in this lockdown, people have got into some routines that can actually go not so well. And I’ve talked to a number of people that have been lethargic, kind of waiting instead of thinking about, “What routines and patterns…
Excellence in the ordinary
I listened to a great story and lesson today from an experienced speaker. He was about to share the stage with a pastor he admired tremendously. The pastor asked him, “Do you know why most young pastors fail at speaking, at being great orators?” He didn’t know the answer. “Because it becomes humdrum to them [the young pastors]. They don’t spend the time that they would spend as if they were speaking to a stadium, as if they were speaking to 10 million people on the radio and they don’t have that excellence in the ordinary.” The experienced speaker further shared about what he learned from that. “Now I’m not sure…
