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Re: Is it possible to build a life of joy and wonder?
By: Amadeus Date: December 3, 2020, 9:37 pm
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[quote author=Pat link=topic=1007.msg15356#msg15356
date=1606935180]
We are in a large town but have a park opposite and two
good-sized gardens, but like you I wonder how people in
apartments or living in houses with no frontage and with only
small rear yards have managed to cope - specially with kids or a
less than friendly partner.
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We'd been in the same apartment for several years prior to this
Covid 19 thing. We did not go out a lot before except to a
restaurant once in a while for a meal. That we miss, but
otherwise... We tire easily so staying at home is not as much a
hardship for us as it would be for younger folk. We play board
games daily and almost always have a jigsaw puzzle in progress.
My wife prepares just one meal a day for the two of us and the
cleanup duties are mine. On laundry day once a week we both get
it done.
She works on building miniature doll houses while I read my
Bibles or work on my stamps or play a little music. I don't nap
normally, but my wife naps every day. That is life now... with
a little time spent on Christian forums.
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Re: Is it possible to build a life of joy and wonder?
By: James Date: December 4, 2020, 11:19 am
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I am inclined to agree with Joseph. Nevertheless we must bare in
mind the words of Jesus with regard to the cares of this world
which could choke out the good seed and since it is behoven of
us each one to live by faith which comes by hearing and hearing
by the word of God, we must remain vigilant and watch that this
pandemic does not cause us to miss the mark. Jesus is the way,
can’t go wrong if we walk in him, for we shall experience peace
and love in the Holy Ghost.
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Re: Is it possible to build a life of joy and wonder?
By: Ivor Date: December 5, 2020, 7:06 am
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Do we have happiness or do we have joy?
Happiness is a result of "Happenings" - Joy is a gift of Jah
(God) they are not the same thing, if illness or circumstances
mean that our "happenings" decline or stop entirely we may
become unhappy but if we have joy from God then our personal
changing circumstances cannot make us un-Joy because it is
gifted within us
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Re: Is it possible to build a life of joy and wonder?
By: bbyrd009 Date: December 5, 2020, 8:44 pm
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"I don't know anything. Ever. It's really quite relaxing."
DGently
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Re: Is it possible to build a life of joy and wonder?
By: James Date: December 6, 2020, 2:37 pm
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The situation is as ivor said, and follows the words of Job
after he was told of the three catastrophise that had befallen
his property, livestock and family. The "Lord gives and the Lord
takes away blessed be the name of the Lord". For the God we
worship to be as majestic and awesome as he is in our eyes he
has to be able to act as a God without reference to us. Job
understood that the Lord was to be blessed under all
circumstances for God is God and can do as he will. We just have
to stand fast in faith knowing that the end will be glorious for
us each one.
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Re: Is it possible to build a life of joy and wonder?
By: bbyrd009 Date: December 7, 2020, 2:30 pm
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...and few there are who find it
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Re: Is it possible to build a life of joy and wonder?
By: bbyrd009 Date: December 7, 2020, 11:06 pm
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"They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as
the truth, rather than truth as the authority." G Massey
apropos of nothing :)
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