G Notes

We are aggressively working toward potty-training Edie. To help expedite our efforts and increase Edie's learning curve we are bribing our two year old with stickers. Each time she goes potty on the potty she gets a new sticker on her potty chart which now gloriously decorates our refrigerator. I like to call these stinker stickers. I find it amazingly curious, on the verge of disturbingly confusing, that we are rewarding Edie for bowel movements. We are giving her stickers in exchange for stinkers. Quite frankly, this is messing with my highly refined and sophisticated Harnett County sensibilities. Does it make any sense that Edie should be rewarded for nothing more than depositing her shiznit in a toilet? Isaiah 64:6 says, " For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment ."  Much of what the Bible teaches is offensive and messes with our human sensibilities. We like to make much of ourselves and place an in

"Ambition" means "to seek after earnestly." It's possessing such a deep desire for something that you willingly and urgently strive toward attaining it. So what is it that you earnestly seek after? What is your ambition? If you're not sure how to answer those questions, then take a moment to honestly reflect on these: What is it that motivates you? What do you daydream about? What is it that thrills your heart and fills your thoughts with imagination? What do you spend your time and money on? If you could do one thing, what would it be? If you had one wish, what would you wish for? We all have ambition. We all have the capacity to seek earnestly after something. If you doubt this, lose your keys. You will destroy your house in order to find your keys. Why? It's because you need your keys. You can't lock and unlock doors without them. You can't start the car without them. Understanding how dependent you are on your keys, you willin