Thursday, March 25, 2021

EASTER FOTS BLISS 2021 april yard art by (sexy! & tops!) #bliss @writeousmom







every now and again, when we are in our front yard,  -sun shinin', music pumpin' and we are just decorating..   designing...

essentially playing in the front yard together

visiting with neighbor passersby

i'm like, silently to Jesus...   "is this MY life?   i love my life now    --  thank you very much!"

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now, i don't know whether you can see it from the picture above, but we have written/typed out a different Fruit Of The Spirit on each of 9 different eggs



and instead of a poem this month, i simply posted the above pre-made flyer
-love the design/font styles and layout

and as i've already written plenty about FOTS, i will only briefly repeat here

FOTS pretty much encompass my entire spiritual walk.
i love them for many reasons, but way up there, is the fact
that FOTS belong to ALL of HUMANITY

-no faith system, religion,   -no one has the monopoly on fruits of the spirit
they are both infinite and universal


  


 


now, let me speak briefly about the fruit of the spirit... one of the hardest ones to manifest and master:

SELF CONTROL.

           two things to consider:   1.   -which part of you is your 'self'     2.  the concept of control

and we can see people controlled by addictions, by approval, by obsessions, by vanity, by mass media..   by anger, by hate, by their emotions and feelings...  

and then we can see people who use their 'self' to control counterproductive appetites, emotions, moods, unhealthy desires, destructive tantrums...

and i like that it does not read  "God control"  

it reads, 'self control'

    I AM in control of my attitude, my thoughts, my emotions, my moods, my responses  

 alcohol is not in control of...    mass media in not in control of....   addition is not in control of...

I AM IN CONTROL of these things.  

and well, 

i have a breakthrough to report!    -because, as far as i'm concerned, pinwheels are the greatest store bought cookies on the shelf anywhere in the world 

and, i treat myself occasionally...

and usually, when i treat myself to pinwheels, i eat, say...   2 or 3 or 5 in one day.

but, 

i did a kind of self-imposed self-control fruit of the spirit exercise recently

and restricted myself to just 1

ONLY ONE

1 pinwheel a day.

and guess what?!?

i succeeded!      i am enormously proud of myself.     

and, so

for a few minutes i thought i might just celebrate my accomplishment by eating 3 in a row, but..

i didn't.

so, 

'self control'  report card remains    Amen+


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also, inspired to share:     during one of our neighborhood passersby conversations, -we received a compliment for posting Fruits of the Spirit.   -and then we talked more about being Christians, and then,  -he shared that while living in Arizona, he attended church only on Sundays, which is a pretty common practice, 

but when he moved to California, at his new church, he learned to start each day with God.. not just Sundays, and he shared that making that change generated much better results in his life, and now he is in that practice every day for the rest of his life.

    -us too.

we keep God first every. single. day.    "God first forever!"   -that's our mantra.

and the blessings, favor, anointing we are currently enjoying...

  -all the evidence we need.


hallelujah & amen!



posted by SANDRA HARRISON KAY @ 10:57 AM

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