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RE: If Everyone Cared - 5/11/2009 9:23:44 PM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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Don't sweat the small stuff, thats what I said to my friend in the group as I was leaving. He smiled and agreed, I made a connection.
Later that evening on my way home I was waiting for the bus. I looked at the time, where is the bus? One minute late, now 2, now 3, 4.... For months I had been waiting for the bus too be really late to email them of the occurrence.
Then it hit me "don't sweat the small stuff." Here I was worrying about a bus being how many minutes late? How does that affect things in the grander scheme of things? The bus ended up being over 10 minutes late, but would I file a complaint? No.
How many times do we get upset over a bus being late, missing a train, the line at the store moving slower than we would like, etc?
Because its not worth it because I decided that I would take my own advice and not sweat the small stuff. 
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RE: If Everyone Cared - 7/3/2009 11:52:26 AM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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It is Friday and I have the day off, yeah! I am thankful for a lot of things, as most of you may already know, I was hospitalized 3 weeks ago with a bad case of gastritis!
While being in the hospital they then discovered that I have diabetes also! I was in the hospital for 8 days which is the longest I have ever been hospitalized! I was very glad to be out!
I am still trying to balance my diet without much success at all. Maybe I am not really trying hard enough as new habits are very hard to form. I was feeling sick off and on the past few weeks but finally started feeling better just a few days ago. I hope that this trend continues!
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RE: When Its Time To Change You Got To Rearrange - 12/12/2009 4:55:13 AM
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Lessons learned
With blogging about my job I just thought I would share with you some scriptures and lessons that Jesus is teaching me through this trial. I'll start with the following:
PROVERBS 15:18
hot-tempered man stirs up strife,
But the slow to anger calms a dispute
My boss tends to fly off the handle a real lot and I am vastly learning that if I respond calmly that things go much better than my fleshly desire to get defensive.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
This is what God was really been revealing to me. I am very weak emotional at work, and cannot take the pressure sometimes. I make mistakes a lot which is unexcusable to my boss. God has revealed to me that this weakness that I have is that His grace is sufficient for me for His strenght is perfected in my weakness, thereofore I will boast of my weakness in my job so that Christs power might rest in me!
And another:
Romans 12:19
Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"[a]says the Lord.
God is showing me that through the injustice at work that I should not take revenge. It would be very easy to call the Union on certain violations and or the State on such things as people not taking lunch, etc. But I forgo this because I really sense that Jesus would rather be the one doing the judging instead.
Matthew 5:40-41
40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
This means that I must do overtime even though I do not want to, even to the point of going up and beyond what is asked. My flesh recoils this but this is God's will for me I know.
1 Thessalonians
17pray continually 18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Another hard one, to give thanks in the trials that I am having? That is really hard!
Ephesians 4:31
31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
1 Thessalonians 5:15-18(New International Version)
15Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.
16Be joyful always;17pray continually;18give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Now this is one that God has really been working on me and changing me with. I need to have a positive attitude at work and not a bitter one. This is another thing that my bosses sighted me on.
And finally Jesus reminded me of this:
Romans 8:38-39 (New International Version)
38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The bottom line is while I still have a lot of challenges, God has really changed my heart!
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RE: When Its Time To Change You Got To Rearrange - 8/15/2010 4:49:03 PM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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This is my first post in a while. Looking at my last posting here, I feel like a hypocrite, I failed. I still believe in the above, but cannot seem to do it, at least not in my own strength. I was reminded of this again with ArmyDude's post recently as well.
I have been feeling much more peaceful than I have in months. I am very happy about this because it is very unpleasant to be living with anxiety!
I've been having weird dreams lately too. They seem to involve mice a lot of the time, I do not know why. Also, within the past 24 hours, Jim Belushi seems to be permeating my dreams too. Weird stuff to say the least.
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RE: When Its Time To Change You Got To Rearrange - 3/1/2011 10:06:25 AM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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It appears that calls for interviews on my job search have all but dried up. And while I have kicked it up a notch, the phone is not particularly ringing. I received a phone call from one company that left a message for me that I interviewed with before. When I called them back, I got voice mail. I have left them 3 voice mails at this point between yesterday and today, but so far, no avail. I suppose I will call them one more time on Thursday if I do not hear from them at all.
Then there is the retail applications. These are actually much more involved than applying for an office position as they ask you personality questions. Do I answer them right? Am I incriminating myself? What I do know is that I need to be honest on these applications. If that means that I do not get the job as a result, then it was not God's will for me.
I know that the job market is tough, but this is crazy! I heard that employers are actually discriminating against those who have not worked 6 months or more. What happens if you lost a job through no fault of your own, or you just didn't get along well with your last boss? Just doesn't seem fair to me. :(
I will say this, for better or for worse, I am much more likely to just do whatever a boss tells me to do in the future, no matter how unreasonable I might find it to be. The only thing is I've done that before, but only to lose respect of employers, so I dunno.
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RE: When Its Time To Change You Got To Rearrange - 3/7/2011 4:15:45 AM
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Random Thoughts
This past Saturday there was a mens meeting at church. We decided to go on a prayer walk and went around praying for the neighborhood at various parks. It was very nice and enriching to do! One thing that I am working on is my fear of openly praying in public. I have this fear that some type of physical confrontation will ensue if am openly professing my faith. While persecution does happen with Christians, I have never actually experienced this when praying so far, so it is fairly unfounded.
I also feel that something big is about to happen in my life. I really do not know what that is yet, however I am open to change and the next chapter that is about to ensue in my life. I know that I am trying to get involved more at church and want to move closer to there also. We'll see.
I had 3 interviews scheduled for jobs last week! The job that I was worried about not calling me back, did call. I had the interview on Thursday which went very, very well! I also had an interview on Friday, and yet another one coming later on today as well.
The only thing about these jobs is that none are permanent full time jobs yet, so I have to keep waiting and seeing. Faith of a mustard seed! In any case, I will take whatever gets offered to me. 
At my life group, we are doing writing and the theme is writing your life's story. I think mine would be fairly long, a few chapters anyway. I have an idea where to start, but not exactly sure how long it will be and when it will end. Should be a good exercise none the less.
Finally, if you are reading this blog and wish to leave a comment, then feel free to do so here:
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RE: This Scripture Spoke To Me Today - 6/3/2011 10:23:22 AM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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Philippians 2-3:8
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
I read the book of Philipians today (the whole book in one sitting) because my church has been focusing on it this past week. One thing that really stood out was: Philipians 2:3-8 which talks about considering other people more important than yourself. What struck me as interesting in this read though was that we are to do so because while Christ was God, He stripped himself of the glory and because man on Earth instead. So in the same way, we are to show more importance to others also.
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RE: This Scripture Spoke To Me Today - 10/16/2011 11:57:02 AM
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A-Mighty-Oak
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Well, this will very likely be my last blog post here. Its been an interesting 7 years and I have changed a lot. I thank you my loyal followers to my blog. I am not sure if I will continue blogging or not, however if you wish to keep in touch, you can email me at Mikemoc@juno.com
If you are looking to continue where I am, I have a new forum in my link. Thank you again everyone and hope that y'all find new forum homes.
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