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Things Remembered

by Shannon Heiden  
12/12/2009 / Devotionals

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV)

Beautiful One, I find what I look for in people. If I look for God, I find God. If I look for the bad stuff, I find it. I, in a sense, select what I expect, and I receive it. A life without challenges would be like going to school without lessons to learn. Challenges come not to depress or get me down, but to master and to grow and to unfold thereby.

In the Father's wise and loving plan for me, no burden can fall upon me, no emergency can arise, no grief can overtake me, before I am given the grace and strength to meet them. A rich, full life is not determined by outer circumstances and relationships. These can be contributory to it, but cannot be the source. I am happy or unhappy because of what I think and feel.

I can never lose anything that belongs to me, nor can I posses what is not really mine.
To never run from a problem: either it will chase me or I will run into another just like it, although it may have a different face or name.

To have no concern for tomorrow. Today is the yesterday over which I had concern. To never bang on a closed door: Wait for it to open and then go through it. A person who has come into my life has come either to teach me something, or to learn something from me. (Author Unknown)

Beautiful One, in any situation you face, ask yourself this one simple question; will this matter in a year?

Think back to a year ago. Are any of the things you were concerned about, still a concern today? So many times we walk through life taking on extra weight. I'm not speaking about literal pounds of flesh, but of taking on situations that soon become burdens. Situations that we either are not meant to take on, or we've never been asked to carry.

As the Holidays draw near, let us be careful to approach our relationships, and the situations we encounter with ease. As we gather with friends, and loved ones, let's remember that senses are heightened. Memories of old, both good and bad are recalled during this time of year.

Let us remember that we cannot change the past, nor predict our future. Let us remember that today we have the power within ourselves to change any relationship or circumstance, if we simply change ourselves in it. No one can steal our joy, we would have to surrender it. Let us remember that as none of us is promised tomorrow, may we live, laugh, and love as much as we can today.

Beautiful One, its not the gifts, or the great food that we will look back and think about. It's not who had the best dress on, or who had the most fun that will be recalled. The things that we selflessly, sometimes sacrificially did for others, and the things we received that money could not possibly buy.

Those are the things that will be remembered.

Simply said, let by gones be by gones, embrace your enemy, love your neighbor, help your brother, and always be true to you.

Treat others better than you've been treated, give the grace today that your going to need tomorrow. Make this Season worth remembering by Honoring God in all you do, and in return, He will honor you...

Because a year from now, those will be the things remembered.

Beautiful One, just believe, have faith in God, in others, and yourself during this season.

Shannon Heiden
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