Walking The Walk

 "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning."   ~Mark Twain I republish this piece every so often. I wrote back in 2018.  It's a great way to look at those tasks on our list that we just don't want to do--especially on a Monday morning.  I still put things off from time to time, and every once in a while, to this day, you'll see three words written on my calendar.  Eat the frog! From 2018:  My daughter looked over my shoulder the other night and asked me why I'd drawn so many pictures of little green frogs in my bullet journal over the last few days.  I gave her this Mark Twain quote.  I ran across it earlier in the week, and I'd forgotten the wisdom of it.  She looked at me very puzzled after I recited it to her. "You know how I've asked you three times this week to clean up your room," I said to her. "Yeah," she said. "You still haven't done it.  You've been putting it off....

"Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end our lives."  ~Psalm 90:14 We've all had something go bad in the refrigerator when we've left it in there too long.  When we leave crackers out on the counter, it doesn't take very long for them to go stale.  I buy bananas every week, and it certainly doesn't take them very long to start turning brown.  Meat goes bad.  Milk sours.  Cheese will mold.  Fresh fruit doesn't stay fresh for very long.  And it's not just food!  See how far you get without refilling the gas tank on your car.  We constantly have to refill our provisions.   It's the same with our faith!  We need to constantly renew ourselves with fresh words from the Bible each day.  Fresh sources of joy.  Fresh expressions of gratitude and hope.  David Jeremiah once wrote that we can't live today on yesterday's joy.  We need to renew our faith each day by refilli...