Sometimes Miracles Occur Only When You Jump

Since I Was Relatively New To The Bible, I Was Surprised By The Old Testament God. He's Wrathful, But At Other Times, He's Incredibly Compassionate. He's Not A One-dimensional Figure At All.

Think Of Negative Speech As Verbal Pollution. And That's What I've Been Doing: Visualizing Insults And Gossip As A Dark Cloud, Maybe One With Some Sulfur Dioxide. Once You've Belched It Out, You Can't Take It Back. As Grandma Said, If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say, Don't Say Anything At All. The Interesting This Is, The Less Often I Vocalize My Negative Thoughts, The Fewer Negative Thoughts I Cook Up In The First Place.

One Of The Interesting Things To Me Is That God Grows Throughout The Old Testament. He Evolves, Sort Of Matures, And Becomes Kinder.

The Bible Improved My Ethical Iq. I Started To Act Like A Good Person. I Tried Not To Gossip, And Lie, And Covet, And Just By Pretending I Was A Good Person, I Think I Actually Became A Little Bit Better Of A Person. I'm Not Gandhi Or Angelina Jolie, But It Was A Baby Step.

Probably 90 Percent Of Our Life Decisions Are Powered By The Twin Engines Of Inertia And Laziness.