Our family is in the midst of little league soccer season. My youngest son is playing and his enthusiasm is contagious. He is pretty good at the sport, but what makes it so great is that he loves it! He counts the days until the next game or practice. He loves his coach and teammates. He has moved up an age level this year and the players are working more like team, passing to each other and watching out for each other during play. During the last game, my son scored two goals, they were the only goals of the game. In today's game the team scored eight goals. My son came up afterwards to me and said, "I didn't score today, but I blocked". What a powerful truth those words can hold. In life, sometimes we score, sometimes we block. Sometimes we do great things, we excel, we achieve, we meet our goal - we score! There are also times we see the needs of others, sometimes they are sad or hurting, we block their hits. We look out for them so they can score. We...
A wonderful verse for this WFW-great advice for us to enter the New Year- may it be a way of life for God's children 2009. Be blessed and have a wonderful New Year.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful verse to remember. Thank you for sharing it. It is a mid-week blessing.
ReplyDeleteHave a great New Years Eve.
Hugs.
Kim
What a great way to begin the new year. I love it! Happy WFW and Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteMade me smile :) be blessed, Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteWow, that should have been "my verse" for 2008 -- think I'll adopt it for 2009 -- it's very powerful and very true...
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing -- and Happy New Year!
Great verse to begin a new year. Have a blessed New Year!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great verse--I agree with the other commenters--could be a motto!
ReplyDeletea wonderful reminder for this new year... thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBlessings to you this New Year!
I've been reading in Romans 12 this week. It is great seeing it on WFW. Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteThat was a great verse to start the year with. Thanks for visiting my blog. I need to learn how to find pics to put with verses, so I am not just depending on my own pics I've taken.
ReplyDeleteGreat scripture! 3 great things to begin the new year with!
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