Morningside Devotionals

Mouthful isn't it, and it's the sum of what we are, we aren't what we were, but we aren't what we will be, either, we are in the present, and that's the only place we can be. That's a tough fact of life, and yet as we exist at that moment,  the moments that built up to it, have to be considered, else we'd never grasp any newness to life.  However we cannot live "back there," it doesn't exist, and we can't live for a future that isn't existing either.  Plan for it, anticipate it, if you must, certainly it's interesting to try, but ultimately, what we have is right here, right now, from both of those other perspectives.  It's not just the past, but also what you believe you want to have as a future that contribute to the person we see standing there, right now. That would be an exercise in semantics if it weren't for the fact that we who live out our faith know that we place a very significant amount of...

She had always said that he was lazy, he hadn't fought with her about it, he knew in some ways she might be right; but he also knew that there is a difference between being occupied in a mental problem, and lazy.  Being occupied in a mental problem, is one thing that appears to others as if though you aren't doing anything, ever been there?  Ever struggled with a mental problem moving it to this side, and then to the other, trying to find a different angle where it will work?  For our foreign readers you may not relate to the dissapearing middle class, but right now in America a lot of people are having to really concentrate mentally on funds that are getting slowly eroded.  To someone who didn't realize the mental strain they were under they'd look like they were, lazy. It isn't just that appearances can fool us, we are fooled by plenty of things, loud sounds can fool us, beliefs in things that go bump in the night, can lead to us believing all...