Sharon Sharing God: WHO WON THE "POLL" POSITION?

Sunday, January 20, 2013

WHO WON THE "POLL" POSITION?

First of all, I want to thank all of you who voted on my poll!

I always appreciate your input.

The results of the poll were as follows:

Add photos: 12
No photos – keep things the same: 7

But, I have a (small) confession to make. I have been thinking about this photo/no photo thing for a while now. And I had pretty much made up my mind about what I wanted to do. However, I wanted to see what you thought out there in Blog Land. I wanted to make sure that *my* decision wasn't way off from *yours*.

"The Hub" and I really enjoy taking photographs, and we certainly live in a beautiful setting. And I have always been intrigued by the idea of *painting pictures with my eyes*.

Can you detect my "leaning"??

So, in an effort to be "as wise as Solomon" – here's what I've come up with.

I will be adding photos to my blog posts – maybe not every one – but for the most part. But…(here's the effort to make everyone happy)…I'm going to add the photos at the END of my posts. That way, those of you who didn't want photos can just read the post and skip the *photo op* at the end. To those of you who wanted photos, the picture will be a P.S. at the end of the post.

Easy cheesy.

Hope this format works.

At least let's give it a whirl for a while and try it out – OK? OK!

"Give me an understanding mind so that I can govern your people well..."
(1 Kings 3:9, NLT)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

9 comments:

bettyJanuary 20, 2013 at 8:29 AM
Works for me, Sharon :) I look forward to seeing the pictures you post here!

betty
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JudyJanuary 20, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Hi Sharon,

From someone who loves photography and believes that photos make blog posts more interesting to look at and draw the reader in, I say post photos. I love photos. As you probably know, photography is my hobby. I've just been too busy lately to engage in it. Hopefully that will change. I've finally written a blog post after a hiatus of six months. I invite you to come and visit me.

Blessings,
Judy
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Anita JohnsonJanuary 20, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Yipee! (o;
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UnknownJanuary 20, 2013 at 2:52 PM
HI Sharon

Sounds good to me
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JanetJanuary 20, 2013 at 4:22 PM
I'm excited- can't wait!!!
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Joan HallJanuary 20, 2013 at 6:36 PM
Well, I missed the contest, but you know I love photos. Looking forward to seeing them!

Blessings,
Joan
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Chatty CroneJanuary 20, 2013 at 7:43 PM
I love pictures and I love to know more about you. Your new home....
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DebbieJanuary 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM
I voted for pictures since I'm the biggest Nosy Nellie on the internet plus I'm apparently like a preschool blogger and need a picture book. I'm glad you put them. Of course, my favorite part of this blog will always be the words.
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DeniseJanuary 22, 2013 at 12:08 AM
Ok, love you.
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

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Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

WHO WON THE "POLL" POSITION?

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