Comments on: Look for Your Duties http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:42:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: Erin Landrum http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-25347 Erin Landrum Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:58:10 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-25347 I like how you link fruit and duty. Sometimes when I'm in the midst of personal trial/family conflict, I try to find something outside of the situation to do that is useful to somebody other than myself. Not that I go out looking for some obsolete ministry to stop-up my problems, but I have found that simply making a plate of cookies for a sick friend or taking dinner to a family with a newish baby can improve my perspective. Generally I find that in the course of my day I can easily double a recipe for dinner and then take it at the appropriate time. Even small duties are good, and when we look out of ourselves and into the body to see who needs something as simple as cookies, God will honor it. Really, this blog has been very helpful to me, you always make me think not only out of the box but also around it. I like how you link fruit and duty. Sometimes when I’m in the midst of personal trial/family conflict, I try to find something outside of the situation to do that is useful to somebody other than myself. Not that I go out looking for some obsolete ministry to stop-up my problems, but I have found that simply making a plate of cookies for a sick friend or taking dinner to a family with a newish baby can improve my perspective. Generally I find that in the course of my day I can easily double a recipe for dinner and then take it at the appropriate time. Even small duties are good, and when we look out of ourselves and into the body to see who needs something as simple as cookies, God will honor it.

Really, this blog has been very helpful to me, you always make me think not only out of the box but also around it.

]]> By: Kendra http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-25051 Kendra Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:35:19 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-25051 "you are uniquely suited to be that helper for your own husband" Thank you for this reminder, I really needed that. I really appreciate you taking time to share your wisdom with us through this blog. It is truly a blessing to me. “you are uniquely suited to be that helper for your own husband”

Thank you for this reminder, I really needed that. I really appreciate you taking time to share your wisdom with us through this blog. It is truly a blessing to me.

]]> By: Meredith_in_Aus http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-25035 Meredith_in_Aus Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:55:37 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-25035 Mrs Wilson, I love how you know how to ask the right questions. I pray I would learn to ask the right ones too. Asking the right questions is half-way to getting the right answers, I'm sure. In Him Meredith Mrs Wilson, I love how you know how to ask the right questions. I pray I would learn to ask the right ones too. Asking the right questions is half-way to getting the right answers, I’m sure.

In Him

Meredith

]]> By: Anna http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-24936 Anna Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:32:23 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-24936 thank you, thank you, thank you! This is a breath of fresh air. thank you, thank you, thank you! This is a breath of fresh air.

]]> By: Missy http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-24833 Missy Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:33:23 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/11/15/look-for-your-duties/#comment-24833 Thank you for this one, and may I add a little word? Just a few months ago, three weeks after the birth of our sixth baby, I was contemplating all the many tasks ahead of me and perhaps feeling overwhelmed. My sweet mother suffered quite a serious stroke while my husband was in Europe....anyway, I saw very clearly how God sustained me as I drove 18 hours be with Mom, and then looking after her and my own for weeks after. I could not have imagined being able to do it, had I known ahead all that would be before me. But my hands were strengthened for the tasks I was given. It was really a glorious time in many many ways. When we undertake to do the duties God puts before us, He is faithful and kind and does help us through. Thank you for this one, and may I add a little word? Just a few months ago, three weeks after the birth of our sixth baby, I was contemplating all the many tasks ahead of me and perhaps feeling overwhelmed. My sweet mother suffered quite a serious stroke while my husband was in Europe….anyway, I saw very clearly how God sustained me as I drove 18 hours be with Mom, and then looking after her and my own for weeks after. I could not have imagined being able to do it, had I known ahead all that would be before me. But my hands were strengthened for the tasks I was given. It was really a glorious time in many many ways. When we undertake to do the duties God puts before us, He is faithful and kind and does help us through.

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