I am mentally exhausted. I taught the lesson in Sunday School this morning. It always drains me. I was running on empty by the end. Glad to have the afternoon to recoup.
Faith vs Works
Tonight the kids and I read James 2. The first half of the chapter was basically about prejudice and how man’s tendency is to treat the rich better. The second half of the chapter was faith or works. We really liked verse 26 - For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. It made me think about this article about trees producing no fruit.
By faith…which produces fruit.
New Every Day…
I was reading an article (Ministering to those Diamonds in the Rough) which includes the following list.
- they tend to have a low EQ, meaning they lack certain social skills
- they prefer to be alone
- they are very intelligent (“little professors” he called them)
- they see things in black and white, meaning they take things very literally
- they do not easily process information
- they miss subtleties, do not easily intuit
- they are very sensitive to sounds, textures
- they have an odd sense of humor—quirky fits here
- they do not easily read faces, tend to avoid eye contact
- they are not so sensitive to feelings—they do not easily empathize
- they can melt down if given too many tasks at once
The melt down part doesn’t seem like a positive and the sensitivity to sounds and/or textures doesn’t seem positive or negative, but the others can all be positives.
New Theme
I guess it was time for a new theme. See this requires no effort at all. I should do this more often.