- Most of us say yes to far too many things. Lewis Sperry Chafer, founder of Dallas Theological Seminary wrote once; Much of our activity today is little more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life.
- Most of us do not plan for leisure and rejuvenation. We are a hassled, short-tempered, horn-blowing society perpetually commuting between poorly planned activities that add very little to our well-being.
- Most of us rarely experience the joy of accomplishment - Proverbs 13:19
- Most people living in wealthy countries owe more than they hope to repay. The plastic cards in gold and platinum color robs us of the satisfaction of true ownership.
- Most of us fool ourselves into thinking that with modern technology we have simplified our lives.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Five Sources of "Mind Clutter"
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After talking to Dr. Brackett on Feb. 28th I would love to comment. My name is Donna Baker-Shoaf. My husband and I were invited to visit your church. We are excited. I truly felt a genuine spark of the Divine in my meeting at the Dental office with one of the members and her husband. I know her only as "Sheila". After our talk and her husband's witness about his love of the church; I had an unction to call the new Pastor and chat before visiting. My husband and I have felt the loneliness of NOT KEEPING the Sabbath for some time. He works two jobs and I have been very ill for over a year. It seems we could never feel good about regular attendance at the churches we tried to belong to since we got married in 2006. I am a member of The Assembly of God faith and my husband was Pentecostal/Quaker. I am Southern and he is Northern. We have made excuses after excuses as to NOT KEEPING the Sabbath we have always kept. The terrible emptiness and the guilt should have prompted us more....but it did not. The loss of joy and the need for friends and a church family did not prompt us more. Illness and depression did not move us the way it should have. In fact, feelings that were negative and bodily weakness is what we gave in to instead of all the things that should have been our better choices. We decided that we had given up and given into our own challenges and yet we would try and fill Sunday with sermons, music, Bible reading, prayer....and "planning" to find a church we could "feel" good about. After meeting Shelia I felt something about this church before knowing anything at all. After talking to the Pastor, I felt wonderful about visiting. Now I feel even more so...but...the bottom line is that "feelings" can be very manipulated by Satan and when we were finding every reason NOT to go to church lately....it was SATAN influencing every reason we could come up with. God is who is urging us now..."How do I know?"...because he has put Joy and Excitement in us again...Hope and an energy...enthusiasm and a down to earth good old fashioned feeling about visiting this church. We have not felt that for a long time and I know God made a break through in our "emotions" and our "minds" lately. This happened due to two members of your church who decided to "talk" openly about the Lord in a doctor's office and share openly about themselves and then their church. This is the type of Christian friends and church family we have been earnestly seeking...and after talking to the Pastor...we feel that the couple's enthusiasm about the new Pastor and Wife were correct. God must be getting ready to answer our prayers for we have been praying for God to move us back into a church we can feel good about, right about and that would help us stop our own break away from the Sabbath and our active walk with God in Church and not just in our home, alone. Thank you "Sheila" for talking to me in the Aspen Dental office in Frankfort. Sincerely, Donna Sue Baker -Shoaf
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