#9 Making Changes for A Great 2024
Behavior, Prayer, Seasons, and Verses
Thanks for your patience for those who read weekly… I took a little break. This new year came in HOT. With fireworks. So my writing schedule is a little off but here I am with a final installment of our fill-in-the-blank series just in time for the final weeks of Lent. And I chose a picture of the beautiful pink to come….
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This all started as a very long journal entry. Just rattling off questions to myself. Then I thought, hey, maybe these would be good to share. Let’s do a last one.
Behavior
I have behavior that I love. It’s this _______. I’ll increase this by ________.
I have behavior I don’t care for so I will change it by doing this: ________.
Prayer
These prayers were answered last year (or even this year): ________. (Give thanks!)
These prayers went unanswered: _________. Could this be a “not yet” or if a “no” can you relinquish control and thank God in faith?
Seasons
If I could name a season that I am in now it would be ________.
If I could pray for a new season it would be________.
I can do hard things. Knowing this, I can _______. I will do this with God’s help for the good of my well-being.
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3 1-8