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Good morning my friends,
In a Closer Walk,
Catherine Marshall Writes,
"One morning last week he gave me an assisignment:
For one day I was to go on "FAST" from criticism
I was not to critize anybody about anything
"For the first half of the day, I simply felt a void,
almost as if I had been wiped out as a person.
This was especially true at lunch... I listened to the others and kept silent... In our talkitive family no one seemed to notice.
Bemused, I noticed that my comments were not missed. The federal government, the judicial system, and the institution church could apparently get along fine without my penetrating observations. But still I didn't see what this fast on critism was accomplishing- until mid- afternoon."
"That afternoon, a specific, positive vision for this life was dropped into my mind with God's unmistakable hallmark on it- JOY !!! Ideas began to flow in a way I had not experienced in years. Now it was apparent what the lord wanted me to see. My critical nature had not corrected a single one of the multitudinous things I found fault with. What it had done was to stifle my own creativity."
Before you are tempted to criticize someone,
examine your own life. While you may not commit the same act or have the same habit you're about to criticize, you probably have some behavior that could be criticized. Do'nt stifle your creativity with criticism !!!
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye???
Matthew 7:3
Kathy/simikathy.com
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