Tag: Take

IT DOES NOT TAKE ALL THAT!

ByDr. Mark August 7, 2025 0 Comments
I’m not writing about the diligence and dedication or the commitment and the concerted effort to break a bad habit when I say, “It does not take all that!” I am referring to good habits! One little interference, interruption, or insistence of one type or the other can cause you to skip doing what you are supposed to do every day. Case in point: I got up Monday morning at 1:30 a.m. I stayed...

“Dictum Meum Pactum”

ByDr. Mark July 9, 2025 0 Comments
The title above is Latin for “My word is my bond.” Like you, I have heard many people use this phrase in my lifetime. I wondered what it really meant, so I did a little research. I found out that the saying is an idiom that means that a person’s promise or commitment is as reliable and trustworthy as a formal contract. When someone says this phrase, “My word is my bond,” it signifies...

WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN “THOUGH IT ALL”

ByDr. Mark May 10, 2024 0 Comments
“Therefore, I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add...

“WORTH THE RISKS”

ByDr. Mark May 4, 2022 0 Comments
“And as Jesus was returning, the people welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.  And a man named Jairus came, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus’ feet and began urging Him to come to his house; for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying.  But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.” “While He was still...

TAKE ME BACK

ByDr. Mark November 7, 2020 2 Comments
“But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.  Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the deeds you did at first...” (Revelation 2:4-5a NASB) I’ll tell you upfront.  If the second paragraph is not applicable to you, pass it on to people you know who can benefit from what is written in that part of today’s meditation.  Wait! ...