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Oh Happy Day!!!

I'm laughing!  Out loud laughing!  My last post was actually the ramblings of someone coming out of anesthesia.  I wasn't preparing for surgery at all.  I was out of surgery!

Can you believe it?!  I'm no longer groggy.  At least I don't think I am.  I feel fully awake and happy, happy, happy! 

The surgery (exposing and cutting away of my wrong thinking) was happening even as I was seeing, remembering, confessing, and crying over the evil ways of my tongue.

How cool is that?  It was happening even as I was asking our Father to do it! 

I'm definitely going to need to take it easy and follow all His post surgery instructions.  I was given those instructions on Friday morning...1st Peter 3:10-17.  Specifically...

v. 14 - ...don't fear what they fear or be disturbed
v. 15 - but treat the Messiah as holy, as LORD in your hearts
v. 16 - ...good behavior flowing from your union with the Messiah

I cannot fear anyone or anything more than the LORD.  I must consider and treat Messiah as holy, as LORD.  Good behavior flows from unity with Him.

v. 10 - whoever wants to love life & see good days must
v. 11 - turn from evil & do good

I definitely want to love life and see good days!  I must not just stop going in my old ways, but turn and go in a new direction...no standing in one place just looking in the new direction.

So, going back to the evil ways of interrupting everyone I am in conversation with...I cannot just stop conversing.  I have to converse in the right way.  Listen to everything the other person is saying.  Remember the conversation is not about me.  I can only do that if I remain in unity with Yeshua the Messiah who is always obedient to the Father.  Then my thoughts will be where they belong and I will speak words that bring grace to those who hear (Ephesians 4:29).

I'm excited to begin practicing, and I look forward to your visits as I recover.

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