Just recently, I remembered a lesson from my childhood: when my siblings and I had a fight, Mom would come to us and tell us about a "Divine Store". A supermarket that has everything! Whenever I realize I can't do something on my own, I can go to the Lord and exchange it with HIM. ...
It is so wonderful that more and more people are networking with each other and that as a result we can exponentially increase our joint clout in the area of exposing media lies and many other things. But what saddens me time and again is the following fact: when it comes to lending a practical hand with this, many people still apologize profusely, report on all their problems and hardships, and then sink back into their holes of lousy circumstances.
Our middle son had a small trampoline accident a few months ago. Since it left him with a torticollis, we went to the doctor, but he couldn't find a fracture on the x-ray. We were then discharged, but the doctor called us again that evening and said he kind of had a "funny feeling about it" and asked us to get an MRI* just to be on the safe side.
The main thing is that we are ONE! Experience deeper harmony in marriage and family and move mountains at home - is that possible? Irina reports on her experiences … My children and I were very excited and touched by the vision from the practice days. It is the perfect training field to grow together more, to discover new gifts and to find a deeper UNITY as a family and in marriage.
In 43 years of work, in which I was sick less than one month in total, I had received my first sick leave in November 2018. In the second one, I was "down to the bone" and also already had burnout symptoms. What I had suppressed for a long time, caught up with me and on the advice of my loved ones, I had myself medically "checked out".
Right now, in my personal quiet time with the Lord, I proclaim, "Jesus! I am the willing body of the perfect Head!" and go to work with this attitude. But at the latest, when it starts to pour down rain during a big transport with all kinds of "delicate" goods, I realize how quickly I am not really the calm body of the perfect head anymore ...
In the message "Collective Maturity" Ivo says about this: "When the Bible talks about 'rebirth', it means: You have to recover, accept what is already in your cradle as a child. You just have to return to what you already are." (See Titus 3:15) Instead of looking back at the past and feeling guilty about all my mistakes, I am now practicing to return to what God put in me from the beginning: His divine maturity, His divine nature.
