How Much of a Negative Person Are You and Your Friends?

Most people DON'T enjoy being around a negative, complaining, and emotionally vindictive person.

The only people that DO enjoy those kind of people are those who themselves are the same way. They feed each other's "need" to be chronically negative.

So, what kind of person are you, and what kind of friends do you attract?

Here is a test: For the next 3 days, commit yourself to NOT saying a single negative thing about ANY person, even if you "feel" like they deserve a negative observation on your part.

This includes NOT entertaining negative thoughts about any person. The negative thoughts may surface in your mind (and that really can't be helped at this point), but the challenge is to NOT dwell on those thoughts, nor to develop those thoughts. Instead, "take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ" (2 Co. 10:5)

If you will give yourself (or better yet, if you will give God) the next 3 days and do these things mentioned above, you just might find out some things about yourself AND about your current set of friends!

A Father’s Void & The Father’s Peace

Author's Note:  I am privileged to have been invited by Hannah's Prayer Ministry (website: "Held") to write an article for their 2011 Father's Day feature.  Thank you for dropping by their website and reading "A Father's Void & The Father's Peace."  If you have struggled with infertility too, please consider joining the "Held" website as a frequent reader.  You will be encouraged by their message!

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“Dave, come quickly, by the time you arrive at the hospital, your wife will be in emergency surgery!"

What? Not exactly the opener to a phone conversation with our doctor and family friend, Dr. Chris, that I would ever have expected. He went on to explain briefly about my wife, Teresa’s medical emergency.

My wife and I had barely been married two years by this time, and while we had been hoping to build a family, we had already experienced the heartache of three miscarriages in their first trimesters. The second and the third losses were just as traumatic to our hearts and dreams as the first loss.

Now, my wife was pregnant a fourth time and had seemingly been progressing well...

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