Dance Party

I had a great time working on this layout. Started it a couple of weeks ago. It got really involved and I put it on hold until tonight. It's been a lot of fun, so I hope John and Beth like it all right. I know it is over the top...and a little feminine. I was going on the dance party theme.

Life doesn't always turn out like a dance party. What do you do when things don't work out as you     planned or wanted?

Rick Warren asked that question in his email mini-lesson on Wednesday. He mentioned 

 II Corinthians 4:8. In my New International Version, it reads, "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair."  I like the wording he used from the Living Bible. It is much easier to understand... "We are perplexed because we don't know why things happen as they do, but we don't give up and quit."

Rick explained it this way: "It’s good to know that we can trust God and that he knows things we don’t. He has promised that one day he will set everything right. One day he will bring everyone who trusts in him together.

Until then, there are two ways you can live your life. You can live feeling like God owes you an explanation, or you can live realizing God has given you great gifts.
If you live life feeling like God owes you an explanation, you will only wind up in a constant state of bitterness, because God doesn’t owe you anything.

But even though he doesn’t owe you anything, he has given you everything. He gave you his own Son. He gave you the gift of eternal life. He gave you the promise of being together with him forever."

Rick Warren

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