7.15-What do you learn from your animals?

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7.15-
What do you learn from your animals?


Hot house for positive growth families know the difference between healthy religion and toxic religion.  They are into healthy religion, but avoid toxic religion.

When I was growing up, we had several key animals.   Three main horses.  Old Mac.  Ribbon.  Dodi.  We had one favorite dog. Siseye.  These were helpers and pets.  In addition there were cows that produced milk and calves to be sold for beef.  I have seen them times when we had not had enough rain that our stock ponds would get low on water.  A cow would wade off into the mud pond to get water and be stuck.  We normally did not work on Sunday to any great degree, but if a cow was stuck in a pond in order to save her life we would go all out to get her out.  

Since our God is a God of love.  This is his character.  This means we carry out mercy to human beings and even our animals and pets.

When kids get into trouble they will start to think where they can go for some safety, health and sanity to get our of their trouble.  If their home is abusive and toxic that home will not be a place they think they want to move toward.  Home would be the last place they would go if it is a place of negativity, criticism and verbal abuse.

What comes our in our words and behaviors is what has been placed in our hearts.  It is critical that we train our hearts to be filled with good words and good activities.  

We all mess up and we all need to bounce back at times.  In those moments we want to have good hearts.  God’s wisdom includes this.

How you treat the least of us is what is really in your heart
James
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26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not [ab]bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained [ac]by the world.


Larry Wishard
7.13.18

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