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hormones will lie to you use your brain to think about this person they will be the other parent to your children should you have any make a wise choice standard posted in life tagged brain couple girls love men money partner questions women 0 comments 05 08 22 by dirtdaubber 676 psalm 23 king james version 23 the lord is my shepherd i shall not want 2 he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters 3 he restoreth my soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name s sake 4 yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me 5 thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my head with oil my cup runneth over 6 surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and i will dwell in the house of the lord for ever this psalm is one of the most beloved pieces of scripture in the entire bible many have committed this psalm to memory and that s a very good thing because i ve often said that it is difficult to stand on the promises of god when you don t know what the promises actually are this lovely chapter is chock full of them we are going to take this song lyric because that s what it is the lyrics to a song and explore god s promises that are found here the verses can be divided into two parts verses one through four and six are god s promises to you specifically and personally verse five is god s promise for actions he provides on your behalf in front of the rest of the world this mirrors the christian life in that most of it like the verses in part one are about that relationship that you have with god the rest is about how you relate to the rest of the world and how god cares for you there too let s start with the first verse it acknowledges that god is our shepherd and by extension that we are his sheep sheep are very valuable animals to shepherds sheep provide wool meat milk and money wealth to their shepherd they are also warmth and companionship in morocco i visited a farm in the countryside and explored a house that was built above a basement sort of structure that formed the first floor and that space was the sheep fold for the family s flock of sheep sheep are secured at night to protect them from predators both four and two legged the neat thing about this particular arrangement is that the body heat of the sheep in the first floor fold helped to heat the house where the humans lived on the second floor shepherds who roamed the hills with their flocks were a common sight in that country and the shepherd was continually with the flock leading them during the day and bedding down with the flock at night sheep are known to be foolish creatures needing the protection of their shepherd i don t know about you but that truth about sheep applies very well to me as well as a follower of christ i ve been known to do some boneheaded things that my shepherd s had to rescue me from too scripture makes multiple references to believers as god s sheep all throughout christ s ministry on earth it s the second part of verse one that has special insight for us it says i shall not want now there s two ways to take that statement and the first most obvious way is pretty clear and a marvelous promise of god to provide for our needs i will want for nothing god will provide what i need hallelujah there s backup in other bible verses for this promise too it does not appear just here in this psalm in matthew 6 25 34 it says in red letters too just listen to these promises 25 therefore i say unto you be not anxious for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what ye shall put on is not the life more than the food and the body than the raiment 26 behold the birds of the heaven that they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns and your heavenly father feedeth them are not ye of much more value than they 27 and which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto a the measure of his life 28 and why are ye anxious concerning raiment consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin 29 yet i say unto you that even solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these 30 but if god doth so clothe the grass of the field which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more clothe you o ye of little faith 31 be not therefore anxious saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be clothed 32 for after all these things do the gentiles or those with no knowledge of god seek for your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of all these things 33 but seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you 34 be not therefore anxious for the morrow for the morrow will be anxious for itself sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof now there s some promises straight from the almighty i can get excited about that the second meaning to this phrase thou shall not want has to do with your relationship with god your maturity as a christian and your dependance on god see god supplies our needs he does not in any way shape or form promise to supply our foolish fleshly greedy sinful desires those are unholy wants and our god is a holy god so basically ya ain t gettn em for i know the plans i have for you declares the lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future another amazing wonderful uplifting promise from god in the next verses of this psalm we see all the blessings god promises to believers who are earnestly seeking him and working to be obedient let s look at them he maketh me to lie down in green pastures doesn t that sound lovely i can rest in the lord in lovely places and in unlovely places both my rest is in god s green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters calm peaceful god promises us his peace in john 14 27 peace i leave with you my peace i give you i do not give to you as the world gives do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid 3 he restoreth my soul i am no longer a slave to sin and death he has restored my soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name s sake the holy spirit will guide me in what s right if i will listen to him and obey him that s my choice and god help me to always choose the right path he s showing me 4 yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil why for thou art with me i don t have to be afraid hey worst case scenario i get to go to heaven thy rod and thy staff they comfort me the shepherd s staff is a tool of rescue what s the rod remember hearing spare the rod and spoil the child that s a proverb of solomon and the rod is a tool of chastisement it says here that the tool of chastisement will comfort me this right here is another one of those mature christian relationship sort of things that doesn t immediately make sense to our humanness who gets comfort from chastisement well think about it this way i used to tell my children that if i didn t love them i wouldn t care how they behaved but because i do love them very very much i cared how they behaved and i sought to correct their mistakes and misbehavior guess what god is our father he does the very same thing pruning off our bad branches so we are better like his better plans for us it probably won t mean we like being chastised and corrected but it ought to be serious comfort that god loves us enough to want to help us fix our rough spots our part in that process is to understand that god is pruning us because he love us and wants to help us to become better more like jesus we have to accept his chastisement learn from it and grow to be better christians because of it doesn t mean it s fun i can tell you that it isn t fun when god is doing that in my life but it is necessary because god is doing it and he does not play nasty games he does what i need verse five says 5 thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointeth my head with oil my cup runneth over this is a promise god makes that he will provide for us even under the very noses of our enemies he anoints us with blessings when we are persecuted he promises our blessing cup will be so full it won t be able to contain all of it no enemy can take us from the hand of god no weapon formed against us will prosper he will take what is meant for evil and will turn it for good he protects us all the way to the pearly gates that s a promise finally he promises us that 6 surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and i will dwell in the house of the lord for ever since he is with me always like it says in matthew 28 20 of course goodness and mercy will be with me like duh and then i get to go to heaven i win and so do you so now you ve got a cupful running over of promises from god that you can count on all the days of your life from this one short psalm take those promises with you today and spread them around share them with others who need them standard posted in life tagged god psalm 23 0 comments 05 06 22 by dirtdaubber 675b profligate waste the us government strives to do the right thing they provide food for free to students who attend a designated title 1 school which is a school where the poverty rate in the district is high enough that all students who attend there qualify for free breakfast and lunch all well and good right well not so much here s how that munificence actually plays out in at least one locality my school had a situation arise in this era of no substitutes where nearly 20 of our small high school s faculty would be out on a given friday being that they were utterly unable to obtain substitutes not even by making the remaining staff sacrifice their planning periods and cover classes for colleagues they decided to just make tomorrow a virtual learning day ok i get that however because we are a title 1 school and we provide federally funded free food to students daily that meant our cafeteria staff had to scramble to provide and pack sack breakfasts and lunches for all of our students who would not be present at school to be fed so they d have food at home for the virtual learning day yes we did this each day of virtual learning during the pandemic too so at the end of our regular instructional day the admin called students to the cafeteria to collect a bag of food prepared for the next day a breakfast and lunch having experienced this situation previously i told my class that if they did not want the food that they were provided to please give it to another student first because that s who the food was paid for but to please not throw away food because i as their teacher would gladly accept food donations i had one student in that class who took home two full grocery bags paper bag size not plastic bag size that weighed so much he could hardly carry them i hope his mom was thrilled that her son brought home so much food probably a hundred dollar s worth from school i ended up with a sizeable bag of food the kids didn t want the vegetables mostly which i actually will eat class dismissed and students left the building then i went dumpster diving i have no shame i went classroom to classroom on my hall and mined the trash cans of teachers who obviously did not tell their students not to throw away food i left the building with eight paper bag sized loads more than 100 pounds of food it took me three trips to my car with as much as i could carry each time apples juice pop tarts fingerling carrots ranch dressing cheese sticks a few doritos chips bags what the kids ate out of the food bags they got they ate the chips the least nutritious item in the bag and the smucker s peanut butter and jelly uncrustable sandwiches they trashed the rest when i got home the workers who were finishing a flooring job for me at home were happy to take home a bag of food this is what i had left a bag of apples at my grocery store costs five bucks i had at least four bags of retail apples probably more red and golden delicious it s a good thing i have a food dehydrator i can preserve them for apple pies later this winter i had almost two quarts of ranch dressing i got dozens of cheese sticks i got well over a gallon of fruit juice which i do not usually buy myself because it s expensive and i am enjoying it thoroughly this evening with captain morgan s black spiced rum i got loads of pop tarts which i won t eat either i m sending those with my husband to his job site where he has co workers who have small children who will enjoy them i have enough fingerling carrots to eat them daily at lunch and dinner for about three weeks good thing i like them i get it that our school has a high poverty rate in our district and we qualify for federal food assistance for all of our students however this has happened over and over again in my county because i abhor waste i will trash dive to recover perfectly good food our students throw away what this means is that i look forward to days off when students are provided food because i take home hundreds of dollars worth retail cost food per year every time that i rescue from the trash what the students discard i am benefitting i am not the one who is supposed to be benefitting still i m not going to let the perfectly good food just be thrown away that s just wrong sigh how to fix this i do not know since i can t fix it i will continue to save food that would be trashed maybe this is a job benefit standard posted in uncategorized tagged federal government lunch school title 1 trash waste 0 comments 12 30 21 by dirtdaubber 674 can it be saved no it cannot and here s why after 31 years of teaching i am coming to the sad conclusion that public education in the usa is almost to the point that it cannot be saved federal agents state agents and district agents have played all they can play on the one string they can easily control in the orchestra that is public education the teachers what is coming to fruition is the result of that relentless twanging on that one string compounded by the problematic stifling effects of teaching in a pandemic added to the ineffectual and undermining policies that have been enacted over the past several decades to wit teachers are leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers and the supply chain of new teachers is not keeping up with the demand i myself cannot recommend teaching in the usa and instead suggest that those who desire to teach consider international teaching instead of domestic usa public schools why do i believe public education is almost unsalvageable the federal policies that began with no child left behind and have continued with the various equally flawed mandates since then have set up a current system of comparison that allows no school to have their numbers drop this race to obtain the necessary numbers to 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