Doesn’t this grasshopper look nice and juicy to you?

Not?

I know of one role model I have that would love the sight of this one, since that was part of his main staple.

But on first appearance you would probably rather walk past him, because he is also wearing camel skins, and he lives out in the desert. But that might not be wise of you, to simply walk past this seemingly strange man, speaking about this ‘new’ King that world is going to see. You would probably also think he is at least a little crazy, should you hear him at first.

Who is this man you say? It is John the Baptist.

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Our Deepest Fear – Marianne Williamson

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I had an awesome experience yesterday.

Like I said in my post yesterday, I was hoping for God to supply us with a sponsorship for our ministry that we wanted to start surrounding Mountain Biking. Even though I had the meeting, and it went well, I did not get the answer that I wanted to get.

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Today is a big day for me.

During the last couple of months, while me and my wife was preparing for this monster stage mountain bike race, the JoBerg2C, something has been growing in my heart.

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This weeks poster in the Never Beyond series by People of the Second Chance is really a difficult one for me to comment on.

The Pope and the Roman Catholic Church is in many ways unknown to me. Due to many reasons I simply do not know about this denomination, other than that the world sees the Pope as the leader of the church in general in the world, and that they rule the Vatican City.

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We are flooded with negative things in this world.

Open the newspaper, and all you see is negative things. Switch on the TV, you most likely will watch something that has some negativity included in it.

When you speak to or about somebody, we sometimes focus on the negative things related to the conversation or the person, and then we tend to label them.

How can we redeem the world from all this negativity and labels?

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Currently I am standing in front of a difficult decision.

Usually loyalty will trump anything and everything, in my books. That is simply the person that I am. I tend to be overly loyal at times.

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So often we will call somebody something, without thinking about it, or judge somebody by something that they do, and label them accordingly, without taking the time out to really get to know them and not judging them by looking at the cover of the book.

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After receiving the poster for this weeks Never Beyond poster series by People of the Second Chance, I was stumped. Not because I do not know about Mel Gibson’s transgressions, or do not have an opinion about them, but because I was so disgusted when I heard about the domestic violence stuff, that I almost felt that he was beyond a second chance.

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So, to finish up this blogging series on the 5 character traits the Grace Mob of The People of the Second Chance include in their vision, we are finishing of with Hope today.

If you missed the previous 4 posts, follow the links to them here:

• Empathy
• Tenacity
• Courage
• Purpose

You embrace a hope that is a combination of optimism and realism. You comprehend that with failure comes loss but also is the seed for something better. Hope moves us to a place where healing can occur and has clear spiritual, psychological and physical benefits.

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