FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ CELEBRATING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS ~ 24 March 2019

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

CELEBRATING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS

"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
-Oscar Wilde

It is natural and understandable to feel pangs of envy when we see someone else get promoted while we may have not been; or to see someone else get a NAM and we were not recognized for our hard work. It is human.

Life is full of many disappointments large and small, and it is tough to accept that others may enjoy greater fortune when we are equally deserving. How can we deal with such feelings of envy? First, it is essential to recognize that envy is an emotion that can be good or bad. "Good" envy can motivate us to keep on trying, never to give up the fight. "Bad" envy can lead a person to do harmful things to themselves or to others. It can eat away at one's inner well-being and leave a person an emotional, bitter wreck. Envy created the first murderer, Cain, who killed his brother Abel in a fit of jealousy.

Second, we each need to consider the blessings we enjoy, not to dwell on the things we don't have. When I was aboard the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT in an ethics class, we'd take a large overhead chart with a clean sheet of paper and make a dot in the center of the page with magic marker. Then we'd ask the students what they saw. They'd all say, a dot, of course. Then we'd tell them: here is this big paper, and you say all you see is the tiny dot?!!?! We must look at everything we have, not just the one or two things we feel are missing from our lives.

Yes, it is hard to feel happy when others "succeed" where we have "failed", but we must never give up, nor allow ourselves to become bitter. Consider the example of my friend, a fellow Chaplain, who applied for commission as a Naval officer three times and was rejected each time. On his fourth try he was accepted and is now a distinguished member of the Chaplain Corps. Remember, when you feel at the end of your rope, make a knot and hang on!

 

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March 24

Singing in the Spirit

Bible in a Year: Joshua 16–18; Luke 2:1–24

Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Ephesians 5:18–19

During the Welsh Revivals of the early twentieth century, Bible teacher and author G. Campbell Morgan described what he observed. He believed the presence of God’s Holy Spirit was moving on “billowing waves of sacred song.” Morgan wrote that he had seen the unifying influence of music in meetings that encouraged voluntary prayers, confession, and spontaneous singing. If someone got carried away by their feelings and prayed too long, or spoke in a way that didn’t resonate with others, someone would begin to softly sing. Others would gently join in, the chorus swelling in volume until drowning out all other sound.

The renewal in song that Morgan describes has its story in the Scriptures, where music plays a prominent role. Music was used to celebrate victories (Exodus 15:1–21); in worshipful dedication of the temple (2 Chronicles 5:12–14); and as a part of military strategy (20:21–23). At the center of the Bible we find a songbook (Psalms 1–150). And in Paul’s New Testament letter to the Ephesians we read this description of life in the Spirit: “[Speak] to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:19).

In conflict, in worship, in all of life, the music of our faith can help us find one voice. In harmonies old and new we’re renewed again and again, not by might, nor by power, but the Spirit and songs of our God.

By Mart DeHaan

Today's Reflection

What song has spoken to your heart recently? How can music encourage you in your relationship with God?

[SkyDancer]

~ Good Evening ~

~ Just Hanging ~

~ Good Evening ~

~ Welcome To My World ~

I’m Down There Somewhere

[Army Air Corps]

In.

[PROCON]

Thanks Kathy!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Here is a corollary to that sermon, if you will:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

― Theodore Roosevelt

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[mountainlion]

How about those astronauts? There is going to be an all woman space walk for the first time soon.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I saw there was a 4.0 quake today between Anchorage and Big Lake. Was it close enough that y’all felt it in Anchorage?

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours, and special thanks for His healing powers.

Did you have to “supervise” today?

[PROCON]

Hiya radu!

I can't say enough how marvelous our Spring is. After that brutal winter we had, the sun is shining, birds are singing and the trees are budding up.

I brought ice cream goodies over to Robin's and son's place this afternoon and visited with them and the pups.

Just relaxin' now and FReeping.

Hope your day was A-OK.

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=GanZF34z0eA

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...Shavua Tov and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

Study hard...you will do well. And back to the gun range...you did super last time.

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

The day’s A-OK now. Just sat down with a plateful of supper. LOL! I’m starved.

Sounds like you had a fun afternoon.

Isn’t it wonderful that Spring is finally here? Trees budding out, flowers blooming, birds singing again. Your winter was more brutal than ours .... we had a LOT of wet but you had a lot of frozen wet.
Bet you’re still warmer that we are, aren’t ya? Hmph. It made it up to 63 this afternoon but it felt nice outside because there was little wind.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Dear God:
I ask that no Airman, Coast Guardsman,
Marine, Sailor, Soldier, Reservist, National Guardsman, or Merchant Marine
feel alone or forgotten.

O Israel, hope in the Lord;
For with the Lord there is loving kindness,
And with Him is abundant redemption.
And He will redeem Israel
From all his iniquities.

Psalm 130:7 & 8

[PROCON]

Not much warmer than 60 here.

What's being planted this year and when?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Shavua Tov.
Wishing all our Jewish troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
a peaceful and prosperous week.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.

[Kathy in Alaska]

He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.

G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.