What up, guys?!
THE BEARRIE BISNUS:
It is the end of yet another semester. Congrats... and good riddance!
I just wanted to take a second and ask you guys for some Bearrie Prayer... I have been really stressed out over what is going on in Russia over that last few weeks.
I don't know if you have heard, but the Ruble has TANKED... a lot of it due to oil prices and a large part of it due to the sanctions that the US has put on Russia... I mean, this summer I was getting about 35 rubles to one US dollar... and now it is at about 70.
This is just a bad bad thing for some of my homies who pay their rent in US dollars but get paid in Russian Rubles... or who have taken debt in US dollars. Essentially their expenses have DOUBLED in the matter of a week or so...
It is just an all around bad situation and Russia could use some Bearrie Prayer power... and actually, I could use some Bearrie Prayer power. To calm my nervous soul! haha, thanks.
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Outside of that prayer request here is a thought:
I have been thinking a lot about how the LITTLE THINGS really add up. And when we let those little things slip, we start to take a hit.
I know I know... we hear this ALL THE TIME... but it is SO true!!! I have seen this take effect in my life MANY times over.
Let's walk through a few scenarios...
Let's just say we miss one evening prayer... that was no big deal... in fact we probably wouldn't think anything of it... then we miss again two days later... "no biggie"... then it becomes regular... and pretty soon, we have, one "no biggie" at a time, severed our communication with the most powerful being in the universe. That IS a big deal.
Let's say we miss priesthood because we are "spiritually full" after a full course of sacrament. Alright, you'll be fine. Then we are traveling the next week and only go to sacrament again. Then we go to our cousin's homecoming in a different ward... and pretty soon we haven't been to our priesthood meeting in over 2 months. The quorum suffers. You aren't there to build people up. You aren't there to be BUILT up. That IS a big deal.
Let's say that we don't read our scriptures one day, but we count the inspirational quote we read on the nice billboard count... the next day we read them, but with our eyes closed because we were too tired after a long day of slacklining and swimming... Then finals roll around and we don't have enough time to study the word of God... but we cram our day with the word of Man (and all that crap they tell us about the theory of relativity and fluffy stuff like that)... then our break rolls around and we go on a two week backpacking trip and we didn't want to lug our quad out there with us... when we get back we are out of the habit and forget where our scriptures even are. And pretty soon, we are stuck trying to figure things out on our own without the words of the prophets. That IS a big deal.
Let's say that we decide that we can't pay tithing on this pay check because we are way behind on a ton of other expenses... we need to buy more fruit and spinach for our green smoothie obsession. We say we will pay it back. Not a big deal... it is totally in control. Then the next week, we realize that we need the money that we were going to use to pay the tithing back for a christmas present. And in fact, we need more for that christmas present than we had planned so we have to skip paying tithing this month as well... pretty soon we haven't payed in over a year. That IS a big deal.
We can go through any commandment or any SIMPLE THING and run a similar scenario. If we let the small things slip... what we thought was not a big deal... suddenly becomes a VERY big deal.
2 Nephi 26:22
"...yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords forever."
As the new year is rolling around, let us make some KICK BUTT New Year's Resolutions to always do the simple things... and to rebuke that "ah, it's not THAT big of a deal" mentality. Because, when we cut through all of satan's tricks, we can really see that it IS a big deal.
Love you guys! Merry Christmas!
THE BEARRIE BISNUS:
It is the end of yet another semester. Congrats... and good riddance!
I just wanted to take a second and ask you guys for some Bearrie Prayer... I have been really stressed out over what is going on in Russia over that last few weeks.
I don't know if you have heard, but the Ruble has TANKED... a lot of it due to oil prices and a large part of it due to the sanctions that the US has put on Russia... I mean, this summer I was getting about 35 rubles to one US dollar... and now it is at about 70.
This is just a bad bad thing for some of my homies who pay their rent in US dollars but get paid in Russian Rubles... or who have taken debt in US dollars. Essentially their expenses have DOUBLED in the matter of a week or so...
It is just an all around bad situation and Russia could use some Bearrie Prayer power... and actually, I could use some Bearrie Prayer power. To calm my nervous soul! haha, thanks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Outside of that prayer request here is a thought:
I have been thinking a lot about how the LITTLE THINGS really add up. And when we let those little things slip, we start to take a hit.
I know I know... we hear this ALL THE TIME... but it is SO true!!! I have seen this take effect in my life MANY times over.
Let's walk through a few scenarios...
Let's just say we miss one evening prayer... that was no big deal... in fact we probably wouldn't think anything of it... then we miss again two days later... "no biggie"... then it becomes regular... and pretty soon, we have, one "no biggie" at a time, severed our communication with the most powerful being in the universe. That IS a big deal.
Let's say we miss priesthood because we are "spiritually full" after a full course of sacrament. Alright, you'll be fine. Then we are traveling the next week and only go to sacrament again. Then we go to our cousin's homecoming in a different ward... and pretty soon we haven't been to our priesthood meeting in over 2 months. The quorum suffers. You aren't there to build people up. You aren't there to be BUILT up. That IS a big deal.
Let's say that we don't read our scriptures one day, but we count the inspirational quote we read on the nice billboard count... the next day we read them, but with our eyes closed because we were too tired after a long day of slacklining and swimming... Then finals roll around and we don't have enough time to study the word of God... but we cram our day with the word of Man (and all that crap they tell us about the theory of relativity and fluffy stuff like that)... then our break rolls around and we go on a two week backpacking trip and we didn't want to lug our quad out there with us... when we get back we are out of the habit and forget where our scriptures even are. And pretty soon, we are stuck trying to figure things out on our own without the words of the prophets. That IS a big deal.
Let's say that we decide that we can't pay tithing on this pay check because we are way behind on a ton of other expenses... we need to buy more fruit and spinach for our green smoothie obsession. We say we will pay it back. Not a big deal... it is totally in control. Then the next week, we realize that we need the money that we were going to use to pay the tithing back for a christmas present. And in fact, we need more for that christmas present than we had planned so we have to skip paying tithing this month as well... pretty soon we haven't payed in over a year. That IS a big deal.
We can go through any commandment or any SIMPLE THING and run a similar scenario. If we let the small things slip... what we thought was not a big deal... suddenly becomes a VERY big deal.
2 Nephi 26:22
"...yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords forever."
As the new year is rolling around, let us make some KICK BUTT New Year's Resolutions to always do the simple things... and to rebuke that "ah, it's not THAT big of a deal" mentality. Because, when we cut through all of satan's tricks, we can really see that it IS a big deal.
Love you guys! Merry Christmas!
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