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Everyone likes a list. Lists are reassuring. They comfort us. To list is to understand, solve, and even control. Moses brought a list down from the mountain. There are lists of the gifts of the Spirit. Lists of good fruit and bad. I’ve compiled a list of some God-given, time-tested truths that define the way to navigate life.  May I share it with you?

• When no one is watching, live as if someone is.
• Succeed at home first.
• Pray twice as much as you fret.
• Listen twice as much as you speak.
• God has forgiven you; you’d be wise to do the same.
• Once a week, let a child take you on a walk.
• Only harbor a grudge when God does.
• Never let the important be the victim of the trivial.

Those are just a few ideas on my list. Why don’t you compile your own?

From In the Eye of the Storm