fa-TEA-gue

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9, NIV)

Fa-TEA-gue is not a cuppa I want to be served....tho my body feels as if I've been sipping from it. I need a cuppa energy with mo-TEA-vation stirred in. Questions whirl in my head? Where did this malady come from? New meds? Meds combo? Age? 

I've exercised today. I slept well last night.....but from noon forward I have had trouble putting one foot in front of the other. Lethargy reigns. 

I was able to pick up my grandson after school and follow "behind" him through the Dixon Gardens to find his mother, but I struggled in the drive home. 

I desperately wished I had written the blog entry this morning. Not sure if the blog is my "doing good" but I have sensed God's prompts to "write daily." Yet, I'm beginning to  wonder if  the "daily entries" part is self-imposed, not God directed. So....I prayed for direction, heated up a big bowl of plain pasta with butter for quick energy and got out the computer.

As I opened my laptop, an email from friend Beth Gurner had a link to Charles Martin, an author whose books we both enjoy.

Maybe there is a lie running rampant and living rent free in your head telling you about all the horrible things that are about to happen to you.
Here's the truth of it -- the very same God who started to blow on the water, (Red Sea) .....is  there at your computer ...... or wherever you're reading this. He was there yesterday and He'll be there tomorrow. Hasn't changed a bit. Doesn't love you any less. His arms haven't grown short. (Charles Martin)

The fatigue is still present in me.........but God......provided the blog.

These would be good stir sticks for all my "BIG"cuppas.
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"mo-TEA-vators"

As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.                                           (1 Thessalonians 4:1, NIV)

Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, (1 Thessalonians 4:1, NIV)

Who or what motivates people these days? Who or what motivates me is the better question?
A recent Sunday sermon by Jason Seville, coupled with the reading of gods at war by Kyle Idleman, kept that question whirring in my head. Maybe a rephrasing of the question would give more insight into one's character or theology. Who or what mo-TEA-vates me to living right?
Christians, like all people, need encouragement and exhortation for "right living." A tandem. A duo that seems to go together. Seville calls them "A pat on the back and a shot in the arm." Encouragement. Attaboy! Attagirl! Dr. Scott Morris, Director of Church Health Center said his father taught him, "Everybody wants a pat on the back---I want it, you want it, a dog wants it." (Commercial Appeal, 3/3, M1)
In the letter from Paul to the church in Thessalonica, we see his encouragement. He encourages them as he relates what he is seeing in their lives. A life style that pleases God. A love for all of God's family. But Paul doesn't stop there. We read Paul's exhortations of these good and godly acts which are already a part of there lives, as he urges them to do more and more. Finally, Paul commends them to "encourage one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18) A shot in the arm.

"Grands" mo-TEA-vate grandparents to "live right."

We also need to dispense encouragement and exhortation to others.

"Mo-TEA-vation" is a cuppa we need to share.
"Mo-TEA." More and more!