Melodie Lack:
CLASS OF 1978
Peoria High SchoolClass of 1978
Peoria, AZ
Melodie's Story
Melodie's schools include Peoria High School. Melodie later attended LBCC.
Music Melodie likes includes Trisha Yearwood, Rhiannon Giddens, Harp Music. Books Melodie likes include A Dog's Purpose, Marilyn Meberg, America's Most Wanted Recipes. Movies Melodie likes include Hope Springs, Gone With The Wind, Monet's Palate. TV shows Melodie likes include Beat The Chefs, Univision Delicioso, Delicioso.
One of Melodie's favorite quotes is:"Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be-Abe Lincoln
My times are in Thy hands-the Bible.
I never met a man I didn't like-Will Rogers.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission-Eleanor Roosevelt
"I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion out of them!" -- Charles Darwin
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." --Carrie Fisher
The secular fundamentalism of the left is as much a problem as the religious fundamentalism of the right." -- Rev. Jim Wallis, convener of Call to Renewal, an anti-poverty group
Mary DeMuth
Whew! 2000 more words. Lord willing, I'll finish the book tomorrow. Here's a bit from today:
Forgiveness comes when we fast from the turmoil
Sometimes the reason we canât forgive is that weâre in the muckety-muck of the pain, and we keep getting reinjured. If we stay in the midst of peopleâs attacks, it becomes nearly impossible to pardon because the wound opens way up, always raw, always exposed.
I experienced this with my family of origin. When I lived nearby and the injuries kept happening, I couldnât forgive. I didnât have the right perspective to even see the situation cl...Expand for more
early. And every time Iâd whisper a word of forgiveness under my breath, another frustrating and painful comment would take my breath away.
So we moved far, far away. And in that place of isolation and newness, I gained the perspective I needed to forgive. Iâm not advocating a cross-continent move, but it is possible to remove yourself from a painful situation in order to heal and forgive.
In a million unique waysâas we change diapers, eat dinner, return e-mails, pay the billsâwe are to be the evidence of God. Jesus factored in the mundane. We need to eat and sleep and shower and clean up and work on our marriages because of the way he made usâtypical, inadequate, and human. Embrace the common: a Sunday afternoon watching sports, Starbucks with a friend, cooking dinner for a neighbor, taking the dog for a walk, heading to a job that is making you more humble and needy because it is so unfulfilling, or working through conflict with a friend you have offended. This and more is all part of it.
So do your everyday and your ordinary. Godliness is found and formed in those places. No man or woman greatly used by God has escaped them. Great men and women of God have transformed the mundane, turning neighborhoods into mission fields, parenting into launching the next generation of Godâs voices, legal work into loving those most hurting, waiting tables into serving and loving in such a way that people see our God.
Jesus says the way we glorify God, the way we step into his story, is by accomplishing the work God gives us to do. Jesus glorified his father on earth by doing that very thing.
We play our part in his story, and the beauty is, it was what we were made for.
"There is no frigate like a book, To take us lands away." Emily Dickinson".
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