Monday, September 28, 2009
TRAPPED
TRAPPED
By Sally I. Kennedy
September 29, 2009
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the
one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John
4:4) Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:5) To him who overcomes, I will
give the right to eat from the tree of life. (Revelation 2:7)
It was irresistable. Too warm and sunny, too lovely an afternoon to
not take a few minutes to sit outside on the back porch where we were
staying. I moved the rocker over to get a better view of the moss-
covered towering oaks.
A cat crawled into a space under the house. Bees busied themselves
around a clematis vine. I heard a faint buzzing. Another mosquito?
Thought I'd cleared out the corner of the porch of those pesky
critters.
The hum persisted. Turning around, I spied a glint of green. Near the
sliding door was a glass bottle. It looked antique-y. The glass
stopper had a green bee, or fly perched on top.
I picked it up, an saw that there were legs about � inch high to keep
the bottle barely off the ground. It also had a fake bottom - a large
hole with a lip around the inside of it. Inside were a couple dead
flies, and another flying frantically around the top trying to get
out.
Apparently the insects entered from underneath. They could leave the
same way they came in, but it looked as if for some reason they didn't
do that. They would continue towards the stopper, which was a dead
end.
Sometimes we feeled trapped. We try and escape pressures of the world,
panic or just give up from the stress, yet sometimes the way out is
available. Jesus overcame the world and all its trappings (John 16:33)
and He has told us that we can too.
We are more than conquerors in Christ (Romans 8:37). Our Saviour rose
from the dead and transcended circumstances; we can too b/c our lives
are hidden IN Him (Colossians 3:1-3).
Let's start living out the truth, above our circumstances. We are not
trapped. We are more than conquerors in Him who gave His life for us
and saved us.
This is good news!
Sally Ireland Kennedy is the author of Irish Thursdays: More Little
Parables, Words from the Heart, and 52 Little Parables from Ireland.
She is a songwriter and the creator of Poppy the Penguin� preschool
music video series. She lives in south Florida, with her husband Ben.
Her email is sallyikennedy@ bellsouth. net and you can visit her
website at http://www.sallyike nnedy.com
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By Sally I. Kennedy
September 29, 2009
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the
one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John
4:4) Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:5) To him who overcomes, I will
give the right to eat from the tree of life. (Revelation 2:7)
It was irresistable. Too warm and sunny, too lovely an afternoon to
not take a few minutes to sit outside on the back porch where we were
staying. I moved the rocker over to get a better view of the moss-
covered towering oaks.
A cat crawled into a space under the house. Bees busied themselves
around a clematis vine. I heard a faint buzzing. Another mosquito?
Thought I'd cleared out the corner of the porch of those pesky
critters.
The hum persisted. Turning around, I spied a glint of green. Near the
sliding door was a glass bottle. It looked antique-y. The glass
stopper had a green bee, or fly perched on top.
I picked it up, an saw that there were legs about � inch high to keep
the bottle barely off the ground. It also had a fake bottom - a large
hole with a lip around the inside of it. Inside were a couple dead
flies, and another flying frantically around the top trying to get
out.
Apparently the insects entered from underneath. They could leave the
same way they came in, but it looked as if for some reason they didn't
do that. They would continue towards the stopper, which was a dead
end.
Sometimes we feeled trapped. We try and escape pressures of the world,
panic or just give up from the stress, yet sometimes the way out is
available. Jesus overcame the world and all its trappings (John 16:33)
and He has told us that we can too.
We are more than conquerors in Christ (Romans 8:37). Our Saviour rose
from the dead and transcended circumstances; we can too b/c our lives
are hidden IN Him (Colossians 3:1-3).
Let's start living out the truth, above our circumstances. We are not
trapped. We are more than conquerors in Him who gave His life for us
and saved us.
This is good news!
Sally Ireland Kennedy is the author of Irish Thursdays: More Little
Parables, Words from the Heart, and 52 Little Parables from Ireland.
She is a songwriter and the creator of Poppy the Penguin� preschool
music video series. She lives in south Florida, with her husband Ben.
Her email is sallyikennedy@ bellsouth. net and you can visit her
website at http://www.sallyike nnedy.com
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TRAPPED
TRAPPED
By Sally I. Kennedy
September 29, 2009
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the
one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John
4:4) Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:5) To him who overcomes, I will
give the right to eat from the tree of life. (Revelation 2:7)
It was irresistable. Too warm and sunny, too lovely an afternoon to
not take a few minutes to sit outside on the back porch where we were
staying. I moved the rocker over to get a better view of the moss-
covered towering oaks.
A cat crawled into a space under the house. Bees busied themselves
around a clematis vine. I heard a faint buzzing. Another mosquito?
Thought I'd cleared out the corner of the porch of those pesky
critters.
The hum persisted. Turning around, I spied a glint of green. Near the
sliding door was a glass bottle. It looked antique-y. The glass
stopper had a green bee, or fly perched on top.
I picked it up, an saw that there were legs about � inch high to keep
the bottle barely off the ground. It also had a fake bottom - a large
hole with a lip around the inside of it. Inside were a couple dead
flies, and another flying frantically around the top trying to get
out.
Apparently the insects entered from underneath. They could leave the
same way they came in, but it looked as if for some reason they didn't
do that. They would continue towards the stopper, which was a dead
end.
Sometimes we feeled trapped. We try and escape pressures of the world,
panic or just give up from the stress, yet sometimes the way out is
available. Jesus overcame the world and all its trappings (John 16:33)
and He has told us that we can too.
We are more than conquerors in Christ (Romans 8:37). Our Saviour rose
from the dead and transcended circumstances; we can too b/c our lives
are hidden IN Him (Colossians 3:1-3).
Let's start living out the truth, above our circumstances. We are not
trapped. We are more than conquerors in Him who gave His life for us
and saved us.
This is good news!
Sally Ireland Kennedy is the author of Irish Thursdays: More Little
Parables, Words from the Heart, and 52 Little Parables from Ireland.
She is a songwriter and the creator of Poppy the Penguin� preschool
music video series. She lives in south Florida, with her husband Ben.
Her email is sallyikennedy@ bellsouth. net and you can visit her
website at http://www.sallyike nnedy.com
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� 2009 FoodForThought
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By Sally I. Kennedy
September 29, 2009
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the
one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John
4:4) Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:5) To him who overcomes, I will
give the right to eat from the tree of life. (Revelation 2:7)
It was irresistable. Too warm and sunny, too lovely an afternoon to
not take a few minutes to sit outside on the back porch where we were
staying. I moved the rocker over to get a better view of the moss-
covered towering oaks.
A cat crawled into a space under the house. Bees busied themselves
around a clematis vine. I heard a faint buzzing. Another mosquito?
Thought I'd cleared out the corner of the porch of those pesky
critters.
The hum persisted. Turning around, I spied a glint of green. Near the
sliding door was a glass bottle. It looked antique-y. The glass
stopper had a green bee, or fly perched on top.
I picked it up, an saw that there were legs about � inch high to keep
the bottle barely off the ground. It also had a fake bottom - a large
hole with a lip around the inside of it. Inside were a couple dead
flies, and another flying frantically around the top trying to get
out.
Apparently the insects entered from underneath. They could leave the
same way they came in, but it looked as if for some reason they didn't
do that. They would continue towards the stopper, which was a dead
end.
Sometimes we feeled trapped. We try and escape pressures of the world,
panic or just give up from the stress, yet sometimes the way out is
available. Jesus overcame the world and all its trappings (John 16:33)
and He has told us that we can too.
We are more than conquerors in Christ (Romans 8:37). Our Saviour rose
from the dead and transcended circumstances; we can too b/c our lives
are hidden IN Him (Colossians 3:1-3).
Let's start living out the truth, above our circumstances. We are not
trapped. We are more than conquerors in Him who gave His life for us
and saved us.
This is good news!
Sally Ireland Kennedy is the author of Irish Thursdays: More Little
Parables, Words from the Heart, and 52 Little Parables from Ireland.
She is a songwriter and the creator of Poppy the Penguin� preschool
music video series. She lives in south Florida, with her husband Ben.
Her email is sallyikennedy@ bellsouth. net and you can visit her
website at http://www.sallyike nnedy.com
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