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Have you ever watched a favorite Youtube channel for years then it, eventually, becomes like fingernails on a chalkboard to you?
This week that happened to me.
"Maggie" began her (Christian)channel sharing recipes, gardening tips, homemaking and decluttering advice, fun thrift shop finds, creating food gifts, but these past months? Oh dear. It's like a poverty mentality wrapped around her and won't let go.
Saving money. Now it's all about saving money. Keeping what you have. Pinching pennies. Creating a small, spendless life.
No videos about, "Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Nor, "It is in giving that we receive... God loves a cheerful giver ... Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed... whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."
No talk about tithes, offerings, freely giving, freely receiving.
And these were my mornings' first videos while drinking my cocoa, words which set my day's tone!
Following much conviction, I said good-bye. Unsubbed. Walked away.
Instead, for now, I chose a Darling Desi video and ooooo! Fresh, jubilant, joyful air. Like being able to breathe again. Desi focuses on giving us her whole heart. Ideas, joy, laughter, creativity, ways to be happy in hard times, gratitude, hope for brighter days coming and more.
It's impossible to click away from Desi's videos (most) without a big, dreamy smile.
What Tom and I discovered around 2021? As long as we freely, faithfully, give our tithe and offerings which help others ... as long as we do things like order delivery (lunch and groceries) with a focus on supporting our neighbors who work those places ... as long as we give whenever God presents a need we can fulfill---
--then God keeps pouring money into our bank account. At this stage of our lives, there's always money when things break down around our 95-year-old Hobbit Cottage or unexpected bills drop into our mailbox.
But only if we keep open hands to others and give and give. First.
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It's important what we watch! --
Does anyone have recommendations of Youtube videos where there's much joy and giving to others, ones like Somers In Alaska? They're a perfect example of what I'm searching for.
Oh and after 5 1/2 weeks of that virus, I finally began to feel semi normal, like it was here to stay! So grateful, trust me, and again, a special thanks to all who prayed for me.
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Give. Then give some more. Then watch your life change forever. ツ
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"For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ... Matthew 6:14,15
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