Davids Daily Dose

Tag: Perseverance

  • Is the Sky Really Falling?

    In the early 1990’s, social psychologist Roy Baumeister began exploring the negativity bias–the widely accepted belief that bad has a stronger impact on people than good. His team conducted extensive research, hoping to find situations where a single positive circumstance was actually stronger than a negative one. They couldn’t find any. In fact, Baumeister and…

  • The Climb

    You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more room for God and His rule. You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you. Matthew 5:3-4 MSG Mark grew up…

  • Peace by Piece

    Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Romans 14:19 (NIV) During WWII, Matsuko and her family were among the many Japanese Americans forcibly interred in camps. For three years she longed to return to the farm near Salinas, CA where her husband Hayato’s family had grown…

  • Plane Perspective

    The righteousness of the blameless makes a straight way for them, but the unfaithful are trapped in their own wickedness. Proverbs 11:5 My friend Jim once took me up in his Cessna for a short flight. As we cruised over the tilled fields at 3500 feet, large round bales of hay on the ground looked…

  • A Brush With a Bobcat

    You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Isaiah 26:3 At twilight this morning, I crossed paths with a bobcat. A medium-sized wildcat native to North America, the bobcat is an elusive and solitary predator. The one I met was about the size of my miniature schnauzer,…

  • Have you gotten to “When?”

    And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. (Job 42:10a) “If every Christian’s prayer was answered, ‘Yes’,” says the skeptic, “Who would benefit most, the Christian or the seemingly lost world?” Ouch! Come to think of it, looking from the outside in, Christianity COULD seem like a pretty self-centered religion. A…