Proverbs 9:9 (CEV)
If you have good sense, instruction will help you to have even better sense. And if you live right, education will help you to know even more.
Put this on your prayer list for students and teachers:
Lessons worth learning–for all of us.
Matthew 6:10 (NIV)
Your kingdom come.
Personally:
Rule in my heart, King Jesus.
In the Church:
Revive us, Lord. Put us to work.
In my nation:
Turn our hearts to You, mighty God.
Globally:
Let justice roll down.
Eternally:
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Christians came together in Washington DC Saturday to pray for our nation. Great!
Let’s keep it going . . .
In Jesus’ name, 
Saturday afternoon, tens of thousands gathered in Washington DC. It wasn’t a protest. It wasn’t a political event. It was a prayer meeting.
The event, Prayer March 2020, offered these prayer points:
Did you miss the event? Not to worry. God’s still listening.
Let us pray!
When I’m making presentation slides, it’s tempting to use moving backgrounds, fancy fonts, flying letters, shifting colors. All those options. I CAN use them all. How fun!
If those presentation slides will play out in front of an audience including folks who don’t read as well as I do, I think again. Is it about the words on the screen? I SHOULD keep it simple. All those fancy flourishes are distracting. Those who need a minute or two more to read the message won’t bother. Just because I CAN doesn’t mean I SHOULD.
And that’s a lesson for life.
How much more do you need to be happy?
“There is no happiness in having and getting,
but only in giving . . . half the world is on
the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.”
Henry Drummond (1851-1897)
Give more, get more.
Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond is best known for his meditation “The Greatest Thing in the World,” based on 1 Corinthians 13.
I’m grateful to be living here and now.
I could have lived (or died) in Europe when the Black Death wiped out one-third of the population. I could be living just now in a place of persecution or poverty.
But here I am, in the eastern USA, enjoying my comfy home, abundant food and the wonders of an electronically-connected world.
The people who made this possible were far from perfect, but I can’t hate them.
Psalm 16:6
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.
I owe them my thanks.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg championed her cause without condemning her colleagues on the other side of the issue. She didn’t just tolerate them, she enjoyed their company. She considered them friends. She often disagreed with Justice Scalia, and yet she said they were “best buddies.”
For that, I admire her.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 (NIV)
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,
for anger resides in the lap of fools.
RBG was no fool. She saw the good in others. 
We all leave a trail, a legacy for those who follow.
Isaiah 57:13 (MEV)
Build up, build up, prepare the way, take up every stumbling block out of the way of My people.
Look behind you, what do you see?
When does my search for a bargain get in the way of human rights?
According the the U. S. Customs and Border Protection, when those bargains are produced with state-sponsored forced labor.
The CBP has banned several imports from China (including hair products, clothing, cotton and computer parts) made in “re-education” camps by Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities.
According to a CBP news release, these inhumane labor practices include:
“. . . highly coercive/unfree recruitment, work and life under duress . . . restriction of movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, withholding of wages, and abusive working and living conditions.”
It’s tempting to think, “what’s it to me?” But God says,
Isaiah 1:17 (NIV)
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Lord, I’m not sure how to defend these oppressed workers in China. Protect them with Your power. Shelter them with Your love. Defend them–somehow, someway–in Jesus’ name.
