What flows when YOU are pierced?
"When I am pierced, what flows from within me? Is it pride, hate, frustration, impatience; or is it kindness, patience, long suffering, or love?" As I prayed/wrote in my journal, this kept coming from my lips: "How do I respond to life's hardness - with grace and gratitude? Or with discontentment and pettiness?" Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: Psalm 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 141:2 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of m y lips. Psalm 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 1 Corinthians 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 1 Corinthians 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all