Good Morning Devotion :-)❤️ by shirleynpenalosa

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Good Morning Devotion :-)❤️
Sugar, Sugar

Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise you! I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer. You satisfy me more than the richest feast. I will praise you with songs of joy.

Psalm 63:3-5

I love sugar—always have, always will. When I was a child, I used to climb up on the kitchen counter when no one was looking. I’d dip a spoon into the sugar bowl and then aim the heaping spoonful of white stuff straight at my mouth. Once I swallowed so much sugar that I managed to give myself a coughing fit, complete with tiny granules bursting through my nose.

The problem with sugar is that it never leaves you feeling satisfied. One bite of a candy bar just makes you start thinking about the next bite, and then the bite after that. Our desires can be like that too—impossible to satisfy.

Wayne Muller believes that most of us try to find happiness through satisfying our desires. But the two are not necessarily linked. “We can feel the difference between happiness—which is often simple and easy, an inner shift toward appreciation and gratefulness for what is before us,” he says, “and desire, which is often frantic and relentless, cutting the heart with its sharp and painful demands. If we do not disengage, if we stay on the wheel of desire, if we do not stop and pray and sing and walk, the pattern of our addictive craving is free to escalate without limit.”
What kind of sugar are you craving right now? More shopping? An expensive vacation? A relationship to fill the void? Whatever it is, take some time to reclaim your freedom by stopping to take a walk. As you do so, use the time to pray and sing, breaking away from anything that might threaten your peace.

Father, thank you for all the good things in my life. Help me to celebrate your ordinary blessings without counting on them to satisfy my deepest desires.

(Source: from my friend's {@catietan} devotional materials)

Good morning my dear sweet and grateful steemit family and friends:-)❤️  What a way to remind ourselves how to disengage from our addictive craving.  For me I crave for justice and love, these are not just ordinary cravings.  A single mom (not my choice but my spouse's choice) for more than 2 long years now, I have been the sole provider for my kids' welfare.  Yesterday I received a call from Pag-Ibig's collection department and they have issued a Certificate of Finality to foreclose our property (house & lot) because according to the person who spoke to me yesterday through phone, they talked to my estranged husband and he said to them that he had no more intention of paying the monthly amortization of our property.  I wasn't able to hold my emotion yesterday.  I thank God for a lot of people to assist on that moment, I was able to maintain my composure & I still need to do my work properly.  When lunch time came, there I cried helplessly.  I crave for justice & love for my kids.  They are giving me up to this day only to pay P33,719.00.  If I will not be able to pay the said amount, we will be homeless. 

I thought of reinstating the case against him, so many things that came to my mind. I don't know but when I finally got to my senses, I just decided to calm down and thought of how I am going to pay for that huge amount on my own, yes, on my own.  I know that God is my provider.  He will help me go through this.  And after this one, I will talk to my lawyer how to get the justice hahaha no no just the legal step for him not to have any more right in this property since he already signified his disinterest to pay.

Well other than those craving I can not think of a particular craving of my own.  I just pray to God that He will continue to guide me and make me the mother He wants me to be for my kids and the daughter He wants me to be for my mother who is recovering very fast.  Praise God for all of these blessings.:-)❤️

Finally, I thank God for steemit because it was through this platform that I was able to gain more good and faithful friends and the monetary rewards is also a big bonus for me because it helped me in paying for our expenses.  God bless us all :-)

This is my morning devo & good morning everyone ❤️

Thank you very much for your time and God bless :-)

I am @sashley a.k.a. shirleynpenalosa, a recipient of God's love, mercy and grace. ❤️

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Have a blessed and Hot Summer month of May 2018 everyone :-)❤️

I am forever grateful to God every day of my life for giving me everything that I need and praise Him all the more for not giving me everything I want. To God be all the honor, praise and glory ❤️ :-)

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@surpassinggoogle is such a generous person and has a very big heart for all of us here. Please support him as a witness by voting him at https://steemit.com/~witnesses and type in "steemgigs" at the first search box.

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If you want to give him witness voting decisions on your behalf, visit https://steemit.com/~witnesses again and type in "surpassinggoogle" in the second box as a proxy.

@paradise-found is a wonderful person, a very humble and generous encourager, let us also support him by voting and typing in "gratefulvibes" at the search box

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Other good witnesses to recommend:

@yabapmatt
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@curie
@beanz
@rcarter.witness
@reggaemuffin
@arcange

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@leeart ·
Adu ti amu tayo ket mayat ken naimas ngem madi gayam ti salun at. Nangina ti agkasakit 😊
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@shirleynpenalosa ·
kusto ta kinunam sir isu nga agan nad tayo nga kinanayon tapno agnanayon tayo met nga nasalun-at :-D
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@bloghound ·
I love sugar too. 
Good morning to you, sis and may your day is as sweet as you are!
One love <3
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@shirleynpenalosa ·
hahahah wag masyado sis baka kutunen ka hehehe :-D see you soon <3
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@fherdz ·
Hello sugar kuna ni papa C.
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@shirleynpenalosa ·
sugar da bwhahahaha talna ka man master president bwhahahaha
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