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Proverbs 21:21,26 (NLT) – Whoever pursues righteousness and unfailing love will find life, righteousness, and honor.  Some people are always greedy for more, but the godly love to give!   On the heels of Investment Advice, I was perusing the Proverbs for more financial advice.  The book of wisdom is full of life’s observations.  I…

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2,4,6 (NLT) – Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you.  But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.  Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.  If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.  Plant your seed…

Isaiah 50:4 (NIV) – He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.   Are you listening?  God has an incredible way of sending messages our way, if only we’re listening.  I cannot recount all the ways God has spoken to me through friends, strangers, chance encounters, online devotions,…

Colossians 4:5-6 (NIV) – Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.  Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you many know how to answer everyone.   Did you have any intentionally gracious and attractive conversations after reading yesterday’s post?  Good for…

Colossians 4:6 (NLT) – Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone.   Here’s good, practical advice for Christian living:  engage in gracious and attractive conversation.  Right?   Be nice.  Be happy.  That’s easy!  But wait a minute.  Another translation instructs our conversations to be “always full…

Proverbs 31:10-31 – bits and pieces from A Wife of Noble Character (NLT) Who can find a virtuous and capable wife?  She is more precious than rubies.  She brings good…finds and spins wool, wakes early, prepares breakfast and plans the day, inspects and buys a field, plants a vineyard, is energetic, strong and a hard…