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Posted on 02/08/2021 6:00:01 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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Hi!
Bible in a Year:
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
The cockeyed squid lives in the ocean’s “twilight zone” where sunlight barely filters through the deep waters. The squid’s nickname is a reference to its two extremely different eyes: the left eye develops over time to become considerably larger than the right—almost twice as big. Scientists studying the mollusk have deduced that the squid uses its right eye, the smaller one, to look down into the darker depths. The larger, left eye, gazes upward, toward the sunlight.
The squid is an unlikely depiction of what it means to live in our present world and also in the future certainty we await as people who “have been raised with Christ” (Colossians 3:1). In Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he insists we ought to “set [our] minds on things above” because our lives are “hidden with Christ in God” (vv. 2–3).
As earth-dwellers awaiting our lives in heaven, we keep an eye trained on what’s happening around us in our present reality. But just as the squid’s left eye develops over time into one that’s larger and more sensitive to what’s happening overhead, we too can grow in our awareness of the ways God works in the spiritual realm. We may not have yet fully grasped what it means to be alive in Jesus, but as we look “up,” our eyes will begin to see it more and more.
Reflect & Pray
How can you develop your “upward” vision? How can you set your mind on heavenly things?
Loving God, help me to set my mind and heart on those things that are of You!
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The “Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)?”
I wonder what the budget for that frill is.
Hi there left that other site!
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It’s really c-c-cold here in new England.
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Back when I was in the Navy and Reagan was in office, I tried to be apart of the Star wars program.
There where billets open for enlisted men and the work was done in white sands new mexico.
Alas, they wanted you to have several degrees as an E5 to get in.
If I had those degrees I would not have been an E5, I would have been an officer LOL
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To infinity and beyond shipmates!
Back when I was in the Navy and Reagan was in office, I tried to be apart of the Star wars program.
There where billets open for enlisted men and the work was done in white sands new mexico.
Alas, they wanted you to have several degrees as an E5 to get in.
If I had those degrees I would not have been an E5, I would have been an officer LOL
Still, I worked within the umbrella of what became Spawarsyscom
To infinity and beyond shipmates!
Bless your heart, stay safe and warm!
We are fixin’ to get a dose of cold here this week as well, temps in the teens.
No fun!
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