{"id":845,"date":"2017-10-20T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolscorner.ca\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2017-10-15T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T20:58:35","slug":"instructions-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/instructions-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructions for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"intruction3\"<\/a\n\nHow carefully do you read the instruction manual that comes with a new appliance, device or piece of equipment? Do you read the care instructions from the tags on your clothing? How about the rules of the road, the driving instructions we learned to pass our driving test if we have our licenses? \n\nWe find instructions everywhere. There are rules which cover many, if not all aspects of our life from home to school to organizations. We can find out how to do many things - google can give us great information and instructions but we need to be careful - some of it is misinformation or incorrect instructions. \n\n\"k10543537\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you ever had someone give you a recipe and deliberately or by accident not written the ingredients just right? I grabbed a recipe from my mom’s recipe box, which I inherited after she died. I knew she made delicious tea biscuits and I found her recipe. But as I assembled the ingredients I realized she had incorrectly copied the recipe and forgot to put how much baking powder to use. She made the recipe from memory, never realizing the mistake. No baking powder did not make good biscuits. <\/p>\n

In Colossians 3 the chapter is titled Rules for Christian Living – but they are great rules for living for all of us.
\nThey help us function together, help us manage life and give us instructions for how to treat other people so we can truly include others. <\/p>\n

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Jesus summed up the ten commandments by saying the first great commandment is to Love God with all our hearts and minds and souls and the second one is to love your neighbour as yourself. Love God first and then wecan love others.
\nHow to do this is written in the Epistles – from Corinthians to James. Instructions say to encourage one another, be kind to one another, forgive one another as a few. I like to think of these as the One Anothers<\/em>. <\/p>\n

What should these look like in our lives? How can we possibly do these to and for each other? I believe we can only do them with God’s help. We are an imperfect people living in a broken world. But oh how wonderful if everyone would treat each other with love, kindness, gentleness and would forgive each other, build each other up instead of tearing people down and care enough to comfort each other. It would help ease the struggle of trying to put together the puzzle pieces of our lives. <\/p>\n

In the next few blog posts we will look, in more detail at some of the one anothers. <\/p>\n

Have you experienced compassion from someone? Have you been able to offer it to another person? What did it look like? How did it make you feel? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzle-pieces-of-life","category-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}