From the Heart by B.Demaere

  The Power of Teamwork In any situation such as the home and work teamwork is very valuable. My wife and I have been together 35 years and a great deal of that has been because of our love for each other and team spirit in our relationship. You can incorporate the team idea to anything.   Encourage to home environment to be a team by involving the whole family to play games and engage in team activities or sports.   In doing shores together.   Even family devotion or just time well spend together other than TV watching. What destroys team spirit is the individual use of surfing on electronic devices such as phones and laptops.   The loneliness has increased since people have touch on social media.   What we thought would make us more socialized has isolated us instead. After COVID we need to team up and be a society again. For example, in the book of Nehemiah in the Bible, chapter 3.   We see that a whole community of Israelites had united and worked together to rebuild th

  The Battle Within Here at home, I do some shores and one of them is washing dishes.  As it happened, I was having my devotion time with the Lord.  In the back of my mind, I was also thinking about washing the dishes. During that time, I waited on the Lord, which meant waiting for his timing.   Instead of rushing from my quiet time to wash the dishes.   Finally, through his voice in my spirit he prompted me to start the dishes. It made me think of this incident between Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42) Martha was busy with the shores around the home and Mary had chosen to spend time at the feet of Jesus.   In verse 42 Jesus even tells Martha that Mary has chosen what is better. I suppose there need to be a balance, we could be so busy that we forget to spend time with Jesus or vice versa.   The balance comes with practice.   As for myself I have been a Christian for over 40 years, and I am still learning from him the obedience to His Spirit’s promptings.   The solution is to