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                The term “early adopter” is applied to those who take to new ideas very quickly.                   I am not one of those people!   When I go out for breakfast, I order the same thing every time.   I have been a Toronto Maple Leafs fan my entire life.   Green has always been my favourite colour.   When I find something that I like, I stick with it.                 Speaking of favourites, did you know that most people have a favourite method for reading and understanding scripture?   Simply stated, we look for commands.   We like passages that tell us to do or think something, or to stop doing and thinking those things.   That is why most Christians like the book of James more than Revelation.   James is easy to understand and apply, while Revelation is not.                   There is nothing wrong with having

                  I do not like waiting.   I hate having to have patience.   I do not like not knowing.   Call me a control freak, but I want to fix things and make situations better.   Unfortunately, there are lots of events that are out of my control.       What do you do in those situations?                   If you have ever been to the circus, you have probably seen the trapeze artists.   A trapeze act is made up of two performers: a flyer and a catcher.   When the flyer is in air, he or she has only one job and that is to wait.   If the flyer panics, or starts thrashing around trying to catch the catcher, it is likely that things are not going to end well.   However, if the flyer remains calm and peaceful, the catcher can reach out, grab their arms and swing them back to safety.                 Often, my

                My wife, Sara, took up painting this past summer.   In the process, she noted that to paint something accurately you must see it differently.   She grew up on a farm and has seen thousands of dugouts and sloughs, but painting one requires a different vision.   “You have to notice things you did not notice before.   You need to see how the sun glints off the surface.   You must account for the way the reeds reflect in the water.   Seeing it is one thing, but to replicate it, you must look for the small details that make the entire picture”.                 A second look is often beneficial.   It is easy to assume that we know all that there is to know.   However, when we see past our commonly held assumptions, we find beauty that we had missed previously.                 Such is the case in Nehemiah chapter nine.