Author: © Christian National Church of Christ

*Signs of Matured Christians*
✅ They speak the truth at all times
✅ They are good listeners
✅ They hardly take offense
✅ They are quick to forgive
✅ They are reliable
✅ They are supportive
✅ They have appetite for prayer and fasting
✅ They rely on the Word of God
✅ The more God lifts them up, the more they become humble
✅ They hardly defend themselves
✅ They are quick to repent
✅ They seek peace and pursue it
✅ They love people and they are compassionate
✅ They know when to talk and when to be quiet
✅ They are full of wisdom in many aspects of life
✅ They respect people and are very sensitive to people’s feelings
✅ They have a lot of patience and they are not short tempered
✅ They fear God
✅ They give honour where it is due
✅ They are content with what they have
✅ They have good leadership skills
✅ They are hospitable
✅ They are not carried away by all kinds of teachings
✅ They are good followers
✅ They have a sacrificial spirit
✅ They don’t gossip and look down on people
✅ They have faith
✅ They take part in church activities and attend church regularly
✅ They are clean in every aspect of life
✅ Their spirits are sensitive, they hate sin
✅ They don’t act holier than others
✅ They don’t compete with others

*Ask yourself: Am I a matured Christian?*🔦
May God give us the grace to identify and work on our weak areas.

And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.  Luke 11:9

1. And I say unto you, Ask, { Someone is speaking to you listen: they will tell you about their situation or others.}
2. And it shall be given you;{ASK THEM: Can I pray for you?}
3. Seek, and ye shall find; {Picture the person in your mind as you pray. {Remember if you don’t know the person you’re praying for, God does. So it is ok. Just use their name in your prayer for them. If it is an unspoken claim, its alright. God already knows.}
4. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. { When you pray you are giving it to God to take care of this person’s situation.}

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Forgiving someone truly🤗!

Really is the best gift you can give.🤗

Just saying.🤗

Have a nice day.🤗

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting ecoli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE… and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked’s (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now..

Flunking gym was not an option…even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school , we all sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention. 
 
We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud ofmyself.

I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah… and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. 

Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. His mother came over, picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family How could we possibly have known that? 
 

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn’t even notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING.

Since there is no way of knowing which turtles carry the salmonella disease, you must wash your hands after handling them. Since you may have children around your turtle, you must supervise your children so that they don’t put us in their mouth. (Scares us turtles just thinking about it!) Make sure they wash their hands after handling or touching a turtle.

Depending on what kind of turtle you have, you need to make sure we have the proper environment. It is critical that we get our daily needs such as food, lighting, and vitamins. Although we like to be dirty, our tank needs to be clean so that we don’t get sick or diseased.

It is legal to own or buy turtles under 4 inches in length, but it is illegal to commercially sell them. NOTE: It is illegal to commercially or for breeders to sell turtles over 4 inches in length!

When water turtles are young they are mainly feed on other animals. One of our favorite treats is cooked chicken!  We also eaten tuna, feeder fish, a gold fish once (he was real big, but we managed), snails from the river, crayfish – Yum Yum! Delicious! We’ve had worms, and crickets are good too. My mom has tried feeding us romaine lettuce. Its all right, she says that we will like it better when we get older.

Young turtles get along well. However, with the older and mature turtles problems can arise due to hormones. They go their own way. So peaceful to watch. Turtles are calm and they will run from you or hide in their shell. The turtle shell is a highly complicated shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of a turtle.

I was cutting down bushes, trees and raking next door at the neighbors yard. When this old guy came out of a hole near the tree. I went and patted him and he got mad. I said I am sorry I made you move out of your peaceful comfort zone. I told him he could go back after I was done. He just watched me as I worked. Then I went home to change out the battery to the saw. When I started back over next door. He was crawling towards the lake. I ran to get the camera. I took this picture of him. He probably saying. I am not waiting for her! I am going to the lake where there is peace and quiet. See when you disturb someone’s peace, they get mad. He probably been there for about 2 years since the last time Ruth and I was cutting bushes. He He. So that is a long time having peace.

Oh! To be a turtle!

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