{"id":2449,"date":"2012-01-02T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2011-12-30T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T16:39:43","slug":"a-new-year-new-changes-need-your-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/biblical-example-of-strength\/a-new-year-new-changes-need-your-input","title":{"rendered":"A New Year-New Changes? Need Your Input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/j0401775.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2452\" title=\"Pine Cone and Needles\" src=\"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/j0401775-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings on the first Monday of 2012! Can you remember when we were all focused on a new century starting? Now we&#8217;re over a decade into the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>On November 30, 2011 this blog passed a quiet third anniversary. Before 2008, I had been urged to start a blog but didn&#8217;t until I decided what one more blog could offer.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized that I wanted to focus on stories of strong women. After all that&#8217;s what I write. So I&#8217;ve tracked the number of visits and see that my blog followers enjoy authors who drop by and tell their stories of strength and of their heroine&#8217;s strength. I plan to continue those stories. I enjoy reading them too!<\/p>\n<p>However, I also want to give readers a chance to tell their stories. I don&#8217;t think there is enough of this-THOUGH many of you have shared some of your life in your comments.\u00a0 To encourage this, I&#8217;m thinking of choosing one of the fruits of the spirit a month and asking readers (as well as authors) to share their stories that show this &#8220;quality&#8221; in action.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s\u00a0 Galatians 5:22-25 NIV<\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"en-NIV-29185\">22<\/sup> &#8220;But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, <sup id=\"en-NIV-29186\">23<\/sup> gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. <sup id=\"en-NIV-29187\">24<\/sup> Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. <sup id=\"en-NIV-29188\">25<\/sup> Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of focusing on one of these a month during the 1st 9 months of this year? Would you find that of interest? Would you be willing to participate in sharing an incident from your life? Or a truth you&#8217;ve observed in life?<\/p>\n<p>So&#8211; Would you be interested and participate in stories centering on the 9 fruits of the spirit?<\/p>\n<p>And come back tomorrow&#8211;something new for you!&#8211;Lyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also want to give readers a chance to tell their stories. 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