New Taste Buds.

Recently I was in my garden picking olives with a friend and their father. They love eating olives and so jumped at the chance to come and get free olives. While picking I was telling the father that although I have an olive tree in my garden I actually don't like eating them - and so was happy he was collecting them. He told me a brief story about how he developed his taste for olives.

He said he used to work alongside a guy who was Greek, and every lunch time his friend would have some olives with his lunch. After telling his friend that he finds it hard to eat olives his Greek coworker said something interesting. He said, If I make you eat one olive every day, at first you will still dislike it, but with time you will develop a taste for the olives and it will be easy for you to eat, from then on.

We all know that it is good to create new good habits in our general life as well as in our spiritual walk but many times we fail to do something about it. Maybe we need the help of a "coworker" to encourage us, and maybe we need to just start with a small bit daily and with time the new habit is in full swing.

Making changes in your life can seem difficult and too huge to conquer but if we choose to look at it in "daily" bites then it becomes doable. Be aware that every day counts, and what we do each day will have an impact.

John.C.Maxwell has powerfully said "Today matters!"

"Alexander the Great said the secret of his accomplishing so much was never putting off anything until tomorrow."

So what are you going to do today? Remember that tomorrow will become another today - so best start now.

Blessings,

Akita.
14-6-07

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Romans 12 v 2

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is
- his good, pleasing and perfect will.

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Akita Olsen
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Bunbury Vineyard Church.
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WA 6231, Australia.
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