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June 29 - The Quiet Ripple · The Daily Ripples Podcast

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  Hey guys, this is the Daily Ripples, and today is June 29th, the Quiet Ripper.
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  The stone, impact does not require force.
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  Real change spreads naturally through a life that is lived well.
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  Ripple 1 practical, today I will focus on living rightly rather than trying to control outcomes.
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  I do not need to convince or impress others.
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  Consistency in my actions will speak louder than words.
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  ripple too spiritual jesus often works work quietly yet his impact spread far beyond what
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  was seen in the moment as i follow him the holy spirit uses my daily life to influence others in a
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  way i may never fully see the father creates a ripple effect through simple faithfulness
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  I like how
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  Pastor Mike
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  you know put the ripple
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  effect you know
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  I didn't realize after a couple months
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  that
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  he was like you know what the
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  stone's about and it just came
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  to me because
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  the stone you throw in the water and it makes
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  ripples and I was like wow
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  and you know
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  it's funny you know so when I see little things
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  like this it's cool because I
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  And yeah, I see what he's doing there.
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  And, you know, it's cool.
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  But, you know, so when I read this, you know, and I was kind of thinking, like I was kind
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  of reading on some different Bible stuff.
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  And 1 Thessalonians 4.11 says,
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  Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with
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  your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders
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  and so that you will not be dependent upon anybody.
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  And so when I think about, like, you know, leaving a quiet life, and I mean, I think about
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  my old friend, Doug, and he used to tell me, he was like, you know, Corey, you know, you
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  got to fill up your glass, so you need to help someone and not tell somebody about it.
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  But I heard my other friend talk about him.
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  He was like, yeah, he used to always talk about what he was doing.
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  And the reason being is because he would say that so he can go fill up his glass again.
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  And, you know, so I think about that demonstration of, you know,
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  showing about helping others and constantly having to go fill that glass up again.
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  Because, you know, man, it's the coolest thing in the world, getting those God shots.
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  My friend talks about that, you know, these little God shots.
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  Man, he's been working in the recovery field for 25 years,
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  and he was telling me that some days he just wants to give up,
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  and then he'll be walking through Kroger,
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  and somebody will walk up and say something to him,
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  because he's been doing it for a long time,
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  and it'll really impact him and put him back in the work.
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  But this helping others like that was interesting.
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  And then when I was reading the First Theolozians, I hope that's how you say that.
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  Pastor Mike's not on here to Thessalonians, maybe.
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  First Thessalonians, yeah.
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  It says, make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, to work with your hands.
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  And then I was thinking about in the big book of Alcoff Synonymous, and this is a really meaningful thing to me.
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  It says, those of us who have spent, it's on page 130, by the way, I'm sorry.
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  Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it.
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  This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose accompanied by a growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives.
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  We have come to believe He would like us to keep our heads in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth.
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  That is where our fellow travelers are, and that is where our work must be done.
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  You know, there's another must in there, right?
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  Must be done.
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  Our fellow travelers and those where our work must be done.
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  I think that's important.
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  You know, I think about my head's in the clouds with him,
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  and I think about, I think I talked about this not too long ago,
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  but, you know, meditation and, you know, getting quiet,
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  breathing, and finding that, you know, rhythm of however you want to do it,
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  but, you know, it suggests prayer and meditation.
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  And so I think, you know, the prayer part's me talking to God,
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  and then the meditation part is probably God talking to me.
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  and you know it's that seemed true to me in my life today and that's how it's worked and
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  um i find calmness in that and different forms of meditation i think you know you can even you
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  know relate meditation if i'm not mistaken to writing um but i i today like to get quiet
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  um and then you know but then it goes on to say but our feet ought to be firmly planted on earth
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  because I don't want to get too far up in the mountain, right?
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  Because if I'm, you know, and I find myself, you know,
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  and I had to watch it, and a friend of mine told me,
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  he was like, one day he was like,
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  Corey, you sound like you're talking from a place of spiritual arrogance.
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  And I don't ever want to be like that.
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  I don't ever want to think that I'm better than I am
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  because, man, at the end of the day,
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  I'm just a drunk trying to stay sober
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  and trying to lead a life that, you know, is a good life.
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  It's something that, you know,
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  You know, I was thinking about, like, my dad.
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  You know, my dad's passed away.
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  And I'm reading a book.
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  It's William James Varieties of a Religious Experience.
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  And, you know, it was talking about people that have healthy minds, that find God and just, you know, go on with their life.
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  But, you know, there's a firstborn and there's a secondborn, right?
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  And the second born, you know, that's the next chapter after that is the sick soul.
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  And it's about these people that, you know, come in with a sick soul.
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  And I was one of those.
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  But my dad wasn't.
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  Man, my dad, you know, he was big in the church.
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  He was big in the Bible.
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  And, you know, I just didn't have that connection at that time.
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  And it wasn't, you know, a lot for me to be there.
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  But, you know, I think about that, too, because, you know, if it had been, I wouldn't be here.
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  and I wouldn't be in a position to be of service to the people I'm best of service to,
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  my fellow travelers.
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  And the best people I'm of service to are the people that are just like me.
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  So when I go through this and I'm able to do that,
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  so my head's in the clouds with him and my feet's firmly planted,
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  I think all that's like how it looks to me in today's deal.
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  Then the Ripple One Practical says,
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  today I'll focus on living rightly
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  rather than trying to control outcomes.
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  I do not need to convince or impress others.
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  My ego, I got a big ego,
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  and I have to keep it.
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  You know, I got to watch.
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  I'm not keeping it anywhere.
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  I have to watch.
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  You know, page 84 says,
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  well, this is interesting,
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  and I'll just figure this out,
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  and I'm figuring out new things.
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  I figure out new things about this literature all the time,
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  I got kind of excited today about figuring this out or hearing someone else talk about it.
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  I didn't figure nothing out.
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  But on page 84, it says, continue to watch.
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  Watch as vigilant.
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  Stay vigilant like at a red light anyways for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear.
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  When these crop up, because they're going to crop up, right?
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  We ask God at once to remove them.
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  Not like, secondly, it says at once.
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  I think that's immediately.
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  We discuss them with someone immediately.
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  And I need to do better at that.
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  And it says, make amends quickly if we've harmed anyone.
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  So if I've cussed someone out, I need to make amends quickly through this process.
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  Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help.
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  So that's four instructions.
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  The fifth instruction is love and tolerance of others is our code.
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  And so when I think about love and tolerance of others as our code, I would go to, I think it's page 19.
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  Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and viewpoints and respect for their opinions are attitudes.
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  So my perspective, which make us more useful to others.
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  And the last sentence is probably another very important sentence.
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  It's on page 20.
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  Our very lives as ex-problem drinkers depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help their needs.
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  So we got love and tolerance of others is our code.
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  That's number five.
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  That's the fifth thing.
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  It's the fifth instruction.
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  And then the sixth instruction, which this blew my mind because I'm not too good with English language.
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  That wouldn't be English language, whatever that is.
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  Because it says, and we have ceased fighting anything or anyone, even alcohol.
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  So I've never combined that.
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  So when you started, what I've found out is when you start a new paragraph with and,
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  it combines the thought of the other paragraph.
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  So I thought, and we've ceased finding anything or anyone, even alcohol.
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  I thought that was a whole other thought.
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  So I thought that was a promise, not an instruction.
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  So I think I've said it on here too.
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  I thought that was a promise as well.
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  But today I found that's an instruction.
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  So you've got six parts in this of when these things crop up.
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  And I thought that was really cool because I like when I find new little things in this book.
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  And, you know, it's crazy.
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  Every time I read it, it's something new.
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  Then it goes on, consistency in my actions will speak louder than words.
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  You know, my life today, you know, it's so cool.
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  Me and my significant other, we used to meet these couples and stuff.
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  Because my sponsor and his wife took us in.
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  I'd say that like we were homeless.
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  I mean, you might as well then.
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  But they took us in for dinner every Sunday.
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  And showed us how to eat like humans.
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  We prayed.
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  That's how they showed us through their life how they were.
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  And we get the chance to do that today with other people.
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  And to be examples of that.
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  So consistency in my actions will speak louder than words.
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  My family's consistent.
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  We are.
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  And sometimes consistency can get boring for some reason, but sometimes it doesn't.
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  And it's really cool.
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  Because the outcomes are better than I should ever have expected to be today.
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  Um, anyways, that's all I got for today.
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  Prayer, Father, help me live faithfully each day.
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  Through your Spirit, use my life to reflect your truth,
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  and let it impact each other in ways only you can accomplish through your Son.
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  Amen.
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  Amen.