Known by many as "Momma Pearl"

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Things are not always as they seem...

How often are we quick to form opinions or judgments, of what we think we see?

One day I was cleaning and when I got done I was tired, so I decided to rest a bit before the girls, my daughters, got home from school.

After I sat down on the divan, I looked across the room and I thought I saw one of the little one's toys under a chair. My first thought was, "I could've sworn I had gotten all of those."

My next thought was, "I'll get it when I get up, before the girls come home."  However, the more I sat there, the more it bothered me.

So finally, I got up and went to take care of it.  But when I looked closer, it was just a shadow of the leg of the chair, caused from the light shining in the window. 

How often we do that, to make immediate assumptions of what we see?

How quickly we form opinions.

I then remembered about the time I had to make a delivery to a bar, from my restaurant. I didn't want to do it.

When I went to make the delivery, I parked, looked around, and quickly went in. I made my delivery real quick. They offered me a drink. I turned it down, collected my money, and left. 

But I thought if anybody had seen the preacher's wife going into the bar, then everybody's going to know about it.  But maybe not why.

Again, how often are we quick to form opinions on just what is immediately visible? 

We don't look at the whole scenario or situation. If anyone had seen me, they didn't know what I did in there. They didn't know why I was there. 

I wasn't in there but a few minutes. Whether they would know that or not, I don't know.

Someone could have assumed it was probably enough time, that I could have gotten a drink.

Not quick to judge

Not quick to form wrong opinions

This is such a common thing that we do. We see something and think "Oh, that's the way it is!

But if we knew what was really happening and why they were there, it could be a different story.

We need to be more compassionate and open. Let's be aware of the damage we can do by having too quick of an                                        opinion. 

At the same time, in whatever we are doing, we need to be aware of what we are portraying. 

Words hurt. Growing up, there was an old saying, "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

This is not true.  Words can damage and do more harm than any kind of stick or stone. 

So we need to be aware that our words line up with The Word, and are the kind that build up and encourage. 

Not quick to judge. 

Not quick to form wrong opinions. 

Don't be quick to talk bad.

As well as be sure that we know what we're talking about. 

- Pearl Conaway

September 4, 2025

Titus 3:1-5

1. Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, 2.to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.

3. At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

4. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5.he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

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