"The Dreamer"
Genesis 37:18-24
Could jealousy ever make you feel like killing someone? Before saying "Of course not," look at what happened in this story. Ten men were willing to kill their younger brother over a robe and a few reported dreams. Their deep jealousy had grown into ugly rage, completely blinding them to what was right. Jealousy can be difficult to recognize because our reasons for it seem to make sense. But left unchecked, jealousy grows quickly and leads to serious sins. The longer you cultivate jealous feelings, the harder it is to uproot them. The time to deal with jealousy is when you notice yourself keeping score of what others have.
TODAY'S BLACK HISTORY FACT:
On this date in 1900 Ethel Waters is born in Chester, Pennsylvania. She will become a gifted singer and the first African American woman to star in a Broadway play (1930).
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Jealousy is a terrible thing. It resembles love, only it is precisely love's contrary. Instead of wishing for the welfare of the object loved, it desires the dependence of that object upon itself, and its own triumph." - Henri Amiel
To read some of the past vitamins and commentary, please visit my blog on Yahoo 360, entitled "The Synopsis" at
http://360.yahoo.com/burneya6 or at
http://thealbanreport.blogspot.com/. Also, if you are in the Fayetteville area, be sure to watch my interview with Dr. Loleta Foster on "Inside the CCBC" on the Time Warner Community Channel, channel 7, on tonight and Nov. 7 at 8:00 pm.
Posted By: Alban Burney
Wednesday, October 31st 2007 at 6:44AM
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