the first thousand

Get ambition

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Thanks for the gift of purpose. (27
Thanks God for the gift of work. (279)
Thanks for the gift of handcraft. (280)
Thanks for the gift of minding your own business. (281)
Thanks for the gift of quietness, absence of *drama* (282)

Thanks for helping me appreciate these things.