#shrewdness

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If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Parable of the Shrewd Manager

1 Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. 2 So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

3 “The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg— 4 I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’

5 “So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

6 “‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied.

“The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’

7 “Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’

“‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.

“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’

8 “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. 9 I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

10 “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11 So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12 And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?

13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” — Luke 16:1-13 | New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Matthew 6:12; Matthew 6:24; Matthew 12:32; Matthew 12:36; Matthew 18:28; Matthew 19:21; Matthew 20:8; Matthew 24:45; Matthew 25:21; Luke 2:37; Luke 12:42; Luke 20:34-35; John 2:6

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Toughminded and Tenderhearted

Shrewdness is a quality that God’s people should possess. By shrewdness, I mean possessing divine wisdom that leads to thoughtful, wise, and sensible behavior. In the NT, Jesus instructed His disciples, saying, “I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matt 10:16). In this perilous world filled with potential harm from wolf-like individuals,…

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Reminder: Tough Times Don't Last

I’ll admit I have enjoyed watching the “Survivor” TV series since the show began. The resiliency, determination, grit and shrewdness of the cast amazes me. They go hungry if their team doesn’t win the challenge, they go through the most grueling obstacles, and their living conditions are dreadful. Nope! I couldn’t do it. I need my cozy, adjustable bed, my clean water, my refrigerator, and way…

[izzi-illustrates]

Because I am a normal and healthy person I made a whole family tree of the Farseers (only up to the end of Assassin's Quest, I am not entirely insane yet,)

Anyway please enjoy this helpful and bonkers reference that I've made for feral Hobb fans

[solitarydegarcia]

Sholmes after being kicked out of the forensic laboratory for the 5th time this week: Queen forbid a detective has hobbies

[polar-explorer]

no but im thinking about assassins apprentice and royal assassin again and i just. you take this tiny traumatised child, refuse to give him a name thats not an insult aimed at his parentage, leave him to basically fend for himself for YEARS, only to then snap him up and teach him how to unquestionably kill people (impressing on him how very important it is to mindlessly follow orders and not think for yourself) AND THEN!!!!! YOU EXPECT HIM TO MAKE DISCERNING DECISIONS??

not only that, he is raised, in a loose sense of the word, by chade "i lived alone in a tower for 20 years and turned out fine" fallstar and stablemaster "don't ask don't tell" burrich and suddenly when he turns 16 he's supposed to be emotionally mature all of a sudden??? this boy never even had a fighting chance!!!

[heyitsrink]

He protected me, Fitz. It took months for him to gain my trust. But after a time, whenever Queen Desire was traveling and I slept on the hearth, I felt safe. It was safe to sleep.

A comic for my giftee, hoodedcreature, in this year's RotE Winterfest. It was such a joy making this. Baby Fool!! My Heart!!

[silverdragon12]

Been re-reading assassin's apprentice recently, so here's a whole bunch of character doodles✨

[penaltyboxboxbox]

like. it is okay to just say you like a driver more than the other one and wish he'd gotten the seat instead. like. it can just be that simple.

[random-dragon-exe]

I find it entertaining that in the Luigi's Mansion series, there's a recurring trend of having a piano playing ghost.

Then there's also the trend of the ghost who's actually not a threat to Luigi.

Then there's the trend of having a boss who's just annoying and hard AF.

[ourlittleuluru]

A break away from dem angst of the previous WIP posting 😂 (sorry but not really) brain decided (instead of doing the art I'm SUPPOSED to) what if the LaDS boys were playing/in FF14, what'll be their race and jobs

[adimouze]

i kinda think it’s good one of the circuits is making noise about needing daniel in the f1 community. he’s a recognisable face and it makes rbr’s decision to drop him like that look idiotic. if daniel attends (and he doesn’t have to!!! he’s a human!! he deserves rest!!!) it could be because the best way to show red bull they fucked up is to remind them he’s not going to be erased just because they wanted him gone. he’s too loved for that.

[shushmal]

okay pacrim au (it's gonna be steddie bear with me here)

nancy is the best jaeger pilot the world's ever seen, her and barb are an unstoppable force. but then barb dies, gets completely ripped from their mech. so they pair nancy with steve, a pilot known for being generally drift compatible with everyone to a degree. it's not perfect, but nancy who is full of fury needs someone that can roll with her punches, keep her going. and they do well. they aren't the best, but he's the only one that can handle nancy's force. steve's good at taking hits. they mange it for about two years. and steve had been doing such a good job hiding it, absorbing all of nancy's internal grief and fury so she could keep doing her job.

but he breaks. the two of them are force-retired, and nancy lashes out so intensely, steve goes into a depression, completely severs ties with the jager program and disappears.

then there's eddie, a street rat by birth, but a guy so inherently good with the jaeger technology, he's managed to build his own on scavenged scraps—part of it from the jaeger barbara holland died in. he's used his lil jaeger to defend his little forgotten part of the world best he could, mostly luring kaiju away towards the actual military and stealthily escaping before any government detects him. but it's hard to do alone.

and then he meets steve.

[mytho-maniac-108]

Reading the Iliad part 4

For someone so-frequently called Zeus's favourite, Athena sure does plot against him a lot.