Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton trails five top Republican presidential contenders in general election match-ups, a drop in support from this summer, according to a poll released on Monday.

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Matthew 26:39b
Yet not as I will, but as You will.

This morning Parker and Will were up at the breakfast table making quick work of two bowls of cereal and as they finished up, Sydney crawled up in her chair and got ready to eat. I asked her what kind of cereal she wanted and she said she wanted to do eenie-meenie to decide. When she was done, she had apparently picked the wrong one, because she looked up at me, smiled, and said she was going to do it again because she wanted the other kind (which was Cinnamon Toast Crunch, the BEST cereal ever made, but that’s beside the point). It took 2 more rounds before she figured out how to end on the right box, and then she was ready to pour and eat!

Maybe it isn’t such a stretch to think that we often treat the will of God the same way. I mean, come on, we know He has a plan and a choice for us, but so often we just go through the motions of choosing so we feel better about choosing what we want His will to be. We need to be more like Jesus in a lot of ways, but especially in this way: God’s will for our lives needs to be the one and only choice. We cannot manipulate the choices so that we get what we want, and even if we could, we wouldn’t. We need to want what He wants.

Only then will we truly know the peace of living God’s will for us.

I’ve been playing around with some pictures I took and turning them into a pretty eclectic bunch of Photoshop brushes. Some are medium sized and a few are high-resolution brushes up to 2500 pixels wide. At any rate, feel free to download a set of the brushes and have fun with them. Let me know what you think about them, too.