Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Link & Prince Sidon, Link/Prince Sidon, Link & Mipha (Legend of Zelda), Mipha & Prince Sidon Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Prince Sidon, Mipha (mentioned) Additional Tags: Bathing/Washing, Hair Washing, Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Attempt at Humor, Amnesia, Feral Link (Legend of Zelda), Selectively Mute Link (Legend of Zelda), Retrograde dissociative amnesia, not to pull that out of nowhere but ive decided that is feral links diagnosis in my canon, can be read as ship, Not Beta Read Series: Part 12 of In a mockery of recollection Summary:

This was one of the stories I wrote for @rodiniaorzetalthepenguin as part of the 2019 Rare Ships On Ice fanwork exchange event.

Isaiah 61:7   Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy. Job 42:10-16  And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before Zechariah 9:12  Return to your…

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Double Blessing: How to Get . . .Give It

Double Blessing (Multnomah, 2019)

Double Blessing: How to Get It.  How to Give It. is the latest book by Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D. C. Academically, Pastor Batterson holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent University.  In his Introduction, Mark notes that God’s original blessing to Adam and Eve existed before original sin.  Furthermore, that first blessing sets the tone, sets the table.  Above all, this blessing reveals God’s most ancient instinct.  Thus, blessing represents God’s default setting – His first and foremost reflex.  For us, the author stresses, blessing involves a decision to make, a habit to form, and a mindset to establish.  However, Mark underscores, God blesses us to raise our standard of giving, not our standard of giving.

Consequently, the secret of double blessing consists of flipping the blessing.  In other words, God blesses us so we can bless others.  But, Pastor Batterson counsels, the blessing of God doesn’t function as a substitute for prayer.  Instead, the blessing of God serves as a supplement to praying like everything depends on God and working like everything depends on us.  Also, good old-fashioned obedience provides the best way to position yourself for God’s blessing.  As author Eugene Peterson observes, the blessings of God always catch up with obedience in the same direction.  Most significantly, Mark encourages, each blessing of God is uniquely fitted to you.  As a result, that helps you perform to the best of your God-given ability.

Hence, when you flip the blessing, that takes the pressure off you and puts the ball in God’s court.  It enables you to live with holy anticipation as you wait to see what God will do.  No matter what your calling, God wants to anoint you to do it.  Plus, God wants to bless you beyond what you can ask or imagine – because He loves you.  So, there’s nothing more important than discerning God’s heart toward you.  Believing who God says you are establishes the key to a healthy, holy identity.  And, Mark asserts, if you really know the God of blessing, it’s impossible to resist His unconditional, unrelenting love.  For if we fail to value God’s blessing above all else, the author cautions, we sell our souls for a cheap substitute.

Finally, Pastor Batterson states, faith takes gratitude to the next level.  Faith praises God before He acts.  While faith includes following in the footsteps of Jesus, faith also takes the lead.  And, if necessary, faith demonstrates the willingness to go it alone.  Yet, the author acknowledges, not every attempt at blessing turns out.  If some backfire, so be it.  Just pick up the pieces and continue to lead with a blessing.  Generosity flows from the inside out, with the conviction of the Holy Spirit the catalyst.  We also need God’s gift of peripheral vision to spot the divine appointments that surround us all the time.  God’s ancient instinct never changes.  There’s nothing He desires more than giving you the full blessing.  Mark concludes his book with this succinct summary of the double blessing:

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An income ceiling - simply set one

“I’m not suggesting that everyone take a vow of poverty, but what would happen if every person who claimed to follow Christ simply set an income ceiling?  It’s a counterintuitive way to live, but what would the world look like is we practiced radical generosity with everything we made above and beyond that threshold?”- Mark Batterson

As Mark Batterson continues Chapter 11 of Double Blessing, he exhorts the reader to answer this question:  How much is enough?  Because, Pastor Batterson asserts, you do yourself a disservice if you read this book without answering that question.  Furthermore, the author notes, you’ll fail to tap your potential to be a double blessing.

Consequently, our society’s insatiable appetite for more means that enough is never enough.   Unless, Pastor Batterson advises, you predetermine an amount of enough in your heart.  And when you consider that half the world’s population lives on less than two dollars a day, that makes How much is enough? a truly difficult question.

In addition, Mark contends, if we fail to define success for ourselves, we generally default to a cultural definition.  In America, the author observes, we view happiness as a sport called Keeping Up with the Joneses.  Pastor Batterson continues:

“The struggle it (that idiom) represents is as old as Cain and Abel.  If you benchmark success by comparing yourself with other people, it’s a no-win scenario.  The comparison game ends with either surplus pride or inflated jealousy.  The result is this: you cannot keep up or catch up with the Joneses!  And the Bible has a word for it: covetousness.  . . .  So we buy things we don’t even want to impress people we don’t even like!”

Therefore, we need to see blessing defined as what we give, rather than what we get.  Thus, we find the most profound joy on the giving side of life.

Today’s question: How does the concept of an income ceiling strike you?  Please share.

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God placed in the hands of angry people

Country Dale Elementary School took down my ‘hands of angry people’ wall.

“If you project human failings onto God, you end up with ‘God in the Hands of Angry People.’  It’s not God’s fault, unless you blame Him for giving us free will.”- Mark Batterson, Double Blessing

“May the LORD smile on you and be gracious to you.  May the LORD show you his favor and give you his peace.”- Numbers 6:25-26 (NLT)

Because my Lutheran grade school downsized me as a teacher at the age of fifty-five, I surmised that my calling came to a screeching halt.  Consequently, I opted to construct a wall around my heart.  That action, I thought, effectively excluded my teaching identity as an integral part of my soul.  But every school bus I saw nudged those suppressed stirrings a little closer.

Seven years after losing my teaching position, God, in His love and mercy, graciously chipped the first cracks in my self-imposed wall.  I started guest teaching for Teachers on Call, a company that provides substitutes to various area school districts.  Yet, for the first few years, I rarely returned to the same school on a regular basis.  Or taught the same class in that school.

All that changed in the 2018- 2019 school year, when I worked sixty-three days at Country Dale School.  My reliability and frequent presence forged a collegial relationship with the faculty and staff.  Plus, I loved to greet students by name as they arrived each day.  Country Dale collapsed my wall like Jericho!

Often, there’s little or no compassion evident in the downsizing process.  Writing in his latest book, Double Blessing, Mark Batterson notes what happens when you project human feelings onto God.  Flipping a famous sermon title of Jonathan Edwards, Pastor Batterson cautions that you end up placing ‘God in the Hands of Angry People.’  Or, as A. W. Tozer stressed in The Knowledge of the Holy: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

As a result, the key to a healthy and holy identity consists in the belief that you are who God says you are.  Believing anything else, Mark counsels, does no one any favors – including you.  So, Pastor Batterson asks, What comes to your mind when you think about God?  Does God wear an angry expression on His face?  Or do you detect smile lines around His eyes?

Above all, Mark observes, many people who reject God really reject a misrepresentation of who God is.  Therefore, they don’t reject God for who He is.  Rather, they reject God for who He isn’t.  Hence, Mark advises, go ahead and do that.  But, don’t stop there!  Instead, begin a quest to discover God’s true identity.

Finally, Pastor Batterson exhorts, it’s crucial to discern God’s heart toward you so He fails to find a place in the hands of angry people:

“Yet, God gets angry.  But He’s not an angry God.  And there’s a big difference!  Simply put, ‘God is love.’  Yes, His love mandated anger toward those things that are outside of His good, pleasing, and perfect will.  But there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God.  In fact, nothing you do can make Him love you any less?  Why?  Because the love of God is not reactive.  The love of God is the most proactive, most powerful force on earth.”

Remember, Mark encourages, that since God is with you, you can get through anything.  Also, knowing God is for you enables you to overcome every obstacle in your way.  And, nothing stops you when you know God’s in you.

Mr. Spice – Double Blessing

How great is our God, doing more than we ask for or can Imagine! Mr. Spice releases a new single titled Double Blessing.

According to Spice:

“God will attend to you and you will receive Blessing, not just Blessing but Double Blessing, Believe it is your turn to receive Double Blessing”.

The song Double Blessing by Mr. Spice was produced by BattyBoi, Mixed and mastered by Indiana

God Bless you…