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Fast food is not exactly healthy.   No matter how convenient or inexpensive, food picked up from a window is not nutritious or for that matter satisfying.   A drive-thru is pretty quick but what does fast have to do with getting what you came for, a good meal.   Think about your favorite meal as a child.   Mine was chicken and dumplings which took my mother hours to prepare between rolling dough and boiling chicken.   I’m not saying it was healthy but it sure made me happy.   There was nothing fast about waiting for the dumplings to rise.   When have you ever seen chicken and dumplings on a fast food menu?   Mama said, “Cut the time, you cut the product.” Matthew 6:5-7 5  “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.  6  But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who

I slept in this morning.   My hotel room was dark and cozy, my shower warm and invigorating.   It was time to get dressed and head home.   I retrieved my undergarments from the dresser, put them on and finished dressing.   When I pulled out my luggage, what did I find?   My clean underwear neatly rolled lay sitting in the bottom of my overnight bag which meant I was wearing day old, dirty underwear.   Why change? Who would know?   I’m just driving home alone.   No one would see my dirty self. Colossians 3:1-10 3  Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  2  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  3  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.  4  When Christ, who is your [  life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5  Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and g