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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
New episodes appear here usually within a few hours after that KMMR air time and been striving to post new releases here by 4:30PM.
I want to again welcome you to The 04:05 Coffee Break. Get your cup of coffee, glass of high steep, bottle of water, enjoy this beautiful autumn day, and let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $6.24 a bushel, 550lb steer calf, top end Billings PAYS last week $4.35 a pound, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings $3.15 a pound, on the top end. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. Have you ever had a problem with worry or resentment? Worry or resentment? Have you ever been anxious over worry or have you ever been bitter with resentment? I think all of us have.
OK Solberg:When we can manage our thoughts, we can manage our lives. I have 2 bible verses for you today and then a poem. A poem I found online. Listen now.
OK Solberg:From Ephesians 4:31-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger... Wait a minute. That's where I got don't be bitter. My mom had it on the napkin holder.
OK Solberg:Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from me with all malice. And be kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31-32
OK Solberg:Then from Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34
OK Solberg:Yes. The 1st one says, don't be bitter, and the 2nd one says, don't worry. Listen, a poem I found online, anonymous, and it's titled An Ode to Worry and Resentment. Worry comes softly in the night and whispers, what if this goes wrong?
OK Solberg:It builds tomorrow's sorrow before tomorrow has begun and makes a prison out of the moments that have not yet arrived. Bitterness is different. It walks the corridors of yesterday.
OK Solberg:It knows every word that wounded, every door that closed, every hand that should have stayed but chose to let you fall. It keeps a ledger carefully. It counts the tears and names the debts. It says, remember what they did.
OK Solberg:It counts the tears as though the remembering can somehow make the past come undone. Worry and bitterness, though born in different hours, are brothers in the same darkness. One fears the pain that may come, the other rehearses the pain that did come.
OK Solberg:Both ask the heart to carry what it cannot change, and so the body grows weary from battles that the hand cannot fight. The sleepless nights, the tightening chest, the restless mind, the soul that never sets its burden down.
OK Solberg:But then but then comes forgiveness. Not a word that says it didn't matter, not a lie that calls evil good, not the erasing of a wound or the surrender of justice.
OK Solberg:Forgiveness simply opens the hand. It says, I remember I was hurt. What happened was wrong, but I will not carry your sin as though it were mine to keep.
OK Solberg:And something begins to loosen. The heart no longer has to stand guarding the ashes of yesterday. The mind no longer has to rehearse the conversation that cannot be changed.
OK Solberg:The soul no longer has to drink from the cup of resentment and wonder why it's still thirsty. Forgiveness does not change what happened, it changes what happens next.
OK Solberg:The scar may remain, but the bleeding can cease. The memory may remain, but the chains can fall. The tears may still come, but they need not be tears of vengeance.
OK Solberg:And perhaps healing begins not when we forget the wound, but when we stop feeding it. Perhaps peace is not the absence of memories, but the presence of a greater truth.
OK Solberg:God, you sought. God, you know it. God, you will judge it. I don't have to carry it anymore. So let tomorrow belong to God and let yesterday belong to God.
OK Solberg:Let worry release its future. Let bitterness release its past, and let forgiveness stand between them like a doorway through which a weary heart can finally walk empty handed and free. The end.
OK Solberg:A poem I found online. Author anonymous. That's what it says. I guess the writer didn't want credit. The writer wanted the poem out there. Well, there it is and I thank you.
OK Solberg:So until next time. As you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.