SETTING UP BOUNDARIES
Today's reading:  Genesis 28-31

"Laban continued to Jacob, This monument of stones and the stone pillar that I have set up is a witness, a witness that I won't cross the line to hurt you and you won't cross this line to hurt me.  The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor (the God of their ancestors) will keep things straight between us."  Genesis 31:51-52 MSG

Do you need a pile of rocks that will remind you of how to behave, speak and react as a Christian should? 

Are there topics, memories or shortcomings you need not bring up in the conversations you have with others--things that are ammunition against another?  Rumors you've heard?  Suggestions you could plant in the hearts of others? 

Are there people that ONLY God can help you love, minister to and tolerate?

Why don't you set up a pile of rocks?

Put it in your driveway.  Set it at the end of your sidewalk.  Place them on your desk at work.  Stack them at the front door of your house, your workplace or your church.

Put them some where you'll see them, see them and remember. 

Not a boulder sized pile, well, unless your tendencies are that big!  But what about a little pile of pea gravel or aquarium rock--or even a few pieces of gravel from the road outside your house.

Do what you can to remind you that God, if we seek Him--if we really seek Him, will keep things straight between us and who ever it might be that's pushing our buttons!