2009-09-15T13:30:33-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/cynicism/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/stubborn-singing-2633 2009-09-15T13:30:33-05:00 You may be in a sickbed, or an unemployment line, or a lonely time, or a time of overwhelming stress, but it is not what should determine your attitude or your talk. It's the Christ in you, not the circumstances around you. I want to be like our little canary friend - singing, no matter what. And turning the sadness of others to singing, too. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%204:3&version=NIV 2009-09-10T16:01:53-05:00 Nehemiah faced many frustrations and setbacks when he was rebuilding the wall. In this verse we read of Tobiah's cynicism against the project. He says that if even a fox ran up that wall it would come down.