Devotion
Pearls Before Breakfast
From a friend: I’ve just finished reading a great but fairly long article called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” It’s from the Washington Post, about Joshua Bell’s busking trick in the Washington Metro last January. Bell is one of the world’s leading violinists. He spent 45 minutes playing some of the greatest classical violin pieces while over […]
I am nobody
I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson (1830-86)
Crackpot Friends
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long walk from the stream […]
10 Rules For A Blessed Day
1. TODAY I WILL NOT STRIKE BACK . . . If someone is rude, if someone is impatient, if someone is unkind, I Will not respond in a like manner. 2. TODAY I WILL ASK GOD TO BLESS MY ‘ENEMY’ If I come across someone who treats me harshly or unfairly, I will Quietly ask […]
God Said NO
I asked God to take away my habit. God said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up. I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary I asked God to grant me patience. God […]
10 things you won’t be asked
TEN THINGS GOD WON’T ASK ON THAT DAY 1. God won’t ask what kind of car you drove, He’ll ask how many people you drove who didn’t have transportation. 2. God won’t ask the square footage of your house, He’ll ask how many people you welcomed into your home. 3. God won’t ask about the […]
Doing what God wants us to do
We should do all that God wants us to do. But we should not do more than God wants us to do. I suspect dedicated people are going to have to answer to the Lord on Judgment Day for having done too much, for having tried to do what God himself wanted to do or […]
He Will Be
Sit back and watch this short video. It is beautiful and true. Just click on the link below. http://www.andiesisle.com/He-Will-Be.html
The Whale
The Whale If you read the front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She […]
The Correct Use of Power
Richard Foster, in Money, Sex & Power (the whole section on the correct use of power as a Christian is very interesting) states, “How do we serve others in the world? We serve them by a firm refusal to allow them to misuse and abuse us. To allow people to walk over us as one […]
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