Daily Positive Thread for Friday

gloriajean — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:13:13 GMT

Hello my friends! What a snowy day we have here again! Snow is piled so high! The roads were not good for Linus' first day going to work and back, it's only 7 miles though, so that's not bad. He's learning all about their computers now - and he learned how to enter an order in today. His co-worker, Perry, who used to be his co-worker at the other appliance job that closed, is teaching him. He's always liked Linus and it was because of him that Linus got the job!! Tomorrow morning we start taking care of Ollie again for a few days as Lori leaves tomorrow night for Dallas, Texas to spend her birthday weekend with her sister. I just want to thank all of your for all your prayers for us!!! We appreciate it so much!!! Know that you all are in mine.

If you want peace and goodness in your life you must be kind and loving.

Lord, may I avoid creating misery so that my life will reflect my love for

You.

Scripture for the day:

"My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it

nothing but joy, because you know that the testing of your faith produces

endurance; and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature

and complete, lacking in nothing." ~James 1:2-4

Meditation for the day:

As we look back over our lives, it is not too difficult to see that what we

went through was for a purpose and helped to prepare us for some valuable

work in life. Everything in our lives can help make us of some use in the

world. Each person's life is like the pattern of a mosaic. Each thing that

happens to us is like one tiny stone in the mosaic, and each tiny stone fits

into the perfected pattern of the mosaic of our life, which has been

Prayer for the day:

I pray that I may not need to see the whole design of my life. I pray that

I may trust the Designer.

JUST CALL UPON HIM

-- Author Unknown

The boy walked along the ocean shore . . . trying not to stray. He looked up

to his father saying, "Dad, I want to play."

His father looked upon him, with love showing in his eyes. "Do what you want

to, my son . . . but do not leave my side."

"I would never leave you Daddy, I love you way too much." But the boy took a

step away, out of his father's range of touch.

He walked through the surf, the waves tickling one toe. "If I take one more

step in . . ." he thought, "Father will never know."

His father called out to him, "Son, to me remain true!" The boy thought with

glee . . . "At the moment I don't need you!"

His father felt a sadness, but he held his tongue. Sometimes lessons need to

be learned . . . even when so young.

The boy stepped out a little further . . . the water covering his waist. His

father spoke with urgency . . . his father spoke with haste.

"My son, come back to me," he said, "The day is almost done!" "Not yet,

Dad," the boy yelled, "I'm having too much fun!"

But the boy did not have his father's insight so he could not yet tell, The

tide was coming in fast . . . there would be no time to yell.

"Father!" he tried to scream, as the water covered his head. "I need you

now, Daddy!" was what the boy had said.

And in a single instant his father was by his side. "I thought you left me,

Daddy . . . I thought you went to hide."

The father looked upon his son . . . a tear streaming down his cheek. The

boy looked upon his father . . . and cried the sobs of the meek.

"I would never leave you son . . . for I love you just the same." "I was

only waiting . . . for you to call upon my name."

Does evil exist?

The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God

create everything that exists? A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil

since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who

we are then God is evil". The student became quiet before such an answer.

The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students

that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question

professor? Does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been

cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the

laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.

Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits

energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.

Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter

becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not

exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no

heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist

either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but

not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into

many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot

measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness

and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure

the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by

man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said.

We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man.

It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These

manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does

not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like

darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of

God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist

just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man

does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes

when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

- - -

"Evil can no more be charged upon God than darkness can be charged upon the

sun." - William Law

Let's not forget our Guardian Angels:

INVOCATIONS TO THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL

Holy Angel, my counselor, inspire me; Holy Angel, my defender, protect me;

Holy Angel, my faithful friend; intercede for me;

Holy Angel, my consoler, fortify me; Holy Angel, my brother, defend me;

Holy Angel, my teacher, instruct me;

Holy Angel, witness of all my actions, purify me;

Holy Angel, my helper, support me;

Holy Angel, my intercessor, speak for me;

Holy Angel, my guide, direct me; Holy Angel, my light, enlighten me;

Holy Angel, whom God has assigned to lead me, govern me.

GOD'S EMBROIDERY

When I was a little boy, my mother used to embroider a great deal. I would

sit at her knee and look up from the floor and ask what she was doing. She

informed me that she was embroidering. I told her that it looked like a mess

from where I was, the underside. I watched her work within the boundaries of

the little round hoop that she held in her hand.

She would smile at me, look down and gently say, "My son, you go about your

playing for a while, and when I am finished with my embroidering, I will put

you on my knee and let you see it from my side."

I would wonder why she was using some dark threads along with the bright

ones and why they seemed so jumbled from my view.

A few minutes would pass and then I would hear Mother's voice say, "Son,

come and sit on my knee."

This I did, only to be surprised and thrilled to see a beautiful flower or a

sunset. I could not believe it, because from underneath it looked so messy.

Then Mother would say to me, "My son, from underneath it did look messy and

jumbled, but you did not realize that there was a pre-drawn plan on the top.

It was a design. I was only following it. Now look at it from my side and

you will see what I was doing."

Many times through the years I have looked up to my Heavenly Father and

said, "Father, what are You doing?"

He has answered, "I am embroidering your life."

I say, "But it looks like a mess to me. It seems so jumbled. The threads

seem so dark. Why can't they all be bright?"

The Father seems to tell me, "My child, you go about your business of doing

My business, and one day I will bring you to Heaven and put you on My knee

and you will see the plan from My side."

-- Author Unknown

The Garden Of My Heart

One day while thinking about my garden,

God showed me how I could think about

my soul in a different way.

As a flower garden!

He said we could imagine

that when we were baptized,

God gave us this beautiful garden

(Our Baptized Soul).

It is a beautiful garden with

every kind of flower that He envisions for us.

He is giving us this garden to tend to

and we are free to do

whatever we want with our garden.

When we die, we present to God

our garden that He first gave to us.

I thought about everything that

it takes to make a beautiful garden

and how much deliberate effort it takes

to keep the garden free of weeds

and the flowers blooming.

A garden needs sunshine,

which I see is God and his love for us.

A garden needs water,

which I see is the life-giving grace

that he freely gives to us.

In order to have strong and

beautiful flowers and plants,

fertilizer is needed to feed and

nourish the soil and the flowers.

In order for a garden to do well,

the soil needs to be tilled and broken up.

I see this as the struggles and

problems we have in our life.

God lets things happen in our life

in order to soften and nourish the ground

(Our Soul) so that the flowers

can have a perfect environment to grow.

By cooperating with the grace that God gives us

and being open to His will,

we are allowing the seeds

that He has sown for us to grow.

Of course a garden has weeds

that always seem to pop up.

Unless we keep control of these weeds

they can overtake our garden and

choke out all the flowers that were thriving.

I see the weeds as the sin and vice

that can be in our lives

and that can keep us from

being more closely united to God.

We are free to ignore or pay attention

to OUR personal gift from God.

God planted the flowers

and it’s up to us to nourish

and tend our garden.

Finally I see that

WE never planted the flowers

and the plants in our garden.

Our garden is perfectly suited for

us according to Gods eternal plan.

God planted the flowers and it’s up to us

to nourish and tend our garden so that

everything God has planned for us can truly be,

and that at the end of our life

our garden will be most pleasing to our Lord.

Author Unknown To Me

A Prayer for Getting Old

Lord. Thou knowest I am growing older.

Keep me from becoming talkative and

possessed from the idea that I must

express myself on every subject.

Release me from the craving to straighten

out everyone's affairs.

Keep me from the recital of endless detail.

Give me wings to get to the point.

Seal my lips when I am inclined

to tell of my aches and pains.

They are increasing with the years and

my love to speak of them grows sweeter

as time goes by.

Teach me the glorious lesson that

occasionally I may be wrong.

Make me thoughtful but not nosey,

helpful but not bossy.

With my vast store of wisdom and experience

it does seem a pity not to use it all.

But Thou knowest, Lord, that I

want a few friends at the end.

Amen.

~Author Unknown~

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