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[gloriajean]

Be inspired to try something new and much of what you dream can

become your life. Lord, thank you for giving me the freedom of choice,

and grant me the courage to experience my opportunities and create

new ones.

Scripture for the day:

"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every

affair under the heavens." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1

Meditation for the day:

There is a time for everything. We can learn to wait patiently until

the right time comes. Easy does it. We can waste our energies in

trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have

earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is

how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a

preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right

to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives and that this

plan will work out in the

fullness of time.

Prayer for the day:

I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently. I pray that

I may not expect things until I have earned the right to have them.

Hello my friends! Today was blessed by our visiting my oldest sister, Deil - and she made a wonderful lunch - scalloped potatoes, ribs, and a cauliflower medley, with a wonderful salad plus pumpkin pie. She loves to cook! Remember now she is 90! Linus helped her with health insurance that was over her head. Of course Sammy always gets to go along - he loves Deil and she him. No pain med today - he's much better and we got his Cosequin down him today - yes, he ate some, and at Deil's she fed him ice cream with it mixed in, and he ate it! Deil said the old lady can outsmart him! He was more himself, and not always sleeping all the time like he was here. Very cuddly and enjoying all the attention. The weather was good, so the driving went fine! The only thing he's on now is Cosequin and praying for improvement day by day!! Praying for you all - thanks for your prayers for us.

You give me strength

Holy Spirit when I am weak, You give me strength to carry on.

You comfort me each time I seek Your loving arms to lean on.

You are the Father that I need. You have the wisdom that I lack.

You give me courage to succeed, when I alone, would have turned back.

I may have crosses in my life, but I will never know despair;

for when I seek you in my strife, I know so well you will be there.

Jesus Help Me

Jesus Help me. In every need let me come to you with a humble trust saying, Jesus help me. In all my doubts, perplexities and temptations, Jesus help me. In hours of loneliness, weariness and trials, Jesus help me. In failure of my plans and hopes, in disappointments, troubles and sorrows, Jesus help me.

When others fail me and your grace alone can assist me, Jesus help me. When I throw myself on your tender love, as my Lord and Savior, Jesus help me. When my heart is cast down by failure at seeing no good coming from my efforts, Jesus help me.

When I am ill and my head and hands cannot work and I am lonely, Jesus help me. Always, Always, in spite of weariness, falls and shortcomings of every kind, Jesus help me and never forsake me.

Almighty Lord, before you I come with all my faith, begging you for comfort in my difficulties. Do not forsake me, My Lord. Open your doors, that your almighty arms will open and close as you design to give that tranquility that I so desire.

Oh my God! Receive my supplication from a wounded heart that is always fighting for me with your Divine power. Never let me scramble for want of help.

Almighty Lord, assist me to find shelter in your celestial bounty forever.

Amen

THE GIRL IN THE PINK DRESS

There was this little girl sitting by herself in the park. Everyone passed

by her and never stopped to see why she looked so sad. Dressed in a worn

pink dress, barefoot and dirty, the girl just sat and watched the people go

by. She never tried to speak. She never said a word. Many people passed by

her, but no one would stop.

The next day I decided to go back to the park in curiosity to see if the

little girl would still be there. Yes, she was there, right in the very spot

where she was yesterday, and still with the same sad look in her eyes.

Today I was to make my own move and walk over to the little girl. For as we

all know, a park full of strange people is not a place for young children to

play alone. As I got closer I could see the back of the little girl's dress

was grotesquely shaped. I figured that was the reason people just passed by

and made no effort to speak to her.

As I got closer, the little girl lowered her eyes slightly to avoid my

intent stare. As I approached her, I could see the shape of her back more

clearly. She was grotesquely shaped in a humped-over form.

I smiled to let her know it was OK; I was there to help, to talk. I sat down

beside her and opened with a simple, "Hello." The little girl acted

shocked, and stammered a "hi," after a long stare into my eyes. I smiled and

she shyly smiled back.

We talked until darkness fell and the park was completely empty. I asked the

girl why she was so sad. The little girl looked at me with a sad face

said, "Because I'm different." I immediately said, "That you are!" and

smiled. The little girl acted even sadder and said, "I know."

"Little girl," I said, "you remind me of an angel, sweet and innocent." She

looked at me and smiled, then slowly she got to her feet and said, "Really?"

"Yes, you're like a little Guardian Angel sent to watch over all those

people walking by." She nodded her head yes, and smiled. With that she

opened the back of her pink dress and allowed her wings to spread, then she

said "I am. I'm your Guardian Angel," with a twinkle in her eye. I was

speechless -- sure I was seeing things.

She said, "For once you thought of someone other than yourself. My job here

is done."

I got to my feet and said, "Wait, why did no one stop to help an angel?" She

looked at me, smiled, and said, "You are the only one that could see me,"

and then she was gone. And with that, my life was changed dramatically. So,

when you think you're all you have, remember, your angel is always watching

over you.

-- Author Unknown

Thanks, Lucy for sending this:

How Great is our God!!! Our Creator and Redeemer . . . and do we THINK about it ??? God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs.. . . . .For example: the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days; those of the canary in 14 days -those of the barnyard hen in 21 days; The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days; those of the mallard in 35 days; -The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.

(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)

God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant.

The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.

The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!

God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains.

-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.

-Each orange has an even number of segments.

-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.

-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.

-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.

-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.

-All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold all even numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day. Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!

The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end.

May God Bless You In Ways You Never Even Dreamed.

The Bible

When you carry "the Bible", Satan has a headache, when you open it, he collapses, when he sees you reading it, he loses his strength, AND when you stand on the Word of God, Satan can't hurt you!