Make it your goal to be someone that you would like to spend the rest
of your life with. Lord, help me approach my day interested in everything
that happens so that my life will truly be an adventure.
S C R I P T U R E F O R T H E D A Y
"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have
love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." ~1 Corinthians 13:1
M E D I T A T I O N F O R T H E D A Y
"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have
love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." Love means to care
enough about other people to really want to do something for them. A
smile, a word of encouragement, a word of love, goes winged on its
way, simple though it may seem, while the mighty words of an orator
can fall on deaf ears. We can use up the odd moments of our day in
trying to do some little thing to cheer up another person. Boredom
can come from thinking too much about ourselves.
P R A Y E R F O R T H E D A Y
I pray that my day may be brightened by some little act of charity. I
pray that I may try today to overcome the self-centeredness that can
bore me.
Greetings my friends! Tomorrow (Sunday) is already Palm Sunday - and
following that is Holy Week! Easter is coming closer! Hope you all had a
good Lent. Today's blessings for me was our friends, Ray and Ann, over for
the evening meal, and a nice, long visit. Such wonderful friends God gave
us - true blessings! We served ham steak on the grill along with sweet
potato fries, and I made some broccoli and a good salad. Sugarless
Wildberry Pie for dessert we bought from Perkins. I thank God for the food
I could serve.
PRAYER TO MARY CONSOLER OF THE AFFLICTED
O Immaculate Mary, Dear Mother, Consoler , I take refuge in your most
lovable Heart with all the trust of which I am capable .You shall be
dearest object of my love and my veneration.
From you , the dispenser of heavenly treasures , I shall always seek
peace in my troubles , light in my doubts ,defence in my dangers ,help in
my needs .
Be therefore my refuge my strength , my consolation O Mary Consoler .
At the hour of my death , graciously receive the last beats of my heart,
and obtain for me a place in that heavenly country,where as one , all
hearts shall praise forever the adorable Heart of Jesus , with your
most lovable Heart , O Mary , my Mother, Consoler of the Afflicted , pray
for us , who have recourse to you
"BAD THINGS, GOOD RESULTS"
-author unknown-
"...the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the
furtherance of the Gospel of Jesus"
Phil. 1:12
Being in prison is NOT pleasant, but it CAN bring good results. In fact, I
was converted through this experience...
The Apostle Paul didn't like being detained for preaching the Gospel, BUT he
was grateful even in prison. Officials and guards were HEARING the Gospel
and BELIEVING in JESUS. His example was challenging MANY Believers to a NEW
Zeal and fearlessness in PROCLAIMING Jesus Christ.
Over and over the Lord transforms UNPLEASANT and PAINFUL situations into
something beneficial. Think of the massacre of Jim Elliot and his four
missionary companions by Auca Indians in Ecuador in 1956! Their martyrdom
challenged MANY young people to surrender their lives for missionary
service. It also was a factor leading MANY of these Aucas to become fervent
followers of Jesus.
Think of Joni Eareckson Tada! She became a paraplegic as a teenager. But
today she carries on a unique and helpful ministry to the Christian
community. Not to mention the countless many others who have changed lives
through something bad that has happened to them.
If you are hemmed in by bad circumstances, DON'T give in to despair,
self-pity, or bitterness. Instead TRUST JESUS for HIS STRENGTH. Thousands
CAN testify that their bad times changed their lives for GOOD. And in Heaven
MANY martyrs are REJOICING in the REALIZATION that through dying they HAVE
ADVANCED the cause of Christ.
YES, for a child of JESUS, bad things CAN produce AWESOME results... just
TRUST JESUS to pull you through whatever it is your going through for it ALL
is for a reason and that reason IS for GOOD.
I thank Jesus for the bitter things
They've been a " friend of grace "
They've driven me from paths of ease
To SEEK the Fathers face.
The difficulties of Life
Are intended to make us BETTER -- NOT Bitter.
JESUS LOVES YOU!!
Your Cross
The everlasting God has in His wisdom
forseen from eternity that cross that He now
presents to you as a gift from His all-knowing
eyes, understood with His Divine mind, tested
with His wise justice, warmed with loving
arms and weighed with His won hands to see
that it be not one inch too large and not one
ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it
with His Holy Name, anointed it with His
grace, perfumed it with His consolation, taken
one last glance at you and your courage, and
then sent it to you from Heaven, a special
greeting from God to you, an alms of the
all-merciful love of God.
-----------St. Frances de Sales
All through today, O God, help me,
to be quick to praise and slow to criticize;
to be quick to forgive and slow to condemn;
to be quick to share and slow to be selfish.
Grant me all through today,
complete control over my temper, that I may be slow to anger;
complete control over my tongue, that I may speak no hasty word.
Grant that all through today,
so that I may help everyone and hurt no one;
so that I may find true joy in living. Amen.
THE PARACHUTE
Author Uknown
March 31, 2012
Charles Plum, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot
in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a
surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected & parachuted into enemy hands.
He was captured & spent six years in a Communist prison.
He survived that ordeal & now lectures about lessons learned from
that experience.
One day, when Plumb & his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at
another table came up & said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in
Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"
"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
"I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise
& gratitude. The man pumped his hand & said, "I guess it worked!"
Plumb assured him, "It sure did-if your 'chute hadn't worked, I
wouldn't be here today."
Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says,
'I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a Navy uniform-a
Dixie cup hat, a bib in the back, and bell bottom trousers. I wondered
how many times I might have passed him on the Kitty Hawk. I wondered
how many times I might have seen him & not even said good morning, how
are you or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot & he was
just a sailor.
Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden
table in the bowels of the ship carefully weaving the shrouds &
folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the
fate of someone he didn't
know. Now, Plumb asks his audience, 'Who's packing your parachute?'
Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through
the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes
when his plane was shot down over enemy territory-he needed his
physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, &
his spiritual parachute."
He called on all these supports before reaching safety. His
experience reminds us all to prepare ourselves to weather whatever
storms lie ahead.
SUGGESTION: Recognize people who pack your parachute & strengthen
yourself to prevail through tough times.
Enjoy the Lord's Day - remember to keep Holy His Day and have a very restful
Sunday. God bless you.
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