?Hello my friends! Hope your day is going well - no bad weather where you are, here in MN it's really nice out for now. Snow is almost all melted, but it's not spring yet! Praying for an early spring! Today's blessings are the in-floor heat furnace is fixed now, and hope it's going to work well now. Another blessing was that on this night in 1962 I met a wonderful man, and married him a year and a half later!! It was a dance! Another blessing is that Lori just called and will be here shortly for supper!!
Unhappiness within comes out in an emotional reaction, unlike the happy person
who is slow to anger. Lord, help me to glow in Your presence so that the heat of
the moment doesn't get to me.
S C R I P T U R E F O R T H E D A Y
"Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; give me an
undivided heart to revere your name." ~Psalm 86:11
M E D I T A T I O N F O R T H E D A Y
I believe that life is a school in which I can learn spiritual things.
I can trust in God and God will teach me. I can listen to God and God can
speak through my mind. I can commune with God in spite of all opposition
and every obstacle. There will be days when I will hear no voice in my mind
and when there will come no intimate heart-to-heart communion. But if I
persist, and make a life habit of schooling myself in spiritual things, God
can be revealed to me in many ways.
P R A Y E R F O R T H E D A Y
I pray that I may regularly go to school in things of the spirit. I pray
that I may grow spiritually, by making a practice of all these things.
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Daily Meditation
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"We must stand up for the rights of our neighbour who is suffering from injustice; we must defend them all the more vigorously because we see Jesus present in them. Surely this is our duty because of our love for others for his sake. We have no right to be 'sleeping watchmen' or dumb watch-dogs. Whenever we see evil we must sound the alarm."
— Blessed Charles de Foucauld
Mother Teresa Said...
With God, nothing is impossible. I perceive the infinite greatness that we can tap into. I see how he can work through us. Because you and I have nothing on our own we need him.
As the Bible says, God waits and looks.
Will we respond?
MOST RICHLY BLESSED!
Sometimes I wonder when things go so wrong,
Has God forsaken and left me alone.
Then I remember to follow His quest,
He's always with me, I'm most richly blessed.
I asked for strength that I might achieve,
I was given weakness that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do great things,
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy,
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men,
I was made weak that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life,
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for but everything that I'd hoped for,
And almost despite myself, I am among men, MOST RICHLY BLESSED!
HE'S ALWAYS WITH ME, I AM MOST RICHLY BLESSED!
- Author Unknown
The Onion
I was an onion before Christ set me free.
Layers upon layers of iniquity.
An ugly old onion whose fragrance was strong;
That my Jesus bought and loved all along.
Unknown to me what He was going to do.
Of what He was planning, I had not a clue.
Pulling each layer off one by one.
In order to make me more like Jesus the Son.
The first layer wasn't so bad.
I saw all the sins that I knew I had.
They were easy to fix, just change the way I talk.
And learn more of how He wanted me to walk.
Reading His Word, and learning again;
How to put aside my life of sin.
But the next layer was pulled which hurt more.
He was getting closer to the core.
Unknown what He would find there.
I simply gave it to Him in prayer.
As another layer was removed, He started to cry;
Pulling this layer brought pain to my Father on High.
And I was crying over the sadness I felt;
The brokenness and all of the guilt.
Past memories that I thought were gone;
They were buried under layers disguised in a fragrance so strong.
As onions peel more and more;
And they put tears in our eyes as we get close to the core;
So my Father wept over my pain;
Giving me a balm of comfort and strength to sustain.
"No More Layers." I would scream.
As He continued to peel them off of me.
"I'll have nothing left my Lord, what will I do?
I'll be nothing but a worthless core to you. "
But He just said "Trust me," and continued to peel
I was sure He was blinded to my pain that was so real.
Year after year I shrunk more and more;
Until all that was left of this onion was a core.
It was then that I began to understand;
As the Lord embraced me in His loving hand.
He said, now and only now can you be;
The creation that will minister before me.
Clothed with the righteousness only from above;
Gone are your layers of self so you can be filled with my love.
He took my layers of sin, hurt and pain;
And clothed me with love, truth and mercy in His name.
Yes, we are all onions, learning with each day;
How to overcome as each layer is taken away.
Some layers tear and pull at our heart;
While others grieve us to our innermost part.
But we are nothing but an ugly onion without Christ.
Layers upon layers of pride, sin and strife.
Only God can take those layers away.
And clothe us with His righteousness in that final day.
Author Unknown
Lord Jesus Heal Me
Lord Jesus heal me. Heal in me whatever you see needs healing,
heal me of whatever might separate me from you.
Heal my memory heal my heart, heal my emotions,
heal my spirit, heal my body, heal my soul.
Lay your hands upon me and heal me through your love for me.
Amen
My good Angel, Thou comes from heaven;
God has sent you to take care of me.
Oh, shelter me under your wings.
Lighten my path, direct my steps.
Do not leave me, stay quite near me and defend me against the spirit of evil.
But above all come to my help in the last struggle of my life.
Deliver my soul so that with you it may praise,
love and contemplate the goodness of God forever and ever. Amen
Verse of the Day
"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own."
Philippians 3:10-12
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