VERSE TO PONDER
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea."
- Psalm 46:1-2 (KJV)
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CONSIDER
“This is a cheerful world as I see it from my garden under the shadows of my vines. But if I were to ascend some high mountain and look out over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see: brigands on the highways, pirates on the sea, armies fighting, cities burning; in the amphitheaters men murdered to please applauding crowds; selfishness and cruelty and misery and despair under all roofs. It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasure of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus ,are the Christians- and I am one of them.”
- Cyprian
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CONSIDER
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."
- Barbara Johnson
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ON REPENTANCE
“Repentance is the doorway to the spiritual life, the only way to begin. It is also the path itself, the only way to continue. Anything else is foolishness and self-delusion. Only repentance is both brute-honest enough, and joyous enough, to bring us all the way home.â€
- Frederica Mathewes-Green, from her essay, "Both Door and Path"
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BE A SUCCESS
"I learned early in life that if you want to get ahead, you have to work. Success, no matter how you define it, doesn't come easily. Most of us developed a solid work ethic in college. We worked long hours on summer jobs to save up for the coming school year. Many of us not only went to class and stayed up late doing our homework but held down part-time jobs as well. Sure, it wasn't easy, but it was what we did, what it took to become successful.
"Along the way, we met the love of our lives. Do you remember that instant when you fell head over heels and knew you had found the person you wanted to be with for the rest of your life? If you're like me, you would have done anything for them. Even though you were on a Steak and Shake budget, you'd work extra hours to be able to take them to a five-star restaurant (and that should have been a clue). Nothing was too good for them when it came to gifts, and no matter what it took, you would show up with something special you bought to show how much they meant to you.
"Your sweetheart most likely would have preferred spending those overtime hours with you, just sitting under a tree in the park. Ditto for your kids -- all those long days to buy the bigger house and the nicer car and what they really wanted was to wrestle with you on the living room floor when you came home for dinner.
- Louis Upkins Jr., Treat Me Like a Customer
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CONSIDER
"This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way. The process is not yet finished, but it is actively going on. This is not the goal but it is the right road. At present, everything does not gleam and sparkle, but everything is being cleansed."
- Martin Luther
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"Then Job answered the Lord: 'I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted ... I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know ... I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.'"
- Job 42:1-6
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