Spiritual Thoughts

  E very day we are given small opportunities to bring someone joy that can make a huge difference in a life . ~ Delilah (radio host) H ow lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and  brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation! ~ Isaiah 52:7

 The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. ~ Louis L'Amour   Now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light  trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. ~ Ephesians 5:8, 10

  Friday Tale ~ Rich I once asked my Aunt, Dora Jane, who raised me as if she were my mother where we stood on the spectrum between rich and poor. I said, "I know we live well and have money, but we don't have millions of dollars.  What does that make us?"  She responded by saying, "I beg your pardon!  We are rich, we have always been rich and we will always be rich!"  I responded, "But Auntie, we don't have money like the Getty's."  She interrupted me and said as she pointed to her heart, and then to her head, "Rich is in here and up here. You will always be rich in heart and mind. If you have a lot of money that makes you wealthy. If you have no money, that makes you broke.  You see, richness is a state of mind; not how much money you have. It does not matter how much you have that counts in life. It's what you do with what you have than counts. And so long as you remember that you will always be rich."   ~ Jake Ehrlich III L is...

  T here are no shortcuts to any place worth going . ~ Beverly Sills  A ll these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.  But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. ~ Hebrews 11:13, 14, 16

  A ny person of angering you  becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him .  Epictetus H e who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,  and he who rules his spirit,  than he who captures a city. ~ Proverbs 16:32

  Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or achitecture or anything elese, is always a portrait of himself. ~ Samuel Butler In all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified. ~ Titus 2:7