Raise your words, not
your voice.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
~ Rumi
The mouth of the
righteous flows with wisdom but the perverted tongue will be cut out. There is
one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of the sword, BUT the tongue of the wise
brings healing.
~ Proverbs 10:31; 12:18
If you are not content with what you have,
you would not be satisfied it if were doubled.
~ Charles Spurgeon
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out of it. BUT if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
~ 1 Timothy 6:6-8
The trouble is, if you
don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong
Search me, God, and know
my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive
way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
~ Psalm 139:23-24
Friday Tale - The Weight of Prayer
Louise Redden,
a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery
store. She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked
if he would let her charge a few groceries. She softly explained that her
husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they
needed food.
John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at
her and requested that she leave his store. Visualizing the family needs, she
said: "Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I
can." John told her he could not give her credit, as she did not have a
charge account at his store.
Standing beside the counter was a
customer who overheard the conversation between the two. The customer walked
forward and told the grocer that he would stand good for whatever she needed
for her family. The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, "Do you have a
grocery list?"
Louise replied "Yes sir!"
"O.K." he said: "Put
your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will
give you that amount in groceries."
Louise, hesitated a moment with a
bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and
scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale
carefully with her head still bowed. The eyes of the grocer and the customer
showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down. The grocer staring
at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, "I
can't believe it."
The customer smiled and the grocer
started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did
not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the
scales would hold no more. The grocer stood there in utter disgust.
Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper
from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement. It was not a grocery
list, it was a prayer, which said: "Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am
leaving this in your hands."
The grocer gave her the groceries that
he had gathered and placed on the scales and stood in stunned silence. Louise
thanked him and left the store. The customer handed a fifty dollar bill to John
as he said, "It was worth every penny of it."
It
was sometime later that John Longhouse discovered the scales were broken; it
would seem that only God knows how much a prayer weighs.
~ Unknown
A just balance and scales
belong to the LORD;
all the weights
of the bag are His concern.
~ Proverbs 16:11
It is not the weight of things that matters. It is all about our balance within.
~ Unknown
Do your best to improve
your faith. You can do this by adding goodness, understanding, self-control,
patience, devotion to God, concern for others and love.
~ 2 Peter1:5-7
The foundation stones for
a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
~ Zig Zaglar
As for you, always be
steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.
~ 2 Timothy 4:5
Change must always be
balanced with some degree of consistency.
~ Ron D. Burton
To everything there is a
season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time
to die.
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-2