Spiritual Thoughts

  S omtimes your joy is the source of your smile, BUT sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy . ~ Thich Nhat Hanh A joyful heart is good medicine. ~ Proverbs 17:22

  Friday Tale - Love's Response H e stood there in his soggy, smelly diaper -  a helpless creature  reaching up to his father.   I marveled that anyone could love this  runny-nosed, candy-smeared,  tear-streaked being  enough to lift him up,  kiss him, and care for his needs.   I heard Your whisper, Lord.  And I remembered  how I came to You --  heartbroken and dirty  from playing in the world.   Thank You, Father,  for picking me up  and loving me  through my unloveliness. . ~ Kitty Chappell L et me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning; For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to You I lift up my soul. ~ Psalm 143:8

  L ack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction . ~ Bits & Pieces L et us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people. ~ Galatians 6:9-10

  T he only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have . ~ Leo Buscaglia A ssemble the people, the men and the women and children and the foreigner who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law. ~ Deuteronomy 31:12

  B eauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart . ~ Khalil Gibran F or you were formerly darknesss BUT now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light for the fruit of the Light  consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth. ~ Ephesians 5:8-9

  P erseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another . ~ Walter Elliott T herefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  fixing our eyes on Jesus.    ~ Hebrews 12:1