Spiritual Thoughts

  T he greatest wealth is to live  content with little . ~ Plato K eep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." ~ Hebrews 13:15

  Love  is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made . ~ Daren L. Johnson L et us not love with just word or with tongue,  but  in deed and truth. ~ 1 John 3:18

  I  will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear . ~ Jewel F inally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might, .... taking up the shield of  faith  with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of evil. ~ Ephesians 6:10, 16

  D arkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. L ove does not rejoice in evil, BUT  rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:6-7

  Friday Tale ~ The Power of Presence T he  last time my father, Frank, drove a car, he left it idling in the driveway for three hours — keys in the ignition, radio softly playing an oldies station from the 60s. A neighbor had to come knock on the door. That was the day we knew. The world, for him, had to get smaller. He’s 87 now. His universe has shrunk to the four walls of the home he built in 1968, after coming back from Vietnam. His longest journey these days is from the old leather armchair — the one molded perfectly to his shape — to the porch swing out front. There, with his coffee and his silence, he watches the world move on without him. I drove down last Sunday. Not because it was his birthday, or a holiday, but because of that quiet, guilty feeling in my gut that said, go while you still can. He was in his chair, as always, the TV too loud and the coffee too strong. When he saw me through the screen door, his face softened into that slow, worn smile I’d been missing...

  L ove reduces friction  to a fraction. ~ Bob Wilson H atred stirs up strife, BUT  love covers all transgressions. ~ Proverbs 10:12