Spiritual Thoughts

  I t is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ~ Samuel Johnson F or it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. For Christ also died once for sins, the just for the unjust,  so that  he might bring us to God. ~ 1 Peter 3:17-18

  W hatever happenes to you, your attitude determines   the quality of your life. ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie T herefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ~ 1 Petger 1:13

  T he greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. ~ William James P ut off your old self, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteous ness and holiness. ~ Ephesians 4:22-24

  L ove doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones BUT  the goal of our instruction is LOVE from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. ~ 1 Timothy 1:15

  Friday Tale ~ Meal Fund T hey call it “lunch shaming.” I call it cruelty. For nearly four decades, I stood by and saw it play out in my classroom’s shadow. Then one ordinary Tuesday, I finally broke the rules. My name is Daniel Whitmore. For 38 years, I’ve been a history teacher. My days were spent inside gray cinder block walls, with shelves of fraying textbooks and the steady drone of the dismissal bell at 2:15 every afternoon. I taught U.S. history—wars, speeches, the Great Depression. I told my students about bread lines, dust bowls, and families that had to scrape together pennies just to put food on the table. But the hardest lesson wasn’t in any chapter. It happened every day in the cafeteria. It was a Tuesday when I noticed it with new eyes. One of my quieter sophomores, Jamie, a boy who sat at the back of third period, was in the lunch line. He was a good kid, always sketching little Union soldiers or Civil War cannons in the margins of his notes. That day, when he got t...

  D o not anticipate trouble, or  worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~ Benjamin Franklin BUT  the worries of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful. Cast all your anxiety on God,  because He cares for you. ~ Mark 4:19 & 1 Peter 5:7