Spiritual Thoughts

  Friday Tale - God's Victory   S hout to the Lord, all the earth,   break out in praise and  sing for joy!.  ~ Psalm 98:4   Psalm 98 celebrates the power and victory of God. It calls us to praise him because of what he has done to save the world. In fact, Psalm 98 beckons creation itself to join in the song of praise, including the sea, the rivers, and the hills.   Almost three centuries ago, Psalm 98 inspired an English hymn writer, who published a collection of his composition based on the Psalms. Almost all of Isaac Watts’ hymns have been long forgotten, except one. The second part of his two-part hymn based on Psalm 98 remains popular today. It’s most likely that you could sing at least one verse from memory, maybe more.   That hymn is the favorite Christmas carol, “Joy to the World.” If you take the words of the carol and lay them alongside Psalm 98, you’ll see many parallels. For example, the root of “Joy to the world, the Lord is come”...

L earn from yesterday, live for today.  ~ Albert Einstein   W alk as children of Light trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. ~ Ephesians 5:8, 10

I hope that in this year to come you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You are doing things you have never done before, and more importantly, you are D oing S omething..  ~ Neil Gaiman   C ease to do evil, L earn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow. ~ Isaiah 1:17