Spiritual Thoughts

Friday Tale - STUFF? or TIME????   Y ou always have enough time if you use it wisely.  Don't serve time, make time serve you.   The TRUTH is, that all of the “STUFF” here on earth we work SO hard to buy and accumulate, does NOT mean a thing compared to how we spend our TIME.       At the end of our day...people will be cleaning out our "STUFF", going thru our "STUFF", figuring out what to do with all of our "STUFF".... this "STUFF" we've accumulated in our life. The only thing of VALUE that remains are the MEMORIES and what we deposit into others.   May we all learn to spend less time accumulating "STUFF" and spend way more time making MEMORIES.   Our lives are not determined by what happens to us BUT by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, BUT by the attitude we bring to life.”   To choose time is to save time.   So count your blessings and share each enjoyed moment! ~ Jim Gentil (amended

  Friday Tale - H.M.W.I.P.   "H ow d o you do it?” I asked him. “How do you always seem to have a smile on your face?” My jovial friend, who seems to have mastered the sense of calm, contentment, and joy all of us are desperately after, looked up with twinkling eyes. “HMWIP.”   “Whip who? What?”   “HMWIP,” he said again, before spelling it out. “H-M-W-I-P.”   “What does that mean?”   “Well, throughout the course of my day, I stop to ask myself, ‘HMWIP,’ which stands for ‘How Much Would I Pay?’. If I just finished eating lunch, I think about how much I would be willing to pay for the opportunity to eat food with my mouth if that capacity should ever be taken from me and my eating experience confined to a feeding tube.   If I am washing my hands after using the restroom, I think, ‘HMWIP!’ – if I had some kind of infection that prevented my body from functioning properly, how much would I pay to be able to use the restroom as I just did?   If I look up at the clouds i

I n a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories and steps, be a rebel and county your blessings instead . ~ Lisa Heckman   M any, LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, the things You planned for us. None can compare with You; were I to speak and tell of Your deeds, they would be too many to declare! ~ Psalm 40:5

I n their own way, problems can be blessings. They can be the prod to get us out of our complacency and into action. ~ Unknown   C onsider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ~ James 1:2-4

  A true friend is the greatest  of all blessings. ~ Francois de la Roucefoucald   G reater love has no one that this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. ~ John 15:13-14

  G ratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary  opportunities into blessings. ~ William Arthur Ward   F or everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude. ~ 1 Timothy 4:4

  I n their own way, problems can be  blessings. They can be the prod  to get us out of  our complacency  and into action. ~ Unknown   Consider it nothing BUT joy whenever you fall into various trials. Be assured that the testing of your faith through experience produces endurance, leading to spiritual maturity and inner peace. ~ James 1:2-3 (Amplified)

  M ay the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of His hand. ~ Irish Blessing   T he LORD bless you, and keep you; The LORD make His face shine on your, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance on you, and give you peace. ~ Numbers 6:24-26 

Friday Tale: Commandments For Today! 1.        Thou shall not worry, for worrying is the most unproductive of all human activities. 2.    Thou shall not be afraid, for most things we fear never come to pass. 3.    Thou shall not cross bridges before thou comes to them. 4.      Thou shall not handle but one problem at a time, leaving the others to The Lord until their proper time. 5.      Thou shall not take troubles to bed, for they make poor bedfellows. 6.      Thou shall not try to carry the problems of the world  on your shoulders, for only One hath a back that strong. 7.      Thou shall be a good listener, for God often speaks  through the mouths of others. 8.      Thou shall not try to relive yesterday, for good or ill, it is gone forever. Live and rejoice in today. 9.      Thou shall dismiss feelings of frustration, for they are rooted in self-pity and interfere with positive action. 10.    Thou shall count thy blessings, never overlooking  the smallest, for

R eflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~ Charles Dickens A s you share your faith with others, I pray that they may come to know all the blessings Christ has given us. ~ Philemon 1:6

S ometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by holding onto the past or thinking negatively. Start letting go. ~ Author Unknown D on't remember the former things; don't dwell on things past. Watch! I'm about to carry out something new! ~ Isaiah 43:18-19 (CEV)

M ay your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door! ~ Unknown A faithful man will abound with blessings. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to love Him.  ~ Proverbs 28:20 with Deuteronomy 28:2

G ratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. ~ William Arthur Ward T herefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship....  ~ Hebrews 12:28

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld F aithful are the wounds of a friend.  ~ Proverbs 27:6

T alk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems. ~ Author Unknown N ot that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content.  ~ Philippians 4:11

T o be grateful for all life's blessings.... is the best condition for a happy life. A joke, a good meal, a fine fall day, a work of art, a human personality, a voice, a glance - BUT this is not all. For there is another kind of gratitude....  the feeling that makes us thankful for suffering,  for the hard and heavy things of life,  for the deepening of our characters  which perhaps only suffering can bring. ~ Thomas Mann  T hrough him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. ~ Hebrews 13:15

T he hardest arithmetic to master is that   which enables us to count our blessings.  - Eric Hoffer             B lessed is the one You choose and bring near,     to dwell in Your courts!  We shall be satisfied with the     goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple! -Psalm 65:4