Spiritual Thoughts

  If  the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it . ~ Lucy Larcom If  you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. ~ Isaiah 58:10

  Friday Tale ~ Why Is There Evil? W hy  did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul!      A science professor at the university asked his students the following question: “Everything that exists was created by God?”     One student bravely answered – “Yes, created by God.” “Did God create everything?” the professor asked.     "Yes, sir," replied the student.     The professor asked, “If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.”     The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.     Another student raised his hand and said, “Can I ask you a question, professor?”    "Of course," replied the professor.     The student got up and asked,...

I f the world seem cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~ Lucy Larcom I 'll tell you what it really means to worship the Lord: to loose the bonds of wickedness... to let the oppressed go free.... is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn ~ Isaiah 58:5-8

M ay you have warm words on a cold evening,  a full moon on a dark night, and  the road downhill all the way to your door. ~ Irish Blessing A reliable messenger is refreshing to the one who sends him, like cold water in the heat of harvest time.  ~ Proverbs 25:13 (GNB)

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind." - Leonardo Da Vinci Therefore, as God's chosen people,             clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and               patience. Colossians 3:12