Spiritual Thoughts

  Y ou can't do anything about the length of your life,  BUT you can do something about its width and depth. ~ Evan Esar  S o teach us to number our days, so that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.  ~ Psalm 90:12

  T oday, examine your beliefs, your actions, your wants,  to determine whether they still represent your highest purpose. Choose your Habits, Choose your Life. Your habits are your life. ~ Jonathan L. Huie A nd endurance develops maturity of character. And character produces the habit of joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. ~ Romans 5:4 (Amplified)

  W e do not need to proselytize either by our speech or by our writing.  We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. ~ Unknown S how yourself in all respects to be a model of good works and in your teaching show integrity and dignity. ~ Titus 2:7-8 (ESV)

  L ife is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what is happening out there. It is how you take it that counts . ~ Denis Waitley D evote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it, with an attitude of thanksgiving. ~ Colossians 4:2

  L ife is an escalator: You can more forward or backward; you cannot remain still. ~ Patricia Russell-McCloud BUT  one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining foward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 3:14

  Friday Tale - One Solitary Life He was born in an obscure village. He worked in a carpenter shop until he was about thirty. He then became an itinerant preacher. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He didn't go to college. He had no credentials but Himself. After preaching three years, the public turned against Him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to His enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While He was dying, His executioners gambled for His clothing, the only property He had on earth. He was laid in a borrowed grave. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned have not affected the life of man on the earth as much as that  ONE SOLITARY LIFE. ~ Unknown B eing found in appearance as a man, He humb...

  T ime is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can deetermine how it is spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~ Carl Sandburg T herefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise BUT,  making the most of your time, because the days are evil. ~ Ephesians 5:15-16

  Friday Tale - Train of Life   A t birth, we board the train and meet our parents, and we believe they will always travel by our side.                 As time goes by, other people will board the train, and they will be significant, i.e. our siblings, friends, children, and even the love of your life.                 However, at some station our parents will step down from the train, leaving us on this journey alone.                 Others will step down over time and leave a permanent vacuum.                 Some, however, will go so unnoticed that we don't realize they've vacated their seats.          ...

  Friday Tale - One Solitary Life   H e was born in an obscure village the child of a peasant woman.  He grew up in still another village where He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years, He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never owned a house. He never went to college. He never visited a big city.  He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born.  He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness. He had no credentials but Himself.  He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against Him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to His enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.  He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for His clothing, the only property He had on earth.  When He was dead He was laid in a...

  W ith gratitude, all life appears as a blessing;  without gratitude, all of life is perceived as a burden. ~ Jonathan L. Huie   A s you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, abounding in thanksgiving. ~ Colossians 2:6-7

T he more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ~ Oprah Winfrey   B ecause Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips will praise You. So I will bless You as long as I live,  I will lift up my hands in Your name. ~ Psalm 63-3-4

  J esus received what he did not deserve, so that we could receive what we do not deserve. ~ Unknown   H e himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by his wounds you are healed. ~ 1 Peter 2:

  L ife is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what is going to happen next. ~ Gilda Radner   T herefore, be careful how you walk, not as unwise, BUT as wise ones, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. ~ Ephesians 5:15-16

  L ife is what we make it; always has been, always will be. ~ Grandma Moses   W hatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going. ~ Ecclesiastes 9:10

  T here is no wealth BUT life. ~ John Ruskin   D id not God choose the poor of this world to be RICH in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promises to those who love him? ~ James 2:5

  L ife has no remote. Get up and change it yourself! ~ Mark A. Cooper   Y ou therefore beloved, grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ~ 2 Peter 3:18

  T he price of anything is the amount of  life you exchange for it. ~ Henry David Thoreau BUT where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can silver be weighed as its price. Behold the reverential and worshipful fear of the LORD - that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding. ~ Job 28:12, 15, 28

  L ife is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in it, you don't get anything out. And that's the truth. ~ W. C. Handy   L et us therefore make every effort to enter that rest of God, to know and experience  it for ourselves. ~ Hebrews 4:11 (Amplified)

  J esus will empty the tombs  and melt the winter of death. ~ Max Lucado     D eath is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? BUT thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ 1 Corinthians 15:55, 57

  L ife is to live, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt   T hese things I have spoken to you so that my joy may be in your, and that your joy may be made full. ~ John 15:11