Spiritual Thoughts

H e who plants a tree, plants a Hope.  ~ Lucy Larcom   F or to him that is joined with all the living there is HOPE: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. ~ Ecclesiastes 9:4

  W hen you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself. ~ Tecumseh   I n the morning, O LORD, You will hear my voice; in the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch. Let all who take refuge in You be glad, let them ever sing for joy. And may You shelter them, so that those who love Your name may exult in You. ~ Psalm 5:3, 11

  I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with worry, BUT through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie   T hese things I have spoken to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, BUT take courage,    I have overcome the world. ~ John 16:33

  T he past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. ~ Roy T. Bennett   F or you were formerly darkness, BUT now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. ~ Ephesians 5:8, 10

  W e make our living by what we get. We make our life by what we give. ~ Benjamin E. Mays T he King will answer and say to them, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even to the least of them, you did it to Me." ~ Matthew 25:40

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, BUT through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie J esus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.  ~ John 11:25-26

Is the life I'm living the life        that wants to live in me?   -Parker Palmer  So that Christ may dwell in your hearts  through faith--that you, being rooted and   grounded in love..... may know the love of    Christ that surpasses knowledge, that      you may be filled with all the fullness of God. -Ephesians 3:17,19    

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. Edna Ferber And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Luke 9:62

Without the Way there is no going; without the Truth there is no knowing; without the Life there is no living. Thomas a Kempis Jesus said to him, "I am the way , the truth , and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6