Spiritual Thoughts

Friday Tale - Lift Up Your Eyes   B etween Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, with the United States on one side and Canada on the other, flow the waters of the Niagara River. This waterway is one of the most beautiful natural regions of the world.   Compared with other rivers the Niagara is not a great river. It is only 34 miles long, less than a mile wide and seldom over 21 feet deep. The thing that makes the Niagara River significant is Niagara Falls.   The river flows along quietly at five miles an hour. Then, six miles below Buffalo there is a break in the even flow of the stream. At this point, about midway in the river, the Niagara plunges 158 feet—500,000 tons of water a minute into the steep-walled gorge below.   As the raging waters are shattered and bruised on the rocks beneath the falls there is cast up into the sunlight the beautiful rainbow of the Niagara. You who have been there know firsthand what a breathtaking sight it is. ...

  T here's always failure. And there is always disappointment.  And there's always loss. BUT the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of these holes are vacuums. ~ Michael J. Fox   G ive instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser; Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning; The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. ~ Proverbs 9:9

"What looks like a loss may be the every event     which is subsequently responsible for helping          to produce the major achievement of your life." - Srully D. Blotnick Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ. Philippians 3:8