Spiritual Thoughts

Friday Tale ~ Tapestry of Life A s I faced my Maker at the last judgment, I knelt before the Lord along with all the other souls. Before each of us laid our lives like the squares of a quilt in many piles. An angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life. But as my angel took each piece of cloth off the pile, I noticed how ragged and empty each of my squares were. They were filled with giant holes.   Each square was labeled with a part of my life that had been difficult, the challenges and temptations I was faced with in everyday life. I saw hardships that I endured, which were the largest holes of all. I glanced around me. Nobody else had such squares. Other than a tiny hole here and there, the other tapestries were filled with rich color and the bright hues of worldly fortune. I gazed upon my own life and was disheartened.   My Angel was sewing the ragged pieces of cloth together, threadbare, and empty, like binding air. Fina...

  E very man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ Leslie Nielsen   N ow the one who plants and the one who waters are one, BUT each will receive his own reward according to his labor. ~ 1 Corinthians 3:8

  Friday Tale - Reflection - Image   Malachi 3:3 says: " He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.”   This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.   That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.  As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.   The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says:   "He sits as a...