Spiritual Thoughts

   I t's not what you gather, BUT what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. ~ Helen Walton  L ight is sown like seed for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart. ~ Psalm 97.11

  P lant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. ~ Lois L. Kaufman A  friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity. The sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. ~ Proverbs 17:17 and 27:9

  I f we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth shows faith. ~ Gail Sheehy (amended)   N ow the parable is this: the seed is the word of God. But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance. ~ Luke 8:11, 15

  F riday Tale - Seeds   A successful  business-man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business.     Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together and he told them: "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you."     The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued, "I am going to give each one of you a SEED today -- one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO."     One man, Jim, and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and, excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, s...

  W hen we sow a seed, we plant a narrative of future possibility. ~ Sue Stuart Smith   J esus said, "What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches." ~ Luke 13:18-19

Friday Tale - Because K eep your Thoughts Positive. Because your Thoughts become your Words.          Keep your Words Positive. Because your Words become your Behavior.          Keep your Behavior Positive. Because your Behavior, becomes your Habit.          Keep your Habits Positive. Because your Habits become your Values.          Keep your Values Positive. Because your Values become your Destiny. ~ Unknown Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~ Bill Meyer Y ou keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. ~ Isaiah 26:3

T he gospel spreads as a seed,   not a potted plant. ~ Unknown J esus said another parable to them, "The Kingdom of God is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, BUT when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants....". ~ Matthew 13:32-32

Don't judge each day by the    harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson   The kingdom of heaven may be      compared to a man who sowed        good seed in  his field.  -Matthew 13:24 

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow – - perhaps it all will. -Albert Einstein "Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well." -Ecclesiastes 11:6