Spiritual Thoughts

  W e will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~ Edit Lovejoy Pierce T rust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and  He will make straight your paths. ~ Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV)

W e were a group of friends in the midst of an after-dinner conversation. Because Thanksgiving was just around the corner and prosperity wasn't, we fell to talking about what we had to be thankful for.     One of us said, "Well I, for one, am grateful to Mrs. Wendt, an old schoolteacher who, 30 years ago in a little West Virginia town, went out of her way to introduce me to the works of the poet, Tennyson."     Then he launched into a colorful description of Mrs. Wendt, a lovely little old lady who had been his high school teacher and who evidently had made a deep impression on his life. She had gone out of her way to awaken his literary interest and develop his gifts of expression.     "And does this Mrs. Wendt know that she made that contribution to your life?" someone put in. ...

I f you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal, you only have a wish. ~ Steve Maraboli   T he goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. ~ 1 Timothy 1:5

  W hat a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can not re-read a phone call. ~ Liz Carpenter   B eloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you content earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. ~ Jude 3

T oday is the second blank page of a  365 page book. Write a good one! ~ Brad Paisley (amended)   D o not let kindness and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. ~ Proverbs 3:3

T omorrow is the first blank page    of a 365 page book. Write a good one.    -Brad Paisley T hey read from the book, from the Word of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. -Nehemiah 8:8