Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.
From Ezekiel 36:26: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
David Wilkerson (1931-2011) was an American evangelist, Christian author, and pastor.
Winter’s fading breath
Discovering light
One final snowflake
Springtime taking flight
Winter pushed aside
Taking rest once more
Moved from nature’s shelf
Change coming ashore
Time bursting forward
Sharpening each thought
Landscape’s fresh colors
Lessons being taught
Young and old smiling
Finding spring abloom
Nature turns its page
Song fills every room
Daylight grows longer
Feeling warmth each day
April showers come
May flowers will stay
Life’s faithful rhythm
Rising overnight
Harmony fills hearts
Love found at first sight
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The annual awakening of spring’s rebirth is sown with our Creator’s love.
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(Updated January 30)
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
Happiness is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020) was an American writer of suspense novels.
From Nehemiah 8:9: “And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, ‘This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.’ For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.”
Journey flowing with peace
Tasting God’s blessed Word
Faith’s truth shall never cease
Sending His grace, freshly stirred
Spirit lifts up God’s voice
Rising with morning sun
Trust’s blessed, hopeful choice
Delivering through His Son
Scripture filled with God’s law
Teaching with righteous breath
Hope grows, never withdraw
Bringing light, defeating death
Forgiveness floods each heart
Raising man’s salvation
Joy’s beloved restart
Praising faith’s new foundation
Unity found in Christ
Shepherding hope-filled flock
Debts paid, blood sacrificed
Grasping mercy’s steadfast rock
From Psalm 19:14: “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.”
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Our continuing faith is built upon a bedrock of trust in God.
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(Updated January 29)
The common response to trials is resistance, if not outright resentment. How much better that we open the doors of our hearts and welcome the God-ordained trials as honored guests for the good they do in our lives.
From 1 Peter 1:6-7: “In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.
Horizon brightens
Greeting day with gentleness—
Morning’s quiet voice
Light’s clouded journey
Sunrise waiting with patience—
Soon sharing glory
Dawn’s early face glows
Shadows camouflage landscape—
Snowflakes dancing free
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Each morning God greets us with a welcoming sign of His perpetual presence . . . sunrise.
Do you write a daily journal? This inspiring thought comes from my journal, and much of what is written in my journal comes from reading and commenting on other bloggers’ posts. Thanks to many of you for adding so much to my journal.
(Updated January 28)
Friendship is a golden chain, the links are friends so dear.
Time is not measured by the years that you live, but by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give.
Helen Steiner Rice (1900-1981) was an American writer who specialized in Christian and inspirational poetry.
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