What is missing from c h _ _ c h ?
From Romans 12:4-5: “For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.”
From Psalm 146:1-2: “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.”
Singing praises to Holy Lord
Looking up to heavens beyond
Rejoicing, filled with His glory
Trusting faith, believers respond
Building our daily faith and hope
Targeting His grace for our needs
Magnifying love with mercy
Looking upon each tender reed
Blessing earth’s next generation
Doing great things, God is His name
Showing almighty, loving strength
Lighting our way, eternal flame
Watching over His creation
Conceiving heavens high above
Reigning forever and ever
Downloading His infinite love
From Luke 1:46-48: “And Mary said, ‘My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for He has looked with favor on the lowliness of His servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed.'”
The world makes all kinds of promises about love, acceptance, and self-worth, but they never last. Only Jesus can fill our empty souls for eternity.
From John 4:13-14: “Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.'”
Papa had always been sort of set in his ways. Some might even say he’d become much too old-fashioned, but he took pride in being thrifty with a dollar.
My brother, Nick, walked up to Papa one afternoon and explained his dilemma, “My old, worn-out phone needs to be replaced. All of the guys at school own a way better one than mine.”
Looking up from his magazine, Papa firmly replied, “Ain’t broke yet!”
A few days later, Mama called out to her husband in a voice filled with distress. Her washing machine was on the fritz . . . again. Papa made a couple of quick fixes, and then told Mama, “Ain’t broke yet!”
Mama always told me, “Papa has always been a penny pincher, just like his dear ol’ Papa.”
A couple of weeks later, the zipper on my outdated winter coat was stuck. Running to Papa, I tried to convince him to buy me a new coat, “Papa, this old coat is just worn out. Don’t you think it’s time to buy me a new one?”
Papa took my coat. After fiddling with the zipper for a couple of minutes, he brought it back to me with a proud smile on his face, “Ain’t broke yet!”
The next morning, Papa was sitting at the breakfast table, and he was looking over the advertisements in the newspaper. A dashing, new pick-up truck caught his eye, and he imagined himself driving it down the street for everyone to see. With his usual humble confidence, he announced to the rest of us, “I am thinking of trading in the ol’ truck for a brand new one. She has quite a few miles on her.”
In unison, we all shouted, “Ain’t broke yet!”
This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.
Before the 1900s, people rarely wore wristwatches. Men carried pocket watches and women often attached watch fobs to their dresses. During World War II, however, the Army issued wristwatches to soldiers in order to give them quicker access to time, and when these veterans returned home, they brought the wristwatches back and popularized them.
Not only was the couple depicted in the painting “American Gothic” not husband and wife (or father and daughter), they weren’t even farmers. The man was artist Grant Wood’s dentist; the woman was Wood’s sister.
These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
English novelist and journalist, George Orwell (1903-1950), was an outspoken political commentator, but he was much better known for his literary works, including the novels 1984 and ANIMAL FARM.
Pessimism
Gloomy predictions
Tossing them out
Believing in brighter tomorrow
Confidence
Temptation
Refrigerator’s pleasures
Sweet, salty, fat
Waiting to sabotage body
Goodbye
Life
Daily philosophy
Follow these words
“Just do it”—yes!
Fearless
At the core, everything begins with the relationship we have within ourselves.
Knowledge of the self is the root of all knowledge.
From Ecclesiastes 3:1: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.”
Winter’s dormant, gray months
Nature taking her break
Gathering strength for spring
Life’s welcoming handshake
People face frozen times
Seeking spirit’s rebirth
Darkness returns to light
New season blesses earth
Summer’s shining moments
Nature’s blooming color
Autumn’s blessed pause waits
Hourglass sand grows smaller
Happiness seeks to shine
Hope filling eager hearts
Spirit nurtures man’s faith
Risen Lord, life restarts
Through nature’s creation
Breathing with perfect poise
Order to life itself
God’s divine plan deploys
Life’s transition wakens
Rising sun shares reasons
Joy, sorrow, gain, or loss
Renewing fresh seasons
From Genesis 8:22: “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
All of history looks back at that moment–to the tragedy and triumph of that cross. First the crucifixion, then the resurrection of the Son of God.
From Romans 5:8: “God proves His love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.”
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