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Maya Angelou Quotes

Posted on June 22, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

From 2 Thessalonians 5:16-18: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. Her body of published work is found in autobiographies, essays, poems, and numerous credits in plays, movies, and television shows.

Monday Memories: Love Triumphs

Posted on February 10, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

From 1 Corinthians 13:13: “And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”

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Living hollow life without love

Nothing but emptiness, thereof

Disconnected faith fills our veins

Minus love, tall mountains remain

Mankind’s meaningless possessions

Forgotten in life’s recessions

Worldly knowledge, means so little

Love gently binds, never brittle

Love arrives with Holy kindness

Patience without any blindness

Never arrogant or hateful

Without envy, always grateful

Jesus teaches, love each other

Sincere love, sisters and brothers

Caring God so loved this dark world

Christ’s own unselfish love unfurled

From a blood-stained Cross comes His Grace

Love speaks out, sin falls on its face

Our Lord offers His Holy gift

Faith, hope, love . . . no longer adrift

God’s Word delivers life’s new lease

Love triumphs, building lasting peace

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From the words of Christian theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr: “The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as a historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.”

Originally published September, 2020.

Elmer L. Towns Quotes

Posted on January 4, 2025 by bigskybuckeye

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Gratitude is the least remembered of all virtues but is the acid test of character.

We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.

Elmer L. Towns (born 1932) is an American pastor and Christian writer. Along with Jerry Falwell, he co-founded Liberty University in 1971.

Lionel Hampton Quotes

Posted on December 7, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. As a composer and arranger, he wrote more than 200 works.

Berthold Auerbach Quotes

Posted on September 26, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) was a German poet and novelist.

Knowing Jesus

Posted on June 9, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Lamentations 3:55-56: “I called on Your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit; You heard my plea, ‘Do not close Your ear to my cry for help, but give me relief!'”

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Facing distant horizon

Lingering darkness ahead

Knowing Jesus always hears

Providing His daily bread

Thirsting for living water

Drawing drink from Jacob’s well

Knowing Jesus always hears

Giving thanks, gratefulness swells

Waiting follows each sunset

Rising sunrise, full of hope

Knowing Jesus always hears

Scaling Zion’s mighty slope

Kneeling at Calvary’s cross

Praying for redemption’s seed

Knowing Jesus always hears

Harvesting from tender reed

Seeking His mercy’s comfort

Looking to heavens above

Knowing Jesus always hears

Responding with steadfast love

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From Lamentations 3:22-23: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.”

Morning’s Gentle Spirit

Posted on May 23, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Gray, overcast skies

Precious rain descends

Morning’s gentle spirit

Welcome back dear friend

Time’s hands standing still

Serenity shares

Fine mist of heaven’s grace

View from kitchen chair

Songbirds’ harmony

Nearby thicket sings

Always perfect pitch

Soft feather’s bowstring

Everlasting gift

Calm shower transcends

Sweetness cascading down

Thank you dearest friend

Grateful for this day

Filled with freshest hope

Morning calls, “Come again”

Now, down periscope

Louise Hay Quotes

Posted on May 9, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay (1926-2017) was an American author and motivational speaker.

Charles Stanley Quote

Posted on April 7, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Since God has rescued us from the bondage to sin, forgiven us, and brought us into His family, grateful obedience should be our response.

From Acts 5:17-21: “Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy, arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, brought them out, and said, ‘Go, stand in the temple and tell the people the whole message about this life.’ When they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and went on with their teaching.”

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