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These three words—I love you—indeed, they build a lasting and cherished relationship with each daily ribbon wrapped in God’s blessings.
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 April 23)
The life we create is useful to God only if it is consistent with Jesus Christ’s foundation.
From 1 Corinthians 3:10-11: “According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.”
The past is the prism through which we see a great, great deal of ourselves.
Life’s passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
People, places, and things were never meant to give us life. God alone is the author of a fulfilling life.
From Psalm 23:5-6: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.“
From 1 Corinthians 13:12-13: “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”
Cherishing quiet love
Humble and enduring
Admiring devotion
Always reassuring
Abiding sacred vows
Uniting and growing
Living as single one
True love overflowing
Sharing unbridled truth
Caring for love’s duet
Overcoming troubles
Joy shines at each sunset
Hearing love’s small whispers
Blessing each day and night
Confessing true feelings
Boundless and holding tight
Listening to God’s love
Nurturing lifetime’s stage
Embracing each moment
Unhurried as we age
Expressing her unique songwriting and blessed voice about love’s feelings, Dolly Parton sings “I Will Always Love You.”
This is a new type of post, which will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.
Mockingbirds traditionally mimic the sounds and songs of other birds, but mockingbirds found in New York City have been known to imitate police sirens, car alarms, buses, and the beeping of garbage trucks being driven in reverse.
When Herman Melville’s classic, Moby Dick, was first published in America, it bombed, selling only 3,797 copies in its first thirty-six years in print.
These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).
Don’t need a tourist destination to “celebrate” life. Take time to explore the treasures in your own backyard.
You attract what you give out.
Life’s game passing by
Parked on lonely bench
Watching each inning
From this dugout’s trench
Endless time marching
Week following week
Absent from big plays
Life looking more bleak
Dreaming great moments
Where are they hiding?
Just needing one chance
Few hopes backsliding
Opportunity!
Finally knocking
Time to really shine
Eagerness rocking
Now just swing away
Life’s batter’s box calls
Confidence beaming
Stepping in, “Play ball!”
In the film, “The Natural,” starring Robert Redford, Roy Hobbs finally gets his big chance to step into the batter’s box. Here is the scene from the film. Indeed, life and baseball find ways to complement each other.
The drive for happiness is vital; it’s what keeps us in motion.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
The sufferings that the Lord allows in our life are given to us for His good purpose. Whenever God allows suffering to remain, He gives grace to endure it.
From 2 Corinthians 12:7-9: “Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.'”
