The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.
From Genesis 15:5-6: “He brought him [Abram] outside and said, ‘Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then He said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’ And he believed the Lord, and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness.”
This poem is designed with every three verses using a modified Haiku format (with the first and third verses rhyming). The verses alternate between God’s exhortations (the odd verses) and our responses (the even verses).
From the words of American pastor and Christian teacher, Charles Stanley: “We can trust God because He works all things together for His good and just purpose.”
Sharing grace-filled love
Crafting His divine message
Caring from above
Sowing lasting seeds
Trusting Father’s sacred Word
Following His creeds
Blessing through faith’s way
Teaching us His righteousness
Molding lives each day
Accepting God’s grace
Believing His Holy way
Living in His space
Freeing from sin’s net
Writing life’s newest chapter
Changing heart’s mindset
Walking in new light
Stepping onto hope’s worn path
Feeling life take flight
From Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”
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.
In the twelfth century, modern tennis was born when monks introduced a racquet into the handball game that they played against monastery walls. The name came later, however, when French nobility latched onto the sport and their servants took to calling “tenez” (which translates to “hold on” or “take heed”) just before the ball was tossed into play.
The man who gave Jack Russell terriers their name was Reverend John “Jack” Russell, an English clergyman who bred dogs as a hobby. Although he developed the eponymous fox terrier offshoot in the 1800s, the breed wasn’t recognized by the American Kennel Club until 1997.
These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).
God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how.
From Galatians 4:4-5: “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.”
Hearing hope-filled words
Again and again
Different story
Always same message
Better tomorrow’s
Waiting in the wings
Whatever issue
Life’s hollow words sting
Today’s hope searching
Empty souls stare out
Yesterday shattered
Future dreams snuffed out
Confidence shaken
Sunrise uncertain
Starving for action
Grieving voices weep
Life struggles onward
Energy waning
From smallest ember
Hope’s flame still glowing
The wheels of life stand never idle, but go always round.
The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. Remain spiritually tenacious.
From Psalm 46:10: “Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations; I am exalted in the earth.”
No matter what you have or don’t have, true wholeness comes from Jesus alone.
From Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Written and published in June, 2019, this short story is an early attempt with humorous, flash fiction.
Photo by R. Fera on Pexels.com
Pete has been planning a well-deserved, solitary fishing trip for months. His actual plans have remained a secret—especially from his nauseating cousin, Wilbur.
Wilbur always meddles in Pete’s affairs. So much so, he even frightened away the love of Pete’s life.
Pete is ready to make his “secret” trip for some rest and relaxation. He anticipates fantastic weather, superb fishing, and time all to himself. Paradise awaits!
As Pete enters the lobby of the sleepy, little motel in a tiny, isolated town, he agonizingly hears, “Good Buddy! How ya doin’ cousin Pete?”
Vacation paradise . . . Never!
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
From Romans 5:3-5: “And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
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