MUST SEE Quote of the Day!

Yawn!

Rolling over . . .

Pulling sheet over head . . .

I’ll deal with it tomorrow . . .

Wonder why life is so disappointing?

On the other hand:

“Only put off until tomorrow

what you are willing to die having left undone. “

  Pablo Picasso

Worship Wednesday – Two Quotes To Bless You

 [ For the director of music. A psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

 Psalm 19:1-2 NIV

“Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.” 

1 Samuel 3:9-11

Quote of the Day – The Specialist

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

- Theodore Roethke -

Boy, am I glad all I have to specialize in is loving Jesus!  I can’t make the impossible happen, but He can and I’m counting on it!

 

Martha’s Worship Wednesday Quote

Abundance doesn’t follow giving

until giving becomes its own reward.

- Jan Denise -

 

Copyright 4-23-2013 Martha L Shaw

Is God A Stranger?

Yes, you read that correctly.  Is God a stranger?  My heart and soul says a loud NO, but read this quote:

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.

- Paul Theroux -

Now, the most important question of all . . . why is it so often easier for us to believe in and trust strangers than God Himself?  We do trust strangers with our lives everyday.  Do we trust Him less? Equally?  Far, far more than these?

 

 

Get Back On The Bike – A Quote About Discipleship

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

I really like this quote.  Great illustration of being intent on staying on the path we believe Jesus leads us on.  I am recalling also that as a kid I loved riding my bike and could always be found doing so, but there was a dirt road in my neighborhood which was full of holes and puddles built up and there were rocks . . . going around the block meant some smooth places and some rough patches.  Paying attention, much like keeping my focus on Jesus, was sometimes tricky so once I did crash.  Flipped over the handle bars and scratched my arms and skinned my knees.  Like Jesus when I stumble on His path, Mom and Dad were not far from me way back then.  My scrapes and such were cared for and I was soon back on my bike and on the smoother road where I could maintain my balance and keep moving.  If I gave up on riding, I would be unlikely to go places and life wouldn’t have been nearly as satisfying.  The chance to see, to do, to be, to grow . . . would have been lost. Sure, I might have gotten a scrape now and then, but the alternative?  A well-balanced life . . . or life sitting on the front steps.  You decide.

Simple . . . Miraculous

Miraculous and simple?  In one thought?  Well, in truth, we focus so on what seems complicated that we miss the blessings and miracles which are poured out in such great abundance every day.   Does our intensity of focus on the “big” things change anything?  I believe not.  When I work at fixing everything that “needs my attention” I get in the way of Him who truly can deal with it all . . . my job?  Praise, trust, love, thanksgiving . . .

Some quotes to ponder:

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

- Nelson Mandela -

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

Law of Love

I must share this.  It is the second time in as many minutes in which the Lord placed the command to love before me and I believe He intends it to be shared.  I sit here in intense pain and facing a low paying very physical part-time job and searching for strength and peace . . . in the room the tv is on and the familiar Boston accent is on the air speaking of the tragedy, lost limbs, lost lives in my former homeland of Boston.  My pain brings tears to my eyes, but how much deeper is the pain those many many people feel just now . . . the pain of broken hearts.

Love heals.  Let’s try hard to reflect His love . . .

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8

Darkess Or Light – A Quote

Leave the door open to the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.  - Rebecca Solnit -

Our trust in the Lord changes things, changes us, changes our perspective on darkness versus light.  When we open the door in our hearts and let Him in, we follow the unknown path but with His hand in ours.  Thus the darkness has a new light.  It has been forever changed, as have we.

Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous. - Psalm 112:3-5

Martha’s Saturday Thought of the Day

This world is so full of destructive forces.  There is no challenge at all in finding words of hopelessness and negativity.  As Christians it is our duty, our commission to be the voice of hope.  We are failing.  Let’s try harder, shall we?

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

Job 5:15-17