Daily Devotional and Daily Quotes

[DG]

I try to share daily w/ Nancy what my devotion is for the day.. I read it online every morning. I'm going to start putting them here, if this offends anyone please let me know and I will go back to sharing them privately. Since I've come back it is more apparent than ever that we all have battles that we are facing. This is the stuff that helps me get through it. I hope it can help someone else too.

The following verses are also a praise song that I have sung often. How awesome it is to know that God allows us to start over.

Psalm 17
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

[Ayesa86]

"Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities."--H.P. Lovecraft (Herbert West-Reanimator).

[ndavis021410]

"Lord Jesus, you have the words of everlasting life. Help me to cast aside doubt and fear and to embrace your word with trust and joy. I surrender my life to you. Be the Lord and Captain of my heart, my will, my thoughts and my actions. May there be nothing which keeps me from you and your love."

Psalm 34:2-3,16-22

[beachgirl]

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[cjspas]

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it; for I shall not pass this way again."

Stephen [Ettiene] Grellet, 1773-1855
Quaker Minister

[Ayesa86]

"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one."--Glenn Beck.

[DG]

Psalm 18
1 I love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

3 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and I am saved from my enemies.

4 The cords of death entangled me;
the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

5 The cords of the grave coiled around me;
the snares of death confronted me.

6 In my distress I called to the LORD;
I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came before him, into his ears

[ndavis021410]

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

[oceancat46]

I'm glad you feel comfortable sharing your daily devotional here DG - and so glad Nancy started this thread - no matter what everyone's different beliefs are we can find something uplifting and positive in what is said!

Grace is within you;
Grace is the Self.
Grace is not something to be acquired from others.
If it's external, it is useless.
All that is necessary
Is to know its existence in you.
You are never out of its operation.

- Ramana Maharshi

[Ayesa86]

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."--Oscar Wilde

[DG]

It does feel like people are struggling more than usual right now. I know that I am. I don't know what's going on in the world, but I do know that several people that I care about are hurting. It sucks..All I can do is pray and remember scriptures like this prayer from David in Psalms 17. If anyone knew anything about handling struggles it was David. And I wonder why I keep going back to Psalms day after day right now.

6 I call on you, O God, for you will answer me;
give ear to me and hear my prayer.

7 Show the wonder of your great love,
you who save by your right hand
those who take refuge in you from their foes.

8 Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings

9 from the wicked who assail me,
from my mortal enemies who surround me.

[ndavis021410]

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

[Treed]

ndavis021410 said:

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

I like that one, Nancy. Power of positive thinking....

Here's another....

Today, I seek what is real and lasting in my life. I look beyond appearances and choose what nourishes my soul.

[DG]

Cecil is really into hymns and he introduced me to several really powerful ones. Here are the lyrics to the first verse of "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing," one of my new favorites.

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

[ndavis021410]

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18

[lilucy]

"Happiness…not in another place, but this place…not for another hour, but this hour…" ~~ Walt Whitman

OXO
Lucy

[Ayesa86]

"Never knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run like hell. He hates that!"--Anonymous

Not my usually depressing-isms, but still.

[DG]

Another song.. How I wish that I could remember this always in the dark times
Blessed Be The Name of the Lord by Matt Redman

Every blessing you pour out,
I turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say...
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name

[ndavis021410]

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

[Ayesa86]

"If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.