Daily Devotional and Daily Quotes

[Treed]

Excellent quote ! Nice approach to life in general....

[ndavis021410]

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8 (see also verses 9 -12)

[oceancat46]

Everyone holds a luminous jewel,
All embrace a precious gem;
If you do not turn your attention
Around and look within,
You will wander from home
With a hidden treasure.

- Dogen (1200-1253)

[cjspas]

May today there be peace within. May we trust God's highest power that we are exactly where we are meant to be. May we not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May we use those gifts that we have recieved and pass on the love that has been given to us. May we be content knowing that we are the children of God. Let God's presence settle into our bones and allow our soul the freedom to sing, dance and bask in the sun. It is there for each and everyone of us.

St. Theresa of the Roses.

[ndavis021410]

Loving Reminders
Sunday, September 17, 2006 by Anabel Gillham
Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying, "Thus far the Lord has helped us."
1 Samuel 7:12

Ebenezer:
A stone commemorating God’s intervention
in very difficult circumstances. Samuel set it there
to be a reminder to him of the presence of God
IN his circumstances.

* * *

Lord, I should have some "Ebenezers" stacked around.

How far You have come with me—have led me—have helped me. How I thank You for Your lovingkindness, Your compassion, Your patience, Your design for my life.

When I look back over the years, Lord, it is absolutely incomprehensible to imagine where I would be if You had not been there to bring me through those difficult circumstances, those stress-filled days.

Yes, I need an Ebenezer so that when I’m thinking the way is too difficult and I just won’t make it, I can turn around and look . . . a rock to remind me: " Thus far the Lord has helped me." Why should I think He has reached a point where He isn’t going to be there any longer?

I’m sorry, dear Lord. I want to learn.
Excuse me, please. I have to go find a stone.

[DG]

That was a good devotion today Nancy.

Here's the link for a hymn that mentions the Ebenezer. I find this hymn quite comforting and reassuring.

www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/comethou.htm

[Ayesa86]

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."--F. Scott Fitzgerald

[oceancat46]

I explain to you matters
Pertaining to enlightenment,
But don’t try to keep your mind on them.
Just turn to the ocean of your own essence
And develop practical accord with its nature.

- Yangshan

[klees]

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

from Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne (and Winnie the Pooh).

[klees]

and also....

Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there someday.

[klees]

and last but not least...

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you." --Winnie the Pooh.

[DG]

Love that klees


Romans 8
31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."[l] 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord

[ndavis021410]

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

[oceancat46]

Mark Twain on Admiration --

ADMIRATION
It is human nature to take delight in exciting admiration. It is what prompts children to say "smart" things, and do absurd ones, and in other ways "show off" when company is present. It is what makes gossips turn out in rain and storm to be the first to tell a startling bit of news.
- The Innocents Abroad

[Ayesa86]

This one goes to a certain friend of mine:

"I do not aim with my hand.
He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my Eye.

I do not shoot with my hand.
He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my Mind.

I do not kill with my hand.
He who kills with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my Heart."

--The Gunslinger's Catechism, by Stephen King

[ndavis021410]

....^^

Thanks hun....I'm writing this one down, cause you know....I'll forget....Perfect...

[ndavis021410]

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[suzy]

Principles only mean something if you stick to them when they are inconvernient

[ndavis021410]

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

[Ayesa86]

First come smiles, then the lies, and finally gunfire..."---Roland Deschain of Gilead.