Hmm... something to think about
What we weave in time we will wear in eternity.
Do the best you can – but rejoice with those who do better!
Sent in by Mr John Davies, Powys
I believe…
- two people can look at the same thing and see something totally different.
- the happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything they have.
- that heroes are the people that do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
Source: ‘I believe’, Warwickshire Woman magazine.
People who live in tough times become either ‘bitter’ or ‘better’.
Transformed living in tough times by John Ed Mathison, Alban Books.
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world – and might even be more difficult to save.
Mere Christianity by C.S.Lewis (Book IV, chapter 10, Nice People or New Men).
Prayer
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Rev Dr Reinhold Niebuhr. From Uncommon Prayers for Younger People collected by Cecil Hunt.
Unanswered prayer?
The preacher’s five-year-old daughter noticed that her father always paused and bowed his head for a moment before starting his sermon. One day, she asked him why.
‘Well Honey,’ he began, proud that his daughter was so observant of his messages. ‘I’m asking the Lord to help me preach a good sermon.’
‘Well, how come he doesn’t do it?’ she asked.
Source: www.jokesaboutreligion.com
I do not believe God is a micromanager or that everything happens because God wills it. In fact, one overarching message of the Bible for me is that much of what happens in the world is not God’s will. From the Bible’s opening story of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit to its closing story of the forces of darkness waging war against God at Armageddon, human beings are repeatedly guilty of doing the opposite of what God commands.
When Christians get it wrong by Adam Hamilton (page 73)
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