Good Morning Everyone,

 

Life is what is happening around us while we are making plans for it.

 

While we are busy thinking, and worrying and feeling sorry,

or stuck in a rut, life keeps moving on.  Precious moments passing,

forever gone, and irretrievable. 

 

Often I think we need a reality check that reminds us we should

be living life rather than letting it pass us by.  We will not come

this way again.

 

Our daily life is a investment.  Make each day count for something.

Plant seeds of love, kindness, hope, and forgiveness.  They will

take root in the lives of those around you and be a blessing and

a Godly example.

 

What do you want to be remembered for?  Are you making it happen?

What goals have you set to make it happen?  Are you frittering your

time away on things that do not profit, but leave you depressed and

feeling hopeless?

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, close in with God, leave your

burdens at his feet, they will be taken care of.  Go out and live life

and be successful, be happy and make a difference.  You will not

pass this way again.  No worry, no problem should be capable of

robbing you of years of your life, and memories you could be

building with others, and investments you could be making in the

lives of others or to improve yourself, physically, spiritually, and

mentally.

 

God bless you my friends.. this is a new day, seize it,

be filled with thanks for the precious gift of a new day.

Make it shine with hope and strength and forgiveness.

Go out and smell the roses, savor your relationships,

and give yourself a day off from your trials and troubles.

 

love always

millie

 

 

Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication

with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your

hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  Finally brethren, whatsoever

things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,

whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever

things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any

praise, think (dwell, on receive, and find strength and joy in) these things.

Philippians 4:6-8

 

 

 

THE ACORN PLANTER

In the 1930s, a young traveler was exploring the French Alps.  He came upon
a vast stretch of barren land. It was desolate. It was forbidding. It was
ugly.  It was the kind of place you hurry away from.

Then, suddenly, the young traveler stopped dead in his tracks.  In the
middle of this vast wasteland was a bent-over old man.  On his back was a
sack of acorns.  In his hand was a four-foot length of iron pipe.

The man was using the iron pipe to punch holes in the ground. Then from the
sack he was carrying, he would grab an acorn and put it in the hole.  Later
the old man talked with the traveler and told him, I've planted over
100,000 acorns. Perhaps only a tenth of them will grow. The old man's wife
and son had died, and this was how he chose to spend his final years. I
want to do something useful, he said.

Twenty-five years later the now-not-as-young traveler returned to the same
desolate area.  What he saw amazed him.  He could not believe his own eyes.
The land was covered with a beautiful forest two miles wide and five miles
long.  Birds were singing, animals were playing, and wild flowers perfumed
the air.

The traveler stood there recalling the desolation that once was; a
beautiful oak forest stood there now - all because someone cared.

By Brian Cavanaugh

 

 

When you reach

the end of your rope
you will find the hem of His garment.

I have often felt that many things that bring us to our knees,
teach us while we are down there to learn to pray.

These possibilities are open to everyone. 
Don't tell God you are not good enough, do what He asks.
Don't tell God to send someone else, He asked you.
Don't tell God you don't have time to pray, He said seek me first.
Don't neglect the things of God.  He said we are to
pick up His cross daily and follow Him. 
Don't tell God anything is bigger than His ability.
God is the Great I Am, I am whatever you need.

There is no pit so deep, God's love is not deeper still.

Not my will but thine oh Lord.

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Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God