Don’t Waste Your Life

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

Don’t waste your minutes… They are gold.  Minutes turn into hours and hours into days, and days into years.  Time is your greatest treasure.  Fill it’s moments with gold before this all too brief life slips away.

Don’t waste your money and resources … you traded a part of  your life to earn it. Only invest in the things that are important, and worth trading part of your life for.

Don’t waste your opportunities … They may never come your way again.  Time changes things… some doors only open for a little while.

Don’t waste your talents … There is only one you. No one else can play your song, or paint your picture, or love with your love.

Don’t waste your dreams….  every good dream has something in it for the life of the world. Don’t waste time dreaming for something you don’t have a plan to achieve. Nothing is impossible with God.

Don’t waste your thoughts… think good thoughts, productive thoughts. Focus on how you can make things better.  It is easier to see and say how things are. Leaders see how things can be and should be, and inspire others to get on the track.

Cherish every life, every moment, every talent… You will pass through this world but once.

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Greeting The Day

Posted on October 21, 2011 by admin
“Seek Him that makes the seven stars and Orion and that turns the shadow of death
INTO THE MORNING.”Amos 5:8

“Most of us have forgotten how to greet the day. The knowledge is all but lost to us that
a new day is sacred:a gift from God, a rare and precious gift. A new day brings with it
another opportunity to start over, to raise one’s head from the pillow with a glad heart,
to watch the clouds roll across the dark sky now duffusing pink, and to breathe that child
prayer of gratitude, “Oh God, life again. Again, one more day of life.”

  
We must relearn how to stand in awe, how to face for a moment the eastern sky with praise and thanksgiving and allow our hearts to be filled with a corresponding inner daybreak of adoration. We must never learn to take for granted – no matter how pain- filled our life – that we are alive and the earth still turns on its axis, that evil has not wobbled the world off its course while we slept; and we must understand this sacramental symbol, this reenactment of life which comes resurrecting every twenty-four hours. Celebrating each new day helps us develop the ability to be grateful for all new moments and for the God who is in each one.The discipline of celebrating each new day influences our attitude toward all of life. A new day signifies; “The Lord of Mornings is still sovereign over the world.” (Karen Burton Mains)
 

SCPIPTURE READINGS FROM THE PSALMS
“This is the day The LORD has made; I will rejoice and be glad therein.” 

“My voice shalt thou hear in the MORNING, O LORD; IN THE MORNING
I shall direct my prayer unto thee And will look up”

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh IN THE MORNING”

Evening, MORNING and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and He shall hear my voice.”
 
“Those living far away fear your wonders; Where MORNING dawns and evening fades 
you call forth songs of joy.”
 
“Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness IN THE MORNING for in Thee do I trust.
Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk For I lift up my soul unto Thee.”

“Satisfy us IN THE MORNING with your unfailing love that we may sing for joy and
be glad all our days.”

“I will sing of thy power  Yea, I will sing aloud of  Thy mercy IN THE MORNING
for thou hast beenmy refuge and my defence in my day of trouble.” 

                                      
                                                 

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Excerpt From The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Posted on October 11, 2009 by admin

 

“It grew harder and harder, Even within these four walls there
was too much misery, too much seemingly pointless suffering.
Every day something else failed to make sense, something else
grew too heavy. Will you carry this too, LORD Jesus?

“But as the rest of the world grew stranger, one thing became
increasingly clear. Our Bible was the center of an ever-widening
circle of help and hope. Like waifs clustered around a blazing
fire, we gathered about it, holding out our hearts to its warmth
and light. The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and
truer and more beautiful burned the Word of God. “Who shall
separate us from the Love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …
Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him
that loved us.”

“I would look around us as Betsie read, watching the light leap
from face to face. More than conquerors… It was not a wish.
It was a fact. We knew it, experienced it minute by minute -
poor, hated, hungry. We are more than conquerors. Not we shall
be. “We are!” Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate
levels mutually impossible. One the observable, external life,
grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with
God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.

“Sometimes I would slip the Bible from its little sack with hands
that shook, so mysterious had it become to me. It was new. It
had just been written. I marveled sometimes the ink was dry…”
Corrie Ten Boom

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