Showing posts with label Henry Ward Beecher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Ward Beecher. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Giving Is True Having - Thoughtful Tuesdays


It is the Thoughtful Tuesday today.
There are many people who have been close to God and have given us good thoughts to meditate on.
God's Word gives us many verses we need to pray about.
Today is dedicated to those thoughts, ideas, verses and words that make us think and make us want to be closer to God.
Here are today's thoughts!
 

All men are tempted.  There is no man that lives that cannot be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Henry Ward Beecher
 
 
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.  To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:2-3
The English Standard Version
 
 
 This post is part of the Thoughtful Tuesdays series.
 
 

Monday, September 22, 2014

Evil Is Only Goodness Gone Bad - September 22nd


“Badness is only spoiled goodness.”
C.S. Lewis in The Case for Christianity

All that cool badness, all the revelry, going against the rules, breaking things and lives and standing against the authority.

All the rebels without a cause of the world are just people who's goodness has been spoiled.

That delicious evil we want to follow, is only goodness gone rotten.

The smell we so seek, are the fermented fumes of the dead and composing goodness in us.

The evil does not exist alone.

It is only the shadow and the absence of light.

The evil is only goodness gone bad.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Your word is lamp unto my feet - (Not so) Wordless Wenesday



Teach us to number our days, 
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, Lord! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us--
yes, establish the work of our hands.
Psalm 90:12-17 NIV


Psalm 119:105
Thy word isa lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Blessings for Saturday




May your Saturday be filled with blessings.

Let this weekend nourish you and kindle a new strenght in you.

Let it be filled with rest, happiness and laughter.

May your family be around you, and your loved ones.

May your day be filled with love.

 

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
― C.S. Lewis


 “For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings



“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings


“Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day
the blueprint of your life
would begin to glow on earth,
illuminating all the faces and voices
that would arrive to invite
your soul to growth.

Praised be your father and mother,
who loved you before you were,
and trusted to call you here
with no idea who you would be.

Blessed be those who have loved you
into becoming who you were meant to be,
blessed be those who have crossed your life
with dark gifts of hurt and loss
that have helped to school your mind
in the art of disappointment.

When desolation surrounded you,
blessed be those who looked for you
and found you, their kind hands
urgent to open a blue window
in the gray wall formed around you.

Blessed be the gifts you never notice,
your health, eyes to behold the world,
thoughts to countenance the unknown,
memory to harvest vanished days,
your heart to feel the world’s waves,
your breath to breathe the nourishment
of distance made intimate by earth.

On this echoing-day of your birth,
may you open the gift of solitude
in order to receive your soul;
enter the generosity of silence
to hear your hidden heart;
know the serenity of stillness
to be enfolded anew
by the miracle of your being.”
― John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
― Henry Ward Beecher