Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... January, February and March, 2016

Thanks Meg! I love those praying hands.

Proverbs 3...

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. AMEN!

Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
~How Great Thou Art~

God bless our troops!
God bless America!
They shall mount up with wings like eagles....

prayers up

My bad...clicked reply on wrong thread.

Good Sunday Evening

Thank you so much for coming by today and sharing your lovely music,
scripture and graphics.
Prayers for those affected by the storm
May God Grant you A Lovely Evening And Restful Sleep

Lovely, Megs! You have the best eye for frames and color of anyone I know! :)

What a lovely thing to say, (((LUV)))!

Thank you.

Thank you, Dear FRiends, for the Beautiful Daily Pings.
(((((Sweet Dreams, and God Bless)))))

The Early Morning

The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other:
The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother.
The moon on my left and the dawn on my right.
My brother, good morning: my sister, good night.

Hilaire Belloc

Happy Monday Morning, Everyone!

We're almost through January!

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Careless Words

January 25, 2016

The tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.

James 3:5

My daughter has had a lot of ill health recently, and her husband has been wonderfully caring and supportive. "You have a real treasure there!" I said.

"You didn't think that when I first knew him," she said with a grin.

She was quite right. When Icilda and Philip got engaged, I was concerned. They were such different personalities. We have a large and noisy family, and Philip is more reserved. And I had shared my misgivings with my daughter quite bluntly.

I was horrified to realize that the critical things I said so casually 15 years ago had stayed in her memory and could possibly have destroyed a relationship that has proved to be so right and happy. It reminded me how much we need to guard what we say to others. So many of us are quick to point out what we consider to be weaknesses in family, friends, or work colleagues, or to focus on their mistakes rather than their successes. "The tongue is a small part of the body," says James (3:5), yet the words it shapes can either destroy relationships or bring peace and harmony to a situation in the workplace, the church, or the family.

Perhaps we should make David's prayer our own as we start each day: "Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips" (Ps. 141:3).

Father, please curb my careless speech and put a guard on my tongue today and every day.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. Proverbs 25:11 nkjv

Insight:

Marion Stroud went to be with the Lord on August 8, 2015. Since 2014 she has been writing devotional articles for Our Daily Bread that have touched the lives of readers around the world. Marion worked as a cross-cultural trainer for Media Associates International, helping writers produce books for their own culture. She has been a role model for writers for many years and is missed by hundreds of friends.

Wonderful and relevant story today!

Oh my! So true. There are words being said on this forum to each other that are so insulting and hurtful. I avoid commenting for fear I might catch the disease.

I absolutely agree. This election has brought out the worst in many

It’s always bad when choosing a Presidential candidate...but this year I despair over the venom.

I agree, it has been bad on facebook too. I have over 2000 friends and am on the radio a lot. I have bounced people for being so bad, the vitriol is terrible. Never seen it this bad. So I avoid many threads because of it.

You can disagree but why try to destroy someone? Never understand it.

Not one person changes his candidate because someone calls them a stupid troll, a fool, or worse.

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When Questions Remain

January 26, 2016

He knows the way that I take.

Job 23:10

On October 31, 2014, an experimental spacecraft broke apart during a test flight and crashed into the Mojave Desert. The copilot died while the pilot miraculously survived. Investigators soon determined what had happened, but not why. The title of a newspaper article about the crash began with the words "Questions remain."

Throughout life we may experience sorrows for which there are no adequate explanations. Some are catastrophic events with far-reaching effects while others are personal, private tragedies that alter our individual lives and families. We want to know why, but we seem to find more questions than answers. Yet even as we struggle with "Why?" God extends His unfailing love to us.

When Job lost his children and his wealth in a single day (Job 1:13-19), he sank into an angry depression and resisted any attempted explanations by his friends. Yet he held out hope that someday there would be an answer from God. Even in the darkness Job could say, "[God] knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold" (23:10).

Oswald Chambers said, "There will come one day a personal and direct touch from God when every tear and perplexity, every oppression and distress, every suffering and pain, and wrong and injustice will have a complete and ample and overwhelming explanation."

Today, as we face life's unanswered questions, we can find help and hope in God's love and promises.

For more on this topic, read Why Doesn't God Answer Me? on discoveryseries.org/hp112

When we face unanswered questions, we find help and hope in God's love.

Insight:

The date and author of the book of Job is unknown. Some scholars suggest that Job lived at about the same time as Abraham and that Moses is the author. When Job's three friends heard about his sufferings (Job 1-2), they offered an explanation. Over three rounds of debate (Job 4-14; 15-21; 22-27) they argued with Job that suffering is always a result of sin (4:7-9; 8:4-7). Rejecting their explanations, Job sought to find an answer directly from God (23:1-5). At a time when Job needed Him most, God was seemingly absent (vv. 8-9). Yet despite the silence and lack of answers, Job entrusted himself to God's ways and drew strength from God's Word (vv. 10-12).

~Good Morning Everyone~

~Happy GratiTuesday~
We enjoyed a 70s day yesterday and will be in the 50s
later today.
I am grateful for this gentle weather and hope you
get a break, too.

Beautiful, MEG!

Spring Can't Come to the Phone Right Now . . .

Spring can't come to the phone right now...
She's flown to distant hills
to dabble speckles on a fawn
and fling out daisy spills.

When she re-mosses forest floors
and pulls back Winter's pall,
she'll batten down the daffodil
and then return your call!

To teach the wren her little song
will take an hour or two-
Striping birches lasts awhile,
so wait and she'll call you.

You'll know when April comes again -
She'll cause your heart to leap.
Just close your eyes and listen
to her message at the "beep".

Charlotte Partin

A Happy GratiTuesday to everyone here at Amy's Place!