Happiness occurs between the ears. The ears owner is responsible...
now it's starting to make sense...
Posted on 03/22/2008 12:20:39 PM PDT by LouAvul
Life is like a flower. Vibrant, at first. Overcoming all odds to produce something unequivocal. For a while, it's beautiful. Then it's gone. Barely even a memory.
Mark Twain said it best, “A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle;…they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow;…those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It (the release) comes at last—the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them—and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence,...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.”
Are you okay?
But all the griefs of life melt away into insignificance in the Light and Presence of the Lord.
That’s where to look no matter what temporary, temporal, circumstances may surround you.
It means an extreme change or new birth in your life. It is also a death of a friendship or other ending event.
“In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” -1 Thessalonians 5:18.
When Corrie Ten Boom was in a Nazi Concentration camp, her barrack was infested with fleas. One night when reading this passage, Corrie’s sister exclaimed, “God wants us to thank Him for the fleas.” Corrie said, “No way! I’m NOT going to thank God for these infernal fleas!”
Their nightly bible study had started to attract more women, and Corrie worried that they would get caught. At one point she asked, “Why don’t the Nazis ever come to check on us?” “The Nasiz won’t come near this place because of the fleas” was the answer. Then she exclaimed, “God, thank You for the fleas!”
http://eighthfloorgirl.blogspot.com/2005/11/thank-god-for-fleas-mosquitoes-and-bad.html
What dream is dead?
First --- is or was the 'dream', one of truth, or not?
This most certainly can be a difficult question.
Then regardless of wether or not it can be determined if a dream was a real promise or not;
One may rest in, remembering [father] Abraham.
Though told and given a promise when he was still young, it was not until he and his wife were old, that the promise began to come true here on this earth. Messengers were sent to him more than once also, reaffirming the promise, yet still time passed.
We see today, that those promises made, did come true. They are still coming true, bit by bit.
Not one jot or tittle shall be unfulfilled, till all passes away...
We're not there yet. Keep going! 8^)
You’re in my prayers.
That’s a good one! I’d forgotten it. Thanks for bring back.
and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence,...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.”
I had written that in the leaf of my HS yearbook in 1970.
I still have that.
I was always so. - Still am.
Happiness occurs between the ears. The ears owner is responsible...
now it's starting to make sense...
Is there a woman in the center of your pain?
Start indiscriminate killing.
Mark Twain is too depressing.
I hope he's dead.
Hillary??,...is that you???
(just kidding)
On a serious note, adversity in life and in death is inevitable. Stress is optional.
Seriously look into what ‘all that Jesus-stuff’ is about.
When we simply look to God, by humbling ourselves and placing Him as a focus, and accepting He has provided a mechanism by which He provides for us in all things, even though on face value it seems nowhere obviously present, ..we come to find out there are very real blessings and eternal joy available to each us by Him on His grounds.
He has known our situations and has a Plan for the life of every believer. The first task is to be in the right place at the right time in fellowship with Him, so we are there to perform as He has created us.
PS Samuel Clemens might be entertaining for a while, but ain’t nothin’ compared to the depths of what God reveals in His Word. The trick is not not read the Bible as a book, but to allow God to guide the reader in growing in faith through Him.
"Stress" is sweating drops of blood.
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