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Posted on 08/31/2005 7:06:15 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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That's ok, Star-bright! I'll catch it later. Tell me if my name comes up, ok? LOL! I got a score of 100 singing "Like a Virgin" last time I went out. Of course I had a brilliant bunch of Korean backup singers helping me!
BTTT!!!!!!
BTTT!!!!!!
Wowee!
Lovely, Tonk!
Hugs!
Ms.B
BTTT!!!!!!!
BTTT!!!!!!
LUV W is traveling with a friend and is having difficulty with her wireless internet connection at the hotel she's at.
She asked me to let ya'll know she is fine and having fun, but may not be posting tonight!
But since I'm such a stinker and if ya want it, to those I have pinged, you can FReepmail me for her hotel phone #.
Then ya'll can pester her some!
Regards!
NYTexan
Morning Everyone.
1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:1-4 KJV
15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
Luke 18:15-17
Your story so perfectly illustrates the aspect of becoming "as little children" that Jesus was talking about; that pure, tender-hearted desire to make Daddy and Mommy proud; to lay aside all of our preconceived ideas and simply come to God without pretense; to hear and speak plainly, not through our personal set of "filters"; not to be intellectual or theological and try to "brain it" with soaring doctrinal architecture, but simply to take Jesus' words at face value and accept them. It's that barefaced honesty of small children that doesn't analyze, but simply loves and humbly expects to be loved in return.
Oh, how many times I've had one of my children scrawl out a Picasso in pencil and, with their face aglow, hold it up to me and say, "Look!" Everything about the situation communicates their expectation that I will be happy with their work and that, once they see that I'm happy, they will be fulfilled. For me to respond with anything less than my smiling approval would crush them. But how could I? How could I NOT be pleased? Those clear eyes, through which I see right down into their little hearts, look up at me searching my face, waiting for my smile, and I cannot resist. Beaming, and with a tear in my own eye, I embrace my little artist and declare their work, "great." They have won my very heart, and I will not withold their prize from them.
This is what Jesus is highlighting with his admonishment to "become as little children"; that our interactions with the Kingdom of God should be so pure and simple, so guileless and forthright, so innocent and loving, that God has no need of anything less than beaming acceptance and the declaration that we are "great" in His Kingdom.
Go, then, and, as little children, with your every breath and action, win the very heart of God; that He may have no cause for any other response to you than to give you the prize you seek; that, in that great Day of The LORD, He will smile and say the words you long to hear, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant."
ROFL! You really are rotten NYT!!!!!
We are in the hotel lobby right now with our laptops, but don't know how long they'll put up with us.
But-----you really can call if you want to! :o) I love to be PEstered by FReepers!
Yes ma'am. I took it the morning after the big rally.
Houdini got his name because his last owner would come home and find him outside of his box all the time. She never could figure out how he escaped. I went back to my room in the middle of my shift once and found him very animatedly checking out his boundaries . . . he quick swam to the bottom of the water and hid under the plants.
Reminded me of that Far Side cartoon with the cows standing around on their hind legs socializing until one of them spots a car and they all act "normal"
I thought the same thing - and I love rainbow's.
Hahahaha.... what a critter!
Well, lookie here...! On the road again, huh? Seen Willie?
Not yet---but we're in the Hill Country so he could be around here somewhere! :o)
The Rasmus~Last Waltz
Hi Connie, thanks for the tune. Very interesting.
LOL!
Thanks!
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