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To: Mad Dawg

Yep!


689 posted on 08/20/2010 9:25:18 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Maven of alcoholic beverage bargains!)
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To: boatbums; mockingbyrd; Amos the Prophet; Natural Law; Tax-chick; trisham; Salvation; ...
Day of rest.

Who's resting?

Here's my alleged thought for the day. I just received a HUGE compliment. Somebody said, more or less, that I had achieved a personal goal very important to me and, also important to me, had used my gift in a useful way.

So, it's a big temptation to say, "My strength and the might of my arm ..."

My only hope to escape this unscathed is to offer the whole thing IMMEDIATELY to God and to His Kingdom. I have nothing that I have not received -- even the myriad of choices which go into "this way or that way" are His.

It is my COMFORT to have nothing. I cannot bear the weight of personal virtues, even of the most trivial kind. It is an easing of weight from my shoulders to, as they say "return thanks."

Everything is His, and that is our joy.

690 posted on 08/21/2010 6:30:01 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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