The Trusted Friend

To place ourselves in range of God's choicest gifts, we have to walk with God, work with God, lean on God, cling to God, come to have the sense and feel of God, refer all things to God.

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

CHILDREN

Emile Vernon 1872-1819

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children or one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. Psalms 127:3-5

Train up the child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

HEAVEN'S INSPIRATION

Blessed are those who keep his statues and seek him with all their heart. Psalm 119:2

Every day the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, "This is important! And this is important! And this is important!

You need to worry about this! And this!" And each day, It's up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say "No. This is what's important."

LITTLE THINGS

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day, you'll realize they were the big things."

Sometimes people ask us the wrong questions so we cannot give them the right answers but the worst part is when we become those people and we ask ourselves the wrong questions because we are terrified of hearing the right answers.

EXPERIENCE

In the whole range of earthly experience; no quality is more attractive and ennobling than moral courage. Like that mountain of rocks which towers aloft in the Irish Seas. The man possessed of this principle is unmoved by the swelling surges which fret and fume at his feet. And yet, unlike that same Ailsa Craig, he is sensitive beyond all measure to every adverse - battling against it, and triumphing over it, by a power which proceeds, from God's throne, and pervades his entire being.

John McClellan Holmes

IDEALS ARE LIKE STARS

Ideals are like stars:

You will not succeed in touching them with your hands;

But, like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of water,

You choose them as you guides,

And following them you reach your destiny.