From Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor (1613-67) (paraphrased) (…continued) 4. Never compare your condition with those who have more than you; but to secure your contentment, look upon those many with whom you would not want to exchange your fortune and condition. There are but a few kings in the world, but countless […]
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From Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor (1613-67) (paraphrased). Taylor was an English clergyman, author, and chaplain to King Charles I. He was called “the Shakespeare of the pulpit.” God has appointed a simple remedy for many of the evils in the world and that is a spirit of contentment. For since much of the
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One of my favorite things about G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) is his gratitude for every day and every good gift of God. He writes about ordinary life in a way that reminds us to be grateful. Here is some of what he said on the subject of gratitude: Gratitude produces the most joyful moments that
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Faded, crumpled, shriveled seeds which now seem dead, will soon, under ‘June’s magic kiss,’ burst forth into beautiful flowers and gardens. In the last line the poet has us imagine how we are able to hold in our hand the seeds that could grow a whole forest– ‘in my hand a forest lies asleep.’ The
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From Randy Alcorn’s February 5, 2014 blog at http://www.epm.org In Exodus 13-15 God brings a startling multi-stage miraculous deliverance of Israel from Egypt. It’s truly breathtaking, culminating in the miraculous dividing and crossing of the Red Sea, and the destruction of the powerful Egyptian army pursuing them. If ever an intervention of God
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59th STREET BRIDGE SONG by Paul Simon Slow down, you move too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last Just kickin’ down the cobble-stones, lookin’ for fun and feelin’ groovy… Feeling groovy… Hello lamp-post, what’s cha knowing, I’ve come to watch your flowers growin’ Ain’t cha got no rhymes for me, do-it-do-do, feelin’ groovy…
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Our dissatisfaction plays such a huge part in our sinfulness that when God gave the ten commandments, he made two of the ten about this very thing. The prohibition against stealing gets only one commandment, and the commandment against taking the life of another gets only one commandment, and marriage is protected
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I remember my parents often telling me to ‘just be satisfied.’ Anytime I got into a store there was no end to what I wanted, and I often had to be told to be quiet and be satisfied with what I had. That’s an essential lesson for parents to teach their children, and
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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction was recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1965. Keith Richards woke up one night with the tune in his head, turned on a tape recorder and hummed a few bars, and then fell back asleep. The next morning the recorder played back one minute of one
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By James Mulholland, Praying Like Jesus: The Lord’s Prayer in a Culture of Prosperity, Harper Collins, © 2011, pages 89-93. When our 2 children were young we took them to an amusement park. Our finances were tight. We had saved for months for the trip. It was supposed to be a great day–
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