Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

                                                                                                                                                  Eckart Tolle



                                         There is one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away.

                                                                                                                                                                     Chatfield

                                             


                                           He will hew in the line of right , let the chips fall where they may.

                                                                                                                                                                     Roscoe Conkling



                                                                   A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

                                                                                                                                            James Lowell



                                                     Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

                                                                                                                                                                        Mort Walker

                           

                                             There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves.

                                                                                                                                   Avijeet Das



                                               Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

                                                                                                                                        George Scialabba


                                                Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

                                                                                                                                                       Merry Browne


                                                                Life is like a puzzle we are are trying to solve. 

                                                   It is like no other in that as we work through it' the pieces change and evolve.


                                                   Some of the pieces we had with us at the start, are taken from us and

                                                   this makes us feel lost and  breaks our heart.

                                                   

                                                    As we stare out in space and the places they used to be , We do not know what to think or do.

                                                    We are not aware but God is changing us too.


                                                    Other pieces show up and have been added that were not there before. This does does make

                                                     any sense and confuses us all the more.


                                                    We cannot see the big picture and get frustrated and bent out  of shape.

                                                    It is often hard to tell  and seems like hell but God is using every twist, turn,  bruise ,and scrape

                                                    

                                                    

                                                    I found Jesus and in knowing him have a peace my heart has never known

                                                    I do not fear or need to see what is ahead for me because  the eyes of my heart

                                                    can clearly see my Lord, Savior, and King loooking out for me sitting calmly on his throne.


                                                                 Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of this world.

                                                                                                                                                                           Robert Frost

                                                    

                                                   


                                                                                               A kite only flies if it's tethered.

                                                                                                                                       Victor Robert Lee


                                          The devil may send the package but I'm the one responsible for signing for it.

                                                                                                                                                            Steve Campbell


                  Life is not a" brief candle. "It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before

              handing it on to future generations.

                                                                                        Bernard Shaw


                                         People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the

                                 most unlikely places.                                                                                                Mitch Albom


                                      Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

                                                                                                                                          Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky



                                People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

                                                                                                                                                                              Ann Landers


                                    Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

                                                                                                                                                               Warren Buffett


                      Anxiety's is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you very far.

                                                                                                                                                            Jodi Picoult

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                               One child,one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

                                                                                                                             Malala Yousafzai



                                        Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

                                                                                                                                Marilyn Ferguson

 

                                 These mountains that you are carrying , you were only supposed to climb.

                                                                                                                                                                               Najwa Zebian


                            There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature . A scar means the hurt is over

                       , the wound is closed and healed, done with.

                                                                                                                                         Harry Crews

                    

                                                           An idea can turn into dust or magic ,depending on the talent that rubs up 

                                                against it.                                                                   Raymond Inman

 

                                    If opening your eyes,or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing

                                    your hair is your daunting Mt. Everest you climb today, that is ok.

                                                                                                                                      Carmen Ambrosio


                                   To touch a child's face, a dog's smooth coat , a petaled flower , the rough surface of a rock

                             is to set up a new order of brain motion. To touch is to communicate.

                                                                                                                                                                 James W. Angell


                Why do things I long for lose their shine when they are mine?

                                                                                                                                                  GKG


                             There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

                                                                                                                                                         Bern Williams


                                             The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, 

                                              and the realist adjusts the sails                          William Arthur Ward


                                  The morning glories and the sun flowers turn naturally towards the light, but we have 

                           to be taught, it seems.

                                                                                                                                                       Richard Rohr

         

                                        Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm 

                                        and strong it has no equal.                             Lao Tsu

                     That glimmer of light,surrounded by so many shadows, seemed to say without words: Evil has not yet taken                                 complete dominion. A spark of hope is still left.             Isaac Bashevis Singer



                        Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already

                         been there.                                                                                                            Vine Deloria, Jr

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                Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I:

                 But when the trees bow down their heads

                 The wind is passing by.         

                                                                        Christina Rossetti



                               Teaching may be the greatest of arts. Since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

                                                                                                                                                      Robert Steinbeck

      

              To try to live life completely independent of God is like trying to drive a beautiful boat down 

              a superhighway. That boat is a wonderful creation, loaded with amazing design details , but it

              was not designed to run on a hard surface.                                                      Paul Tripp

                        

                                      We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Fred Rogers




                        I am not afraid of the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks, I am afraid of the man who has

                        practiced one kick ten thousand times.                                                          Bruce Lee


                                              It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold or silver.

                                                                                                                                                           Gandhi



            Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind ,and has given up worrying once and for all.

          Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.                        Ovid


                   Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

                                                                                                                            Robert Louis Stevenson


                                 It isn't the mountains that wear you down.  It's the pebble in your shoe.

                                                                                                                                        Muhammad Ali


                  Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

                                                                                                                                John Barrymore




                            Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers,

                       intensifies,  but never destroys it.                                                                         Eliza Tabor

                                             It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

                                                                                                                                                                           Lena Horne

                   


                      In every battle you will need faith as your shield to stop the fiery arrows aimed at you by Satan.

                                                                                                                                                                                 Ephesians 6:16


            I would give you no comfort about absenting yourself from the house of God.

                                                                                                                                                             Billy Graham


                    We praise thee Thee for thy radiance

                That from hallowed page

                A latern to our footsteps

                Shines on from age to age

                                                                  William How


                                                   Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

                                                                                                                                                       Jim Rohn


                               I come against you ole dreary day in Jesus's name that you may not smother or quinch

                         the Holy Spirit's inner flame.                                                                                      GKG

                         

                                                  An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

                                                                                                                                             Lao Tzu

         The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it. He gives it away to all of us.

                                                                                                                                                                           David Ewing

                                    People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

                                                                                                                                                   Joseph Fort Newton

        Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of the canyons.

                                                                                                                                                    Elisabeth Kubler Ross

                                                                          Glasses and Bibles should both be worn.

                                                                                                                               GKG

                              We cannot hold a torch to light anothers path without brightening our own.

                                                                                                                                                                          Ben Sweetland

                                      Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile,give them yours.

                                                                                                                                                             Zig Ziglar

                                                    Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling 

                                          sunshine and light-you'll go broke.                                                    Chuck Jones

        

                                    We are just walking each other home.

                                                                                                            Ram Doss

          God's grace is not always pleasant. It often comes in the form of something we would have never chosen

        to go through if we were controlling the joystick.                           Paul Tripp

                                               Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their goods points.

                                                                                                                                  Texas Bix Bender

 

                   If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon , or combing your hair is the 

                   daunting Mount Everst you climb today, that is OK.                                    Carmen Ambrosio

                   Bible study is like eating peanuts.The more you eat ,the more you want to eat.

                                                                                                                                                                     Paul Little

                     All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy,for what we are leaving behind is 

                 a part of ourselves.

                                                                                                                                            Amelia E. Barr

          People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I let them be...When I look at a sunset , I don't find myself saying ,' Soften 

      the orange a bit on the right-hand corner.' I  don't try to control a sunset. I watch it as it unfolds.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Carl Rogers

                                                 I kiss the wave that threw me up against the rock of ages.

                                                                                                                                                      Charles Spurgeon

     

                 Where are you the weakest?  Be forewarned , this is the spot that Satan seeketh.

                                                                                                                                                                  GKG

                                 A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

                                                                                                                                   Rev. Christian Johnson

          Days are like rivers or so it seems, they bring good things and bad things and everything in between.              

                                                                                                                                                                                                GKG

     We are half-hearted creatures...like an ignorant child who wants to go one making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are too easily pleased. 

                                                                                                                                                               C.S. Lewis

           When I was a young boy, I learned in school that in the morning the sun did not actually rise. It just seems that way but in truth the earth bows each morning  before  the sun and  that had  never dawned on me so imagine my surprise! Now I am not suggesting sun worship as other have done. It shows the earth knows and remembers there is another who gives it life and honor should be given to that one. What a fine example it sets for us to do the same. We should bow  and thank God each and every every morning for giving us life through his Son ,Jesus, and praise his mighty name.         GKG                        

      In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shawdows to blind those who don't

                                                                                                                                                                     Blaise Pascal

        In relationships,trust isn't a promise never to hurt each other. It's the risk we will hurt each other and the                 confidence that, if we do, we will come together to heal.              Esther Perel

                                                                      

                                                You can't get up in the morning without bumping into God. 

                                                                                                                                                                 Paul Tripp

                  I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

                                                                                                                                                       Maya Angelou

                                                             

                                                                There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. 

                                                                                                                         Roger Staubach

        The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential and enemies to push us beyond it.

                                                                                                                                                       Jim Vorsas

                 From where the sun rises to where it sets, you inspire shouts of joy.     

                                                                                                                          Psalms 65:8

                            A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is too be God.

                                                                                                                                                  Author Unknown

         Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.... be still and allow the mud to settle.

                                                                                                                                                                   Lao Tzu

                             The Bible teaches us that life does not end at the cemetery.

                                                                                                                                            Billy Graham

            The world does not read the Bible-it reads you and me. The Godly man is the ungodly man's Bible.

                                                                                                                                                                    Corrie Ten Boom

         Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

                                                                                                                                Jessica Jackley

                  How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose , if there was no winter in our year.

                                                                                                                Thomas Wentworth Higginson

                        Being a great father is like shaving , you have to do it again tomorrow.

                                                                                                          Reed Markham

                                       The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads

                                nothing but newspapers.                                                                 Thomas Jefferson 

                                   It is our nature to worship something ,and sometimes we worship things God has 

                                   made instead of Him  and often it is nature.

                                                                                                                         GKG

                           Many people plan financially for retirement but not spiritually or emotionally.

                                                                                                                                                   Billy Graham

          Two things are infinite :the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe.

                                                                                                                                                                     Albert Einstein

           The ordinary think inside the box,the extraordinary think outside the box, but genius 

            thinks inside,outside, below, and above the box.           Matshona Dhliwayo

                                       As sunlight is to the earth, so is Jesus to the human heart.

                                                                                                                                                   Billy Graham

    Christmas is a very special time of year. Our hearts and thoughts always head to those we hold most dear.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     GKG

                                                                            The small manger where Jesus laid his head 

                                                             Was the world's first King sized bed

                                                             Hope was born into this world  in a most unusual way

                                                             The wise men found Him asleep in the hay.

                                                                                                                               GKG

                           Whoever is kind to the needy honors God. Proverbs 14:31

       All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.   

                                                                                                                                       Chris Hart

    Let me be a little kinder, let me me a little blinder to the faults of those around me.

                                                                                                                                        Edgar A. Guest

I've learned the bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Charles Beard

I've learned the bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Charles Beard
People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets. Charles Swindoll

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets. Charles Swindoll

I'm just maverick  to say that I think fewer Christians ought to be going into the ministry and more should be going into business  and into occupations that have nothing to do with the vocational service. I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. My hope is to see ...a group of Christians who will infiltrate our society- in fact, our entire world-with a pure ,beautiful message of grace an honesty in the marketplace. Charles Swindoll

I'm just maverick to say that I think fewer Christians ought to be going into the ministry and more should be going into business and into occupations that have nothing to do with the vocational service. I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. My hope is to see ...a group of Christians who will infiltrate our society- in fact, our entire world-with a pure ,beautiful message of grace an honesty in the marketplace. Charles Swindoll

Collapse in the Christian life is seldom a blowout ; it is usually a slow leak. Paul Little

Collapse in the Christian life is seldom a blowout ; it is usually a slow leak. Paul Little

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you  ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. Dale Carnegie

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. Dale Carnegie

If one has a cataract , he cannot see others clearly because he sees a part of himself first. Viktor Frankl

If one has a cataract , he cannot see others clearly because he sees a part of himself first. Viktor Frankl

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper. Dagobert D. Runes

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper. Dagobert D. Runes

In this universe, there are things that are known , and things that are unknown, and in between them , there are doors. William Blake

In this universe, there are things that are known , and things that are unknown, and in between them , there are doors. William Blake

Even though we will never measure up, we will someday live with our Ruler. Gregory Gordon

Even though we will never measure up, we will someday live with our Ruler. Gregory Gordon

THAT PRECIOUS RED BLOOD OF JESUS

Read a wonderful devional this morning.  Sent it to a few friends. short version is a white flower showed her how dirty her place and even her face was and made her clean up her act.

The Bible does the same for us. It reminds us that we are all unclean and think I read somewhere the only thing that can do that for us is also red!

All of us have become like someone who is unclean, and our righteous are like filthy rags.                                                                              Isaiah 64:6

I feel like a little child playing by the seashore while the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton

I feel like a little child playing by the seashore while the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is  revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler- Ross

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler- Ross

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. Abrecht Durer

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. Abrecht Durer

A boy is the only thing God can use to make a man. Cal Farley

A boy is the only thing God can use to make a man. Cal Farley

ANY QUESTIONS?

                                                                      Hans F. Hanson

People inspire you or they drain you-pick them wisely.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding evil and the good. Proverbs15:3

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding evil and the good. Proverbs15:3

By the time I was fourteen, the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of  the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike  and went on writing. Stephen  King

By the time I was fourteen, the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. Stephen King

No one is on the sidelines: by our actions or inactions , by our caring or our indifference, we are either part of the problem or part of the solution. A. Breeze Harper

No one is on the sidelines: by our actions or inactions , by our caring or our indifference, we are either part of the problem or part of the solution. A. Breeze Harper

Being mortal is like living in a hotel. We know we must check out someday and thus should not get too attached to the facilities . Of course the difference is that in life we are never sure when we will check out. Donald Burt

Being mortal is like living in a hotel. We know we must check out someday and thus should not get too attached to the facilities . Of course the difference is that in life we are never sure when we will check out. Donald Burt

The poorest man is not the one without a nickel, it's the one without a dream. Virginia Madsen

The poorest man is not the one without a nickel, it's the one without a dream. Virginia Madsen

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, it's trust is not on the branch , but on it's own wings. Always believe in yourself. Charlie Wardle

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, it's trust is not on the branch , but on it's own wings. Always believe in yourself. Charlie Wardle

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist  and there are as few as there are any great artist. Teaching might even be the greatest  of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and there are as few as there are any great artist. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck

Almost anything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott

Almost anything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn

Getting older is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath  but the view is much better. Ingrid Bergman

Getting older is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath but the view is much better. Ingrid Bergman

We all have a thorn. We all have something that God has allowed in our lives that Satan meant for our destruction but that God has turned around to help us grow and change. James Macdonald

We all have a thorn. We all have something that God has allowed in our lives that Satan meant for our destruction but that God has turned around to help us grow and change. James Macdonald

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams

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