Stan’s Corner, Wednesday, August 3
I will be gone to New Hampshire for three days so the following quotations are printed ahead of time: “Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, […]
I will be gone to New Hampshire for three days so the following quotations are printed ahead of time: “Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, […]
We have these nine little sentences framed on our bedroom wall, each in a heart-shaped ring of flowers: “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love does not envy. Love does […]
I am reading a biography of Ulysses S. Grant and found this description very fascinating: “Chimney smoke rose in wavering spirals that were white against the dark forest that ringed […]
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us” These words by […]
God can speak quietly: “The Lord said, ‘Elijah, Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by. Then […]
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that swell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways […]
Christ has no hands but our hands To do His work today; He has no feet but our feet To lead men in His way; He has no tongue but […]
Some words I have just read about marriage: It is the challenge “to tame infatuation and grow it slowly into love…all would have to learn the practice of industrial-strength forgiveness […]
Accept me, my Lord, accept me for this while. Let those orphaned days that passed without thee be forgotten. Only spread this little moment wide across thy lap, holding it […]
God hath not promise Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our lives thro’; God hath not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain. God hath not promised […]