LOVE HEARING FROM YOU GUYS! HELPS MAKE MY DAY.
LOVE THIS QUOTE I READ RECENTLY BY JOHN NEWTON. READ IT SLOWLY. THEN READ IT AGAIN.... in a letter to his brother-in-law, the worldly John Catlett:
"If you were to send me an inventory of your pleasures, how charmingly your time runs on, and how dexterously it is divided between the coffee-houses, play-house, the card-table, and tavern, with intervals of balls, concerts, etc. I could answer that most of these I have tried and tried again, and know the utmost they can yield, and have seen enough of the rest most heartily to despise them all. I profess I had rather be a worm to crawl upon the ground, than to bear the name of MAN upon the poor terms of whiling my life in an insipid round of such insignificant and unmanly trifles" (Letters of John Newton, 33-34).
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING LIKE SERIVING GOD. MANY HAVE SEACHED FOR BETTER WAYS TO LIVE AND COME BACK TO TESTIFY AS NEWTON DID. AS SOLOMON DID.
SPENT A LONG TIME A "GAI" (DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES)YESTERDAY. RE-REGESTERING THE SUBARU WITH COLYA. FINALLY SAW A COMPUTER THERE. TRYING TO GET VEHICLES READY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
RAN YESTERDAY IN KRASNEY BOR (RED FOREST). FIRST TIME I'VE RUN THERE. ENJOYED IT. IF YOU KEEP MOVING THE MOSQUITOS WON'T GET YOU.
I DON'T USUALLY "READ PRAYERS", AND I DON'T PLAN TO START. HOWEVER, IN MY DESIRE TO DO PRAYER, I'VE RUN INTO PRAYERS OF OTHERS THAT INSPIRE AND HELP ME. IN MY DESIRE TO HELP AND INSPIRE YOU IN PRAYER, I WANT TO SHARE SOME WITH YOU:
“Today, O Lord — let me put others before self; let me put things of the Spirit before the things of the body; let me put the attainment of noble ends before the enjoyment of present pleasures; let me put principle above reputation; and let me put you before all else.”
– John Baillie (1886-1960)
WE WANT TO LIVE LIVES OF PRAYER NOT JUST HAVE TIMES OF PRAYER.
(HEY, NEVER MIND ABOUT HELPING MARK POST HIS PICTURE. I JUST SAW THAT SOMEBODY ALREADY DID. WONDER WHO IT WAS?)
LOVE YA'LL. YA'LL LOVE EACH OTHER.
Hey! I posted Dad's picture but somehow it made him follow the blog twice? idunno how to undo that- maybe you can delete the one without a picture?
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're doing good. The pictures have been gorgeous! I wish we could trade weather!
Do ya'll still do the watermelon seed spitting contest on July 4th?
Talk to ya soon! LGLE