~ Midi Playing is - The River ~
Now imagine you and the Lord Jesus walking down the road together. For much of the way, the Lord's footprints go along steadily, consistently, rarely varying the pace. But your prints are a disorganized stream of zig-zags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures and returns.
For much of the way it seems to go like this. But gradually, your footprints come more in line with the Lord's, soon paralleling His consistently. You and Jesus are walking as true friends.
This seems perfect, but then an interesting thing happens: your footprints that once etched the sand next to the Master's are now walking precisely in His steps. Inside His larger footprints is the small 'sandprint', safely enclosed. You and Jesus are becoming one.
This goes on for many miles. But gradually you notice another change. The footprint inside the larger footprint seems to grow larger. Eventually it disappears altogether. There is only one set of footprints. They have become one.
Again, this goes on for a long time. But then something awful happens. The second set of footprints is back. And this time it seems even worse. Zigzags all over the place. Stops. Starts. Deep gashes in the sand. A veritable mess of prints.
You're amazed and shocked. But this is the end of your dream. Now you speak. "Lord, I understand the first scene with the zigzags and fits and starts and so on. I was a new Christian, just learning. But You walked on through the storm and helped me learn to walk with you."
"That is correct."
"Yes, and when the smaller footprints were inside of Yours, I was actually learning to walk in Your steps. I followed You very closely."
"Very good. You have understood everything so far."
"Then the smaller footprints grew and eventually filled in with Yours. I suppose that I was actually growing so much that I was becoming like you in every way."
"Precisely."
"But this is my question. Lord...Was there a regression or something? The footprints went back to two, and this time it was worse than the first."
The Lord smiles, then laughs. "You didn't know?" He says. "That was when we danced."
"Author Unknown"
"I am not a human being having a spirited experience, but a spirited-being having a human experience."
~ DLight ~
From the emotional and the intellectual comes the ability to gauge what is worth pursuing. Wisdom guides passion.
~ Unknown ~
Heaven's Grocery Store
~ I was walking down life's highway a long time ago. ~
~ One day I saw a sign that read, "Heaven's Grodery Store". ~
~ As I got a little closer the door came open wide ~
~ And when I came to myself I was standing inside. ~
~ I saw a host of Angels. ~
~ They were standing everywhere. ~
~ One handed me a basket and said, " My Child shop with care". ~
~ Everything a Christian needed was in that grocery store. ~
~ And all you couldn't carry, you could come back the next day for more. ~
~ First, I got some Patience: ~
~ Love was in the same row. ~
~ Further down was Understanding: ~
~ You need that everywhere you go. ~
~ I got a box or two of wisdom, a bag or two of Faith.~
~ I just couldn't miss the Holy Ghost, For it was all over the place. ~
~ I stopped to get some Strength and Courage, To help me run this race. ~
~ By then my basket was getting full, but I remembered I needed some Grace. ~
~ I didn't forget Salvation, for Salvation was free, ~
~ So I tried to get enough of that to save both you and me. ~
~ Then I started up to the counter to pay my grocery bill, ~
~ For I thought I had everything to do the Master's will. ~
~ As I went up the aisle, I saw Prayer: and I just had to put that in, ~
~ For I knew when I stepped outside, I would run into sin. ~
~ Peace and Joy were plentiful; they were last on the shelf. ~
~ Song and Praise were hanging near, so I just helped myself. ~
~ Then I said to the angel, "Now, how much do I owe?" ~
~ He smiled and said, "Just take them everywhere you go." ~
~ Again, I smiled and said, "How much do I really owe?" ~
~ He smiled again and said, "My Child, Jesus Paid Your Bill a Long,
Long Time Ago." ~
~ "All things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, Believing, you shall receive." ~
(Matthew 21:22)
You can't but God can. He can take anything that's broken and make it whole. Because He's the Creator. He can take all the pieces and make them fit together. Let Him show you how to forgive.
Author Unknown
What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.
Author Unknown
God always gives you what you need when you need it.
Author Unknown
Have I told you today how much God loves you?
Lyn
Humans do make mistakes...they stumble, they lose their way...so sometimes they do need an angel.
Author Unknown
God would never turn His back on you. Nothing...not death or life or war, not the past, the present, or the future, no one, no creature on this earth can ever separate you from God's love.
Author Unknown
"I count myself in nothing else so happy, as in a soul remembering my friends."
William Shakespeare
Happiness consists in activity ~ it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Author Unknown
May you live all the days of your life.
Author Unknown
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Author Unknown
All sunshine makes a desert.
Author Unknown
Our joys are our wings; Our sorrows our spurs.
Author Unknown
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Author Unknown
Use disappointment as material for patience.
Author Unknown
When you're through changing, you're through.
Author Unknown
Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.
Author Unknown
Life is easier than you think. All you have to do it accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Author Unknown
"Shine a light of love that all can feel, to energize those who are sad, and to help people be the best they can be."
Author Unknown
"I want a soul so full of joy ~ Life's withering storms cannot destroy."
Author Unknown
"Blessed is the man who digs a well from which another may draw faith."
Author Unknown
Fence
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us.
Author Unknown
Much Love, Happiness, Joy, and Peace .... :~)
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