Ron will be home tomorrow from his "adventure" and I will be truly glad...I've had about all the excitement I can take for one week...
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Thanks be to God!!!!!
Thanks be to God!!!!!
An occasional bit of wit 'n' wisdom as gleaned from the wise and learned. Family fun and times to share.
Cor gaudens exhilarat factem
('A joyful heart light up the face')
SalomoSt. Teresa of Avila says, "Deliver us from frowning saints!" This doesn't mean that we are to be Pollyannas, blind to the harsh realities of life; but it does mean that in our hearts we know that whatever happens, the Lord is dealing with us as we should be dealt with.
When we realize that whatever we are experiencing is something to help us along the road to eternal life, we can bear it, and we can bear it in hope. That inner hope then finds its way to our countenance, and we'll live the truth that Paul expresses in Romans when he says, "We rejoice in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope" (Romans 5:3-4).
The joy in our heart that we experience when we realize that the Lord loves us and would never leave us will reflect His light for all to see.~^~^~^~^~
Thanks be to God.
But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here."
~Mark 16:6~Today we remember, mourn and pray for the faithful departed. We're not the first to do this. A couple of thousand years ago, some women watched their friend and teacher die. They saw his lifeless body carried to a tomb and see the tomb sealed with a stone, separating them from their loved one forever.
Or so they thought until three days later when they found the tomb empty and heard these words: "do not be alarmed." The words came first from the angel, and then from the teacher himself--Jesus, no longer dead but alive. No longer gone but present. The call was clear: Be not afraid for death had been conquered and is no longer the end.
So today we remember, we mourn--because we are human-- and we pray. But we do so in hope no longer afraid.~*~*~*~
Loving God, my the souls of the faithfully departed rest in peace.
***And for this family of God I say,
Thanks be to God!