THOUGHTS

April 15, 2020

A reprint from 2013 that Facebook has kept under lock and key...

 

As I sat in my nice car eating my nice warm gluten free fast food, not one, but two homeless people came to ask for change.  Now I look at them and wonder if they are some of my husband's previous clients at Salvation Army, or people served by Hands of Hope, or Teen Challenge, or men from the mission, many of whom attend my church.

It is an amazing thought that Jesus taught us to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," 

and He still rains down manna; He still feeds the multitude from loaves and fishes, even if it is we who are to break the bread and disburse it.  

"Some hae meat and cannot eat,

And some wad eat that want it.

But we hae meat, and we can eat,

And sae let the Lord be thankit."

Selkirk Grace

We are surrounded by needs, need of employment, health needs, spiritual needs, needs of basics--food, clothing, shelter, and even the need for gratitude.  Gratitude.  Where would we be without a Job, as in the book of the Bible, a man who had a world of trouble?  He was someone you could say, "if it wasn't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all."  Yet Job had the audacity to say, "But it is still my consolation, And I rejoice in unsparing pain, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One."  Job :10

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns 

or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

Abraham Lincoln

"Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world:

 it is not he who prays most or fasts most;

it is not he who gives most alms, 

or is most eminent for temperance, chastity, or justice;

but it is he who is always thankful to God,

who wills everything that God willeth,

who receives everything a an instance of God's goodness,

and has a heart always ready to praise God for it."

William Law