August 4, 1986
Content can't be loaded!
Have you ever wished you had just a few more moments in your day to pray and feel close to God?
There's a homely, old-fashioned warning: "You've bitten off more than you can chew!" Those words came back to me on a day when I felt especially driven, uneasy, and stressed by the thought of all the undone work that confronted me.
For yearsunwearied by your welldoingfaithful over your few thingswaitingoh so patientlyfor your reward—
Most people believe mankind will never be entirely free of conflict.
"For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Every morning a member of the maintenance staff at the school where I worked greeted me with the same cheery question, "How are you doing?
When I was a little girl, sometimes our family vacationed at the beach on a coastal island where the surf is usually gentle even at high tide.
I have been delivered intactfrom many a fiery furnace—some hotter than others—thanking and praisinglong after deliveranceLove the deliverer,who then gently reminded methat pure gratitudecontains no slightest beliefthat there ever was smell of smokemingled with the sweet fragranceof Love's all-presence.
Loss seems to be a stern fact of existence! People fear losing their health, their jobs, their loved ones, their homes, or their possessions.
A New York Times column several summers ago told of a heartening incident at a baseball game.
Agnosticism doesn't actually deny God's existence.
"Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord".
I was raised in Christian Science and went all through the Sunday School.
Several years ago, while engaged as a housekeeper in a busy establishment, I became aware, two weeks before Christmas, that I was evidencing symptoms of shingles.
For far too long I have put off sending in this testimony to express my great gratitude for God's healing power.
