by Inspiration | Oct 31, 2022 | Spiritual Growth, Archives, Featured
As I faced my Maker at the last judgment, I knelt before the Lord along with all the other souls. Before each of us laid our lives like the squares… As I faced my Maker at the last judgment, I knelt before the Lord along with all the other souls. Before each of us laid our lives like the squares of a quilt in many piles. An Angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life. But as my angel took each piece of cloth off the pile, I noticed how ragged and empty each of my squares was. They were filled with giant holes. Each square was labelled with a part of my life that had been difficult, the challenges and temptations I was faced with in everyday life. I saw the hardships that I endured, which were the largest holes of all. I glanced around me. Nobody else had such squares. Other than a tiny hole here and there, the other tapestries were filled with rich colour and the bright hues of worldly fortune. I gazed upon my own life and was disheartened. My angel was sewing the ragged pieces of cloth together, threadbare and empty, like binding air. Finally, the time came when each life was to be
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by Inspiration | Oct 30, 2022 | Inspiration, Archives, Featured
Defeat! He lay there silently, a tear dropped from his eye,” There’s no sense running anymore – three strikes and I’m out – why try?” The will to rise… Defeat! He lay there silently, a tear dropped from his eye,” There’s no sense running anymore – three strikes and I’m out – why try?” The will to rise has disappeared, all hope had fled away, so far behind, so error prone, closer all the way. “I’ve lost, so what’s the use”, he thought “I’ll live with my disgrace.” But then he thought about his dad who soon he’d have to face. Get up, and echo sounded low, get up and take your place. You were not meant for failure here, so get up and win the race. With Borrowed will, “Get up!” It said, “You haven’t lost at all, for winning is not more than this, to rise each time you fall.” So he rose to win once more, and with new commitment he resolved to win or lose, at least he wouldn’t quit. So far behind the others now, the most he’d ever been, still he gave it all he had, and ran as though to win. Three times he’d fallen stumbling, three times he rose again. Too far behind to
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by Inspiration | Oct 29, 2022 | Relationship, Archives, Featured
Easy is to judge the mistakes of others – Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes… Easy is to talk without thinking – Difficult is to refrain the tongue…… Easy is to judge the mistakes of others – Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes… Easy is to talk without thinking – Difficult is to refrain the tongue… Easy is to hurt someone who loves us. – Difficult is to heal the wound… Easy is to forgive others – Difficult is to ask for forgiveness. .. Easy is to set rules. – Difficult is to follow them… Easy is to dream every night. – Difficult is to fight for a dream… Easy is to show victory. – Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity… Easy is to admire a full moon. – Difficult to see the other side… Easy is to stumble with a stone. – Difficult is to get up… Easy is to enjoy life every day. – Difficult to give its real value… Easy is to promise something to someone. – Difficult is to fulfill that promise… Easy is to say we love. – Difficult is to show it every day… Easy is to criticize others. – Difficult is to improve oneself… Easy is
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by Inspiration | Oct 28, 2022 | Spiritual Growth, Archives, Featured
I do not know about you, but I don’t like cockroaches. We had them in a house that we bought in Long Island. I did not know anything about hiring… I do not know about you, but I don’t like cockroaches. We had them in a house that we bought in Long Island. I did not know anything about hiring exterminators so I decided to get rid of them myself. I bought a sprayer and bought some chemicals to kill them. To measure the chemicals I took a measuring spoon and wired it to the outside of the sprayer. I did this to make sure that I didn’t make a mistake and use the measuring spoon again in the house. How could I ever clean it well enough to use it again safely for cooking? Imagine going in your china closet, getting one of your best crystal glasses, and then using it to measure chemicals to kill the bugs around your house. Then let’s imagine that you take it in the house and wash it. Would you dare to use it again? Of course not! It would be contaminated with a toxic film invisible to your eye that might poison anyone who used this glass. Now imagine that your soul and mine are like this glass. It has been so
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by Inspiration | Oct 27, 2022 | Spiritual Growth, Archives
One day he decided to invite the Lord to come home and stay with him. When the Lord arrived, this young man offered him the very best room in the… One day he decided to invite the Lord to come home and stay with him. When the Lord arrived, this young man offered him the very best room in the house. The room was upstairs and at the end of the hall. “This room is yours, Jesus! Stay as long as you like and you can do whatever you want to in this room, remember Jesus, it’s all yours.” That evening after he had retired for the night there came a loud knocking at the front door. The young man pulled on his robe and made his way downstairs. When he opened the door he found that the devil had sent three of his demons to attack the man. He quickly tried to close the door but one of the demons kept sticking his foot in. Sometime later, after a great struggle, he managed to slam the door shut and returned to his room totally exhausted. Can you believe that? the man thought. Jesus is upstairs in my very best room sleeping while I am down here battling demons. Oh, well, maybe He just didn’t hear. He slept fitfully that
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