by DDI | Jul 6, 2024 | Attitude, Archives, Featured, Inspiration
Monday: Wash Day Lord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead. Tuesday: Ironing Day Dear Lord,… Monday: Wash Day Lord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead. Tuesday: Ironing Day Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected through the years so that I may see the beauty in others. Wednesday: Mending Day O God, help me mend my ways so I will not set a bad example for others. Thursday: Cleaning Day Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart. Friday: Shopping Day O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal happiness for myself and all others in need of love. Saturday: Cooking Day Help me, my Saviour, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love and serve it with clean, sweet bread of human kindness. Sunday: The Lord’s Day O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please come into my heart so I may spend the day and the rest of my life in your presence. — Author Unknown Meditation: So teach
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by DDI | Jul 5, 2024 | Featured, Spiritual Growth
One day a local evangelist bragged during a crusade that his God was more powerful than all the other gods in the town and the powers that the villagers worshipped… One day a local evangelist bragged during a crusade that his God was more powerful than all the other gods in the town and the powers that the villagers worshipped put together. Just then, rainstorm started sounding overhead, threatening the progress of the crusade. The evangelist lifted up his voice and declared with confidence that if the rains fell, then he wasn’t a man of God; he would stop preaching. Before he finished speaking, the rains began to hit the crusade grounds so vehemently, without regard to his declarations. The whole town left the crusade ground for their houses, shaking their heads in dismay. The evangelist, so distraught and angry, packed his belongings and left the town the next day. On his way through the next town, he checked into a local bar and drank himself to stupor. As he laid on the ground cursing God, an old seedy looking man tapped him gently on the shoulder. “Man of God”, the old man began. But the evangelist quickly cut in, “Don’t mention the name of God to me. He is fake. He is unreliable. I am no longer a believer
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by DDI | Jul 4, 2024 | Spiritual Growth, Archives, Featured
They say that prayer changes things; but does it REALLY change anything? Oh yes! It really does! Does prayer change your present situation or sudden circumstances? No, not always,… They say that prayer changes things; but does it REALLY change anything? Oh yes! It really does! Does prayer change your present situation or sudden circumstances? No, not always, but it does change the way you look at those events. Does prayer change your financial future? No, not always, but it does change who you look to for meeting your daily needs. Does prayer change shattered hearts or broken bodies? No, not always, but it will change your source of strength and comfort. Does prayer change your wants and desires? No, not always, but it will change your wants into what God desires! Does prayer change how you view the world? No, not always, but it will change whose eyes you see the world through. Does prayer change your regrets from the past? No, not always, but it will change your hopes for the future! Does prayer change the people around you? No, not always, but it will change you – the problem isn’t always in others. Does prayer change your life in ways you can’t explain? Oh, yes, always! And it
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by DDI | Jul 3, 2024 | Archives, Featured, Relationship
The Passenger The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and,… The Passenger The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found the seat he’d told her was empty. Then she settled in, placed her briefcase on her lap and rested her cane against her leg. It had been a year since Susan, thirty-four, became blind. Due to a medical misdiagnosis, she had been rendered sightless, and she was suddenly thrown into a world of darkness, anger, frustration and self-pity. Once a fiercely independent woman, Susan now felt condemned by this terrible twist of fate to become a powerless, helpless burden on everyone around her. “How could this have happened to me?” she would plead, her heart knotted with anger. But no matter how much she cried or ranted or prayed, she knew the painful truth-her sight was never going to return. A cloud of depression hung over Susan’s once optimistic spirit. Just getting through each day was an exercise in frustration and exhaustion. And all
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by DDI | Jul 2, 2024 | Attitude, Archives, Featured
Someone wrote this testament of belief. Be blessed are you read them. .I believe in Miracles and dreams that will come true, And I believe in happiness and friendship, through… Someone wrote this testament of belief. Be blessed are you read them. .I believe in Miracles and dreams that will come true, And I believe in happiness and friendship, through and through I believe that when you cry your tears are not in vain, And when you’re sad and lonely someone knows that you’re in pain. I believe that when we laugh a sparkle starts to shine, And before you know these sparks will spread From more hearts than just mine. I believe the gifts you have are there for you to share And when you give them from the heart, the whole world knows you care. I believe that if you give, even just to one, That gift will grow in magnitude before the day is done. I believe that comfort comes from giving part of me, And if I share with others, there’s more for all to see. I believe that love is still the greatest gift of all, And when it’s given from the heart, Love will conquer all. Meditation: And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is
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by DDI | Jul 1, 2024 | Relationship, Archives, Featured
Speak gently. It is better by far to rule by love than fear. Speak gently. Let no harsh word mar the good you may do here. Speak gently… Speak gently. It is better by far to rule by love than fear. Speak gently. Let no harsh word mar the good you may do here. Speak gently to the young, for they will have enough to bear; pass through this life as best they may, ’tis full of anxious care. Speak gently to the aged one Grieve not the care-worn heart, whose sand of life are nearly run, let such in peace depart. Speak gently, kindly to the poor, let no harsh tone be heard. They have enough they must endure without an unkind word. Speak gently…’tis a little thing dropped in the heart’s deep well; The good, the joy that it may bring eternity shall tell. — Author Unknown Meditation: Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. – Ephesians 4:29 Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you? – Job 15:11 Whoever rebels against your command and does not heed your words, in all that you command him, shall be
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