I can hear birds through our open window in the living room. The significance of that statement is not the birds, but the open window. Yes! The weather is fine enough today to throw wide open the window and revel in the fresh air. Wherever you are, I hope you having an open window day, too.
It’s time to do some catch-up in the Commonplace Book, to run back through the pages and choose some quotes that got overlooked the first time around. Let them languish in obscurity no longer.
It is a greater mercy to descend from
praying parents than from nobles.
John Flavel
Don’t take for granted those praying parents of yours. And if you didn’t have them, thank God for His grace: He brought you thus far anyway.
People sometimes ask me, “How did you get rid of your feelings?” I tell them: “I didn’t get rid of them. I offer them to God, and I have to offer them again, and again, and again.
Elisabeth Elliot
Easier said than done, but better that than storing them up and becoming bitter.
If you ask, “Why is this happening?” no light may come, but if you ask “How am I to glorify God now?” there will always be an answer.
J.I. Packer
Two very different questions; only one brings light.
Christian contentment is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be entirely at His disposal.
Alistair Begg
I’d like to remember this when discontent rises up in my soul.
I played the notes as they were written,
but it was God who made the music.
Don’t cry for me –
I am going to where the music was born.
J.S. Bach
I love that!
Don’t cry for this post – it goes to where blog posts are born…in the morning.
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