Quote from "Stepping Heavenward" by Mrs. E. Prentiss
"She says I shall now have one mouth more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music and drawing.
Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other.
Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which dwells is worthy of all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other dear darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, wondrously blest!"
Do Everything As Unto the Lord
It is wholly impossible to live according to Divine order,
and to make a proper application of heavenly principles, as long as the
necessary duties which each day brings seem only like a burden grievous to be
borne. Not till we are ready to throw or
very life’s love into the troublesome little things can we be really faithful
in that which is least and faithful also in much Every day that dawns brings something to do,
which can never be done as well again.
We should therefore, try to do it ungrudgingly and cheerfully. It is the Lord’s own work, which He has
given us as surely as He gives us daily bread.
We should thank Him for it with all our hearts, as much as for any other
gift. It was designed to be our life,
our happiness. Instead of shirking it
or hurrying over it, we should put our whole heart and soul into it. ~James Reed
Quote from Jim Elliott
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. (His thoughts on Luke 16:9)
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