LIVE A LIFE OF NO REGRETS!!: August 2008

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!"

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

My Little Farmers

Some pics of the kiddos working in Nana's garden

Monday, August 18, 2008

The Shack

Read "The Shack" this weekend. Great picture of redemption and the love of God. I loved "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers more but this was a good, quick read.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Edge of Eternity Quotes

There is no such thing as a private moment, God is our audience for everything we do in the dark.

We live our lives in eternity's lobby, walking toward a door that will forever seal our destiny.

To be disappointed in yourself is to have believed in yourself. Be careful in whom you trust. Trust the King, not your ability to follow him.

By believing man to be better than they are, you diminish how amazing the King's grace really is.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace.

The Doctrine of Repentance

"Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill. Smite your soul, said Chrysostom, smite it; it will escape death by that stroke. how happy it would be if we were more deeply affected with sin, and our eyes did swim in their orb. We may clearly see the Spirit of God moving in the waters of repentance, which though troubled, are yet pure. Moist tears dry up sin and quench the wrath of God. Repentance is the cherisher of piety, the procurer of mercy. The more regret and trouble of spirit we have first at our conversion, the less we shall feel afterwards. "
The Doctrine of Repentance
Thomas Watson
25 May 1668