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!"
Hope you are all living a life full of Thanksgiving to our great God and Creator. We are reminded more to be thankful this season of year, but we would do well to be thankful always.
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here to hear Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the
year of our
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)
