Welcome Spring!

Hope in the Lord can renew us even in the coldest and darkest "winter" of our lives! I for one am ready for Spring.

Urgent prayer for Stella

Urgent! please pray for my niece Stella. She is in the hospital in ICU and on a respirator. Doctors are not quite sure what the problem is nor how to proceed! They say her lungs are full of fluid and is in a medically induced coma and immobile. Please pray for healing, comfort and strength for her. I thank you in advance for your prayers!!! Normally I would post this in our "prayer place" but when a person's condition is as serious as Stella's I will usually do an urgent prayer request such as this! Please let me know you are praying for her, thank you , and God bless.
Love in Him,
Hisdaughter

Sing unto the Lord a new song!

 Step into the sunshine,get out of the shade, this is the one time that you have it made, and you can feel yourself smiling right down to your shoes! Step into the SONSHINE with the great good news! (from: a song, author unknown)

 

 

 

 

I am not as I do...

It has been said that sometimes we are our own worst enemy, and I would have to agree with this. Why is it that people who love us are quick to forget the mistakes we make, or the times we may hurt them, no matter how unintentional it may be? On the other hand, when we mess up or fall down, we allow that mistake or failure to define us...I am a failure, I just can't do anything right...and so on! If God never gives up on us, then we should never give up on ourselves. If we allow the Lord to define us instead of our mistakes or failures then we will never again have trouble moving forward, picking ourselves up when we do fall!

Your royalty either way!

Hope in Hope

The concept of hope has been hopelessly trivialized by the modern mind, just as the concept of faith has. just as “I believe” usually means merely “I feel”, so “I hope” usually means only “I wish” or “wouldn't it be nice if....” But Christian hope, the theological virtue of hope, is not a wish or a feeling; it is a rock-solid certainty, a guarantee, an anchor. We bury our dead “in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection”. Feelings are subject to every wind of chance and change, from politics to digestion. But Christian hope has a foundation. It is a house built upon a rock, and that rock is Christ. “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight”, we sing to the “little town of Bethlehem”, the “house of bread” from which our souls are fed.
For Christian hope does not come from us. It is our response to God's promises. It is not a feeling welling up from within, something we can whip up at will. It is saying Yes to God's guarantees. It is the alternative to calling God a liar. It is the simple and commonsensical acceptance of all God's promises on the ground that, as Saint Thomas Aquinas put it in the great hymn “Pange Lingua”, “than Truth's own word there is no truer token. “
The object of hope is God himself, just as God is the object of faith. The creeds formulate faith, and God's promises formulate hope. But hope's object is not the abstract promises but the concrete God, the person who made them. God is always first, always the initiator. Even our seeking him is the result of his first seeking us. Therefore hope too must be our response to his initiative. God is not the response to human hope; our hope is the response to him..

 By: Peter Kreeft

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