That’s My King

This video of S M Lochridge’s description of Jesus is a classic.

How easy to praise God while listening to this. You can trust him! That’s my King!

Meaningless

 People live, and people die,
       but the earth continues forever.
  The sun rises, the sun sets,
       and then it hurries back to where it rises again.
  The wind blows to the south;
       it blows to the north.
    It blows from one direction and then another.
       Then it turns around and repeats the same pattern, going nowhere.
  All the rivers flow to the sea,
       but the sea never becomes full.
  Everything is boring,
       so boring that you don’t even want to talk about it.
    Words come again and again to our ears,
       but we never hear enough,
       nor can we ever really see all we want to see.
  All things continue the way they have been since the beginning.
       What has happened will happen again;
       there is nothing new here on earth.
  Someone might say,
       “Look, this is new,”
    but really it has always been here.
       It was here before we were.
  People don’t remember what happened long ago,
       and in the future people will not remember what happens now.
       Even later, other people will not remember what was done before them.

Ecclesiastes 1: 4-11

Out Of Control Tongue

Just that fast, it was out of my mouth. I wish I could have pulled the words back and do them again.  I wanted a mulligan, a do-over, a second chance.

James 1:26

 

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

James 1:19

 

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak…

I am so sorry, if my quick words offended you.

Wounded Healer

Nobody escapes being wounded. We all are wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not “How can we hide our wounds?” so we don’t have to be embarrassed, but “How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?” When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

Jesus is God’s wounded healer: through his wounds we are healed. Jesus’ suffering and death brought joy and life. His humiliation brought glory; his rejection brought a community of love. As followers of Jesus we can also allow our wounds to bring healing to others. – Henri Nouwen

Fix Your Eyes on Jesus

Prayer

Father, with Jesus we ask that you would unite us.

Help us to love each other, just as you love your Son and he loves you.

Sovereign God, teach us to keep our arms ever open to love, to forgive and to serve.

May we be willing to be hurt rather than hurt, willing to love and not be loved in return.

 

 

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Even More Groucho Quotes

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

Time wounds all heels.

Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse!

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

Whatever it is,… I’m against it.

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

Quote me as saying I was misquoted.

Scattershooting

This is my 200th post! I feel like I ought to have a cake with candles. I would definitely share it with the ten’s of people that read my blog with regularity. Thank you for reading and thank God for inspiration.

Today was a RED ozone level day. The warning sign on the freeway scared me. Not understanding the color system, when the ozone alert was Orange, I thought they called it that because the air had a orange glow. Now that the alert is Red, I am scared to take off my sunglasses and breathe.

Is anyone watching the Democratic Convention? Gomper said, “Reward your friends and punish your enemies”. Is that the definition of politics? It seems to be a universal rule for all parties.

Can you believe that the gasoline prices have dropped a dollar in less that 2 months? Explain please.

I am having Olympic withdrawal. I love the national pride of it all. I can do without anything synchronized including hulahoops and waving long ribbons.

Have you discovered the search engine CUIL? Find it at www.cuil.com.

Did you thank God this morning for His new mercies provided for the day? They are new every morning. Consider the daily manna God provides, and be grateful. God is faithful, they will come every day.

Again, thanks for reading.

The Source of All Love

Without the love of our parents, sisters, brothers, spouses, lovers, and friends, we cannot live. Without love we die. Still, for many people this love comes in a very broken and limited way. It can be tainted by power plays, jealousy, resentment, vindictiveness, and even abuse. No human love is the perfect love our hearts desire, and sometimes human love is so imperfect that we can hardly recognise it as love.

In order not to be destroyed by the wounds inflicted by that imperfect human love, we must trust that the source of all love is God’s unlimited, unconditional, perfect love, and that this love is not far away from us but is the gift of God’s Spirit dwelling within us. - Henri Nouwen

More Groucho Quotes

You’ve got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I’ll bet he was glad to get rid of it.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

Why, I’d horse-whip you if I had a horse.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of your fellow man.

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.