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Verse of the Day:
“If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.”
~James 1:5-6
Poem of the Day:
“Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed
a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun
into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run
through each day
On the fly?
When you ask “How are you?”
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,’Hi’
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry
through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.”
~“Slowdance” by Anon.
currently listening to “Unstoppable” by Rascal Flatts – Give a listen to “Love Who You Love” “Unstoppable” “Why”
Verse of the Day:
“Pray for Jerusalem’s peace!
Prosperity to all you Jerusalem-lovers!
Friendly insiders, get along!
Hostile outsiders, keep your distance!
For the sake of my family and friends,
I say it again: live in peace!
For the sake of the house of our God, God,
I’ll do my very best for you. ”
~Ps 122:6-9
Quote of the Day:
“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”
~Anon.
Lyrics of the Day:
“My days seem long
whenever we’re apart
it´s like someone had
thrown away my heart
you´re a major part of my life
And no matter what the
storm may bring
I´m fine with you,
And the point of it all
Is I love you
And the reason for it all
Is I love you”
~ “Point of it All” by Anthony Hamilton
currently listening to “Waking Up” by Bethany Dillon
Verse of the Day:
“If your heart is broken, you’ll find God right there;
if you’re kicked in the gut, he’ll help you catch your breath.”
~Ps 34:18
Poem of the Day:
“To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the
same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same;
Every spear of grass–the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women,
and all that concerns them,
All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.”
~“Miracles” by Walt Whitman
Lyrics of the Day:
“You find your faith that’s been lost and shaken
You take back what’s been taken
Get on your knees and dig down deep
You can do what you think is impossible
Keep on believing, don’t give in
It’ll come and make you whole again
It always will, it always does
Love is unstoppable”
~ “Unstoppable” by Rascal Flatts
currently listening to “Branches & Limbs” by Jon Foreman
Verse of the Day:
“I was so foolish and ignorant—
I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you.
Yet I still belong to you;
you hold my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
leading me to a glorious destiny.”
~Ps 73:22-24
Poem of the Day:
“Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all.
I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent. I, too late,
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.”
~“Days” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lyrics of the Day:
“Then there was rain
The sky wore a veil of gold and green
At night it was the bright of the moon with me
Time is just floating away
Then there was rain
The sound foundations are crumbling
Through the ground comes a bit of a-tumbling
And time was just floating away
We can watch it and stay
And we can listen”
~ “Rainy Day” by Coldplay
currently listening to “Get Lifted” by John Legend
Verse of the Day:
“Wise words are like deep waters;
wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.”
~Prov 18:4
Poem of the Day:
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out”
~an excerpt from “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
Video of the Day:
Currently listening to “Testimony Vol. 2: Love & Politics” by India Arie
Verse of the Day:
“So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.”
~Col 3:12-14
Poem of the Day:
“The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
Form an eagle in his flight.
…
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.”
~ “The Day is Done” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lyrics of the Day:
“Awaken whats inside of me.
Tune my heart to all You are in me.
Even though you’re here, God come.
May the vision of You be the death of me.
and even though You’ve given everything.
Jesus come! ”
~ “Vision of You” by Shane & Shane
currently listening to “Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt” by Augustana
Verse of the Day:
“You made the moon to mark the seasons,
and the sun knows when to set.
You send the darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals prowl about.
Then the young lions roar for their prey,
stalking the food provided by God.
At dawn they slink back
into their dens to rest.
Then people go off to their work,
where they labor until evening.”
~Ps 134:19-23
Poem of the Day:
“I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow and reap:
I am wary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers,
And everything but sleep”
~ Algernon Swinburne
Lyrics of the Day:
“Everything’s falling, and I am included in that
Oh, how I try to be just okay
Yeah, but all I ever really wanted
Was a little piece of you
And everybody’s talking how I, can’t, can’t be your love
But I want, want, want to be your love
Want to be your love, for real
Everybody’s talking how I, can’t, can’t be your love
But I want, want, want to be your love
Want to be your love for real”
~ “Be Be Your Love” by Rachael Yamagata
currently listening to “Living Hard” by Gary Allan
Verse of the Day:
“ And I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it. Friend, you have no idea how good your love makes me feel, doubly so when I see your hospitality to fellow believers. ”
~Philemon 1:5-7
Quote of the Day:
“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.”
~Thomas Aquinas
Poem of the Day:
“On every thought I have the countless shadows fall
Of other thoughts as valid that I cannot have;
Cross-lights of errors, too, impossible to me,
Yet somehow truer than all these thoughts, being with more power aglow.
May I never lose these shadowy glimpses of unknown thoughts
That modify and minify my own and never fail
To keep some shining sense of the way all thoughts at last
Before life’s dawning meaning like the stars at sunrise pale.”
~ “Light & Shadow” by Hugh MacDiamid
currently listening to “808s & Heartbreak” by Kanye West
Verse of the Day:
“I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of law I already tore down. For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law—I stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for God. My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die..”
Gal. 2:18-21
Poem of the Day:
“O Me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d;
Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;
Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists, and identity;
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.”
~ “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman
Lyric of the Day:
“How can I keep from singing Your praise
How can I ever say enough
How amazing is Your love
How can I keep from shouting Your name
I know I am loved by the King
And it makes my heart want to sing”
~ “How can I Keep From Singing” Chris Tomlin
currently listening to “Pages” by Shane & Shane
Verse of the Day:
“If you brag, brag of this and this only: That you understand and know me. I’m GOD, and I act in loyal love. I do what’s right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things. These are my trademarks.”
Jer. 9:24
Poem of the Day:
“WHEN I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.
But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm
(Now am I free to be poetical?)
I should prefer to have some boy bend them
As he went out and in to fetch the cows—
Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone.
One by one he subdued his father’s trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It’s when I’m weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig’s having lashed across it open.
I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
~ “Birches” by Robert Frost
Lyric of the Day:
“If it takes my whole life
I won’t break, I won’t bend
It’ll all be worth it
Worth it in the end
‘Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You’ll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fight”
~ Sarah McLachlan, “Answer”
STILL currently reading to “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
