Positive Daily Inspiration - February 3, 2024
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“When I remember you in my prayers, I always thank my God.”
Philemon 1:4
Biography of Jesus, the Christ
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.
He grew up in still another village where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty.
Then, for three years he was an itinerate preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never had a family or owned a house.
He did not go to college.
He never visited a big city.
He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was born.
He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against him.
His friends ran away.
He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While He was dying, His executioners gambled for His clothing, the only property He had on earth.
When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race and the leader of mankind’s progress.
All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned put together,
Have not affected the life of man on earth, as much as, that one solitary life.
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The Bridge Builder
This poem speaks of each generation’s responsibilities to its successors.
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near,
“You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head:
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followeth after me today
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.”
-Will Allen Dromgoole
“Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known to God.” Philippians 4:6 – Should your imagination begin picture the worst scenario, put God in charge of your imagination.
-Chris Chenoweth
DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague.
If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, you open yourself, so that someday these ways of mine might not seem so wrong and might finally appear to you as right — for me.
To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness.
And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.
-David Keirsey
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POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:
God be in my head
and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes
and in my looking;
God be in my mouth
and in my speaking;
God be in my heart;
and in my thinking;
God be in my end and at my departing.
(Medieval prayer)
POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION:
Christ, mighty in the midst of me, gives me victory over every limitation. As a child of God I am healthy, happy, wise, loving, and free.
POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE:
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
(Unknown)
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