If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
01840 – Let Trouble be in My Day
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01675 – God Should Have the First & Last Words
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
01652 – Who is More Important? Groups or Individuals?
To the Materialist things like nations, classes, civilizations must be more important than individuals, because the individuals live only seventy odd years each and the group may last for centuries. But to the Christian, individuals are more important, for they live...
01627 – Joy for Each New Day
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different...
01559 – Two Roads Diverged…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was...
01557 – Gospel Every Single Day
We need the gospel every single day because we forget the gospel every single day.
01552 – Focus on What Matters
Poet Ranier Maria Rilke points us in the right direction when he says, "The more the soul praises, the stronger it grows." Rilke is suggesting that praise is about the condition of our soul, not the circumstances of our days. Gratitude strengthens our soul by focusing...
01522 – Not All Crazy & Hopeless On the Same Day
Maybe more than ever before in my lifetime, my friends and I are aware of our brokenness and the deep crazy, the desperation for light, hope, food, and medicine for the poor. What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day.
01512 – Every Day is a New Day
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and...
01498 – Torn between Two Desires in the Morning
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.