First one is my regular Wednesday stint. Was reading through some devotions in Travel Mercies, and just struck by the depth and insight in some of the devotionals. Somehow, they prompted me to look for something said by Jesus to encourage my friends in the middle of the week:
"[Jesus said,]'Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.' - Luke 6:37-38
Lord, teach us not to be as the world is; but to be just as You are in our lives - loving, faithful and with hope. Amen."
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The other is on Friday, when I came across this interesting quotation by Henry David Thoreau in this book I'm reading, " Life.Now. ". Tagged on an after-thought after the quote and send it to my kakis again:
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. - H.D. Thoreau. Which drumbeat you're hearing depends on whose you are."
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