It snowed again last night. I went outside this morning and ths snow is so soft to walk through, like foamy whipped cream. I refilled my bird feeders, the cardinals are loving the sunflower seed. Yesterday on the way to choir practice I saw a blue bird. What a wonderful shade of blue they are. I think I’d like to paint something “blue-bird” BLUE.
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A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passeth knowledge. A.W. Tozer
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I asked God for strength, that I might achieve;
I was made weak, that I may learn humbly to obey.
I asked God for health, that I may do greater things;
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I may be happy;
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life;
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for but everything that I hoped for.
I am, among men, most richly blessed.
~A Confederate Soldier
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In essentials, UNITY
In nonessentials, LIBERTY
In all things, CHARITY.
