True rest is not refusing the struggle, but conquering it; not resting from duty, but finding rest in it.
Denver Yoder, Somerset, OH
Frederick W. Robertson, Beside the still Waters, Vol 30, Issue 6

Mine eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Psalm 92:11

Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Life is the time to serve the Lord,
the time to ensure a great reward.
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But we are sure that the judgement of God is according to the truth.

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Are we permitting time’s constraints to make us fear or fret, when nothing God has planned has ever been prevented yet?
Jay R. Martin, Castorland, NY
Beside the Still Waters, Volume 30, issue 6

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so we may fear less.

The strongest challenges to belief are the things that we experience: experience is a great changer and shaper of belief because it gives us pragmatic knowledge that offers tangible and physical proof, even though it’s workings are often mysterious to us – we know what we experienced even though it may be “unbelievable”. This tells us that the perceptions are informing and changing belief. Sometimes the facts that we experience in our very body are so overwhelming that we have to enter into a suspension of disbelief, believing “as if” they were true in order to accommodate the experience.

p. 53, the Celtic spirit, Caitlin Matthews

No dark fate determines the future. We do. Each day and each moment, we are able to create and re-create our lives and the very quality of human life on our planet. This is the power we wield.

An invitation to Joy, the book of joy, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.
Dennis Martin, Smithville, TN
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