Willingness is the soul of obedience. God sometimes accepts willingness without work, but never work without willingness.

Thomas Watson
Beside the Still Waters, Volume 31, issue 1

But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:…

II Corinthians 8:14

When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share.

p. 246, The Book of Joy, Douglas Abrams, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu

Acceptance means not fighting reality. Gratitude means embracing reality. It means moving from counting your burdens to counting your blessings,…

p. 243, The Book of Joy, Douglas Abrams, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu

Acceptance was the final pillar of the mind, and it led us to the first pillar of the heart: forgiveness. When we accept the present, we can forgive and release the desire for a different past.

p. 228, The. Book of Joy, Douglas Abrams, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu

The important question is not how much of the Spirit we have but how much of us the Spirit has.
Joseph Kuepfer, Newton, ON
Beside the Still Waters, Volune 31, Issue 1

God dwells among his people…
P. 191, Miriam’s Healing, Cynthia Davis

We seek the love of our children, but we should not expect their gratitude – at least not until they are grown up. Parenting is a responsibility, not an obligation. We will make mistakes, sometimes the very mistakes that our parents made with us – but we remain parents out of love.

p. 118, the Celtic Spirit, Caitlin Matthews

I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the course,
I have kept the faith.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.