Gift-giving God, help me focus on the work you’ve given me to do.

Leslie Koh, Our Daily Bread, July 2025

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse the earth, the air, and you.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of Liberty is the history of resistance.

Isn’t it wonderful, when you think, how a little seed asleep, out of the earth new life will drink, and carefully upward creep.

Help received gratefully results in help being given sacrificially.

Johnathan Hershberger, Port Clements BC
Beside the still waters, vol 30, issue 3

Judge not according to the apppearance, but judge righteous judgement.

to be great, stay at the bottom of the ladder of status and serve…

Dennis Martin, Smithville, TN
Beside the still waters, vol. 30, issue 3

Light of the world, illumine This darkened land of Thine, till ev’rything that’s human Is changed by life divine.

John S. B. Monsell
Beside the still waters, vol. 30, issue 3