Peace Pilgrim

“We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.”

Peace Pilgrim

The Serenity of Perfect Security

“Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.  It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little.

“When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.”

William Barclay

Are We Doing Enough and If Not - Why Not?

The following variation on the prayer attributed to Francis of Assisi was delivered by Mother Theresa when she addressed the United Nations in 1985.

Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world,

who live and die in poverty and hunger.

Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread

and by our understanding love give peace and joy.

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace.

That where there is hatred I may bring love,

That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness,

That where there is discord, I may bring harmony,

That where there is error I may bring truth,

That where there is doubt I may bring faith,

That where there is despair I may bring hope,

That where there are shadows I may bring light,

That where there is sadness I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted,

To understand than to be understood,

To love than to be loved.

For it is by forgetting self that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven,

it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.

Amen.

What have we learned and what have we done to ensure that poverty and hunger have been eliminated from this planet of so much wealth?

What are we doing to ensure famines and war never blight the lives of those who God has created and expects us to protect and love?

Made To Be Immortal

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were to be immortal.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Joel's Prophecy

Is this happening now as change is occurring all over this globe?

I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

Joel Ch 2 v 27-28

Entertaining Angels

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews Ch 13 v2

The Best Argument

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

William James