Yes, a lot has filled the days. Much has happened. I wasn’t sure about continuing here if other
things lie undone. But if the Lord
permits the time, I do love to share that which I am reading and sometimes a
few thoughts besides. So we’ll see how
this new year shapes up, dear “sharer of the journey”. I would love to hear from you in "comments" if you have found my ramblings helpful in the past and would like to see them continue...
A couple wonderful pieces on how to think
about one another:
"It is a duty incumbent on the children of
God to reprove, animate each other on their journey to the upper world.
Every Christian has difficulties to overcome, temptations to encounter,
and warfare to accomplish which the world is a stranger to. If pilgrims
in the same country can in the least console each other and sweeten the thorny
journey by familiar interaction, they ought not to neglect it. Our home
is professedly in heaven; we have temptations, difficulties, trials and doubts
which, if we are believers, are in unison. I feel that I need the prayers
and advice of all the followers of the Lamb... If the Friend of sinners will
lend a listening ear to our feeble cries, we shall be strengthened and blessed…" (Harriet Newell)
"Oh, if we loved Christ and one another for his sake as we
ought, there would not be an affliction that would touch a child of God in the
world, but we should bear a part of it as soon as it came to our
knowledge! And how great that part would
be, I cannot say. Doubtless if our hearts
were full of love, we should be full of sympathy. Our souls would run into one another; we
should have, as it were, but one soul.
All our burdens would be but one, and all our strength one to bear
it. Oh how easy is a heavy burden to
many shoulders that would press only one to the ground! If we love Christ then and love one another,
let us run under each other’s burdens, bear our part, and help away with the
load." (Anne Dutton)
Trust in the Lord and
do good…befriend faithfulness… Psalm 37:3
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