Word

I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and

hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 

Psa 30.1

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BEINGS/THINGS FOR WHICH I GIVE THANKS

For Nov. 29

Cheese – yellow, warmed (by the sun) & homemade bread, Swiss, NY sharp, cottage C.

 

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Do you WANT God’s help?

When/if you stopped loving & started hating your mate

you did it WITHOUT God’s help.

With God’s help you CAN stop hating

& start loving again!  🙂

– eab, 12/31/11

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$4,000

We have a mountain in front of us *

Four thousand dollars high.

But thou dost own every fleck of gold,

Beneath the sunset sky.

 

We have a problem in front of us

Four thousand dollars long.

But every creature on the globe,

To You, it doth belong.

 

We have a mountain in front of us

Four thousand dollars wide.

But You have promised to guide us

And be ever at our side.      

– eab, 11/29/78  * God supplied this need for Christ Church, College & Academy

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Lewis – born

 

ON THIS DATE

Clive Staples “C. S.” Lewis was born 11/29/1898 at Belfast, Ireland.  Few modern (a relative term J) thinkers (another relative term L) have impacted our day more.  Atheist turned Church of England, his fictional and non-fictional works lead toward Christian thought.  A university don, he was at Oxford (1924-54) and Cambridge (1954-63).  His Screwtape Letters are good (must think backward!) as are Miracles (1947) and Mere Christianity (1952).  His allegorical The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) is considered a classic in children’s literature.  This theologian’s death (11/22/1963) was overshadowed by the murder of JFK that same day.

Lewis Quotes:

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world”

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