Consider the lilies of the field… Matt 6:28
Heavenly Father, I pray for Your Great Wisdom to speak and do. I pray for inner peace that propels me to do right and to show Your Light. Ugliness does not grow on Your Tree but happiness, joy and peace among other great ripe fruit. Please place more than a bar of steel between me and anyone that wants bad to be my lot in life.
I ask for goodness, graciousness and mercy. May I be a receiver of both mercy and grace that pours from The Eternal.
By Christopher M.
On March 24, 2001, I was at the Apple Campus for a developer class. Why is that date significant? It was the release of OS X 10.0 Cheetah. Being true Mac zealots, my friend and I drafted off an employee through the secure doors into the employee only cafeteria for lunch.
To our surprise, Steve Jobs came in and stood on top of a table next to me to casually address the employees. He was 5 feet from me as he held up a preview copy of the Wall Street Journal announcing the new operating system.
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A storage shed…
The Heart cries;
Let me be a Heart!
No! says, the secrets of old;
I need you for a storage shed.
Why? Why? Why?
Says, the blood that pumps the Heart?
Easy to know says the sad, sad soul;
I have secrets hidden deep within.
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
– Anatole France
Happy to say; The Daily Lily once again was able to reinvest in three different groups. As you know we invested and as the loans are paid back we get to reinvest again. How joyful!
“This is an update on your loan to Misiratkhan’s Group in Kyrgyzstan.
Thanks to you and 33 other Kiva Lenders, the $1,200.00 loan request in Kyrgyzstan has been 100% funded.
This loan will be used for the purpose of: to purchase two sheep for breeding and hire labor for harvesting her crops.”
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Misiratkhan is fifty and married to a farmer. Together with her husband she has raised a son and five daughters. The son is a farmer, two younger daughters work in Russia and the other daughters are married and live separately with their families.
When life gets tough with many ups and downs you never expected that life would hold for you, it seems those things you loved in your past, remembrances you might say, seem to warm your heart and are like comfort food to your soul.
One such remembrance for me is when I was little, I grew up on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley is as follows. My Dad raised chickens as one way of making money and had an egg route where he delivered eggs. We would start out early in the morning going through the hills and valleys surrounding our home to bring eggs to each person who had signed up to receive a dozen or so. Dad would lift me onto the medal dash board that extended out on the passenger side, wide enough to sit on, of an old bread truck and we would go from house to house. We greeted people everywhere we would go, and I was given the job to give each person their eggs. Dad would always say, “Now be careful they are breakable.†The people were always happy to see us and would take items from their table – a slice of pie or cake, or a cookie after a warm chat and send us on our way. As a child it seemed that everyone was ready with a dessert. We would see the beauty of the gardens of each home we entered and some people had flowers on china, wall paper, curtains or cupboards.
There is a crowd in one’s mind;
It takes a lot of oxygen to survive.
It drains the mind like a battery
drains its power supply.
A Crowded Mind leaves the body deficient and
anemic of hope and colorless of joy.
It scans the soul like an MRI with contrast.
Telling the story of an old broken down
machine.
The Women in Discipleship, Community Bible Studies held at Historic Episcopal Church, W Gale St. Edenton, NC. Thursdays, 9 am to 11 am. Women of all ages are invited. Mothers bring your little ones as nursery is provided.
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Fall is a great time to refresh your tired summer garden. Making a few changes can alter your landscape and extend your color beauty. For starters, remove tired annuals and plant hardy winter pansies. They will last through the winter, even bouncing back after winter freezes and snows. Take down your fading summer hanging basket and replace it with a fall mum basket. Cut back spent perennials and add something different such as a new variety of coreopsis, sedum or daylily. Their blooms will last late into the fall. Planting a hardy Belgian mum ensures that you will have fall color year after year. Consider incorporating a winter blooming witchhazel or evergreen camellia shrub into your design. Or simply create a mix of pansies, mum, ornamental grass, pepper and a colorful perennial in a bright new pot and place it on your front step.
The Apostle Paul writes, “we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” Romans, 5:4-5 NIV
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