Lest I Forget.

This is my King! :)

Saturday Tunes.

May these songs cheer up your Saturday! 

(Skip ahead to 2:49 for the song in the first video below.) 

Humility.

Humility: "1. In ethics, freedom from pride and arrogance; humbleness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth. In theology, humility consists in lowliness of mind; a deep sense of one's own unworthiness in the sight of God, self-abasement, penitence for sin, and submission to the divine will.

"'Before honor is humility.' Prov.15.

"'Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.' Acts.20.

"2. Act of submission."

(Webster's 1828 dictionary)

Also a valid definition: A character trait of which I need much, much more. A character trait which is sadly lacking in my life.

Tonight, I realized that instead of making judgments about how haughty someone else is, perhaps I should focus on how haughty I often can be and ask my Lord Jesus to help me overcome my own haughtiness. He is good. He is Love.

Latest Favorite Quotations.

"Youth is not a period of time. It is a state of mind, a result of the will, a quality of  the imagination, a victory of courage over timidity, of the taste for adventure over the love of comfort. A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul. Preoccupations, fears, doubts, and despair are the enemies which slowly bow us toward earth and turn us into dust before death. You will remain young as long as you are open to what is beautiful, good, and great; receptive to the messages of other men and women, of nature, and of God. If one day you should become bitter, pessimistic, and gnawed by despair, may God have mercy on your old man's soul." --General Douglas MacArthur

"O LORD, let that become possible to me by Thy grace, which by nature seems impossible to me."
--Thomas A'Kempis

"Those who dislike ritual in general--ritual in any way and every department of life--may be asked most earnestly to reconsider the question. It is a pattern imposed on the mere flux of our feelings by reason and will, which renders pleasures less fugitive and griefs more endurable, which hands over to the power of wise custom the task (to which the individual and his moods are so inadequate) of being festive or sober, gay [as in happy] or reverent, when we choose to be, and not at the bidding of chance." --C.S. Lewis, Preface to Paradise Lost

"Love through me, Love of God;

Make me like Thy clear air

Through which, unhindered, colors pass

As though it were not there.

"Powers of the love of God,

Depths of the heart Divine,

O Love that faileth not, break forth,

And flood this world of Thine."

--Amy Carmichael

"As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people from this time forth and forever." --Psalm 125:2

Two Sentence Post.

I love my family. That is all for now. :D