Scenario

Be still and listen to the stillness within - Darlene Larson Jenks.

No answer eludes us if we turn to the source of all answers-the stillness within.  Prayer accompanied by meditation will always provide the answers we need for the situations facing us.  The answers we want are not guaranteed, however.  We must trust that we will be directed to take the right steps.  Our well-being is assured if we let go of being the one in control and turn our wills over to the care of God, our messenger within.

How comforting to know that all answers are as close as our quiet moments.  God never chooses to keep the answers from us.  We simply fail to quiet our thoughts long enough to heed them.  Our minds race, obsessively, all too often.  We jump from one scenario to another, one fear to another, one emotion to another.  And each time our thoughts capture a new focus, we push the answer we seek further into the background.

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The process is simple, if I want to follow it.  The answers await me if I truly want them.  I need only sit quietly and ask God to offer the guidance I need.  And then I will sit quietly some more.

K. Casey

Success

I realized a long time ago that a belief which does not 

spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief 
at all  -  Evelyn Scott.

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  Believe . . .

in order to succeed, we

must first believe we can - Anonymous.
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Cheers.k.

+ Kim's NOW life .... +

"A man's heart plans his way,
(Prov. 19:21)
But the LORD directs his steps
(Jer. 10.23) / PROVERBS 16:9."

* THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION.
* (Kim's favourite version of Holy Scripture).

~ GREATER Compassion !! ~

God's love for us is as expansive as the open arms of Christ on the cross. - BC

~ Change of Direction ? ~

"The United States Secret Service was founded in 1865. Their mission? To deal with counterfeiters in an attempt to protect the dollar and, as a result, America's national economy. This targeted group of law enforcement officers, however, experienced a change of direction in 1902. They became best known for protecting the President of the United States, although their charge still embodies a variety of tasks.

That change of direction in the Secret Service duties is nothing compared to the completely altered lives of the believers at Thessalonica. THEY had a spiritual transformation that turned their lives around, which was noticed by people far and wide. Paul wrote, "You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God" (* 1 Thessalonians 1:9). And "you became examples to all in Macedonia and Achaia who believe... Your faith toward God has gone out" (vv. 7-8). The change of direction they displayed was dramatic, to say the least - abandoning the worship of idols to embrace relationship with the true and living God. And people noticed the difference in their lives.

I wonder - do people recognize such a profound change in our hearts and lives?" - Bill Crowder

If you are going in the wrong direction,
Or if you have no goal in view,
Let Christ transform you, have control,
Then honor Him in all you do. - Hess

** VIEW associated blog ~ 'Eternity .. and ... !!!' ~ ( * dated 27/11/2010)

* Coming to Christ is not merely informational; it's transformational *

* * Living !! * *

YOU are most welcome to search THIS blog for something you haven't read or seen before !

Cheers.k.

* The TREASURES .. of darkness ? !

I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who calls you by name (ISAIAH 45:3).

"These ancient words leap from the text. What hope and help they give in life's complexities and sorrows!

HOW can there be treasures in darkness, when it is so overwhelming? The astronomers know this pervasiveness as they focus on "dark holes" in space; the anthropologists are aware as they study with a new perspective a dark continent; the theologian perceives humanity - by choice roaming in darkness.

EVEN more benumbing is the darkness that envelopes a Christian in time of tragedy! IS there a treasure to be found when a man's eyes are blasted out, when a child is claimed by death, when a young wife and mother is accidentally killed or when a partner is abandoned?

THERE is but one direction in which to look and that is toward the God-Man whose greatest triumphs came out of darkness! FROM the agony in the garden came the magnificent sacrificial cup! FROM Calvary's place, where nature drew its shroud over the earth, came a cry heard across the centuries - It is finished! FROM the blackness of the tomb sprang resurrection victory. Our blessed Lord found His treasures in darkness!

THIS same Lord said, "Follow me." HE is with us in the crucible of smothering grief or in the narrow aisles of pain, when we stand on cliffs of unbelief or walk in the valley of the shadow of death. He is there in the darkness.

WHERE is this treasure? With joy we exclaim, "The treasure is in the Holy Presence of the Lord!" CURTISS BEDFORD

.. THIS, too ..

I recall that when I was in Rehab. it was expressed to me NOT to think of what I can't do now BUT to think of what I CAN do NOW (it's interesting as humans how we tend to minimilise our capabilities instead of finding positive NEW avenues to cater according to our needs) !

"No matter what direction you may travel, express who you are in your quiet moments" (Carer - Inaugural Carers' Calendar).

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Cheers.k.