'When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say--
You spoke from that flower on the window sill-
Do you remember what it was you said?'

'First tell me what it was you thought you heard.'

'Having found the flower and driven a bee away,
I leaned my head
And holding by the stalk,
I listened and I thought I caught the word--
What was it? Did you call me by my name?
Or did you say--
Someone said "Come" -- I heard it as I bowed.'

'I may have thought as much, but not aloud.'

"Well, so I came.'

mmmm, The Telephone by Robert Frost,

one of my favorites.

thank you dear.

"I think we sometimes discourage ourselves by a misconception
of the exact meaning of the expression "answer". Taking it
to mean only grant. Now an answer is not necessarily
acquiescence. It may be a refusal, an explanation, a promise,
a conditional grant. It is, in fact, simply attention to
our request expressed. In this sense, before we call He will
answer, and while we are yet speaking, He will hear."

Mary B M Duncan

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).

The Starlight Night


LOOK at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves’-eyes!
The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!—

Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.
Buy then! bid then!—What?—Prayer, patience, aims, vows.
Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!
Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!
These are indeed the barn; withindoors house
The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.

I have actually read this prayer often and prayed this prayer often. An AA meeting in California is where I first heard it. It just had a way of hitting home in many ways and still does.

Thomas, I hope it always brings you
joy and peace as well as allowing you
to bring hope to others.

I hope you are having a pleasant
Memorial weekend with friends/family.

G R A C E


But by the grace of God I am What I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder then all of them-yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me

Corinthians 15:10


All of us need grace.


Conscious Choice to live in grace.

Accept grace.

Romans 3:22-24

This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that comes by Christ Jesus.


REST! IN HIS GRACE


2 Peter 3:19

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Crhist. To him be glory both now and forever! AMEN


GOD IS THE SOURCE OF IT ALL


EVERYONE CONSCIOUSLY
ACCEPTING REST FROM
GOD


Take the first letter in every work above and what does it spell.....



Live, Learn, Love



I posted this in another thread from what we had our sermon on Sunday about Grace....It was really good....

Hi Debs.

Hope you have enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend.

Thank you for your kind words!

you are most welcome.

Um, don't mind me. Just gonna sit in the corner and watch the world go by for a while.

I did thanks sweets

(((Feral)))

How are you?

Welcome Thomas and star_tin......have fun in your corner...I promise we won't bit....maybe a lil nibble but no bites...gigglesnort.

Sweer Wyatt I am good darling..How are you? Did you have a wonderful weekend......

It was quiet....nothing special except an extra day to sleep in a bit.

To true....and everyday is a three day weekend for me...cuz I work from home...and when I want....luxery I love.

I'll bet you say that to all the cows sporting earrings and smoking a heater.

In Memory of our Soldiers past and present who died so that we could be free....Protected by a God who died so that we may have everlasting life......



Soldier's Prayer


Hearts are heavy now, dear Lord
For WAR is looming there.
Our prayers are calling out to you,
Our thoughts too much to bear.
Be with our loved ones--THEY NEED YOU.
Guide them, lead them, see them through.
Bless our leader, for we know,
He asks Your blessings, and needs them so.
Protect the innocent, shield their lives,
As bombs and missiles streak the skies.
Open our hearts and fill us with grace,
Guard our loved ones in that place.
This I say, in earnest prayer,

THANK YOU LORD
I know YOU'RE there.






So brief, but God knows our hearts
and feels the pain for all of us.
Our military, our president, we who wait at home and those innocents whose lives are in harms way too.
I can barely watch the news,
but am drawn to it all the same.
This prayer is on my lips and in my heart,
almost every minute.
GOD BLESS AMERICA,
and all of your children,
wherever they are.






Soldiers

A Soldier's Prayer

God our Father,
Help me to remain true to my ideals
during my service to my country.
Help me be what is in America,
the land of the free.
May I realize that I represent
what our country stands for.
My uniform is a symbol of duty and valor
both in peace and in war.
I take up arms to defend what all Americans hold dear:
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Grant me the strength to live according to these ideals,
the courage of my convictions, and the resolve to endure whatever dangers threaten.
With you at our side I fear no evil
and resist every enemy,
secure in the knowledge
that you hold me in the palm of your hand.
Amen.

A resounding Amen