Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, April 30, 2011

QUAINT WORDS

Welcome to "Quaint Words!”

These posts will contain thoughts, poems, and prayers from old books that I have found at antique stores, flea markets, and garage sales (with an occasional treasure from a bookstore).

I love the rhythm and sound of the older English language, and am blessed by other believers who have gone before me!

"Look at the great pageant of humanity travelling the Road of Life, halting here, loitering there, peering into the windows of Life in search of Happiness. It struggles up the mountain of success. It stands in the Arena of Fame. It plunges into the mines of Knowledge. It stretches out its palsied hand for the glitter of Wealth. It feasts at the Table of Pleasure, and lo! disappointment - despair!

Am I there?

If so, what a travesty! I can almost hear the hisses and jeering of the crowd...

We were created to know, love, and serve God in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next. There is no promise of happiness here, but we come as close to happiness as it is possible in this life by working for future happiness, and this means -

Poverty of spirit...

Prayer is a necessity...prayer, is perfect, attractive, holy...

We love individuals tenderly, deeply, magnanimously. We are great powers for good. Our love is gold, fire-tried. Our strength has been crushed in the wine-press of humiliation and has come forth divine. Our sympathy is the blossom of sorrow, and its fragrance soothes all wounds. Our charity is born of God and is without limit.

This is true poverty of spirit...

It all sounds very beautiful, and it is beautiful, but the process is a long one, not because God wills it so...but because our intellects are darkened and our hearts gross...

There is but one remedy - constant communing with the great Teacher. It is impossible - I repeat it, impossible - to commune with Him and remain ignorant of the values of Life...

Once the eye is perfect, all else comes right."

(From "Spiritual Pastels" by J.S.E. c. 1918)

(A listing of books and authors, and also dates of individual postings from those books, will be found on my "QUAINT WORDS" page)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

6 comments:

Nikki (Sarah)April 30, 2011 at 4:26 AM
prayer is the best....talking with Him...and mostly hearing Him whisper back..
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WandaApril 30, 2011 at 12:13 PM
It's wonderful that our communing with Him is not dependent upon location. Wherever we are He is and attentive to our voice.
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CharlotteApril 30, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Lovely inspiring quaint words. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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MTJApril 30, 2011 at 4:35 PM
Hi Sharon,

Thank you for sharing Quaint Words. I find much encouragement from these posts in your blog.

I particularly like this part:
"There is but one remedy - constant communing with the great Teacher. It is impossible - I repeat it, impossible - to commune with Him and remain ignorant of the values of Life..."

Constant communing with the great Teacher...teach me Lord the values of Life.

Blessings and peace.

MTJ
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Chatty CroneMay 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM
I love to pray -
sandie
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SharonMay 1, 2011 at 5:58 PM
Sarah - Oh yes, my friend! The sweet communication of prayer is the balm of the soul. As these quaint words said, it sets the heart right.

Wanda - Yes, the wonderful privilege of unceasing prayer - anywhere, anytime. God is always as close as our next breath. He is always attentive, always inclined our way.

Charlotte - Thank you. I am always pleased to pass on the very wise words of those who have gone before us.

MTJ - Thanks so much for stopping by. And it pleases me that you are blessed here. Quaint Words is kinda special to me, too. Yes, only through communing with our Lord can we learn the values of life. Only through His Wisdom are we guided into Truth.

Sandie - Me too. There aren't many things that are more special to me than to be considered the friend of God. The privilege of being able to boldly approach His throne, and to speak to Him? Priceless!

GOD BLESS!
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

Sharon Sharing God

Saturday, April 30, 2011

QUAINT WORDS

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