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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Is anything vital ever accomplished without persistent effort? Farmers plow and sow, and keep on plowing and sowing. Miners dig, and keep on digging, deeper and deeper. Musicians practice and keep on practicing. Scholars study, and keep on studying. And so must we—if we would know how prayer purifies, fortifies, enriches the inner life, we will have to persist.

Charles R. Brown

This Day's Verse

LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

Psalm 90:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

St. Benedict said, “Always, we begin again.” It’s the same in twelve-step work. Every day, you get up and you try again. That’s our relationship with God—you can go way off the rails spiritually and forget about God and not spend enough time with God, and neglect your prayer life, and God is in that chapel waiting for you to come back. Missing you. Loving you. Always wanting to be with you. That’s the kind of love that God has for us. I hadn’t heeded the call when I was younger, and God still loved me. I had lied about my faith, and God still loved me. I had failed to go to church, and God still loved me. And now I was ready to begin again.

Monica Clare

This Day's Verse

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Job 37:14
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The kind of faith God values seems to develop best when everything fuzzes over, when God stays silent, when the fog rolls in.

Philip Yancey

This Day's Verse

He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 145:19
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!

Washington Irving

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

How God rejoices over a soul, which, surrounded on all sides by suffering and misery, does that upon earth which the angels do in heaven—namely, loves, adores, and praises God!

Gerhardt Tersteegen

This Day's Verse

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.  And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:31-32
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Disregard the study of God and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life, blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.

J. I. Packer

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