"If For the Girls"
If you can hear the whispering about you
And never yield to deal in whispers, too;
If you can bravely smile when loved ones doubt you
And never doubt, in turn, what loved ones do;
If you can keep a sweet and gentle spirit
In spite of fame or fortune, rank or place,
And though you win your goal or only near it,
Can win with poise or lose with equal grace;
If you can meet with Unbelief, believing,
And hallow in your heart, a simple creed,
If you can meet Deception, undeceiving,
And learn to look to God for all you need;
If you can be what girls should be to mothers:
Chums in joy and comrades in distress,
And be unto others as you'd have the others
Be unto you - - no more, and yet no less;
If you can keep within your heart the power
To say that firm, unconquerable "No,"
If you can brave a present shadowed hour
Rather than yield to build a future woe;
If you can love, yet not let loving master,
But keep yourself within your own self's clasp,
And not let Dreaming lead you to disaster
Nor Pity's fascination loose your grasp;
If you can lock your heart on confidences
Nor ever needlessly in turn confide;
If you can put behind you all pretenses
Of mock humility or foolish pride;
If you can keep the simple, homely virtue
Of walking right with God - - then have no fear
That anything in all the world can hurt you - -
And - - which is more - - you'll be a Woman, dear.
(Wish I knew the author)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
What is the shortest distance?
"The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything."
~Author Unknown
"You can trust the Man who died for you. You can trust Him to thwart each plan that should be stopped and to complete each one that results in His greatest glory and your highest good. You can trust Him to lead you down the path that is the very best in this world for you."
~Streams in the Desert, p. 295
Sometimes things in life like problems, discouragements, and pain, have a way making us feel like we can't trust anything or anybody. Sometimes the problems just have a way of sapping what little bit of life we thought we had left inside of us, making us feel less than capable to handle the situation. Whatever situation we find ourselves in the shortest distance between that problem and the solution is the distance of our knees to the floor. It's sad that when we finally hit the floor on our knees it is usually because that is the last option. We've tried to do everything else we can to make whatever we are trying to work, work. In reality, if we would just go to our knees in the beginning things wouldn't be so bad. I can trust Him to lead me down the path that is the very best in the whole wide world for me!
~Author Unknown
"You can trust the Man who died for you. You can trust Him to thwart each plan that should be stopped and to complete each one that results in His greatest glory and your highest good. You can trust Him to lead you down the path that is the very best in this world for you."
~Streams in the Desert, p. 295
Sometimes things in life like problems, discouragements, and pain, have a way making us feel like we can't trust anything or anybody. Sometimes the problems just have a way of sapping what little bit of life we thought we had left inside of us, making us feel less than capable to handle the situation. Whatever situation we find ourselves in the shortest distance between that problem and the solution is the distance of our knees to the floor. It's sad that when we finally hit the floor on our knees it is usually because that is the last option. We've tried to do everything else we can to make whatever we are trying to work, work. In reality, if we would just go to our knees in the beginning things wouldn't be so bad. I can trust Him to lead me down the path that is the very best in the whole wide world for me!
Monday, September 17, 2007
Where is September going?
I'm not sure why, but September is going by so incredibly fast! (and so is the warm weather!) It just seemed like it was Labor Day Weekend! It has been said that time flies when you are having fun but I think it flies just as fast when you are busy with life. My life is so full right now, thank the Lord! Happy September.. at least what's left of it!!