Sept.05.02: Light For The Day - "Funding Peace"

-- Psalm 42:11 (NIV)
"Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."

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The accent may be on youth these days, but the stress is on adults.
Always reflecting on the things we haven't done, we start each day
worrying earlier and stay up later to worry every night.

A certain parish priest patented a method for making holy water.
He took a big pot, filled it with water, turned up the heat,
and boiled the devil out of it.

And guilt? why not boil the devil out of that, too?
After all, we'll always have those things we shouldn't have done but
did anyway. So we end up wasting time dragging our burden of guilt
in the dirt instead of getting it washed.

Cares are the tools God uses to fashion us for better things.
He uses reverses to move us forward. Reverses and cares bow us
down low until we finally drop to our knees. But a lot of kneeling keeps us in good standing because it bring us close to God, we find peace.

-- Barbara Johnson

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-- John 14:27 (NIV)
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

-- John 16:33 (NIV)
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome the world."

-- Jeremiah 33:6 (NIV)
"'Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it;
I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security."

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