As This Month Ends and as Spring Rapidly Approaches...

Whither goes thou?

Where is thy soul?

Is it in peace? 

If troubled, why?

How art thou fulfilling the duties of thy position?

What are they?

What effort has thou made to amend they disposition, and conquer thy sins?

Has thou been faithful to the light God has given thee?

What means shouldst thou use, especially with regard to they most besetting sin or temptation?

Hast thou fought against it?

Hast thou thought about it at all?

What has thou done with the circumstances of the last month?

Have they wrought God's work in thee?

~ Pere Ravignan (1795-1858)

The Divine Weaver

My life is but a weaving

Between my Lord and me;

I cannot choose the colors

He worketh steadily

Oftimes He weaveth sorrow

And I, in foolish pride,

Forget that He seeth the upper,

And I the under side.

Not till the loom is silent

And the shuttles cease to fly,

Shall God unroll the canvas

And explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful

In the Weaver's skillful hand,

As the threads of gold and silver

In the pattern of His hand.

~ Anon

Psalm 125 (Amplified Bible)

1 THOSE WHO trust in, lean on, and confidently hope in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides and stands fast forever.

2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from this time forth and forever.

3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the [uncompromisingly] righteous, lest the righteous (God's people) stretch forth their hands to iniquity and apostasy.

4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are right [with You and all people] in their hearts.

5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways [of indifference to God], the Lord will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

I Yet Can Trust

IF I believe in God, in a Being who made me, and fashioned me, and knows my wants and capacities and necessities, because He gave them to me, and who is perfectly good and loving, righteous, and perfectly wise and powerful,--whatever my circumstances inward or outward may be, however thick the darkness which encompasses me, I yet can trust, yea, be assured, that all will be well, that He can draw light out of darkness, and make crooked things straight.

~ THOMAS ERSKINE

Created to be Holy

That prayer taught by the saint, "Make me reach, my God, the degree of holiness to which Thou didst call me in creating me!"

Lady Georgiana Fullerton