With Love

With Love
~Put no demands on love, and love will bring you much.
~Give love away, and it will be yours in greater and greater abundance.
~With love, what was weak will grow strong.
~With love, what was impossible becomes real.
~Love can find the beauty and value in even the most desperate situation.
~Love will bring hope where nothing else can.
~Though love cannot be explained, it can never be denied.
~Love has its own reality that transcends the most oppressive limitations.
~Love elevates what it touches to a higher dimension.
~When love is present, fears are calmed, wounds begin to heal, and joy is gloriously within reach.
~Love, not because there is a reason, but because there is the possibility.
~Love, and you will know what you cannot understand.
~ Ralph Marston

Be Thankful

In everyones life, at sometime, our inner fire goes out. Then it is burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~ Albert Schweitrer

I Choose Love

I CHOOSE LOVE…
No occasion justifies hatred;
No injustice warrants bitterness.
I choose love.
Today I will love God and what God loves.
I CHOOSE JOY…
I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance.
I will refuse the temptation to be cynical…
the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see
People as anything less than human beings,
created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as
anything less than an opportunity to see God.
I CHOOSE PEACE…
I will live forgiven. I will forgive so that I may live.
I CHOOSE PATIENCE…
I will overlook the inconveniences of the world.
Instead of cursing the one who takes my place,
I’ll invite him to do so.
Rather than complain that the wait is too long,
I will thank God for a moment to pray.
Instead of clinching my fist at new assignments,
I will face them with joy and courage.
I CHOOSE KINDNESS…
I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone.
Kind to the rich, for they are afraid.
And kind to the unkind,
For such is how God has treated me.
I CHOOSE GOODNESS…
I will go without a dollar
Before I take a dishonest one.
I will be overlooked before I will boast.
I will confess before I will accuse.
I choose goodness.
I CHOOSE FAITHFULNESS…
Today I will keep my promises.
My debtors will not regret their trust.
My associates will not question my word.
My wife will not question my love.
And my children will never fear
that their father will not come home.
I CHOOSE GENTLENESS…
Nothing is won by force.
I choose to be gentle.
If I raise my voice may it be only in praise.
If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer.
If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.
I CHOOSE SELF-CONTROL…
I am a spiritual being…
After this body is dead, my spirit will soar.
I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal.
I choose self-control.
I will be drunk only by joy.
I will be impassioned only by my faith.
I will be influenced only by God.
I will be taught only by Christ.
I choose self-control.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
To these I commit my day.
If I succeed, I will give thanks.
If I fail, I will seek his grace.
And then, when this day is done,
I will place my head on my pillow
and rest.
~by Max Lucado
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