♥ - REFLECTIONS - ♥

The truly humble are those who have no thought of using other people to their own avail. They are aware that any success they may attain come note entirely from their own intelligence and abilities, but because somewhere along the way they have acknowledged how inadequate they are alone.

The day of the self-sufficient person has never truly been. Without other people, without a sense of humility, success is lost to the overambitious.

English critic John Ruskin once said that the first test of a truly great person is humility.

There is greatness and sincerity when we can say to ourselves that we are not only human and except for the 

grace of God we would even lack those qualities. We realize that the world owes us nothing, and no person

 owes us anything but love. It is not simply our job to serve ourselves, but it is our duty to serve others.

Humility is one of the finest qualities found in human nature. Without it we are nothing but a brash machine, with it we are warm and kind and always respected.

If we want to be friends to others, we must meet them on their level. This isn't to say we have to be the type they are, but understand them and realize that it is a good thing that we are not all alike. This is the beauty of humanity, the variations that keep the human race from being monotonous.

And there is nothing sweeter to the human ear than to hear someone talk its language. Great persons have realized this and have made themselves adaptable to the little and to the big, to the learned and to the unschooled, in order to be more widely understood.

Who knew better than the Wise Master the importance of meeting others on their own level? The Master looked into the lives of every type of person and saw many changes that needed to be made, but also saw much to love and to waken. And in this gentleness and compassion the Wise Master could meet us all and speak our languages, then to be understood and followed.

We live in such narrow existences when we cannot communicate with anyone except those on our own level of thought and action. And if we only have one level on which to operate, there's danger of it becoming a shelf for immovable objects.

Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Regret

by Bob Perks

I thought you'd always be there

Just a touch away

I tried to say I love you

I meant to every day

But you know how the world is

With work and time and such

I always knew I needed you

I didn't know how much. 

Take time to pray...it helps to bring God near

and washes the dust of earth from your eyes.

Take time for friends...they are the source of happiness.

Take time for work...it is the price of success.

Take time to think...it is the source of power.

Take time to read...it is the foundation of knowledge.

Take time to laugh...it is the singing that helps with life's loads.

Take time to love...it is the one sacrament of life. 

Take time to dream...it hitches the soul to the stars.

Take time to play...it is the secret of youth.

Take time to worship...it is the highway to reverence. 

Author Unknown

Did you know that when you carry the Bible, 

Satan has a headache; 

when you open it,

 he collapses; 

when he sees you reading it, 

he loses his strength; 

AND when you stand on the Word of God, 

Satan can't hurt you?

A Pastor goes to the dentist for a set of false teeth.  The first Sunday after he gets his new teeth, he talks for only eight minutes.  The second Sunday, he talks for only ten minutes.  The following Sunday, he talks for 2 hours and 48 minutes.  The congregation had to mob him to get him down from the pulpit and they asked him what happened.  

The Pastor explained the first Sunday his gums hurt so bad he couldn't talk for more than 8 minutes.  The second Sunday his gums hurt too much to talk for more than 10 minutes.  But, the third Sunday, he put his wife's teeth in by mistake and he couldn't shut up...