Have a kleenex handy when you read this...

A little something to put things in perspective...After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park , forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage.One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick. When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother's wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise.She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast ..because she had been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.

'He will cover you with His feathers,And under His wings you will find refuge.'(Psalm 91:4)

My Lord, I did not choose you...

My Lord, I did not choose you,
for that could never be;
my heart would still refuse you,
had you not chosen me.

You took the sin that stained me,
you cleansed me, made me new;
of old you have ordained me,
that I should live in you.

Unless your grace had called me,
and taught my opening mind,
the world would have enthralled me,
tho heavenly glories blind.

My heart knows none above you;
for your rich grace I thirst.
I know that if I love you,
you must have loved me first.

-Jo­si­ah Con­der, 1836

One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is ,"let me see your tongue." A spiritual advisor might ask the same thing. -N. Adams

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin; but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs 10:19