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What is home without a Bible?
‘Tis a place where day is night,
For o’er life’s beclouded pathway
Heaven can shed no kindly light.
What is home without a Bible?
‘Tis a place where daily bread
For [...]

No matter how the storms may rage
Upon the sea of life,
No matter how the waves may beat,
No matter what the strife;
The Lord is just the same today
As when He walked the Sea,
And He can conquer every storm
That life may send to thee.
The waves are raging everywhere
And men are sore distressed,
But all they need is found [...]

O for a faith that will not shrink
Though pressed by many a foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of poverty or woe.
That will nor murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod,
But in the hour of grief or pain
Can lean upon its God.

A faith that shines more bright and clear
When tempests rage without,
That when in danger knows [...]

God loved the world of sinners lost,
And ruined by the fall.
Salvation full, at highest cost,
He offers free to all.
Love brings the glorious fulness in,
And to His saints makes known
The blessed rest from inbred sin,
Through faith in Christ alone.
~Mrs. M. Stockton

I know not if tomorrow’s way
Be steep or rough;
But when His hand is guiding me,
That is enough.
And so, although the veil has hid
Tomorrow’s way,
I walk with perfect faith and trust,
Through each today.
The love of God has hung a veil
Around tomorrow.
That we may not its beauty see
Nor trouble borrow.
But, oh, ’tis sweeter far, to trust
His unseen [...]

So, then, to every man his chance –
to every man, regardless of his birth,
his shining, golden opportunity –
to every man the right to live,
to work,
to be himself,
and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him–
this, seeker, is the promise of America.
~ Thomas Wolfe
The Meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance [...]

“What is God like, and where does He live?
Does He always listen to those who pray?”
If she asks these questions, oh, never give
A casual glance, or impatiently say,
“You’ll understand when you’re older, dear,”
Or “We’ll talk about that some other day.”
But smile and set aside any chore,
Then, holding her close in a gentle way,
Answer each query [...]

Thanks to an e-mail from my friend I have some questions for you.
Why do I find these intriguing?

Can you cry underwater?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
Why do you have to ‘put your two cents in’… but it’s only a ‘penny for your thoughts’? Where’s [...]

Exodus 33:14 And he said,
My presence shall go with thee,
and I will give thee rest.
I do not understand, dear Lord,
Why this has come, nor see
Why days are dark and nights so long,
And clouds o’ershadow me.
Dost thou not understand, my child,
Why clouds o’ercast the sky;
That without rain no rainbow bright
Could be, and flow’rs would die?
So in [...]

I’d planned to clean the house today
And store all the winter things away,
But a little girl called out merrily
So my task must wait till she’s tired of me.
I’d thought I’d polish all the floors
And finish a hundred household chores,
But a little boy wanted a story read,
His dinner cooked and his puppies fed.
A brown thrush down [...]