Wheat

He grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of wheat. (Psalm 147:14)

A Woman's Soul

Woman's soul is fashioned to be a shelter in which other souls may unfold. Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical spouse and mother relationships, but they extend to all people with whom it comes in contact." St. Edith Stein

Are you dead yet?

DYING TO SELF

When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely ignored, and you don't sting and hurt with the insult of the oversight, but your heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF

When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving silence,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF

When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any impunctuality, or any annoyance; when you stand face-to-face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility - and endure as Jesus endured,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF

When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, any garment, any interruption by the will of God,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF

When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation or to record your own good works, or itch after commendations, when you can truly love to be unknown,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF

When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF

When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature then yourself, and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF

Are you dead yet? The Spirit will remind us that resurrection cannot be accomplished on a live person. For a truly victorious resurrected Life-in-Christ, we must die to self!

Can you control God?

"Ask, and it will be given to you" (Matthew 7:7). "If you ask for anything in my name, I will do it." (John 14:4)

Don't get too involved in the outcome of your prayers. The idea is to bring your problems and petitions to God and let him solve them according to His Will. He certainly can handle them better than we can.

A Pillow?

Question:
Can you offer up a pillow?

Answer: Yes you can and this is why!

Well if you were married to my husband....when I wake up in the morning there is this stentch of what I call the "brown breeze". It is my husband's pillow. I have tried everything to get rid of it. He sweats so bad that it gets so wet and stinky. He tells me that his pillow smells like sweet petunias in a nice summer day blowing in the breeze. Well I haven't smelled petunias but I can guarantee they don't smell like this.

I have even tried covering his pillows with plastic bags and put the pillowcase over it. But the smell goes right through the pillow. I buy new ones for him and within a week, the smell is back again. So one day I decided that I would just "Offer It Up" for all my sins. It must have some value; for suffering is involved especially when I wake up to this every morning! Then I thank God that my husband is still next to my side!

Have a wonderful day everyone! Remember: "Offer it Up"!

Linda

Why offer it up?

I say these words so much that my husband says he is going to offer me up! Geesh!