Topic(s): Forgiveness, Priorities

Forget each kindness that you do
    As soon as you have done it;
Forget the praise that falls on you
    The moment you have won it;
Forget the slander that you hear
    Before you can repeat it;
Forget each slight, each spite,
    each sneer Wherever you may meet it.

Remember every kindness done
    To you, what’er its measure;
Remember praise by others won,
    And pass it on with pleasure.
Remember every promise made
    And keep it to the letter;
Remember those who lend you aid,
    And be a grateful debtor.

From the Children

Topic(s): Children, Humor

• Dear God, I keep waiting for spring, but it never came yet. Don’t forget. —Mark

• Dear God, You don’t have to worry about me, I look both ways. —Dean

• Dear God, I think the stapler is one of your greatest inventions. —Ruth M.

• Dear God, I think about you sometimes even when I’m not praying. —Elliott

• Dear God, I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only four people in our family and I can never do it. —Nan

• Dear God, If you watch in church on Sunday, I will show you my new shoes. —Mickey D.

• Dear God, I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the bible. Love, Chris

• Dear God, We read Thomas Edison made light but in Sunday School they said you did it. I bet he stoled your idea. Sincerely, Donna

• Dear God, If you let the dinosaurs not be extinct we would not have a country. You did the right thing. —Jonathan

• Dear God, I do not think anybody could be a better God. Well, I just want you to know but I am not just saying that because you are God.

“. . . have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes . . . thou hast perfected praise?” —Matthew 21:16A Great Way to Live

A Great Way to Live

Topic(s): Depression, Joy

• Why should I say “I can’t” when the Bible says I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength (Philippians 4:13)?
• Why should I lack when God supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19)?
• Why should I fear when God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love and sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7)?
• Why should I be weak when the Lord is the strength of my life (Psalm 27:1; Daniel 11:32)?
• Why should I feel like a failure when I am a conqueror in all things through Christ (Romans 8:37)?
• Why should I allow Satan supremacy over my life when He that is in me is greater than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)?
• Why should I lack wisdom when God gives wisdom to me generously when I ask for it (1 Corinthians 1:30; James 1:5)?
• Why should I accept defeat when the Bible says that God always leads me in triumph (2 Corinthians 2:14)?
• Why should I be depressed when I have God’s loving kindness, compassion, and faithfulness to give me hope (Lamentations 3:21-23)?
• Why should I worry when I can cast all my care on God who cares for me (1 Peter 5:7)?
• Why should I be in bondage when the truth has set me free (John 8:32)?
• Why should I feel condemned when there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)?
• Why should I feel alone when Jesus is with me always, even to the end of the world (Matthew 28:20; Hebrews 13:5)?
• Why should I be discontented when I can be content in all my circumstances (Philippians 4:11)?
• Why should I feel worthless when Christ values me (1 Corinthians 4:5)?
• Why should I have a persecution complex, knowing that nobody can be against me when God is for me (Romans 8:31)?
• Why should I let the pressures of life bother me when Jesus has overcome the world and its tribulations (John 16:33)?
   —adapted from Herb Patnaude

“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” —John 10:10