JUST BE GLAD

Give your best to the world no matter how insignificant that best may be, and the world will invariably give its best to you. - Christian Daa Larson

Thou wouldst not be seeking God if thou hadst not already found Him.~ Pascal

Ann made it a daily custom to take a complete cold sponge bath. Just as she was preparing for this she suddenly stopped, and addressing God she said, "What is that you say, Father?" Then in a moment she burst out with the exclamation, "Yes, that is it. Thank you, Father." And then with rapture she repeated the following verses:

"Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh, and I will put My spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments and do them."
The Life Story of Ann Preston

Known also as "Holy Ann"

By Helen E. Bingham
1927

_O heart of mine, we shouldn't worry so,

What we have missed of calm we couldn't have, you know!_

_What we've met of stormy pain,

And of sorrow's driving rain,

We can better meet again,

If it blow._

_We have erred in that dark hour, we have known,

When the tear fell with the shower, all alone._

_Were not shine and shower blent

As the gracious Master meant?

Let us temper our content

With His own._

_For we know not every morrow

Can be sad;

So forgetting all the sorrow

We have had,

Let us fold away our fears,

And put by our foolish tears,

And through all the coming years,

Just be glad._

JUST BE GLAD

BY

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

The secret of sanctification is to do willingly those duties which we would be compelled by life in any event to do. - Father J. P. Caussade – Abandonment

By this he means that we should have to pass through the experiences in any case, and that if we cooperate with them we become sanctified whereas, if we do not cooperate, we gain nothing from what we endure. MY SEARCH FOR TRUTH ~ Henry Thomas Hamblin

"Isn't it too bad that you have only your own present mind to guide you through life? Well, isn’t it? Isn’t it too bad that what you are relying on to make you happy, to make you comfortable, to give you a sense of direction, a purpose in life, isn’t it too bad that the instrument you’re using is not adequate to the task. Shouldn’t that be a clue to you that you should search in another direction for strength for, intelligence, for inner integrity? Shouldn’t that be a clue that you should search in another direction for what you really want out of life, for something that you want out of life that is authentically satisfying and solid?

Now I started off by asking you a question and I wonder if maybe we’re going too fast already, so let’s all just slow down, it’s been a busy day, hah? You’ve been thinking tens of thousands of thoughts and your arms and your legs have been running all over the place, being very active, now is the time to slow down and pause and give attention to something that is more worthwhile than you can possibly understand at this time. Something that has to do with all of your life, something that has to do with your future." VH

When we resolve to receive only beautiful thoughts from everything with which we come in contact the change for the better in life will be simply remarkable. All things will become new. We will actually enter a new heaven and a new earth, and the joys of existence will multiply many times. - Christian Daa Larson