Arise and shine for your light has come

Gemma Stone: Mindfulness is a powerful practice, Day after day..

Grace Bell: Appreciation is gaining in value, getting lifted up, lifted higher in worth. 

Can I do that for others, and for myself? Be Intimate With Those Who Think Badly Of You

The Golden Rule

Rev. John Salmon wrote of ‘Holy Ann’

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:

Pray without ceasing.

While still upon her knees, she said, "Lord, what is evil?" And the answer came, ''Anger, wrath, malice," ctc. All night long she wept and prayed as the inward sinfulness was revealed to her. Toward morning, in sheer desperation, she cried out, “O Lord, how will I know when I get deliverance?" The answer came, ''

Holy Ann of Toronto

Holy Ann of Toronto achieved some amazing things simply through asking her Father. One was to pray about a well, which had gone dry. Those who had been down it said that the bottom was as dry as the kitchen floor. Ann was asked to pray about it, so she did. The next morning there was plenty of water and, so the record goes, the well has never since failed. MY SEARCH FOR TRUTH ~ Henry Thomas Hamblin

One of the most remarkable answers to prayer in Ann's experience was that in which she obtained water in a dry well. This incident has been told and re-told scores of times, with all sorts of variations and additions. I was most careful to get the full particulars and surrounding circumstances taken down as Ann narrated it. The event occurred in the long, dry weeks of summer. During this period the well at their home was usually dry for two or three months, and the boys were compelled to haul water in barrels from the well about half a mile away. This was very hard work, and especially when they had to provide, not only for household needs, but for the stock as well. One evening at the close of the day Ann was sitting in the kitchen with the boys around her, telling them some of the remarkable ways in which her Heavenly Father had answered her prayers When she had just concluded one of these narratives, Henry said, "Ann, why don't you ask your Father to send water in that well, and not have us boys work so hard? I was down in the well looking at it to-day, and it is just as dry as the floor." This was thrown out to Ann in a half-joking, half-earnest way, as though to challenge her faith. He little dreamt of the serious way that Ann would take it. When she got up into her little room that night she knelt in prayer and said, "Now, Father, you heard what Henry said to-night. If I get up in class meeting and say, 'My God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus,' the boys won't believe I am what I profess to be if you don't send the water in the well." She then continued to plead that the water might be sent, and finally, rising from her knees, she said, "Now, Father, if I am what I profess to be, there will be water in the well in the morning."