Humility / God tugging

Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less. --C.S. Lewis

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A twelve-year-old boy accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Lord during a weekend revival meeting. The next week his school friends questioned him about the experience.

"Did you hear God talk?" one asked.

"No," the boy said.

"Did you have a vision?" another asked.

"No, the boy replied.

"Well, how did you know it was God?" a third friend asked.

The boy thought for a moment and then said, "It's like when you catch a fish. You can't see the fish or hear the fish; you just feel him tugging your line. I felt God tugging on my heart."

So often we try to figure out life by what we can see, hear, or experience with our other senses. We make calculated estimates and judgments based on empirical evidence. There's a level of truth, however, that cannot be perceived by the senses or measured objectively. It's at that level where faith abounds. It is our faith that compels us to believe, even when we cannot explain to others why or how or to what specific earthly end.

By our faith we only know in Whom we trust, and that is sufficient. Remember, it's really not the outlook but the uplook that counts.

Chaplain’s Notes

The Quality of Life

It is very hard to accept an early death.  When friends die who are seventy, eighty, or ninety years old, we may be in deep grief and miss them very much, but we are grateful that they had long lives.  But when a teenager, a young adult, or a person at the height of his or her career dies, we feel a protest rising from our hearts:  "Why?  Why so soon?  Why so young?  It is unfair."

But far more important than our quantity of years is the quality of our lives.  Jesus died young.  St. Francis died young.  St. Thérèse of Lisieux died young, Martin Luther King, Jr., died young.  We do not know how long we will live, but this not knowing calls us to live every day, every week, every year of our lives to its fullest potential.

Henri Nouwen

Just remember ...

Do not judge by what's on the outside!

Sometimes people are quick

to judge others,

when what you see

isn't really all there.

People have different moods

different personalities

different desires,

so what you're really seeing

is only a mask,

of what others want you to see.

On the inside,

we all have the same desires,

a kind smile,

a warm heart,

a tender soul,

all wanting to be reached

on the inside.

We're all not perfect,

only human,

we'll have ups and downs

like a merry-go-round,

we'll make many mistakes.

But just remember,

the next time you see a person,

do not judge what's on

the outside,

we could be having a bad day.

Try and see on the inside,

and you will see,

the kind smile,

the warm heart,

the tender soul,

reaching out.

Ingredients for a wedding

Ingredients

4-lb of love

1-lb of youth

0.5-lb of good looks

1-lb of sweet temper

1-lb of blindness to faults

1-lb of self-forgetfulness

1-lb of powdered wit

1-lb of good humor

2 -tbsp of sweet argument

1- pint of rippling laughter

1- wine glass of common sense

1- oz of modesty

Put the love, good looks and sweet temper into a well-furnished house. Beat the butter of youth to a cream and mix well to blindness of faults.

Stir the pounded wit and good humor in to the sweet argument; then add the rippling laughter and common sense. Work the whole together until everything is mixed and bake gently forever.

(Found in a church book of recipes about 1900AD)