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“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .” ― Charles Spurgeon “Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.” ― C. H. Spurgeon “Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.” ― Charles Haddon Spurgeon “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.” ― Charles Spurgeon “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” ― Charles Spurgeon “Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.” ― Charles Spurgeon “When your will is God's will, you will have your will.” ― Charles Spurgeon https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2876959.Charles_Haddon_Spurgeon (Philippians 2:13, KJV)    |
The flowers bloom in purple light, a pastel bliss for all. This softest hue before the night begins the eyes to call. Each petal, and the stamen, rare, in dancing beauty sing. The whitest parts seem to cause us stare for infrared's a thing. This makeshift card from days of yore in hand-tint color's joy creates a gift, that's worthy for sure, that antique sellers employ. by Jay O’Toole on April 30th, 2022 |
For you can write a poem, too, day by day, and day by day. A joyful heart is yours when through, day by day, and come what may. You do not know to rhythm, rhyme? Yet, you are talking all the time. I think your words are truly prime with thoughts to share in any clime. “I cannot write. I daren’t create. They’ll laugh at me of Perfection’s naught.” “But if you start, you’re never late with hopeful lines, that you just bought.” An app for finding rhyming words or websites, that can help you, too, are just the tickets for us nerds, that find our rhymes in words so new. "But what of rhythms? Apps don't aid if we don't know the truest beat." "All words are sized, and truly made to help explore all rhythms, neat." I think someone may still object to classic forms of poems known, but still the verse we shan't neglect without these forms to "pick the bone." When free verse is the way to go, neglect it not, since rhymes you dread. The bird so caged can't fly and grow as Lynyrd Skynyrd aptly said. But when you'd learn the classic forms take note some syllables are short. That makes them short in rhythm's dorm, and longer syllables add import. Let's take a Bible verse and try to find the forms of poetry there. When rhymes and rhythms thus apply, what joy for us to pause write there. But when we need to free express the truths God's Word enlightens hearts, the written words do still us bless as God's Dear Spirit food imparts. We find this verse, John 3:16, translated for us to our tongue. The poems form, that we may glean impresses us in praise, that's sung. "For God so loved this world He made, but broken by the blight of sin, that His Dear Son, He full obeyed so gifted from all sin to win. "We win this awful tug-of-war believing Christ, the Only Son. We will not perish as before, since He for us this life has won." "Since God has the greatest love for all the world, He gave us the greatest Gift, that could be given, His Only and Only One Son, Jesus. As the only possible result, anyone, who believes him, receiving this greatest of all Gifts, would no longer be under God's Condemnation of perishing forever in Hell, but would rather be in the Hands of His Grace, experiencing the everlasting, eternal life of unchanging Joy in His Presence Forever." by Jay O’Toole on April 30th, 2022 |
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