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We live much of life amid unique choices. Joy is anchored in The One beyond our life.
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)

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October 31, 2023 at 2:27am
October 31, 2023 at 2:27am
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Two scripts upon this Terran life stage.
I cannot choose to act both and live.
The popular one was "just all the rage,"
but back to the right the one smells of sage.
To its wordy softness my heart I can give.

What is the attraction of the one?
Why do the many flock to its words?
Is it the source of lasting great fun?
Is it a place for friends in the sun?
Does it help feelings to fly with the birds?

How thick the woods. It's hardest to find.
The wordy, softer script of the page,
it's light unto the ones, who are blind
It's food for those, who crave the word, "kind."
It's solace made to heart-fears assuage.

Alone I walk in the thicket of trees.
I read out loud the script of The Way.
The weight of this life, it finally frees.
Eternally blest by the greatest of these,
so honored at last in The Maker's Best Day.


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This poem is an imitation of the style of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken."
ABAAB is the rhyme scheme.
Tetrameter (4) is the length of each line.
The rhythms are a mixture of iambic and anapestic feet.


by Jay O’Toole
on October 31st, 2023


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