Prayers and Thoughts

for Reflection

Lenton Devotional

2007

March 6

Lord, let me never forget that I can do all things in you and nothing without you.

Hebrews 11:29

Help me to start where I am and do what I can to communicate your life changing love.

Colossians 1:6

God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

Robert Collyer

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have o aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of the fact collects as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lord, remind me not to be concerned about who does your work, but rather that your work gets done.

Mark 10:45

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.

Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

Give the best you have received from the past

to the best that you may come to know in the future.

Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but

as a chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are

honest, pure, lovely, and of good report.

Making a living is best undertaken as a part of the more

Important business of making a life.

Every now and again take a good look at something not made

With the hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream.

There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and,

Above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

Sidney Lovett

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

Or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

Heavenly Father, grant me the faith to place myself completely in Your hands. Help me to grow and to find you when I seek you – to see You in all of life. May I never know a moment without Your presence and may I never fail to dream. Amen.