Prayers and Thoughts

for Reflection

Lenton Devotional

2008

February 8

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Recipe for Greatness

To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief;

To be victor over anger;

To smile when tears are close;

To resist disease and eveil men and base instincts;

To hate hate and to love love;

To go on when it would seem good to die;

To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be.

That is what any man can do, and be great.

Zane Gray

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Charles F. Kettering

This is what the Lord says:  “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Jeremiah 6:16

Dear Lord, Thank you for the promise of Your word.  Help me to never forget that small things bring great things and it all doesn’t have to be accomplished today.

May I never be afraid to fail, because the rainbow always appears after a storm -- all I have to do is try. Amen.