Today is Friday, and it seems like there are many questions and concerns that try to find lodging in our heart and minds -- things that would try to disturb our inner peace and rob us of our joy -- so I just thought it would be a great blessing and encouragement as we look to the coming Lord's Day if we would take time to read and meditate again on the wonderful Sermon on the Mount (chapters 5-7 of Matthew) from the lips of Jesus, the Master Teacher and our perfect example!
I also want to share this little story by Mildred Duncan --
"Running to me through the warm spring sunshine, my daughter, Ann, held out a feather in her dirty little hand. It was a soft, beautiful blue --- unmistakably a bluebird's feather.
'Mama, which bird does this belong to?' she asked. I took it in my hand and we looked at it together. Then I explained that while we couldn't tell which individual bird had dropped it, we surely knew his kind.
Ann was satisfied. But I thought about it a long time after she had gone back to her play. Even if a bluebird flew over that very moment and dropped a feather, he would be so high and so fleeting I couldn't know what he was like. But the part of himself he'd left, still belonging to him, named him.
Our lives are like that, I thought. The part of ourselves that we leave behind -- an act of compassion, a difficult job well done, a thoughtless word spoken in anger -- these are the things that the world sees and measures. The days that drop behind are always part of us -- our fallen feathers. How important to live each one of them with love and faith if we are to have no regrets!"
May God bless you today, and may you be able to say with the songwriter --
"Like a bird that's found its nest, so my soul has found its rest, in the center of the will of God!"
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