Category: Stories

‘Twixt gleams of joy and clouds of doubt Our feelings come and go; Our best estate is tossed about In ceaseless ebb and flow. No mood of feeling, form of thought Is constant for a day; But thou, 0 Lord, thou changest not: The same thou art alway. I grasp thy strength, make it mine own, My heart with peace is blest; I lose my hold, and then comes down Darkness, and cold unrest. Let me no more my comfort draw From my frail hold of thee, In this alone rejoice with awe—- Thy mighty grasp of me. Out of...

As I faced my Maker at last judgement, I knelt before the Lord along with the other souls . Before each of us laid our lives, like the squares of a quilt. An angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life. But as my angel took each piece of cloth off the pile, I noticed how ragged and empty each of my squares was. They were filled with giant holes. Each square was labeled with a part of my life that had been difficult, the challenges and temptations I was...

I’m returning, not departing; My steps are homeward bound, I quit the land of strangers For a home on native ground. I am rising and not setting; This is not night but day, Not in darkness, but in sunshine, Like a star, I fade away. All is well with me for ever; I do not fear to go, My tide is but beginning Its bright eternal flow. I am leaving only shadows For the true and fair and good, I must not, cannot, linger; I would not, though I could. This is not death’s dark portal, ‘Tis life’s golden gate...

You cannot love someone that you do not know, and you cannot know someone that you don’t spend quality time with. To know Jesus is to love Him. To love Him is to trust Him. To trust Him is to obey Him. To obey Him is to be blessed. It begins with a daily, quality communication with the Lord. Why is it best to spend time with the Lord in the morning? Because you are getting ready to go on a road trip through life. You don’t take the trip and then read the map, do you? How are you...

Gently, Lord, oh, gently lead us Through vale of tears, Though thou’st decreed us, Till our last great change appears. As temptation’s darts assail us, Or in devious paths we stray Let thy goodness never fail us, Lead us in thy perfect way In the hour of pain and anguish, In the hour when death draws near Suffer not our hearts to languish, Suffer not our souls to fear. As this mortal life is ended, Bid us in thine arms to rest, Till, by angel bands attended, We awake among the blest. Then, oh, crown us with thy blessing, Through...