Thursday Thoughts...

"Remember this, 

that very little is needed

to make a happy life."

~ Marcus Aurelius

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Thursday blessings, my dear friends!

Painting by Mary Cassat ~ Five O' Clock Tea

Thursday Pearls

"We have all of eternity to celebrate the victories won and only a few short hours before sunset to win them."

~ Amy Carmichael

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A blessed and wonderful Thursday to you, lovelies!

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Hugs and love,

"So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it."

~ Isaiah 55:11

Thoughtful Thursday

“You are never too old to set another
goal or to dream a new dream.”

~ C.S. Lewis

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." 

~ Ecclesiastes 3:1

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Have a wonderfully blessed Thursday, my sweet friends!

Thoughtful Thursday

"A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God;

of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom;

and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for,

and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might

to do what he ought to do for Him."

~ Jonathan Edwards 

" Finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might."  - Ephesians 6:10, KJV

Praying each you sweet readers have a beautifully blessed Thursday!

~ With joy in Jesus ~

 

 This picture was taken on Mother's Day, 2015 at a beautiful beach near us...

Thoughtful Thursday

"If we had no Winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

~Anne Bradstreet

May you have a pleasant Thursday, sweet friends!

 

 "The one who loves us gives us an overwhelming victory in all these difficulties.  I am convinced that nothing can ever seperate us from God's love..."

~ Romans 8:37-38

Thoughtful Thursday

All I have is the Lord's not mine to give or withhold it;

I but distribute His gifts to the poor, and to those of His people

who, in journeyings often, surrender their lives to His service.

His, not mine, are the gifts, and only so far can I make

them mine, as in giving I add my heart to whatever is given.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Blessings on your Thursday, dearest friends!

 

 ~ We know that we all possess knowledge.  Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.  The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.  But the man who lives God is known by God.  1 Corinthians 8:1-3 ~

Thoughtful Thursday

The best and most

beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen or even touched.

They must be felt with the heart.

~ Helen Keller

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Wishing you a lovely Thursday, sweet friends!

I pray your heart has been blessed and encouraged...

 

~ Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits - who forgivess all your

sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and 

crowns you with love and compassion...  Psalm 103:1-4 ~

Thoughtful Thursday

"Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition."

~ Jeremiah Burroughs

~ I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.  Phillipians 4:11. ~

Have a wonderful Thursday, sweet friends!

Many blessings...

Painting by Fredrick Morgan

Thoughtful Thursday

 

 

"Thank God, O women for the quietude of your home, and that you are queen in it. Men come at eventide to the home; but all day long you are there, beautifying it, sanctifying it, adorning it, blessing it. Better be there than wear a queen's coronet. Better be there than carry the purse of a princess. It may be a very humble home. There may be no carpet on the floor. There may be no pictures on the wall. There may be no silks in the wardrobe; but, by your faith in God, and your cheerful demeanor, you may garniture that place with more splendor than the upholsterer's hand ever kindled." 

 

- T. DeWitt Talmage

 

~ A gracious woman retaineth honour.  Proverbs 11:16 ~

 

 Have a truly blessed Thursday, my dear friends! 

Thank you so much for visiting, and I pray your heart was encouraged and inspired

by what you read...

 

Thoughtful Thursday

 

"Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture.

You can't see it.  So quietly submit to be painted - i.e., keep 

fufilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.

You are in the right way.

Walk - don't keep looking at it."

- C.S. Lewis

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I pray your heart was encouraged

May each of you have a very blessed Thursday!

~ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.  James 4:8 ~

Thoughtful Thursday

"I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content."  - Phillipians 4:11.

THESE words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man."Ill weeds grow apace."

Covetousness, discontent, and mumuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil.  

We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth:  and so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education.  But the precious things of earth must be cultivated.

If we would have wheat, we must plough and sow; if we want flowers, there must be the garden, and all the gardener's care.

Now, contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated; it will not grow in us by nature; it is the new nature alone that can produce it, and even then we must be specially careful and watchful that we maintain and cultivate the grace which God has sown in us.  Paul says "I have learned...to be content;" as much as to say, he did not know how at one time.

It cost him some pains to attain the mystery of that great truth.

No doubt he sometimes thought he had learned, and then broke down again.  

And at last he had attained unto it, and could say, "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content," he was an old, grey-headed man, upon the borders of the grave - a poor prisoner shut up in Nero's dungeon at Rome.  We might well be willing to endure Paul's infirmities, and share the cold dungeon with him, if we too might by any means attain unto his good degree.  

Do not undulge the notion that you can be contented with learning, or learn without discipline.  

It is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.  

We know this from experience.  Brother, hush that murmur, natural though it be, and continue a diligent pupil in the College of Content.

- Charles H Spurgeon

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up on wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."  

- Isaiah 40:31

Many blessings in the Lord!

Painting by Clark James

Thoughtful Thursday

"A friendship does not grow up spontaneously.  

It must have a good soil in which to take root, good seed 

from which to start, and care and cultivation in order to become its best.

The good soil is sincerity and truth, coupled with kindness and affection.

The good seed is love and apprectiation.  

And it must be watched closely that no weeds of jealousy or envy creep in, 

and the soil must be constantly stirred by kind acts, words 

of appreciation and affection, and mutual admiration.  

There dare be no selfish interests nor evil suspicions in true friendship.  

The smallest bit of mistrust will blight it like frost.

Friendship is tnder, but beautiful."

~ Mabel Hale, Beautiful Girlhood

Wishing you a very blessed Thursday, dearest readers!

~ A friend loveth at all times...  Proverbs 17:17 ~

Thoughtful Thursday

“One of the first evidences of a real lady, is that she should be modest.  By modesty we mean that she shall not say, do, nor wear anything that would cause her to appear gaudy, ill-bred, or unchaste.  There should be nothing about her to attract unfavourable attention, nothing in her dress or manner that would give a man an excuse for vulgar comment.  When we dress contrary to the rule of modesty we give excuse for unwholesome thoughts in the mind of those who look upon us, and every girl who oversteps these bounds makes herself liable to misunderstanding and insult, though she may be innocent of any such intention.”

~ Elizabeth Gaskell, excerpt from North and South

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Wishing each of my sweet readers a very blessed and "thoughtful" Thursday!

 

~ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.  1 Timothy 2:9 ~

Thoughtful Thursday

"Where does your security lie?  Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide?  if He is, you don't need to search any further for security."

~ Elisabeth Elliot

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."   

~ Matthew 11:28

Thoughtful Thursday

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

~ Washington Irving 

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  Honour your father and mother - which is the first commandment with a promise - that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on earth."

~ Ephesians 6:1

~ Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.  They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.  Proverbs 1:8-9 ~