Today is Tuesday, May 15th, 2007; Karen's Korner #1062
A couple of unconnected short thoughts to start your day:
** Last week, a Karen's Korner from Shirley Choat told about ministers, sizes of congregations, and what we do with the messages we hear on Sunday mornings.
I received this note from my Uncle Bud who is a retired minister, "Noah only had eight converts including himself (all family members). He preached 120 years. Peter states Noah was a preacher of righteousness. This is the requirement for a minister.*
Sometimes today, we get really caught up in ministers of mega-churches and with television evangelists with large areas of influence. God gets caught up in all of us doing whatever we can; whevever we are. Like Noah, God wants to help each of us change our world.
* Some day I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that somebody will ask me, "What's the secret of it?" I shall say simply, "I get up when I fall down."
~ Paul Harvey
** "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home,
and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
~ Martin Luther
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SEEING GOD
A youn man was deperately seeking God. He sought out a wise old man who lived in a nearby beach house and posed the question: "Old man, how can I see Go?" The old man who obviously knew God at a depth few of us experience, pondered the question for a very long time. At last he responded quietly: "Young man, I am not sure that I can help you--for you see, I have a very different problem. I cannot not see him."
~~ Author Unknown
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God wishes to be seen,
and He wishes to be sought,
and He wishes to be expected,
and He wishes to be trusted!
~ Julian of Norwich
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