Today is Wednesday, October 25th, 2006; Karen's Korner #918
A favorite of Joanne Huff, someone we met while we were traveling in Tennessee:
Should you read the Bible
Both Old and New Testaments, especially the Psalms and the Gospels
Reverently and prayerfully every day,
Should you read the deepest and purest saints and men of God,
Should you faithfully serve the church and participate in the fulness of its life
Despite its endless frailties and imperfections and tribulations,
Should you practice the great art of mental and moral discipline,
And should you seek, with love and expectation and self-giving,
The company of those who do these things,
I guarantee you two things:
First, that you will experience in your own life and being
A taste of what is beautiful and strong and certain and free;
Second, you will develop such a sharpness of vision as to distinguish
The true from the false whenever you come across them.
And both your being and your vision will grant you
Some knowledge of God.
~~ Charles Malik
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