Being and Doing – 6 September – God’s Leading
WE mustn’t be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot, we must wait to be guided.
WE mustn’t be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot, we must wait to be guided.
…that which God doth touch and own
Cannot for less be told.
FIND fault, if you must find fault, in private if possible; and some time after the offence rather than at the time.
THERE are, in this loud stunning tide
Of human care and crime,
With whom the melodies abide
Of th’ everlasting clime:
The gift the Canaanite Woman brings is reminding us we have nothing to give that we have not received so we have no cause to deny help to anyone.
The poor are always with us. The wayfarers come to us continually, and they do not come by chance. God sends them.
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If we hold on to what we have we find we are holding on to emptiness….
But if we let go of our emptiness God works miracles!
God works best and God’s love is shown at its best when God has nothing at all to with which to work.
O power to do! O baffled will!
O prayer and action! ye are one;
Who may not strive may yet fulfil
IT IS the business of anybody who can, to set right what anybody has set wrong.