Midnight Musings

"A good remedy for cynicism

and most other negative 

attitudes that can easily creep

into our hearts is humility."

-David Brickner

Executive Director of Jews For Jesus

"Ride The Wind" Irises

“You can never learn that Christ is all you need,

 until Christ is all you have.”

-Corrie ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom

15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983

 A Dutch Christian and righteous gentile,

Corrie and her family were imprisoned for

 helping Jews escape from the Nazis.  

 Corrie was later sent to the

Ravensbruck labor camp in Germany,

where, shortly before the end of the war,

she was released from the camp,

"by mistake" with a group of

younger women.

The story of her

 incredible faith and courage

in the face of appalling evil was

 later re-told in her book.

"The Hiding Place"

"He has made everything beautiful 

in it's time....

Zebra Swallowtail  and Lilacs

... He has also planted eternity

in men's hearts and minds,

a divinely implanted sense of purpose

working through the ages which 

nothing under the sun but

God alone can satisfy,

yet so that men cannot find out

what God has done from

the beginning to the end."

Ecclesiastes 3:11

"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart;

 it is a simple look turned toward heaven,

 it is a cry of recognition and of love, 

embracing both trial and joy.”

Saint Therese of  Lisieux

Marie Francoise Therese Martin

2 January 1873- 30 September 1897

Be a ray of sunshine everywhere you go,
Shining for the Savior with a steady glow;
Bringing smiles to sad ones, wiping tears away,
Make yourself a blessing every passing day.

Be a ray of sunshine everywhere you go,
Shining for the Savior with a steady glow;
Be a ray of sunshine filled with Heaven’s light,
Sending forth a message beautiful and bright.

Be a ray of sunshine everywhere you go;
Comfort bring to others, stoop to raise the low;
Kind words cost but little, smiles bring pleasures, too;
They may lift a burden; let them not be few.

Be a ray of sunshine everywhere you go;
Cheerfulness is needed, this you can bestow;
Help to chase the shadows from this world away,
Bringing joy and gladness like a shining ray.

Be a ray of sunshine everywhere you go;
Stars will shine the brighter in your crown, I know;
Sunshine brought to others will reflect on you,
Heav’n will be the sweeter—keep the end in view.

Anna B. Russell