Kimmy's Ponderings

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting that You will make all things right, If I surrender to Your will, So that I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.

"I think very often we are troubled and bothered about something that is not true as to ourselves. We are thinking un-truths about ourselves. Of course, we know our prone-ness to sin we know the evil that is in our flesh,we know how wicked we are and how unworthy,and all that: but then we allow that to go too far. I ask you this: with all our unworthiness, all our sinfulness, all that is evil in our flesh, have we not a heart for the Lord after all? We feel we blunder, we err-yes, but we have a heart for the Lord. Where did that heart come from? There was a time when we had no heart for the Lord, when we had no disposition, no tendency, that way; we were not inclined after the lord. But something has happened in us stronger and deeper than all our weaknesses, and our waywardness, our follies and our sins. There is a reaction every time we make a mistake, and sends us back to the Lord in grief,in sorrow, in disappointment, in longing, and we are not happy again until we have found...

In Your light we see light. Psalm 36:9

"What did God have in mind for fellowship? What does God desire real fellowship to produce in those who gather? If we can see that,perhaps we can acknowledge that we don't have it. But if we can see what God really intended for fellowship it might awaken something within us, to place greater value on it." http://www.christianmaturity.com/Audio-Messages/2009/ Ric Vargas, MAY 2009 (scroll down to bottom of list to May)

"We frequently have religious excitements and enthusiasms gotten up by the cunning methods and hypnotic influence of the mere professional evangelist or “revivalist,” but these are not Revivals, and are not needed: they are a curse and not a blessing; they are the devil’s imitations of a Revival." - R. A. Torrey

"All my life I have asked for no cheese on my food and I always get it", one customer told me one morning anxiously ordering his Omelet probably wondering if he would once again be the victim of the 'cheese curse'. Why is this man and many others plagued with receiving things in restaurants that they did not ask for? I will tell you. Hold on, Here's the 'Revelation.' If you go to a deli and you ask for a Roast Beef, Lettuce, Tomato on Rye with NO MAYONAISE....GUESS WHAT? YOU WILL GET MAYONAISE! (Or should I say you just increased your chances of getting Mayo by 85%, (not a scientific study) just 28 years of being in the food industry) If you ask for coffee milk with NO SUGAR .....GUESS WHAT? See? You are learning already. You have just increased your chances of getting sugar! Barring a really crisp server on the ball....or if you ask for something on the side which is three words.on-the-side..Easier to hear in our lack of diction New York-eese. The word ...