“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice,
here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word;
always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.”
St. Therese of Lisieux
(sunset / Julie Cook / 2021)
“When we generously accept God’s Word, especially in the Commandments,
we are doing God’s Will in all things.
To live the Will of God is the greatest sacrifice and personal denial.”
Rev. Thomas J. Donaghy, p. 17
An Excerpt From
Inspirational Thoughts for Every Day
Faith looks not at what happens to him but at Him Whom he believes.
Watchman Nee
(a Lady Amherst pheasant / Parrot Mt and Gardens, Pigeon Forge, TN / Julie Cook / 2020)
I think we all wish we could be as calm, cool, and collected…as well as stunning
as this Lady Amherst Pheasant…
Well, we can!
Do not conform to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good,
pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2 NIV
And with a tail like that…
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