Clearing Out

Photo: Mr. Dickie - Boy's Town, Omaha, NE

Let today be a clearing out.  All that you have been through is gone, and you can't change it.  All that you're going to be going through is ahead, and there's nothing you can do to know what it will be.  Take today to pray, praise, and thank God for what has happened, and what will happen.  (Steve Case, Everything Counts, 31 December)

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I hope you enjoyed visiting the Arrow Prayers blog during 2011 and that you will continue following what I find to post in 2012.

Mr. Dickie
31 December 2011

The Discipline of God

Photo: Mr. Dickie at Emmitsburg, MD

[The writer of Hebrews] ... insists that we must look on all the hardships of life as the discipline of God and as sent to work, not for our harm, but for our ultimate and highest good.  (William Barclay, The Letter To The Hebrews, p. 177) 30 December 2011

Covenant-Keeping God

Photo: Mr. Dickie - Emmitsburg, MD

Our forefathers discovered that prayers which plead the clear promises of a covenant-keeping God are guaranteed success - it is time we discovered it too.  (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 349)  29 December 2011

Spiritual Awakenings

Photo: Mr. Dickie - Emmitsburg, MD

... we might well ponder what kind of society we would find ourselves in at this moment were it not for the great spiritual awakenings of the past.  (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 330) 28 December 2011

Goodwill

Photo: Mr. Dickie - St. Francis - Emmitsburg, MD

Father, help me to spread goodwill to all who are lonely.  

(Helen Grace Lescheid, Daily Guideposts - 2009, 21 December) 

27 December 2011

Leaders

Photo by Mr. Dickie - Emmitsburg, MD

Pray for the men and women who serve as our leaders, that they might be faithful to the Lord.  (after Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 786) 26 December 2011

First Christmas

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem.  The ox and the ass understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem.  And it is the same today.  (Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain)  25 December 2011