Home Is Where the Heart Should Be

Mid pleasures and places though we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

-J.H.Payne

Daring to Truly Live

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - C.C.Colton

Do You Truly Follow After Him?

Perhaps it is time to ask ourselves this question: What are we doing?

Do we have the compassion of Christ as His child? Do we have a measure of the Lord's compassion in our lives at all times? Are our hearts drawn to the oppressed as was the Lord's?

Yes, in this busy, burdened down generation, we seem to ignore the reasons we are here on this earth in the first place. We find in His Word that we are to have compassion, and be willing to pay the price for it in our lives.

I don't know about you but I must strive to avoid the words the Master will speak to the (goats) in the day of reckoning: "Depart from Me, you who are cursed. . .For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink; I was a stranger and you didn’t take Me in; I was naked and you didn’t clothe Me, sick and in prison and you didn’t take care of Me. Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or without clothes, or sick, or in prison, and not help You?’ Then He will answer them, I assure you: Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me either.”

Lord help us all to be as sheep, following your voice - and desiring to have your spirit of compassion at all times.

What Do You See?

The face is the mirror of the mind,
and eyes without speaking confess
the secrets of the heart. - St. Jerome

Happy Love

HAPPY HEART'S DAY

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first. - St. Augustine

It's "GIVE THANKS" Sunday

Be an Island that Joins

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
- Francis Bacon

It's Not in the Things!

Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display - so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree nor the firelight's glow. It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again. - Unknown

Christmas Is In The Air

It is Christmas in the heart
that puts Christmas in the air.
- W.T. Ellis

I'm sure that's truly not the right quote for this picture BUT it was too perfect not to do so. Enjoy getting ready for your special Christmas time.

Babies Are Special

Babies have a hold on our lives like nothing else. They can send us into a tizzy with their bawling, or tug at our heartstrings with their sweet coos. A baby can make us forget our worries, or add to them if he/she desires. However, we can't help falling in love with them. - Unknown
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Caution!

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. - F.Dostoyevsky

Storing Treasures

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matt 6.19-21 (NIV)

Sing Unto The Lord

We spend a lot of time singing in church. But when we sing, are we singing from our heart to God? Or are we only saying words? Singing in church should be a time to worship God from our heart.

He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Psalm 40.3

A Heart Condition

God is LOVE

We're Back

Doctor appointments called once again to the City. However, it is giving me and the Papa a time to enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the beautiful City by the Bay. It will definitely be difficult to return home in a few days.

No city invites the heart to come to life
as San Francisco does.
Arrival in San Francisco is
an experience in living.
William Saroyan

Smack, Smack

A kiss makes the heart young again
- so have a smack'n good time

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

What Do You See?

Is this beauty?

Or is this beauty?

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoint de Saint-Exupery

A Heartbeat Away

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.
Irish Proverb

Need Surgery?

When your spiritual heart is in pain, don't settle for any run-of-the-mill treatment because if you do, the place is going to look like the one above. Why not avoid being subjected to such treatment by first checking Heaven's Yellow Pages, under "J". His name is JESUS, and He is the Great Healer of every heartache.

Cold, Cold Heart

Diagnosis: Heart Condition

Suggested Treatment: Prayer *

* It's thawed out many a cold heart