Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. --- Theodore Roosevelt
Sunday, March 25, 2012
I love today's portion of my one-year bible. I take note of Deuteronomy 4:29: "... you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul." Seeking G-d with all your heart and soul, not with all your mind and certainly not in your strength. The second gem is in Deuteronomy 4:35 and repeated in 4:39: "[y]ou were shown these things so that you might know that the L-rd is G-d; besides him there is no other" and "[a]knowledge and take to heart this day that the L-rd is G-d in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other." The Psalm portion, 68:5, contains my favorite promise that I pray and claim everyday for the families of our men and women in uniform who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, that G-d himself is "[a] father to the fatherless, a defender of widows." And finally, I am reminded that "[w]hoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf." Proverbs 11:28.
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