Inspirational quote for the day...

~Breanna

From Dad's Desk

Those who are made the servants of God, as all men are, and who have made themselves the servants of all, as all useful men have, must not covet to be masters of their own time. The confinement of business is a thousand times better than the liberty of idleness.

What is guiding you??? or are you drifting???

As I turned on my laptop on this morning, my post-it notes came up on my screen and I began rereading some of the quotes that I have placed on there.  When I checked the blog later on to see if the girls had posted anything, I read the devotion that Brittany had posted earlier from Spurgeon on being separate and thought this quote went perfectly with it.  :-)  

"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson

Love vs. Lust

“You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

You cannot fight without something to fight for.

To love a thing without wishing to fight for it is not love at all; it is lust.

It may be an airy, philosophical, and disinterested lust;

it may be, so to speak, a virgin lust;

but it is lust, because it is wholly self-indulgent and invites no attack.

On the other hand, fighting for a thing without loving it is not even fighting;

it can only be called a kind of horse-play that is occasionally fatal.”

-- G.K. Chesterton --

~Brittany

Love divine has seen and counted

Every tear it caused to fall,

And the storm which Love appointed

Was its choicest gift of all.

~Anonymous

~Breanna

Thoughts on teaching children

Titus had fallen asleep one evening during family worship and I thought it was just such a precious sight.

Parenting Thought of the Day: 

In order for children to become successful at the three ―R‘s of reading, ‗riting, and ‗rithmetic, parents must first teach them the Three R‘s of Respect, Responsibility, and Resourcefulness. 

These, not high IQ, define the educable child. - 

John Rosemond

True Joy ~ Quote by Spurgeon

 "It is not so much what I have as what I shall have that makes me joyful."  - Charles Spurgeon 

I love this! So very, very true!
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my hearth faileth, but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever!

~Brittany

Quote by Stonewall Jackson

"Never take counsel of your fears."

-Stonewall Jackson