Sabbath Keeping

"He will swallow up death in victory;

and the Lord God will wipe away tears 

from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people

shall He take away from off all the earth:

for the Lord hath spoken it."

~ Isaiah 26:6-9 ~

"Our dead are never dead to us

until we have forgotten them."

~ George Eliot ~

"Even such is Time, which takes in trust

Our youth, our joys, and all we have,

And pays us but with age and dust;

Who in the dark and silent grave,

When we have wandered all our ways,

Shuts up the story of our days:

And from which earth, and grave, and dust,

The Lord shall raise me up I trust."

~ Sir Walter Raleigh ~ 

"I would rather die a meaningful death

than live a meaningless life."

~ Corazon Aquino ~

"Let nothing disturb thee;

Let nothing dismay thee;

All things pass:

God never changes.

Patience attains

All that it strives for.

He who has God 

Finds he lacks nothing:

God alone suffices."

~ St. Teresa's book-mark ~

"The day which we fear as our last

is but the birthday of eternity."

~ Seneca ~

"'Tis a fearful thing

to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing

to love, to hope, to dream, to be -

to be, 

And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing

to love. 

For your life has lived in me,

your laugh once lifted me,

your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

'Tis a human thing, love,

a holy thing, to love

what death has touched."

~ Yehuda HaLevi (1075-1141)

"The life of the dead

is placed in the memory of the living."

~ Cicero ~

"God be in my head, and in my understanding;

God be in mine eyes, and in my looking;

God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;

God be in my heart, and in my thinking;

God be at mine end, and at my departing."

~ Sarum Primer, 1514 ~ 

"Absent in the body

Present with the Lord."

~ 2 Corinthians 5:8 ~

This week, if you've a name for the prayer list, please let me know.

Prayer Keeping ~ Jim ~ Mike ~ Stephanie ~ Mary ~ Donna ~ Sandra ~