Sabbath Keeping

"...You, O Lord, are our Father, 

Our Redeemer from of old is Your name."

~ Isaiah 63:16 ~

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me." ~ Jim Valvano ~ 

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." ~ Shakespeare ~
"To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter." 
~ Euripides ~ 

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh. 

When a son gives to his father, both cry." 

~ Shakespeare ~

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life." ~ Sydney Poitier ~

"Dad taught me everything I know. 

Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows." 

~ Al Unser ~ 

"I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend." 
~ Dante Hall ~ 
"To be as good as our father's, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship."  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
"Any fool can be a father but it takes a real man to be a daddy!" 
~ Phillip Whitmore, Sr. ~

"Fathers are angels sent from heaven." ~ unknown ~

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him 
do it."  ~ Clarence Budington Kelland ~

"The most important thing a father can do for his children

 is to love their mother."  

~ unknown ~

"Fathers be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world." ~ John Mayor ~ 
"A father carries pictures where his money used to be." ~ unknown ~ 
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." ~ Charles Wadworth ~

"Never raise your hand to your kids. 

It leaves your groin unprotected."

~ Red Buttons ~

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~ Harmon Killebrew ~
"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and son." 
~ Johann Schiller ~
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." 
~ Mark Twain ~

"Don't make a baby if you can't be a father."

~ National Urban League Slogan ~

"It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
"My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, in his grief, gave us "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". 
"Are we not like two volumes of one book?" 
~ Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ~

"This, then, is how you should pray:

"Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

thy kingdom come,

thy will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

as we also forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom,,

the power and the glory."

~ Matthew 6:9-15 ~

If you'd like a name added to the prayer list, please let me know. Names will be kept one week, then we begin again.

Prayer Keeping ~ Maxine ~ Mildred ~ Kim ~ Sandra ~ Townsend family ~ Dustin ~ Quesenberry family ~ Timi and family ~ Maggie ~ Lillian's family and friends ~ persecuted Christians ~

Sabbath Keeping

 ~ Kensington Gardens, London ~

 "Our Father, who are in heaven..."

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." ~ Louis Adamic ~

"The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men." ... "What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not annoint plans, but men -- men of prayer." ~ E. M. Bounds ~

" I don't know who my grandfather was: I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you."' ~ Jerry Lewis ~

"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."'  ~ Helen Hayes ~

You say, "my father wasn't all he could have been; he did...thus and so... Or, my mother wasn't all she could have been; she did...thus and so... ." For your sake, not theirs, please forgive them for real and imagined wrong doings. I beg you, permit the healing to begin and become the parent to your children you wanted your parents to be to you. Be the generation that stops "the sins of the fathers...". ~ skb ~

"There's one sad truth in life I've found

While journeying east and west -

The only folks we really wound

Are those we love the best.

We flatter those we scarcely know,

We please the fleeting guest,

And deal full many a thoughtless blow

To those who love us best."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

"A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season."
~ author unknown ~

A Godly father is "prophet, priest, protector, provider".

"Covenant to Pray For America..." 


"Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." ~ Exodus 20:12 ~


Blessings ~ Our Father ~ fathers ~ Daddy ~ Mom ~ prayer ~ Godly men and women ~


Dei Gratia,
Sandra