Sabbath Keeping

"If racing against mere men makes you tired, 

how will you race against horses?"

If you stumble in safe country,

how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"

~ Jeremiah 12-5 ~

"Our labor preserves us from three great evils - weariness, vice and want."
~ Voltair ~

"Negative people need drama like oxygen.

Stay positive. It will take their breath away."

"A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations."
~ Paul Valery ~

"When everything feels like an uphill struggle

just think of the view from the top."

"As I thought of these things, I draw aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, so as many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams." ~ W. B. Yeats ~

"Nothing can wear you out like caring for people."

"I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-reserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~

"When fearful, we have a choice:

Forget Everything And Run

or

Face Everything And Rise"

"God doesn't need more critics.

He needs more encouragers."

"You are brave, strong, capable, loving, kind, caring, faithful

Because God Is."

"Do what is right.

Not what is easy."

"God shows us He's in control
by putting us into situations
we can't control."

"On

the 

straight

and 

narrow

path

there 

are 

no 

corners

to

be 

cut."

~ Neal A. Maxwell ~

"For the one who is tired:
Dear heart: God does not say today, "Be strong!"
He knows your strength is spent;
He knows how long the road has been,
how weary you have grown;
for He walked the earthly roads alone,
each bogging lowland and
each long, steep hill He can understand,
and so He says, "Be still and know that I am God."
The hour is late and you must rest a while
and you must wait until life's empty reservoir's fill up
as slow rain fills up an empty upturned cup.
Hold up your cup, dear child, for God to fill.
He only asks today that you be still."
~ Grace Noll Crowel ~

"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. 

We do not know what we ought to pray for, 

but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 

And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, 

because the Spirit intercedes for God's people 

in accordance with the will of God. 

And we know that in all things God 

works for the good of those who love Him, 

who have been called according to His purpose."

~ Romans 8:26-28 ~ 

Please join me in pray ~ Alicia ~ Nancy ~ Anita ~ my family ~ and you, as God brings you to our minds ~

For more encouragement, please click here. A. J. Gossip, a Scotsman, wrote "BUT WHEN LIFE TUMBLES IN, WHAT THEN?" after his wife suddenly and unexpectedly died. A long read but well worth a moment of your time, especially if you are exhausted, tired, weary.

We Christians have the Trinity - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit - to help, heal, guide, intercede, strengthen. This week has been intense for so many (myself included)...Christians, in the name of Christ, coming against each other; satan coming against Christians; exhaustion and weariness overwhelming so many. We are in trying days and times; evil is on every side and sometimes we become so weary in 'fighting the good fight' we forget it's not in our strength that even the next breath is drawn.

In Him, we are able because God is able. 

Sabbath Keeping

"I am weary, O God;

I am weary, O God,

and worn out."

~ Proverbs 30:1 ~

"Our labour preserves us from three great evils 

-- weariness, vice, and want."

~ Voltaire ~

"I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~

"Ah! when will this long weary day have end,

And Lende me leave to come unto my love?"

~ Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and Epithalamion ~

"If we want to get over being tired and weary, we have to learn how to go to God on a regular basis. The minute we feel like we can't take it anymore, we have to go spend a little time with him, read his word and talk to him in your prayers, he hears every words you tell him, just leave all your burden with him as soon as you tell him your troubles, feel the ease up on your shoulders, because he took your load of them, the pain in your heart ease up because he comforted you. What a friend we have in our Lord!"
~ Glen Rambharack ~

"Never flinch.

Never weary.

Never despair."

~ Winston Churchill ~

"When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world are wide. And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent. To serve therewith my Maker and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT." ~ John Milton, On His Blindness ~

"O weary hearts!

O slumbering eyes!

O drooping souls,

Whose destinies are fraught with fear and pain,

Ye shall be loved again."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." ~ Vince Lombardi ~

"Weary of liberty,

He suffered himself to be saddled and bridled,

And was ridden to death for his pains."

~ Goethe ~

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never weary of life."
~ Rachel Carson ~
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We shall remember them."

~ Laurence Binyon ~

"Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain.
Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure."
~ G. K. Chesterton ~

"How far that little candle throws his beams! 

So shines a good deed in a weary world."

~ Shakespeare ~

"Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night. There is a star to guide the humble, trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust God, and do." ~ Norman Schwarzkoph ~

"I will not wish thee riches nor the glow of greatness, 

but that wherever thou go, 

some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile 

or shadowed life know sunshine for awhile. 

And so thy path shall be a track of light, 

like angels' footsteps passing through." 

~ Blessing from a church wall in Upwaltham, England ~

"Come unto me 

all ye that labour and are heavy laden

and I will give you rest."

~ Matthew 11:28 ~

If you'd like a name added to the prayer list, please let me know. Names are kept for one week; around the world, people are praying. Please include me, I've been sick for a week.

Prayer Keeping ~ unspoken requests ~ 

Sabbath Keeping

"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

~ Isaiah 40:31 ~

"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness." ~ John Calvin ~

"Exercise is labor without weariness." 

~ Samuel Johnson ~

"The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next." ~ Cyril Connolly ~ 
"When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God." ~ Luis Palau ~ 
"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate." ~ Dag Hammarskjold ~

"Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- 

weariness, vice, and want."

~ Voltaire ~

"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer." ~ Blaise Pascal ~

"The world is weary of statesmen 

whom democracy has degraded into politicians."

~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ 

"I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary."
~ Charles H. Spurgeon ~ 
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ 

"Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest."

~ Jesus Christ, Matthew 11:28 ~

If you'd like a name added to the prayer list, please let me know. Names will be kept for one week, around the world, people are praying.

Prayer Keeping ~ Maxine ~ Kurt ~ Timi and family ~ Kristin ~ Sandra ~ persecuted Christians ~