"Lord, help me remember that nothing is going to happen to me

today that You and I together can't handle." 

(Old preacher's greeting to a new day)

Sent to us by:  Mary Allen

Author:  Unknown

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"Whenever a person is all wrapped up in himself, he is always a

small package."

Sent to us by:  Mary Allen

Author:  Unknown

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The following is a Saying worth remembering.

     When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely set at naught

and you don't sting and hurt with the insult or the oversight but your

heart is happy being counted worthy for Christ - That is dying to

self.

     When your good is evil spoken of, your wishes are crossed,

your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to

let anger rise in your heart or to even defend yourself, but take it all

in patient loving silence - That is dying to self.  

     When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, and

irregularity, any impunctuality, or any annoyance, when you stand

face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility

and endure it as Jesus endured it - That is dying to self.

     When you are content with any food, any offering, any raiment,

any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will of

God - That is dying to self.

     When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation or to

record your own good works, or itch after commendation, when

you can truly love to be unknown - That is dying to self.

     When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met,

and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor

question God when your own needs are far greater and in

desperate circumstances - That is dying to self.

     When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less

stature than yourself, and can humbly submit inwardly as well as

outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your

heart - That is dying to self.

     Are you dead yet?  In these last days, the Spirit would bring us

to the cross "That I may know Him ... being made conformable

unto His death."  (Philippians 3:10)

Author:  Unknown