The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.
Interpretation
The morning is a sacred time to dedicate to spiritual reflection and gratitude.
This quote emphasizes the importance of beginning each day with a moment of reverence and gratitude towards a higher power. By dedicating the first fresh hour of the morning to the Lord, one acknowledges the divine mercy that illuminates and enriches life, symbolized by 'golden light'. This practice can set a positive tone for the rest of the day.
In practice
During a morning motivational session, referencing the quote can inspire attendees to start their day with intention.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!
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I can only dream of the day where seeing other disabled people on screen isn't a rare sight or where I don't get excited at the sight of other disabled people working behind the screen.
I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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