Today I'd like to
share a wonderful passage with you -
Symphony - By William Henry Channing
To Live Content...
with small means, To Seek Elegance... rather than luxury, and refinement rather
than fashion.
To Be Worthy... not
respectable, and wealthy, not rich.
To Study Hard... think
quietly, talk gently, act frankly.
To Listen to Stars...
and birds, to babies and sages, with an open heart.
To Bear All...
cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In a Word... to let
the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.
This is to be my
symphony.
William Henry Channing's Symphony first
appeared in an Arthur Brisbane editorial
- from the 1906 collection.
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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"A man's true
wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in
a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
- Kahlil
Gibran (1883-1931)
"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can’t
buy."
- Garth Brooks
"Every
circumstance you have in your life is the result
of your thoughts, from which you
base your behavior. When you believe you can succeed, you end up doing things
differently."
By Loral
Langemeier
God’s
perspective on spiritual wealth
Mark 10:23–31
23 And Jesus, looking around, * said to His disciples, “aHow hard it will be
for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!” 24
The disciples awere amazed at His
words. But Jesus * answered
again and * said
to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 aIt
is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to
enter the kingdom of God.” 26
They were even more astonished and said to
Him, “1Then
who can be saved?” 27 Looking at them, Jesus * said, “aWith people it is
impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”
28 aPeter began to
say to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You.” 29
Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, athere
is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or
children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, 30 1but
that he will receive a hundred times as much now in 2the
present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and
farms, along with persecutions; and in athe
age to come, eternal life. 31 But amany who are
first will be last, and the last, first.”
And finally
Luke chapter 1 verse 37, “For nothing will be impossible
with God.
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