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1/6/12
Welcome to an alternate classic devotional series below I am starting today on my homepage. For the preceding four days, I posted inspiration reflections compiled by the same person, called Daily Strength for Daily Needs, but I decided to switch after two times she quoted from the Wisdom of Solomon, not accepted as part of the original Bible canon. This new series is endorsed and listed as public domain by Back to the Bible at www.backtothebible.org, all copyright credits are given to them. Starting today, I will be posting in the evening. In case you miss reading it on my homepage, it will be available the following evening on my website, at the top of the index under "Joy and Strength Archives," where the last five days will be posted. Please feel free to leave comments on any of them that are an encouragement or helpful to you.
God bless you! Carol
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March 24, 2012
As He Has Done
Compiled by Mary Wilder Tileston
I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
JOHN 13:15
THERE are often bound to us, in the closest intimacy of social or family ties, natures hard and ungenial, with whom sympathy is impossible, and whose daily presence necessitates a constant conflict with an adverse influence. There are, too, enemies,--open or secret,--whose enmity we may feel yet cannot define. Our Lord, going before us in this hard way, showed us how we should walk. It will be appropriate to the solemn self-examination of the period of Lent to ask ourselves, Is there any false friend or covert enemy whom we must learn to tolerate, to forbear with, to pity and forgive? Can we in silent offices of love wash their feet as our Master washed the feet of Judas? And, if we have no real enemies, are there any bound to us in the relations of life whose habits and ways are annoying and distasteful to us? Can we bear with them in love? Can we avoid harsh judgments, and harsh speech, and the making known to others our annoyance? The examination will probably teach us to feel the infinite distance between us and our divine Ideal, and change censoriousness of others into prayer for ourselves.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
