WEAVINGS OF VELVET (Short stories, Humor, and Poetry)
Index:
Do Not disappoint God
Remember Your ABC's
Mom, You're One In a Million
The Parent's Prayer
Life
Do Not Disappoint God
GOD: Angels, do you know what I was just thinking about?
ANGELS: What were you thinking about?
GOD: Christians seem to have forgotten what kind of power they have
available and the devil keeps on deceiving them!
ANGELS: God, exactly what are you driving at?
GOD: I have made my children in such a way that when the people of the
world are sitting, they would be standing, when the world is standing,
they will stand out, when the world stands out, my children must be
outstanding and when the devil dares the world to be outstanding, my
people will be the standards to be used!
JESUS CHRIST: They (Christians) are also forgetting the words in
Ephesians 1:3.
GOD: Please read it out!
ANGEL: PRAISE BE TO THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS BLESSED US IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING IN CHRIST.
ANGEL: So what do we do now since the end is almost near?
HOLY SPIRIT: My Presence is still among men and I will teach and
remind the Christians of all that we have discussed. I will also make
sure that they pass this message on!
JESUS CHRIST: I will also keep on interceding for them & stand in for
them even in their weaknesses.
GOD: I will also make sure that I give to all those who ask of me,
seek me and try to find me. The blessings I have promised them through
My Son, Jesus Christ will be delivered to all those who discover that
I, Jehovah, am ready to bless them! Not because of any special things
they have done, but just because I LOVE THEM!
JESUS CHRIST: I will also give all My followers who are willing to
pass this conversation on and tell the world, enough strength to carry on!
ANGELS: We are all backing THE TRINITY and even the devil cannot
Stop us! How funny! Christians are finally taking over and.......
SHOW THE POWER YOU HAVE IN CHRIST JESUS AS A
CHRISTIAN.
PRAY MORE, STUDY THE WORD MORE AND
PREACH THE WORD!!
DO NOT DISAPPOINT GOD!
This could be the day He comes.
(Author Unknown)
TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS ~ Remember your ABC's
A-Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits
B-Believe in yourself
C-Consider things from every angle
D-Don't give up and don't give in
E-Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone
and tomorrow may never come
F-Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches
G-Give more than you planned to
H-Hang on to your dreams
I-Ignore those who try to discourage you
J-Just do it
K-Keep trying no matter how hard it seems, it will get easier
L-Love yourself first and most
M-Make it happen
N-Never lie, cheat or steal, always strike a fair deal
O-Open your eyes and see things as they really are
P-Practice makes perfect
Q-Quitters never win and winners never quit
R-Read study and learn about everything important in your life
S-Stop procrastinating
T-Take control of your destiny
R-Understand yourself in order to better understand others
V-Visualize it
W-Want it more than anything
X-Xcellerate your efforts
Y-You are unique of all God's creations and nothing can replace you
Z-Zero in on your target and GO FOR IT!
We don't change the Message, the Message changes us.
(Copied)
Mom, You'r Are One In A Million
This day is set aside to celebrate our Mothers; Those that are with us and those that have reached their eternal Rest. Memories of our Mothers linger still. How can you forget something as wonderful, loving, and gentle as a mother’s touch? How blest we are! Mother is and was our greatest teacher. Mom, this is to You!
“I remember my mother’s prayers…and they have clung to me all my life.” (Abraham Lincoln) -- (Prayers and Faith)
Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation. (Andrew Murray)
No one is surprised over what God does when he has faith in Him. (Oswald chambers)
One- In- A- Million- Mom
“Here’s to you, dear lady, for all the dreams you dreamed for us.
Not one of us became the ballerina or vocalist or pianist or doctor or lawyer you were hoping for.
The boys didn’t become millionaires and the girls didn’t lean to speak six languages. Instead,
we are the children who forgot to say “thank you” when it probably would have meant a lot to you.
We are the ones who talked when we should have listened.
We are the little tykes who woke you before dawn to serve you the breakfast-in-bed special –
burnt toast, weak tea, unscrambled eggs and the half-raw bacon, swimming in grease.
We gathered around your bed and sang “Happy Birthday, Dear Mommy.”
You pretended to be thrilled and tried your best to eat the mess we had brought to your bed.
Our childhood is over and here are the “thank-yous,” many years overdue.
Thank you for being there when we needed you.
Thank you for being our tower of strength, when you needed support yourself.
Thank you for believing in us when we had trouble believing in ourselves.
Thank you for saying what we needed to hear and for knowing when silence meant more than words.
Your wisdom seemed to come from a place that none of us could ever figure out.
Thank you, Mom, for allowing us to dream our own dreams, even though your dreams were more glamorous.
And --
Thank you, too, for never letting on when we disappointed you.
Most of all, Mom, thank you for giving us the room we needed to grow an
the freedom to learn from our own mistakes
We hope that we can do half as well with our kids.—
Your Loving Children.
( ~Ann Landers)
M -- Is for the million things she gave me,
O-- Means only that she’s growing old.
T –Is for the tears she shed to save me,
H—Is for her heart of purest gold.
E—Is for eyes, with love-light shining,
R-- Means right and right she’ll always be.
Put Them All Together And They Spell- MOTHER
The Word That Means The World To Me.
The Parents Prayer
O Master, make me a better parent.
Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they say and
to answer all their questions kindly.
Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them and contradicting them.
Make me as courteous to them
as I want to be to me.
Give me the courage to confess my sins against my
children and to ask their forgiveness when I know that I have wronged them.
May I not hurt the feelings of my children.
Forbid that I should laugh at their mistakes or ridicule them as punishment.
Let me not tempt them to lie and steal.
Guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and
do that honesty produces happiness.
Blind me to the little errors of my children, and help me to see the good things that they do. Give me a
ready word for honest praise when they do right.
Help me to grow up with my children, to treat them as children and not as adults.
Let me not judge them according to the standards of adult behavior. Do not allow m
to rob them of the opportunity to wait upon themselves, to think, to choose,
and to make decisions.
Forbid that I should ever punish them for my own selfish satisfaction.
May I grant them all their wishes that are reasonable and have the courage always to withhol
a privilege which I know will harm them.
Make me so fair and just, so considerate and compassionate to my children,
that they will have a genuine esteem for me.
Make me worthy of being loved and imitated by my children.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
Life
“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)
Life is back of love,
Back of believing,
Back of hoping,
Back of everything.
Ezekiel is his vision of the “River of Life: understood life; he knew what it meant
at first a little stream to the ankles, then, as he went farther on, it came to the knees,
and then to the loins, and finally a wide, mighty river.
That is Life.
Do you know what life is?
No; neither does anybody else.
Life is indefinable;
Life is an ultimate;
Life is God;
Llife is effectiveness;
Life is power.
Adjustment to the things around you—correspondence to environment --that is life.
The plodding man does not live. He goes out in the morning and hears the
the heralds of the spring, sweetly singing in the trees.
The flowers are blooming in the fields, the whole world is full of music.
It is everywhere; but the sweet primrose growing on the bank doe
not for him contain life and beauty and music – it remains a primrose still.
Life is measured by the number of things you are alive to.
The fullness of our life means what we are about to do.
I must have a life that is more abundant than my own poor nature.
I must take the power of Jesus and have inside fellowship with Him. (M. D. Babcock
“All one’s life is music if we touch the notes right and in time.”
(Ruskin)
The life that counts must hopeful be,
In darkness night make melody,
Must wait the dawn on bended knee—
This is the life that counts.
The life that counts is linked with God,
And turns not from the cross—the rod,
But walks with joy where Jesus trod—
This is the life that counts.
(Pfc Edbridge walker)
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace
and not of evil to give you an expected end.
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
(Jeremiah 29:11-13)
Just a Thought:
“The circumstances of life,
the events of life,
do not make me the way I Am—
But Reveals the way I am.”
(Dr. Sam Peoples)
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven;
A great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
Charles Spurgeon
To enjoy your walk with God,
Keep in step with His Word.
“Never get mad at anyone for knowing more than you do.
It is not his fault.”
“Everyman knows something that I do not know.
I must probe until I find it,
study until I learn it,
Work until I master it;
Hence, All men are my teachers.”
~Jack Hyles
Love simply
Love generously
Care deeply
Speak kindly
Leave the rest to God.
and
Remember Who loves you!
