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11/25/2023 – “Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff. To reflect on your blessings is to rehearse God’s accomplishments. To rehearse God’s accomplishments is to discover his heart. To discover his heart is to discover not just good gifts but the Good Giver. Max Lucado

Soli Deo Gloria!

11/23/2023 – “Oh my God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to thee thy mercies toward me.”  St. Augustine of Hippo (biography attached)

St. Augustine biography:

https://www.learnreligions.com/biography-of-st-augustine-700002

Soli Deo Gloria!

11/23/2023 – “For prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God’s work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God’s work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails. Prayer has won great victories, and rescued, with notable triumph, God’s saints when every other hope was gone. Men who know how to pray are the greatest boon God can give to earth – they are the richest gift earth can offer heaven. Men who know how to use this weapon of prayer are God’s best soldiers. His mightiest leaders.” E.M. Bounds, “The Complete Collection of E.M. Bounds on Prayer”

SolI Deo Gloria!

11/22/2023 – “The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise him to the greatest extent of our powers.” St. Maximilian Kolbe / Biography link attached.

I encourage y’all to read the entire biography, link below, but in particular, the short section: “Childhood of a Saint”. And then, consider how he ended his life …