Thoughts for the week:

October 25

We should work at overcoming ourselves, our selfish desires and our self-centeredness. This can never be fully accomplished. We can never become entirely unselfish. But we can come to realize that we are not at the center of the universe and that everything does not revolve around us at the center. I am only one cell in a vast network of human cells. I can at least make the effort to conquer the self-life and seek daily to obtain more and more of this self-conquest. "He that overcomes himself is greater than he who conquers a city."

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October 28  Shack Or Palace?

There is no use in merely saying everything will be all right. Thinking rightly, of course, means putting God into all your affairs and expecting Him to change them. For example, if you are living in a shack it is not any good pretending that it is a palace. Cheap optimism is never spiritual. Realize that you are living in a shack, but claim the Presence of God to guide you to something better.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox  (Excerpt)

October 29  Praying With A Feather

In prayer, as in many other activities, effort defeats itself. More than once I have said to my congregation, "Pray with a feather - not with a pickax."

Always pray gently, and especially if you have a good deal of  fear, or if your difficulty seems to be a very important one.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox (Excerpt)

October 30

There is a time for everything. We should learn to wait patiently until the right time comes. Easy does it. We waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives and that this plan will work out in the fullness of time.

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