Spiritual thoughts for the week:

September 25  One Thing At A Time

The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox  (Excerpt)

September 25

For rest from the care of life, you can turn to God each day in prayer and communion. Real relaxation and serenity come from a deep sense of the fundamental goodness of the universe... Commune with God, not so much for petitions to be granted as for the rest that comes from relying on His will and His purposes for your life. 

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September 26 The Three Gifts

I suggest the following three [Ideal gifts]: a good constitution, a good disposition, and horse sense. I think that a child endowed with these three qualities would have very few difficulties to meet in life. 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox  (Excerpt)

September 28 

We need to accept the difficulties and disciplines of life so as to fully share the common life of other people. Many things we must accept in life are not to be taken so much as being necessary for us personally, as to be experienced in order that we may share in the sufferings and problems of humanity. We need sympathy and understanding. We must share many of the experiences of life, in order to understand and sympathize with others. Unless we have been through the same experiences, we cannot understand other people or their makeup well enough to be able to help them. 

24 Hours a Day