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GREAT BACKGROUNDS!

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"The Landlord has taken the risk of working the country with free tenants instead of slaves in chain gangs: and as they are free there is not way of making it impossible for them to go into forbidden places and eat forbidden fruits. Up to a certain point he can doctor them even when they have done so, and break them of the habit. But beyond that point--you can see for yourself. A man can go on eating mountain-apple so long that nothing will cure his craving for it: and the very worm it breeds inside him will make him more certain to eat more."

-from C. S. Lewis' The Pilgrim's Regress

"I place all heaven with its power and the sun with its brightness, and the snow with its whiteness, and the fire with all the strength it hath. And the lightning with its rapid wrath, and the winds with their swiftness along their path. And the sea with its deepness, and the rocks with their steepness, and the earth with its starkness: all these I place, by God's almighty help and grace, between ourselves and the powers of darkness."
-from the book Courage at Indian Deep by Jane Resh Thomas

[I got this from an e-mail, so I don't know the author]

Beautiful Advice
I asked God to take away my pain.
God said, No.
It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.
God said, No.
Her spirit was whole, her body was only temporary.

I asked God to grant me patience.
God said, No.
Patience is a by-product of tribulations; It isn't granted, it is earned. . .

I asked God to spare me pain.
God said, No.
Suffering draws you apart from wordly cares and brings you closer to me.

I asked God to make my spirit grow.
God said, No.
You must grow on your own, but I will prune you to make you grow.

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life.
God said, No.
I will give you life so that you may enjoy all things.

I asked God to help me LOVE others as much as
He loves me.
God said....Ahhh, finally you have the idea.

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