Quote from Forum Archives on July 10, 2006, 10:16 am

Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>

"The Secret"

 

One day, one friend asked another,
"How is it that you are always so happy?
You have so much energy,
and you never seem to get down."
 
With her eyes smiling, she said,
"I know the Secret!"
"What secret is that?"
To which she replied,
"I'll tell you all about it,
but you have to promise to
share the Secret with others."
 
"The Secret is this:
I have learned there is little I can do
in my life that will make me truly happy.
I must depend on God to make
me happy and to meet my needs.
When a need arises in my life,
I have to trust God to supply
according to HIS riches.
I have learned most of the time
I don't need half of what I think I do.
He has never let me down.
Since I learned that 'Secret,' I am happy."
 
The questioner's first thought was,
"That's too simple!"
But upon reflecting over her own life
she recalled how she thought a bigger house
would make her happy, but it didn't!
She thought a better paying job
would make her happy, but it hadn't.
When did she realize her greatest happiness?
Sitting on the floor with her grandchildren,
playing games, eating pizza or reading a story,
a simple gift from God.
 
Now you know it too!
We can't depend on people to make us happy.
Only GOD in His infinite wisdom can do that.
Trust HIM!
And now I pass the Secret on to you!
So once you get it, what will you do?
 
YOU have to tell someone the Secret, too!
That GOD in His wisdom will take care of YOU!
But it's not really a secret...
We just have to believe it and do it...
Really trust God!

 

 

"IF GOD SHOULD GO ON STRIKE"

 

      

How is it that God above
Has never gone on strike
Because He was not treated fair
In things He didn't like.

 

If only once He'd given up,
And said, "That's it, I'm through!
I've had enough of those on Earth,
So this is what I'll do;

 

"I'll give my orders to the Sun -
'Cut off the heat supply!'
And to the moon - 'Give no more light -
And run the ocean dry.'

 

"Then just to make things really tough
And put the pressures on,
'Turn off the vital oxygen
Till every breath is gone!'"

 

You know, He would be justified
If fairness was the game.
For no one has been more abused
Or met with more disdain . . .

 

Than God, and yet He carries on.
Supplying you and me
With all the favors of His grace
And everything for free.

 

Men say they want a better deal
And so on strike they go.
But what a deal we've been given
To God to whom all things we owe.

 

We don't care whom we hurt
To gain the things we like.
But what a mess we'd all be in,
If God should go on strike!

 

 

Have a Blessed Day
Dave and Barbara

 

  

 

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