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THE DAILY MOTIVATOR
Monday, August 21, 2006

Taste the beauty
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Graciously receive what is offered you, and give what you are sincerely able. Find sustenance and rich meaning in the ceaseless flow that is life.

Let go of your need to keep score and to match each transaction with another. Choose instead to observe and to follow the truth that your heart knows.

Give friendship, love, attention, understanding, effort, respect and commitment. And accept the unique, intimate, surprising, valuable and enriching gifts that others are longing to give you.

Add your own special voice to the chorus of life, simply for the joy of singing. And delight in the beauty of the increasingly harmonious songs that are sung.

Give your light to the world. And bask in the vibrant glow as it joins the light of all those around you.

Give who you are and receive the richness of your gifts reflected back in ways you never could have imagined. With all that you are, taste the beauty of your special place in all that is.

Ralph Marston

Quick Thought:

“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.” James 5:16-18 (NKJ)

Mark 14:26-31

“And after singing a hymn, they (Jesus and His disciples) went out to the Mount of Olives.”

“And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, because it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’ But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.”

“But Peter said to Him, “Even though all may fall away, yet I will not.” And Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, that you yourself this very night, before a cock crows twice, shall three times deny Me.”

“But Peter kept saying insistently, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And they all were saying the same thing, too.” Mark 14:26-31 (NAS)

John 9:13-23

“They brought to the Pharisees him who was formerly blind. Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.”

“Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received his sight. And he said to them, “He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them. They said therefore to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.”

“The Jews therefore did not believe it of him, that he had been blind, and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight, and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

“His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he shall speak for himself.” His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed, that if anyone should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.” John 9:13-23 (NAS)

Today’s Suggested Bible Reading

Read the Bible in a Year:

New Testament — Romans 12:1 - 12:21.
Old Testament — Psalms 57-61.

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