TODAY'S INSPIRATION

Treasure Beach Forum: Inspirational Thoughts: TODAY'S INSPIRATION
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta Honeyghan on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 05:55 am: Edit Post

TIME

As humans we are deeply conscious of the passing of time. With each tick of the clock, we progress a step farther down timeâs corridor. We are wise, indeed, if we makes proper use of his time. As wise King Solomon wrote: ãFor everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens: a time for birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what was planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build; a time to weep and a time to laugh.ä

How fleeting is time! The 70 years of the normal life span is far too short a time for a person to take in the abundance of knowledge and to enjoy all the other good things the Creator has provided for man on this earth.

Time Is One-Directional. Though time is universal, no man living is able to say what it is. It is as unfathomable as space. No one can explain where the stream of time began or where it is flowing. On the other hand, time has certain characteristics that can be understood. Its apparent rate of flow can be measured. Additionally, it moves in one direction only. Like traffic on a one-way street, time moves relentlessly in that one direction÷onward, ever onward. Whatever the speed of its forward movement, time can never be thrown into reverse. We live in a momentary present. However, this present is in motion, flowing continually into the past. There is no stopping it.

The past is gone, it is history, and it can never be repeated. Any attempt to call back the past is as impossible as trying to make a waterfall tumble uphill or an arrow fly back to the bow that shot it. Our mistakes have left their mark in the stream of time, a mark that we cannot wipe out. The past has been won or lost. No longer is there any control over it.

The future is different. It is always flowing toward us. By the help of Godâs Word, we can identify obstacles that loom ahead of us and prepare to meet them. We can store up for ourselves ãtreasures in heaven.ä These treasures will not be swept away by the stream of time. They will stay with us and will endure into an eternal future of blessing. May we invest our time wisely.
TIME÷truly amazing, truly incredible

--author unknown


INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE

"Please treasure this day my friend,
Itâs rather unlikely youâll see it again
No two days are quite the same; they surely donât come together,
and just perhaps, there might very well be, even a slight change in the weather."
--Glasceta Honeyghan


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta Honeyghan on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 06:14 am: Edit Post

grammatical correction to today's inspiration--top second line "If we make"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glasceta Honeyghan on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 04:01 am: Edit Post

TODAYâS INSPIRATIONAL POEM

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

--Robert Frost
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TODAYâS INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE:

"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

~ Liz Smith