Sweet Holiness

"Holiness is a most beautiful and lovely thing. We drink in strange notions of holiness from our childhood, as if it were a melancholy, morose, sour and unpleasant thing; but there is nothing in it but what is sweet and ravishingly lovely." Jonathan Edwards

Quote taken from Seeking Him: Experiencing the Joy of Personal Revival

On Speaking Terms

"2
Mexico
Number of people who speak the indigenous Ayapaneco tongue; the two are not on speaking terms" (18).

I read this in Time today and couldn't help but laugh. This short statement aptly descripes so many of our problems.

Mango Kindness

My colleague dropped off fourteen mangoes at my office on Tuesday. He did this all because I mentioned how much I missed mangoes, good mangoes that is.

I couldn't possibly eat fourteen mangoes before they went bad, so I dropped off a handful at a friend's apartment and then gave some to my housemate.

It's a small thing: a crateful of mangoes. But there is a lesson here, when God gives blessings, the blessings are so overwhelming that they spill into the lives of the people around us. Here's then another reason to pray to be blessed.

Lord, bless me and make my blessings so large that they spill into the lives of all the people I come in contact with.