Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn

C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

There are also flat periods in life which may well be the periods during which-before new lessons come- the past lessons of life are allowed to seep, quietly and deeply, into the marrow of the soul. These outwardly flat periods, when enduring well may not seem very purposeful,, are probably the times when needed attitudinal alignments are quietly occurring.

Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.