We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

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!

Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.