Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

One cannot remember mother and forget God.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Christ's peace can permeate any heart - hearts that are troubled, burdened with grief, confused, and pleading for help.

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny.