Ponder on this!

If you want to be distressed -- look within.

If you want to be defeated -- look back.

If you want to be distracted -- look around.

If you want to be dismayed -- look ahead.

If you want to be delivered -- look up!

We can hold on to sorrow, hold on to pain.
We can hold on to anger, when there is nothing to gain.
We can hold on to a thread, at the end of a rope.
But if we hold on to Jesus, we are holding on to hope.

THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING

A real Christian is an odd number anyway:

he feels supreme love for One who he has never seen;

talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see;

expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another;

empties himself in order to be full;

admits he is wrong so he can be declared right;

goes down in order to get up;

is strongest when he is weakest;

richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels the worst.

he dies so he can live; forsakes in order to have;

gives away so he can keep; sees the invisible, hears the inaudible.