Quotes

My grandpa sent me quotes for Thomas A. Kempis ( Imitation of Christ). I thought that I would post some. I have found that they make me feel guilty which, is a good thing. Though, truly, I should live my life above such reproach. This blog post is my "something for the public good".

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

(Does anyone else struggle with this one?)

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

The quotes were found on This website.

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Tonight is PP. Yeah. Chemistry went well today. I understood it all. That makes me happy.

Thank you Tony for helping me make a 3D pyramid with a piece of paper. ;D Can you tell that geometry isn't my thing? Ok so it's just graphing and apparently making things with my hands. It takes some major brain power for me to graph anything. I don't understand why. It is a picture. You think that drawing basic geometric shapes would be easy!

Moving on..... I hear that senior Patriots got creamed at the tournament. I don't have particulars.

Oh!!!!!! Something very exciting happened on Saturday. Back story coming right up.

There is a lady in my mom's Sunday School class whose husband has had brain tumors. Doctors have gone in and removed that tumors at various times and b/c of the frequency of removing them, left out a piece of his scull in order that they could more easily get in just in case they had to remove more. Well this last summer the doctors decided that they would put back into place this man's bone. His body rejected it. Now he is having to have antibiotic and all these special things and his wife (the lady in mom's class) is having to stay home to take care of him. All of these happenings have put a financial strain on this family.

The lady was telling about her situation in SS one morning and it got the other ladies to thinking upon how they could help her out. They came up with having a garage sale. And that they did last Saturday. Ya'll should have seen the amount of stuff went to that garage sale. My house became a drop off point b/c of its location so we saw much of it. We took a full size bed full, a suburban full, and two or three loads in the small-bed truck, of things donated to be in the garage sale and people were dropping stuff off at the site of the sale as well!

Here is the cool part. On Saturday, this one day garage sale made $1,100.01. What makes it awesome is that the ladies had prayed that they would make a $1000! (mom didn't know that 'till afterward) Most of the items were marked at $1. Mom said that they probably sold $800 dollars in $1 items. It has to be a God thing that they made so much money. At 2:30 when everything was being packed up people were still trying to look! So God is good all the time and all the time God IS GOOD!

'K ya'll that rocks my socks off!