Just one of our faithful fans.
This is a picture of us playing from way up on a hill, I'm playing second.
I must tell Jesus all of my trials;
I cannot bear these burdens alone;
In my distress He kindly will help me;
He ever loves and cares for His own.
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I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
I cannot bear my burdens alone;
I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
Jesus can help me, Jesus alone.
I must tell Jesus all of my troubles;
He is a kind, compassionate friend;
If I but ask Him, He will deliver,
Make of my troubles quickly an end.
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Tempted and tried, I need a great Savior;
One Who can help my burdens to bear;
I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus;
He all my cares and sorrows will share.
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O how the world to evil allures me!
O how my heart is tempted to sin!
I must tell Jesus, and He will help me
Over the world the victory to win.
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-by Elisha Hoffman
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Amy tackled the study of the language at once. It was a great gulf fixed between her and the people with "dark eyes, dark windows of darker souls," and she felt the helplessness of the alien. She was surprised and delighted to find that it was possible to start giving out the Gospel by means of an interpreter. A Christian Japanese girl, Misaki San, became her "mouth," her travel companion, her teacher.
"The honorifics are peculiar," Amy wrote. "for our 'go slowly' they have quite a touching appeal, 'augustly leisurely going, deign to be;' if you are hungry, you explain with polite frankness that your 'honorable inside is empty,' and if you want to say somebody has died, you say he has 'honorably deigned to cease to become.' "
Upon arrival at one of the small country hotels she was greeted with the announcement that a chicken had "deigned to cease to become," and that a bath was "on the boil."
When she had been in Japan for one month she felt it was high time she took a missionary journey. She wrote long , long letters at every stage, filling twenty or more of the thinnest pages imaginable with her round, clear handwriting and delicate drawings (storks, centipedes, people, fish, swordplay, incense burners, pagodas). There was an audience, of course. People hung over her shoulder, studying the writing. "Oh!" said an old lady when Amy explained that she was describing to her family the silkworm business in that village, "Our honorable worms and we ourselves are going to England in a letter!"
The master cook... or should I say smoker. :)
Every human being is driven by some purpose. Some people are driven by other people, by careers, or other dreams-always driven, though, for the purpose of accomplishing a certain goal. We may not always agree that the effort expended was worth the end goal. However, the fact that we are driven beings always pursuing some desired objective cannot be denied. In fact, the Bible teaches us that we were created as individuals of purpose. Proverbs 13:12 says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life." Proverbs 13:19 states, "Desire realized is sweet to the soul." God has placed in us a drive to reach the goals we set for ourselves. What differentiates each person is the purpose for which he strives and his degree of commitment in striving for that goal.
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