Excerpt from "In Green Pastures" for October 22nd

"Living out God's thoughts.
Let your highest ambition be to become what God has planned for you. Lay all your plans at his feet. Let God's will be your will, and he will lead you to just that life which will be for you the most beautiful, the most honourable, and the most blessed. If you would have God's thoughts to live out in your life, you must go to God for them. You must sit down often with him in the silence. You must look reverently into the divine Word and ponder deeply its holy sentences. You must turn your steps habitually to the place of prayer. You will not have heavenly visions if you never look upward for them."

J.R. Miller D.D.

My Refuge

Years ago when I took my first holiday abroad without my parents, my Mum wrote a note and
put it in my bag for me to read when I got on the plane. I don't remember anything else it said, but this verse was a great reminder for me. Just recently I read the verse again and I've found it very comforting and encouraging. Whatever life throws at us, God is our refuge and He will carry us through.

and 3 chapters previously, Deuteronomy 30:20 :
"love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days..."