Be Thou My Vision

   Our Reason For Being         -by William MacDonald In planning your career, you should remember this: the real goal of your life is to glorify God and to represent His interests on earth. Everything else is incidental. Christians have bigger business than to give their best to the unworthy world. We are born to soar with eagle's wings, not to crawl in muck.  The believer has one great occupation - to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. The only possible justification for a 'job' or a 'profession' is to meet daily needs and to be able to give everything above that to the work of the Lord. The big problem today is how to keep 'apostleship' and 'tent-making' in proper balance. The 'tent-making industry' wants an ever increasing share of your time and your strength and your skill. The big moguls don't have any vision when it comes to 'apostleship.' All they're interested in is more and bigger and finer tents...

    Abbotskerswell, Devon, England.   Leisure What is this life, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like stars at night. No time to turn at Beauty; glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.                                                 -W.H Davies  I read this poem in a wonderful book called "For the Family's Sake" by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay. It is about the value of home in everyone's life. I will share a few excerpts from the book below.      My little sister Lydia and I   ...