James 1:1-2

*  What is it to be “a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ“?  I’m going to avoid all of the many trite answers that come to mind.  Instead, I’m going to dwell on the thought for a while.  I have an awful lot of free time for a servant.

* Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds.  There are so many times that I’ve thought “If only I KNEW that this was the will of God, I would obey it – no matter what.”  But then there are verses like this.  Passages that talk about anything and everything.  And I can’t help but put into this verse the trials of a certain kind – the ones I’ve been being worrying about in a fairly worldly way.  God says to count it all joy.  Yes, my blog is called “Cynical Joy”.  I think now would be a good time for the Joy to win over the Cynical.

 

W. B. Yeats

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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* I like this little bit of poetry.  It means a lot to me.

 

 

 

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