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We offer you some Encouraging Thoughts on this page as well as a listing of organizations and agencies in the Northland whose purpose is to help you with any number of life's challenges.

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Encouraging Thoughts 

We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed. We see no way out, but we never despair.  We are pursued but never cut off, knocked down but still have some life in us...indeed, though this outer human nature of ours may be falling into decay, at the same time our inner human nature is renewed day by day.  The temporary light burden of our hardships is earning us forever an utterly incomparable eternal weight of glory, since what we aim for is not visible but invisible.  Visible things are transitory, but invisible things eternal.

2 Corinthians 4

But you, O Beloved, be not far off!
You who are my help, hasten to my aid!
Free my soul from this agony, 
My life from the power of the boar! 
Save me from the mouth of the lion, 
My afflicted soul from the horns of the bull! 

I will tell of your name to all I meet, 
In the midst of the assemblies I will praise You. 
You, who are in wonder of the Mystery, give praise! 
For our loving Creator does not turn away from the afflicted 
And does not hide from them. 

Psalm 22

But God, being rich in faithful love, through the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our sins, brought us to life with Christ--it is through grace that you have been saved---and raised us up with him and gave us a place with him in heaven, in Christ Jesus.  This was to show for all ages to come, through his goodness toward us in Christ Jesus, how extraordinarily rich he is in grace.  Because it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith, not by anything that you have done, so that nobody can claim the credit.  We are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has already designated to make up our way of life. 

Ephesians 2 

Glory be to him, whose power working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine, glory be to to him from generation to generation... 

Ephesians 3 

Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. 

John 14 

In the world you will have hardship, but be courageous, I have conquered the world.

John 16 

God rejoices.  Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, not because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness.  No, God rejoices because ONE of his children who was lost has been found.

Henri Nouwen 
Read also Luke 15 

It is for us to begin. If we take one step toward the Lord, he takes ten toward us.  He who saw the prodigal son while he was yet at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him. 

A monk was once asked:  "What do you do there in the monastery?"  He replied, "We fall and get up, fall and get up, fall and get up again." 

Tito Colliander 

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

Evagrius 

There are all kinds of ways in which God speaks to us, through our thoughts or any one of our faculties.  But keep in mind that God's first language is silence. 

God is not some remote, inaccessible, and implacable Being who demands instant perfection from His creatures and of whose love we must make ourselves worthy.  He is not a tyrant to be obeyed out of terror, nor a policeman who is ever on the watch, not a harsh judge ever ready to apply the verdict of guilty.  We should relate to God less and less in terms of reward and punishment and more and more on the basis of the gratuity, or the play of Divine love. 

Divine Love is compassionate, tender, luminous, totally self giving, seeking no reward, unifying everything. 

Thomas Keating

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