Facts, Facts, Facts!!!

The distance of the earth from the sun, approximately 93,000,000 miles is just right to sustain life!

The 23 1/2 degree tilt of the earth on its axis ensures seasonal changes without which much of the earth would be desert!

The balance of oxygen (21%) and nitrogen (78%) in the air we breathe is perfect for supporting life!

An ozone layer in the atmosphere shelters our planet from deadly ultraviolet rays from the sun!

These and more are but proofs of an Intelligent Maker!

"The starry heavens on a moonlit night, a golden sunset at the end of the day, majestic mountain peaks, tall, stately trees, the music of a babbling brook, the warm rays of sunshine, or perhaps something as common, and as beautiful as a wildflower in the field." May we never become too busy to appreciate the ordinary things in life and to offer gratitude to God!

THOUGHTS, THOUGHTS, THOUGHTS!!!

"True love endures in spite of difficulties. It does not depend upon the continuance of pleasing qualities in the loved one. It flows from a deep desire for the wlefare of the other and grows sweeter with the passing of the years."

"Beauty, youth, good fortune, even love itself, cannot keep care and pain, loss and sorrow, from the most blessed for - 'Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.'.." but....

"God's hands that holds the ocean depths can hold my small affairs; His hand which guides the universe can carry all my cares."

QUOTES FROM A CLASSIC

" My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it...I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind not as a pleasure to myself - but as my own being!" (Catherine from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights)

POETRY

I never saw a moor;

I never saw the sea,

Yet know I how the heather looks

and what a billow be.

I never spoke with God,

nor visited in heaven.

Yet certain am I of the spot

As if the checks were given.

(Emily Dickinson)