New and upcoming!

Well, for this post I have decided to write about some one you may have never have heard of.

Can you guess who I am going to write about? The person I am going to write about said, (by the way, this is one of my most favorite quotes):

"Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as the Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that only devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin."

Still don't know? Here's another guess, Mel Gibson acted his life out in the movie, "The Patriot".

I will post my new article soon.

Until then,
Jon

And that has made all the difference.

-Two Roads-

I tought I would share with you all my favorite poem. I first read this many years ago, and it has since been my favorite. It reminds me of a Christian.

Here it is:


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost-

The Anvil of God's Word

Here is the poem I said I was going to post today. Hope you find this encouraging. If you are a skeptic of God's Word, remember that, only truth will stand the test of time. Jesus said "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not." Matthew 24:35

His Words have stood the test of time.


-The Anvil of God's Word-

Last eve I paused beside a blacksmith's door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers worn with beating years of time.

"How many anvils have you had," said I,
"To wear and batter all these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then with twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."

"And so," I thought, "The Anvile of God's Word,
For ages skeptic blows have beaten upon,
Yet, through the noise of the falling blows was heard,
The Anvil is unchanged, the hammers are gone."

-John Clifford

"For I am the LORD, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
Malachi 3:6

Until then,
Jon

No More King

I am sure many of you have heard about "Schoolhouse Rock" in your life time. You know, the little cartoon characters who come out and sing-songs like, "How a bill becomes a law" or "Conjunction Junction".

Well, Mom was recently looking around on the net and found this song. So she put this song on her blog, but then it occurred to her that this song would be more fitting for my blog.

So without futher to say, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and girls; I give you: No More King.




I will be posting a new "ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH" this week, so make sure to check back later this week.

Also I will be posting something tomorrow. It is a small "poem" I found in one of my Great Grandpa's books on the Bible.

Until then,
Jon

A sobering thought in....Latin?

-"Tu fui ego eris"-

I was doing a little research on different phrases, when I came upon the above Latin phrase. Once I saw it, I immediately thought of how true it was. It translates as, "I was you; you will be me", thus, "what you are, I was; what I am, you will be.". A memento mori gravestone inscription to remind you, the reader, that death is unavoidable

There is NO cure for death. "Mors vincit omnia" is yet another Latin phrases I found, which translates as, "death conquers all".

Remember, you have but one life, choose your destination unwisely and you will have an eternity to regret it. Your life is like an hour-glass, at any moment all that precious sand could slip away and that's it, life's done.

-Listen to the second President-

John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Death happens to all. 10 out of 10 die. One day you too will face death, (how you will meet death I don't know, but for myself I will meet it with a smile and a joke). The question you should ask your self is, "Am I afraid of death?" and, "Where will I spend my eternity?"

-The End Of This Post-

Now, before I go, I'll leave you with these thought provoking, sobering words I came across:

"We only live once; so, therefore let us conduct ourselves in a manner in which we hope to be remembered for. History tells all she knows."

Until later,
Jon