Just Beyond Prudence: July 2011

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Enthusiastic and Vary Thankful

You could call me enthusiastic about the lessons I am now taking. Sense I am eager and anxious to have them every day (except Sundays), and will brave the 105 degree weather for at lest an hour each time I go. Besides that, this is something I have wanted to do for years, and never really thought I would. Now you are probably wondering what I am talking about, so I'll tell you. I am now taking Martial Arts lessons. Specifically, Taekwondo.

As I have said I always wanted to do this, but never saw any possibility of that happening. A few months ago though, it suddenly struck me, why don't I ask God for martial arts lessons? It was only month later that my sister mentioned that she had a class mate at Bible School who taught a Taekwondo class. Two weeks later me and my youngest sister joined, and we have both really enjoyed it. Right now we just white belts, but hopefully by early August we should be graduating to yellow belts.

I should be going now, I think my sisters making cookies (yummm!!).
Have a wonderful day, and God bless.

Morgan J

The Pilgrim's Wants (author unknown)

I want a sweet sense of Thy pardoning love,
That my manifold sins are forgiven;
That Christ as my Advocate, pleadeth above,
That my name is recorded in heaven.

I want every moment to feel
That thy Spirit resides in my heart--
That his power is present to cleanse and to heal,
And newness of life to impart.

I want--oh! I want to attain
Some likeness, my Saviour, to thee!
That longed for resemblance once more to regain,
Thy comeliness put upon me.

I want to be marked for thine own--
Thy seal on my forehead to wear;
To receive that new name on the mystic white stone
Which none but thyself can declare.

I want so in thee to abide
As to bring forth some fruit to thy praise;
The branch which thou prunest, though feeble and dried,
May languish, but never decays.

I want thine own hand to unbind
Each tie to terrestrial things,
Too tenderly cherished, too closely entwined,
Where my heart so tenaciously clings.

I want, by my aspects serene,
My actions and words, to declare
That my treasure is placed in a country unseen,
That my heart's best affections are there.

I want as a trav'ller to haste
Straight onward, nor pause on my way;
Nor forethought in anxious contrivance to waste
On the tent only pitched for a day.

I want--and this sums up my prayer--
To glorify thee till I die;
Then calmly, to yield up my soul to thy care,
And breath out in faith my last sigh.