Do you ever feel weak?
This is what J.I. Packer said, " God uses chronic pain and weakness along with other afflictions as His chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day, The weaker we feel, the harden we learn."
What do you think? Do you agree?
"The atmosphere, the earth, the water, and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecospheres, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts, because we couldn't live without them. "
Wendell Erdman Berry
August 15, 1934 - August 31, 2026
An American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer
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"September days are here,
By all these lovely tokens, September days are here.
With summer's best of weather,
And autumn's best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air
Is unto me the secret
Which make September fair.
"T is a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget."
Helen Hunt Jackson
Originally printed in Poems (Robert Brothers, 1892)
This poem is in the public domain
