Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: anonymous@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Thoughts of God! Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 05:45:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Society of Independent Newswaifs Lines: 50 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , jloucks@uts.amdahl.com (Jim Loucks) writes: > Here's something I enjoy reading and thought I'd share it with you. :-) > > > > Thoughts of God > Along the same lines, I ran into something by John Henry Cardinal Newman the other day which gave me a much-needed lift: GOD HAS CREATED ME to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another I HAVE MY MISSION I may never know it in this life but I shall be told it in the next I AM A LINK IN A CHAIN a bond of connection between persons He has not created me for naught I shall do good -- I shall do His work I shall be an angel of peace a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments THEREFORE I WILL TRUST HIM whatever I am, I can never be thrown away If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him HE DOES NOTHING IN VAIN He knows what He is about He may take away my friends He may throw me among strangers He may make me feel desolate make my spirits sink hide my future from me -- still HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS ABOUT ************************************************************************ * Liz Broadwell (broadwel@penndrls.upenn.edu) * * * Department of English * Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam * * The University of Pennsylvania * * ************************************************************************