Highways For Youth

Young men, it matters but little

The burdens you carry in life,

For it isn't the load,

But the choice of a road

That determines the stress and strife.

Don't follow the highways of pleasure-

The ones that look broad, smooth, and fair-

For they only deceive

All those who believe

They will lead to a treasure somewhere.

True joy is found only in service

To God and one's own fellowmen;

Being honest and true

Will bring joy to you

As you least will expect it and when.

And as the swift seasons roll onward,

The years bring your life to its end,

Your reward will be great.

In the hereafter state,

If the Father and Son call you friend.

~Author Unknown

Quote from Helen Keller

"I thank God for my handicaps, 

for through them I have found

 myself, my work and my God."

~Helen Keller

Quote from Merlin Carothers

"We make our understanding-or lack of it-into a wall between us and God as long as we insist on figuring out and approving His plan before we dare trust ourselves to Him."

~Merlin Carothers

Quote from Merlin Carothers

 "God has a perfect plan for our lives, but he cannot move us to the next step until we joyfully accept our present situation as part of that plan."

~Merlin Carothers

Discovering What God Wants

"A young woman came in great perplexity to a Scottish preacher, asking how she could resolve the question of her own desires when they seemed to be in such contradiction to the will of God. He took out a slip of paper, wrote two words on it, handed it to her with the request that she sit down for ten minutes, ponder the words, cross out one of them, and bring the slip back to him. She sat down and read: No Lord. Which to cross out? It did not take her long to see that if she was saying No she could not say Lord, and if she wanted to call Him Lord, she could not say No."

~taken from Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart