glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am the shepherd of sheep It is 8:28 AM Saturday morning here in West Michigan. It is 42 degrees and I see some blue sky. I thought today would be a cold gray rainy day, but maybe not. We can only cross our sore old fingers and pray for a day filled with sunlight and celestial joy. Carol just left to help make pigs-in-the blanket at her church. It sometimes amazes me that Carol has been a member of this church going on 21 years. We have lived in this house going on 31 years. We have seen neighbors comes and go. There is a house across the street that will soon see new dwellers because the widowed woman who lived there for many years just got remarried last Saturday and will be moving into her new husband's home. The newly married neighbor already has three people who have expressed interesting in buying her home. I often wonder how long we will live in this house. This morning when I got up it was 7 o'clock AM. I found Carol getting ready to get ready for another day of making pigs at her church. We had devotions and prayed before she left for church. I have no plans for the day except seek the face of my heavenly Father. I got out to read this morning these books for morning worship- 'Forty Gospel Homilies' by Gregory The Great Translated from the Latin by Dom David Hurst Monk of Portsmouth of Abbey 'The Life Of Jesus Christ' Part One, Volume 2 Chapters 41-92 By Ludolph of Saxony Translated By Milton T. Walsh 'The Abuse of God's Grace' by Nicolas Claget (1610-1663) 'Matthew 1-13' New Testament 1a (Ancient Christian Commentary On Scripture) Edited By Manlion Simonetti Well I suppose I will close to write in my paper diary and read my books. It looks like it will be normal day. I will close with this quote by Gregory The Great 'Forty Gospel Homilies'- "The Lord beheld the redemption of us who come from the Gentiles when he said that he was bringing in the other sheep too. You behold this happening every day, my friends; you see today that this has happened by the reconciliation of the Gentiles. He makes one sheepfold from two flocks, so to speak, because he joins the Jewish and Gentile race together by belief in him, as Paul bears witness when he says,: "He is our peace, who has made both one" Eph. 2:14. When he chooses the guileless from both races for eternal life he is leading sheep into his own sheepfold. He says truly of them: "My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me; I give them eternal life" John 10:27,28. He will go in to faith; he will go out from faith to vision, from belief to contemplation; he will find pasture in eternal refreshment. His sheep will find pasture because whoever follows him with a guileless heart is nourished with a food of eternal freshness. When are the pastures of these sheep but the eternal joys of an ever-green paradise? The pasture of the elect is the countenance of God in person. When we see him perfectly our hearts are endlessly satisfied with the food of life. Those who have evaded the traps of temporary pleasures rejoice in those pastures with the fulness of eternity. There are choirs of angels singing hymns, there the company of heavenly citizens, there the delightful festival of those returning from the sad labor of their exile here, there the far-seeing choir of prophets, there the apostles, our judges, there the victorious army of innumerable martyrs, as much happier there as they were tormented here, there confessors whose constancy is relieved by the reception of their reward, there faithful men whose manly strength was not enfeebled by the pleasures of the world, there holy women who overcame their sex together with the world, there children who surpassed their years by their conduct, there old men whom age weakened but whose capacity for action did not end." pg. 110,111 Gregory The Great John.10 9:00 a.m. - 2021-10-23 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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