Category Archives: God’s love

A fifth-rate planet revolving around a tenth-rate sun

Posted on September 21, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

Earth has been described as ‘a fifth-rate planet revolving around a tenth-rate sun in the forgotten corner of the universe.’ The more we learn about the immensity of Space the tinier and more insignificant our part of the Universe seems … Continue reading →

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‘Remember in the darkness what you knew in the light.’

Posted on April 29, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

Many of us have had the experience of waking up in the early hours of the morning and finding ourselves overwhelmed with fear and negative thoughts. Those early hours are when our natural rhythms are at their lowest point in … Continue reading →

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Forgiven, Forgotten Forever

Posted on April 18, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

There was once a celebrated court case in which the wife of a Scottish doctor examined his financial records after his death and found that a number of accounts were crossed through with a notation: “debt forgiven–too poor to pay.” … Continue reading →

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Strong but gentle

Posted on March 23, 2016 by vincentsmithauthor

An editorial in the prestigious Wall Street Journal said: ‘People want to be lightly governed by strong governments.’ I suppose that’s what most of us have wanted since childhood. We wanted our dad to be big and strong and able … Continue reading →

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When we are in our deepest grief

Posted on December 24, 2015 by vincentsmithauthor

The famous singer/song writer Thomas Dorsey received a telegram during a performance telling him that his young wife had died. He was devastated with grief, all alone and far from home. But a little later he sat down at a … Continue reading →

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God provides for those who trust him

Posted on December 23, 2015 by vincentsmithauthor

When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans it also wrecked the home of a retired clergyman, Reverend Jones. His daughter wanted him to get to Atlanta and stay with her, but he had no money and all the banks were closed. … Continue reading →

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Rainbow’s end

Posted on December 20, 2015 by vincentsmithauthor

According to Irish tradition at the end of every rainbow there’s a pot of gold guarded by a leprechaun. The only problem is that you can never find the end of a rainbow. As you come closer to what seems … Continue reading →

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Kennedy and God

Posted on September 29, 2015 by vincentsmithauthor

When the late President Kennedy’s son Patrick, suffering from a lung ailment, was fighting for his life, his father went to see him in a part of the hospital specially cleared of all visitors. On his way there he passed … Continue reading →

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‘He won’t let me love him when he’s awake.’

Posted on June 27, 2015 by vincentsmithauthor

A friend told me about a boy who was the apple of his parents’ eyes. But in his teens he went off the rails, dropped out of school and began hanging around with a bad crowd. Early one morning he … Continue reading →

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Pick yourself up, dust yourself down.

Posted on June 26, 2015 by vincentsmithauthor

Do you remember that song that Fred Astaire sang to Ginger Rodgers in the old movie, Swingtime? It went like this: ‘Nothing’s impossible I have found, for when my chin is on the ground I pick myself up, dust myself … Continue reading →

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