Faith illustrated

{1} Once all villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all the people gathered, but only one boy came with an umbrella.
That's FAITH.

{2} When you throw babies in the air, they laugh because they know you will catch them.
That's TRUST.

{3} Every night we go to bed without any assurance of being alive the next morning, but still we set the alarms to wake up.
That's HOPE.

{4} We plan big things for tomorrow in spite of zero knowledge of the future.
That's CONFIDENCE.

{5} We see the world suffering, but still we get married and have children.
That's LOVE.

{6} On an old man's shirt was written a sentence I am not 80 years old; I am sweet 16 with 64 years of experience.'
That's ATTITUDE.

- John Mangun

Love is not possessing but being possessed

Love does not mean to have, to own, to possess. It means to be had, to be owned, to be possessed. It is the giving of oneself for another. That is why we speak of arrows and darts of love – something that wounds. And the day men forget that love is synonymous with sacrifice, they will ask what kind of God is it who asks for mortification and self-denial. ‘Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ --Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Wartime Prayer Book