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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Robert Ingersoll 1833-1899 Philosopher/Lawyer/Orator

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #5

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
Henry Ford 1863-1947 Automobile Manufacturer

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #6

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"When all else is lost, the future still remains."

Christian Bovee 1820- 1904 American Writer/Editor

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #7

“When walking through the ‘valley of shadows,’ remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.”

H.K. Barclay

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #8

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“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”

Duke Ellington, American jazz musician

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #9

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“Every silver lining has a cloud.”

Avon

LEADER: Have you ever lost at love or lost a friendship?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #10

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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never loved at all."

Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892

Most famous poet of the Victorian age.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #11

"By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable."

Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667

English bishop & theological & devotional writer

HAVE SOMEONE READ: 2 Corinthians 4:8
"But We have this treasure in Earthen vessels..."

LEADER: Never regret loving someone…but remember you can only make your own choices, you can’t make choices for the one you have loved.

LEADER: What about lost time? Anybody ever lose any of that?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 12

"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."

Benjamin Franklin 1706- 1790
Entrepreneur, statesman, scientist & philosopher

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 13

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"He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost."

Thomas Fuller 1608-1661
English clergyman, antiquarian, wit, historian

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Your Bank Account”

Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!!!! Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow". You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success! The clock is running. Make the most of today.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 14

"Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, sixty golden minutes. Each set with sixty diamond seconds. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."

Horace Mann 1796-1859 American educator

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Psalm 118:24

“This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

LEADER: Some of us are losing our youth…Sandi always says she’s approaching middle age…I always ask her from which side she’s approaching it.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 15

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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."

Aldous Huxley 1894-1961 English writer & critic

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #16

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #17

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“When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #18

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“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”

George Burns 1896-1996, American Comedy Actor

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #19

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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

Thomas B. Aldrich 1836-1907, American Writer, Editor

HAVE SOMEONE READ: 2 Corinthians 4:16

Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Isaiah 46:4Even to your old age I will be the same,

And even to your graying years I will bear you!

I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

LEADER: Have any of you ever been realllly sick…had to have an operation…felt like you were losing your health?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: James 5: 13-16

¹³Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. ¹⁴Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; ¹⁵and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. ¹⁶Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

LEADER: Do you feel like you’ve lost your dreams…or maybe they’ve changed on you?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 20

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort."

Johann Wolfgang vongoethe 1749-1832
German philosopher, scientist & writer

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 21

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau 1917-1862

American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Jeremiah 29:11-12

¹¹'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. ¹²'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

LEADER: What about selfishness and generosity…ever lost anything there?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 22

“What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever."

Ethel Percy Andrus 1884-1967 Educator founded

American Ass’n of Retired Persons & Nat’l Retired Teachers Ass’n

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 23

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

Martin Luther 1483-1546 German Reformation leader

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 24

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"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

Saint Basil the Great 329-379 Greek Patriarch/Church Leader

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Philippians 2:1-4

¹Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, ²make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. ³Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; ⁴do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Matthew 22:36-40

³⁶"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" ³⁷And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' ³⁸"This is the great and foremost commandment. ³⁹"The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' ⁴⁰"On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."

LEADER: What about the loss of some of our spiritual liberties?

We’ve learned in weeks past…I only takes one person complaining and we lose ground.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #25

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Edmund Burke 1729-1797 British Statesman/philosopher/Author

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Exodus 18:21

²¹"Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Song of Solomon 8:13

Your companions hearken to your voice, so speak!

LEADER: We’ve learned in the last few lessons…we can make a difference…we must VOTE…and WRITE!

Senators polled stated 20 letters could change their vote.

LEADER: And what about the servicemen and women we lose who die serving our country?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 26

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"Dear Madam,—I have been shown in the files of the War Department a Statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, President Abraham Lincoln"

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 16^th US President
From Letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, Nov. 21, 1864.

Records later corrected: only two sons died.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Good Grief” #1 By Victor Yap EXCERPT

Psychology Today 11-12/95

Charlie Brown, from the popular Peanuts comic strip, blurts out two words whenever he is stuck, trapped, or frustrated. His favorite expression is “Good grief!”
Death or bereavement in the family is a hurting, devastating, and overwhelming affair. Recovering from the loss of a loved one or family member is a slow, painful, and lengthy process. Researchers from the Medical College of Virginia, in a study reported in Psychology Today, concluded that the death of a close relative is the single biggest contributor to depression. A serious illness would increase a person’s risk of depression by 330%, divorce/breakup raises it to an unhealthy 1,130%, serious marital problem and assault pushes risk to an alarming 1,400%, but the risk of depression soars to a dangerous 1,500% in the death of a close relative.

LEADER: How do we deal with the loss of a loved one…we’ve all experienced that or will.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Crippled Daughter”

The Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching & Preachers, W. Wiersbe, p. 194

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A miserable looking woman recognized F. B. Meyer on the train and ventured to share her burden with him. For years she had cared for a crippled daughter who brought great joy to her life. She made tea for her each morning, then left for work, knowing that in the evening the daughter would be there when she arrived home. But the daughter had died, and the grieving mother was alone and miserable. Home was not “home” anymore.

Meyer gave her wise counsel. “When you get home and put the key in the door,” he said, “say aloud, ‘Jesus, I know You are here!’ and be ready to greet Him directly when you open the door. And as you light the fire tell Him what has happened during the day; if anybody has been kind, tell Him; if anybody has been unkind, tell Him, just as you would have told your daughter. At night stretch out your hand in the darkness and say, ‘Jesus, I know You are here!’”

Some months later, Meyer was back in that neighborhood and met the woman again, but he did not recognize her. Her face radiated joy instead of announcing misery. “I did as you told me,” she said, “and it has made all the difference in my life, and now I feel I know Him.”

HAVE SOMEONE READ: 1 Thessalonians 4:13

¹³But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 27

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"The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted. The very memory of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that broods ever over the household, like the silence that comes after prayer. There is a blessing sent from God in every burden of sorrow."

James Russell Miller 1840-1912)
US Presbyterian clergyman, author of many devotional books

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Galatians 6:2

"Share each other's troubles and problems, and so obey our Lord's command"

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Reflections: Suffering and Grief”

Maria Boulding, Prayer: Our Journey Home

To regard grief as somehow unworthy of a Christian who believes in the resurrection is to forget the example of Christ who was so often "moved with compassion," who wept at his loss of Lazarus and prayed the longer in his agony. We cannot short-circuit human processes; we have to give the experience time to come home to us before it can become a motive for hope and a promise of fuller life . …Grief is only unchristian if it is wholly self-centered or if we never emerge from it.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Matthew 5:4

Happy are those who mourn, God will comfort them.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Psalm 34:18

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and He saves those who are crushed in spirit.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Dear Abby”

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Abigail Van Buren quoted in Quotable Quotations 166 Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985

“Dear Abby gives this advice on how to respond to those who are grieving: How one handles grief is a personal matter. Let the one who has suffered the loss take the lead. If he feels like talking, encourage him to talk. If he prefers to sit in silence, don’t intrude on his silence. Friends should call, bring food, offer to run errands, and do what needs to be done. A hug, a squeeze of the hand, a look which says, I’m here, if you need me,” conveys more than a thousand words.”

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Good Grief” #2 By Victor Yap EXCERPT

Psychology Today 11-12/95

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Grief hardly qualifies as being good, but grieving is good. The loss of a loved one, while it triggers a grave crisis in the home, is not the end of the world for surviving family members. How is grieving good?

Tears help put a person pull together, and not reduce him or her into pieces. Crying is often healthy. It is crucial to and part and parcel of the recovery process. It frees grieving people, and not cripple or shackle them. They get back on their feet quicker, get things off their chest sooner, and get on with their life faster after a good cry. The Bible does not discourage people from crying; 1 Thessalonians 4:13 says do not grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. Romans 12:15 even encourages believers to weep with those who weep. Jesus did not hold back his tears on two occasions, once over Lazarus and another over the city of Jerusalem.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE #28

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“The principle is simple: when words are most empty, tears are most apt.”
Max Lucado – Christian Author

From: “No Wonder They Call Him the Savior”

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 29

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

Voltaire 1694-1778 French poet, historian & satirist

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 30

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."

William Shakespeare 1564-1616 English Poet
from King Henry VI, Part III, Act II

LEADER: Have you ever been to a funeral that was a real celebration of life…where memories and joy filled the room and hearts, because everyone knew their loved one was in heaven?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 31

"I am home in Heaven, dear ones; Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief is over, Every restless tossing passed; I am now at peace forever, Safely home in Heaven at last. Did you wonder I so calmly Trod the valley of the shade? Oh! but Jesus' love illumined Every dark and fearful glade. And He came Himself to meet me In that way so hard to tread; And with Jesus' arm to lean on, Could I have one doubt or dread? Then you must not grieve so sorely, For I love you dearly still: Try to look beyond earth's shadows, Pray to trust our Father's Will. There is work still waiting for you, So you must not idly stand; Do it now while life remaineth You shall rest in Jesus' land. When that work is all completed, He will gently call you Home; Oh, the rapture of that meeting, Oh, the joy to see you come!"

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HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 32

"Not lost, but gone before."

Matthew Henry 1662-1714 English Minister

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 33

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"Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart."

John Adams 1735-1826 2^nd US President

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Good Grief” #3 By Victor Yap EXCERPT

Psychology Today 11-12/95

Christians have to come to grip with death. They have to permit the departed to leave, the surviving to grieve, and themselves to live. Wise and reassuring words are not necessary to the grieving; your presence and prayer are usually sought. Crying for the deceased is not a cry for help or attention, but a cry of love and affection. The Bible says, “Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.¨ Psalm 30:5.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 34

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“Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.”

William Shakespeare

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 35

"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."

Cicero 106-43 BC Roman orator, statesman, philosopher & writer

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 36

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

Pierre Auguste Renoir1841-1919 French Impressionist Painter

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 37

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost 1874-1963 Famous Poet

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

¹There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven--
      ²A time to give birth and a time to die;
         A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
      ³A time to kill and a time to heal;
         A time to tear down and a time to build up.
      ⁴A time to weep and a time to laugh;
         A time to mourn and a time to dance.
      ⁵A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;
         A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
      ⁶A time to search and a time to give up as lost;
         A time to keep and a time to throw away.
      ⁷A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
         A time to be silent and a time to speak.
      ⁸A time to love and a time to hate;
         A time for war and a time for peace.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 38

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief."

Josheph Addison 1672-1719
English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

⁹Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. ¹⁰For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 39

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen, Author

HAVE SOMEONE READ: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

³⁽Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Be Grateful” POEM Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)

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"Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your way;

Be grateful for the skies of blue that smile from day to day;

Be grateful for the health you own, the work you find to do,

For round about you there are men less fortunate than you.

Be grateful for the growing trees, the roses soon to bloom,

The tenderness of kindly hearts that shared your days of gloom;

Be grateful for the morning dew, the grass beneath your feet,

The soft caresses of your babes and all their laughter sweet.

Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blest you are,

How much there is to gladden life, how little life to mar!

And what if rain shall fall today and you with grief are sad;

Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had."

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 40

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!”
Motto over the walls of a school in Germany

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Above The Circumstances”

From: Our Daily Bread 4/11/96

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Though the fig tree may not blossom, . . . yet I will rejoice in the Lord. .

Habakkuk 3:17-18

I remember a story about a woman who was very discouraged because of the many problems in her life. As she was walking down the street, she met a fellow believer who asked, "How are you doing today?"

With a sour look and a bitter shrug she replied, "Oh, not too bad--under the circumstances."

The other person quickly countered, "Well, get above the circumstances! That's where Jesus is."

The prophet Habakkuk was of the same mind. He refused to let circumstances dampen his faith or crush his hope. He looked to the future not with pessimistic fears of what else could go wrong, but with faith in God no matter what would happen. Even if he lost all his possessions, Habakkuk proclaimed that he would continue to trust the Lord to meet his needs (vv.17-19).

Our eyes are to be focused on the Lord, not on our circumstances. We are to live above the shadows of fear and bask in the sunlight of faith. Even though we, like Habakkuk, may have a long list of troubles, faith's answer to disappointment must always be: "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation" (v.18). That type of attitude will enable us to live above the circumstances instead of under them. --Henry G. Bosch

As you go along life's weary road,
let Jesus lift your heavy load.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 41

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"Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it."

Jeffrey R. Holland 1940- American church leader, PhD at Yale

HAVE SOMEONE READ: “Hailed Out”

By C. L. Paddock, Signs of the Times, January 1, 1952

A farmer with a large acreage of beautiful grain was "hailed out" before harvest time. His crop was a total loss. After the hailstorm was over, father and son walked out into the devastated fields. The boy could not keep the tears back, and he expected some violent reaction from his dad. Imagine his surprise when he heard his father begin to sing, "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee."

That son went out into the world, where he met trials and disappointments himself. Years later, looking back to the time of the hailstorm and his father's reaction, he said, "That was the most powerful sermon I've ever heard."

HAVE SOMEONE READ: Hebrews 5:8-9

"Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."

HAVE SOMEONE READ: 1 John 5:1-5
¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. ² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. ⁵ Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

HAVE SOMEONE READ: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

HAVE SOMEONE READ: QUOTE # 42