[Faith-talk] Good Night Message for Monday, July 9 2012

[Paul]

Hello and good evening to you all, ladies and gentlemen, children of our heavenly King-Father and saints of the Most High God residing in North America.  For the rest of you, I hope that your day or morning are going well.  How was your day today? Mine was good, especially in our senior citizens center activities.  Won't be going with them tomorrow, as twelve of their members are going to a casino to gamble.  Not wishing to be part of that, I'd rather stay home and spend the day with a number of my favorite lassies and laddies, that includes you, individually and collectively.

Evans J. Manley of Macon Georgia contributed the following poem to a back issue of Christian Record Talking Magazine.  Entitled "Enfolded," I think you'll like his sentiments about what appears to be his total trust in his Lord.  It is rendered as follows:

As sheep lie down contentedly
Well-fed on lush green pasture land,
So I, dear Shepherd, at Thy hand
Find bliss within love's panoply.

No lack of good I ever see;
Thy love leads me by limpid streams of life
Where shines a light whose beams reveal Thy righteous paths to me.

I need not fear grim vale of gloom,
For God is my eternal life.
My foes perceive, despite their strife
A tabled feast within my room.

Unceasingly, through all my days,
Enfolded, conscious of Thy power,
I'll sing Thy praises in Thy bower,
Thy mercies shepherd me always.

And there you have it by Brother Manley.  I would suppose that none of you, even those residing in Georgia, have ever heard of him, unless of course you're old enough or fortunate enough to have back issues of the Christian Record Talking Magazine.

And now may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just keep us safe, individually and collectively, throughout this night and in the last evil days in which we live.  Your Christian friend and brother, Paul