Recipe, poem, and verse

Recipe for Peaceful Living

Take:

all that Happens
what Everyone says and does

Mix well with:

the Promises of God

Cover with Trusting Prayer and give it all over to Jesus (He will bake it in Heaven’s Oven). When Troubles come, talk to Him right away and He will serve you His Perfect Peace.

Five Little Pebbles

S. J. B. Carter

Five little pebbles lay in a brook,
Five little pebbles hid in a nook.
“What are we good for?” one said to the other.
“Little or nothing, I’m thinking, my brother.”
Wearing away, day after day,
It seemed that forever those pebbles might stay.

If they were flowers, ever so gay,
Doubtless someone would take them away;
Or if they were big stones that builders could use,
Perhaps then some builder those stones would choose.

Wait, little pebbles, rounded and clean,
Long in your loneliness, lying unseen;
God has a future a-waiting for you,
Five little pebbles, sturdy and true.

Five little pebbles hid in a brook,
David came down and gave then a look,
Picked them up carefully out of the sand;
Five little pebbles great in his hand.

“Hark”; there is shouting, there’s fighting today,
Boldly these pebbles are borne to the fray;
One of them chosen and put in a sling—
Could we have thought that a stone could thus wing?

Onward it sped, with a might not its own,
Onward it sped, by the shepherd boy thrown;
Swift as an arrow, straight as a dart,
For the whole nation that stone played its part.
Striking the giant’s great terrible head,
Laying him low—a mighty man dead.

Five little pebbles lay in a brook,
Mentioned with honor in God’s Holy Book.
Be thou a pebble, contented and low,
Ever kept clean by His mercy’s pure flow,
Hidden and ready till Jesus shall look,
And choose you, and use you—a stone from the brook.

A verse to hide in your heart:

“I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”* (Psalm 91:2)