Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
[Blog Author's Note: The thoughts that follow come from the book of Job, but they are not the usual lessons others have gleaned from this book.]
April 23, 2002
Lessons from Job: The really significant issues of a man's life are those that are beyond the view of other men. These are the things that God observes, and He Himself keeps them close to His own secret thoughts, all the while engaging Himself with others in other matters of heavenly business and activity. Since the secret thoughts of a man are the real measure of a man, we may, with some security, assume that God's secret thoughts are those that reveal who He is also.
If a person chooses to disclose to another the thoughts that he has to himself, that other person is in a privileged place of honor; and the more honorable the person is who tells his secret motivations, the greater the privilege of the person listing to his words...and not merely the privilege of being on the inner circle of a noble person, but one could not help but realized that he is considered to be able to appreciate and sympathize with the thoughts of that person. Who is man that God should open up His heart to him and want man to know Him as the angels never could?
Note Card: Beauty, Tranquility, Happiness
[Blog Author's Note: Happy Valentine's Day, Mom.]
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
December, 2006
Thinking of Connie and what she has done, and of how she has fulfilled the model role of a woman in her life...
She took whatever I could get and transformed it into beauty and tranquility and happiness. She strives to do that with everything she touches for everyone. She deserves much better than anything I could get for her.
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
December, 2006
Thinking of Connie and what she has done, and of how she has fulfilled the model role of a woman in her life...
She took whatever I could get and transformed it into beauty and tranquility and happiness. She strives to do that with everything she touches for everyone. She deserves much better than anything I could get for her.
Note Card: On Understanding Women
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
December, 2006
For a man to say he does not understand women is not true. Part of it is that he is not willing to understand them or that he has not tried to understand them.
Perhaps the reverse is true, that women do not understand men. But...women, being relational beings, try to understand men and often are successful.
December, 2006
For a man to say he does not understand women is not true. Part of it is that he is not willing to understand them or that he has not tried to understand them.
Perhaps the reverse is true, that women do not understand men. But...women, being relational beings, try to understand men and often are successful.
Note Card: The Jig is Up
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
[Blog Author's Note: When my father wrote this, he had 3208 days to get his house in order.]
August 21, 2002
I am beginning to understand why my mental outlook is changing in this last period of my life. Truly God has so arranged life that a man would be increasingly chuted into a pondering of who he is before the eyes of God. The whole experience often brings tears to my eyes. The jig is up, so to speak. Get thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live. I have a lot of "getting in order" to do.
[Blog Author's Note: When my father wrote this, he had 3208 days to get his house in order.]
August 21, 2002
I am beginning to understand why my mental outlook is changing in this last period of my life. Truly God has so arranged life that a man would be increasingly chuted into a pondering of who he is before the eyes of God. The whole experience often brings tears to my eyes. The jig is up, so to speak. Get thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live. I have a lot of "getting in order" to do.
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