Trinity United Methodist Church
3430 Harrison Avenue / Beaumont, Texas 77706
409-892-8121 / www.trinityumcbeaumont.org
Mission Statement:
“Know God. Be Transformed. Love.”
A Month of Meditations
for
October 2015
Friday, October 2
Let us not get tired of doing what is right,
for after a while
we will reap a harvest of blessing
if we don’t get discouraged and give up.
Galatians 6:9
Saturday, October 3
Launch out in reckless belief
that the redemption is complete,
and then bother no more
Hebrews 10:23-25
about yourself,
Friday, October 9
When I called, You answered me.
You made me bold, and stouthearted.
but begin to do as Jesus said:
Pray.
Gumption
Origin: Scottish, early 1700’s
Definition:
Shrewd or spirited initiative;
resourcefulness;
ingenuity; imagination,
pluck, mettle, courage, nerve.
Thursday, October 1
“And if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve
the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom
you will serve: whether the gods which your
fathers served which were beyond the River,
or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you
are living; but as for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua to the people Israel, Joshua 24:15
Psalm 138:3
Oswald Chambers
Sunday, October 4
To clasp the hands in prayer
is the beginning of an uprising
against the disorder of the world.
Monday, October 5
Gumption may be hidden,
but it always shows.
Thursday, October 8
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
without wavering,
for He who promised is faithful;
and let us consider how to stimulate one
another to love and good deeds,
not forsaking our assembling together,
as is the habit of some,
but encouraging one another;
and all the more,
as you see the day is drawing near.
Karl Barth
Charles R. Swindoll
Saturday, October 10
I shall not die, but live,
and tell of the works of the Lord …
This is the day the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Sunday, October 11
Our lives begin to end
the day we become silent
about things that matter.
Psalm 118:17, 24
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday, October 6
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
Monday, October 12
The planet does not need more “successful
people”. The planet desperately needs more
peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers
and lovers of all kinds.
Wednesday, October 7
The note struck in Hebrews 10
is that of provoking one another
and of keeping together.
Tuesday, October 13
The writer writes
by trying to find out what it is he is writing.
The act of writing scans what is in you—
your passions and convictions.
Henry David Thoreau
Oswald Chambers
Unknown
E.L. Doctorow
Wednesday, October 14
And if you extract the precious from the
worthless, you will become My spokesman.
Jeremiah 15:19
Thursday, October 15
The point is to become you.
To use all your skills, gifts and energy
in order to make your vision manifest.
You must withhold nothing.
You must become
the person you started out to be
and enjoy the process of becoming.
Warren Bemis
Friday, October 16
The dog that trots about finds the bone.
George Gurdjieff
Saturday, October 17
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a
merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who,
when he had found one pearl of great price,
went and sold all that he had and bought it.”
Wednesday, October 21
Over the years I have learned
that “cleaning up one’s act” may be far less
important than consecrating one’s life.
It may be possible to use everything.
A ruthless man may be able to open doors that
a more kindly and traditionally spiritual person
could knock on forever. Without judgment,
many things can be made holy.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Thursday, October 22
Expectant living is not just wishful thinking; it is
the alertness that makes us sensitive to little
rays of beauty and to opportunities that can be
turned to someone’s good … Rising by the lift
of those who hope, society has outlasted its
prophets of doom … We praise Thee, O God,
for having put hope within reach of all. Give us
wisdom to grasp this gift with firmness until we
live by eternal promises and therefore
expectantly. We pray in the name of Jesus
Christ, who, through hope, made life victorious.
Marvin L. Cole
Jesus, as recorded in Matthew 13:45-46
Sunday, October 18
Religious experience is a response of the
whole person to what is perceived as ultimate,
characterized by a peculiar intensity
and issuing in appropriate action.
Luke Timothy Johnson
Monday, October 19
“And the seed in the good soil,
these are the ones who have heard the word
in an honest and good heart,
and hold it fast,
and bear fruit through perseverance.”
Jesus, as recorded in Luke 8:15
Tuesday, October 20
But you, be strong and do not lose courage,
for there is reward for your work.
2 Chronicles 15:7
Friday, October 23
Nothing influences the quality of your life
more than the trouble that comes to you
and what you do with it.
Bill Kerley
Saturday, October 24
Fight inertia. Do not let it win!
Melissa Bech Spell
Sunday, October 25
God will not bring every thought and
imagination into captivity; we have to do it.
Do not say—O Lord, I suffer from wandering
thoughts. Don’t suffer from wandering thoughts.
Stop listening to the tyranny of individuality
and get emancipated out into personality.
Oswald Chambers
Monday, October 26
There is continual testing in the life of faith …
May God keep us in fighting trim!
Faith is unutterable trust in God,
trust which never dreams
that He will not stand by us.
Oswald Chambers
Tuesday, October 27
Call on God,
but row away from the rocks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, October 28
If you lose yourself in your work,
you find who you are.
If you express the best you have in you
in your work,
it is more than just the best you have in you
that you are expressing.
Frederick Buechner
Thursday, October 29
Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time forth and forever.
From the rising of the sun to its setting
the name of the Lord is to be praised.
Psalm 113:2-3
Friday, October 30
Surely,
even if we sang a hymn with new imagery
every day for the rest of eternity,
we could not exhaust the many facets
of the One who is the very Source
of all our creative imaginings!
Mary Louise “Mel” Bingle, hymn writer
Saturday, October 31
My fingers
Emit sparks of fire with
Expectation of my future labors.
William Blake
November 1, Commitment Sunday