{"id":1062,"date":"2018-05-31T05:21:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T05:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossingthecreek.com\/?page_id=1062"},"modified":"2018-10-02T06:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T06:07:34","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crossingthecreek.com\/index.php\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527826308941{margin-top: -100px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1531268505994{background-image: url(http:\/\/www.crossingthecreek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/banner-new.jpg?id=843) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”200″][vc_custom_heading text=”Crossing the Creek” font_container=”tag:h6|font_size:80|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Delius%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_empty_space height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527128577361{background-color: #3d607a !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1527151490197{margin-top: -10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Reflections” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css_animation=”slideInLeft” css=”.vc_custom_1531285413219{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527477238731{background-color: #43a332 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1527371291089{background-color: #43a332 !important;}”][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460362986{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;}”]\n
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“I know now, Lord, why you do not answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face, questions die away. What other answer would suffice?” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” Abraham Lincoln<\/strong><\/p<\/p>\n

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“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.\u201d C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527200820083{background-color: #3d607a !important;}”][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460376401{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;}”]\n

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Who gathered this flower?\u2019 The gardener answered, \u2018The Master.\u2019 And his fellow servant held his peace.” Author Unknown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God\u2019s arms like a little child, and trust.” Hudson Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527203407363{background-color: #43a332 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460387713{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;}”]\n

“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Who gathered this flower?\u2019 The gardener answered, \u2018The Master.\u2019 And his fellow servant held his peace.” Author Unknown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God\u2019s arms like a little child, and trust.” Hudson Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527129114677{background-color: #3d607a !important;}”][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460400666{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;}”]\n

“It is a precious thing beyond all words \u2013 especially in the hour of death \u2013 that we have a God whose nature is such that what pleases Him is not our work for Him but our need for Him.”<\/p>\n

John Piper<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.” Martin Luther<\/strong><\/p>\n

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” William Penn<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.” Edward Young<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527203407363{background-color: #43a332 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460410591{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -25px !important;}”]\n

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” Blaise Pasca<\/strong>l<\/p>\n

“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.” Hudson Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, \u2018How many good things have you done in your life?\u2019 rather he will ask, \u2018How much love did you put into what you did?” Mother Teresa<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527129114677{background-color: #3d607a !important;}”][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460425078{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;}”]\n

“So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.” Ps 90:12 (NASB Bible)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” Blaise Pascal<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527203407363{background-color: #43a332 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460435454{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;}”]\n

“Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life\u2019s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” Steve Jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.” Hudson Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?” Mother Teresa<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1527834332586{margin-bottom: -100px !important;background-color: #3d607a !important;}”][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”” h2_font_container=”font_size:30″ h2_google_fonts=”font_family:Questrial%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” shape=”square” style=”flat” color=”white” use_custom_fonts_h2=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1538460446997{margin-top: -70px !important;margin-bottom: -50px !important;}”]\n

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Roman 8:38,39<\/strong><\/p>\n

“To fear death, is to misunderstand life.” Unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” George S. Patton<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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