Summer Castles...Quotes of Inspiration

Like a bird that sings bravely in the darkness, long before the dawn, so you too can be jubilant in the darkest hours-confident of my presence. Your buoyant optimism will not come from yourself...it will come from me. -excerpt from "What is the Father like" by W. Phillip Keller
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A French naturalist wrote, "I saw the other day in a butcher shop a tame eagle. Growing fat, he no longer cares for the plains of Heaven. His eye is no longer fixed on the sun but watches the fire on the hearth. The golden plumes, once stretched above the clouds, are dragged in the ashes. That royal bird in the shambles, forgetful of sun, sea and sky, is a close image of thousands of men who, debauched by the grossest pleasures of life, have forgotten the glory of God. Forgetting that they were created in the image of God, they content themselves with picking fleshly morsels out of the ashes." Excerpt from "How Shall We Escape" by Billy Graham

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For most of us we derive our necessities of life through our work. Like the birds of the fields we are commanded to go out and gather what God has already provided. It is a process of
participation in what God has already provided. Sometimes it appears it is all up to us, sometimes it appears it is all up to God. In either case we must realize that the Lord is our provider, the job is only an instrument of His provision. -Os Hillman

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Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. -C. A. Danielson

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Our feathered friends come more in focus after we have fed them. Their lives intertwine with our lives, and their world is our world...their needs are our needs... it is called HABITAT. -Richard S Drapo