Michael Malone - Weebly

that's my fourth point. Kindness and kinship. If
someone, our parent or child or friend or whoever, asks
any one of us for bread, will we give him a stone? Or if
fish, will we give him a serpent? Let's remember to ask,
'How much more shall your Heavenly Father give?'
And if we can listen so happily to a song—I know
at least personally I love to sing, though I've been told I
can't carry a tune at all—then perhaps what sounds like
babble to us sounds to God with His great universal
ears like sublimest music! My friends, it is not the letters
or the language of the words, but their spirit.
"Trust in the spirit of the words no matter if they
make no sense.
In the Pennsylvania town where my mother grew
up, a church minister kept calling for God to strike with
lightning an apparently (I was too young to know myself
one way or the other) salacious and evil beer hall that
was too great a temptation to the poor thirsty miners.
And lightning did strike it, and there it was burned to
ashes.
And the beer hall owner hired a lawyer, and he
sued the minister.