Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.<\/p>\n
A.A. Milne, closing lines of Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i><\/p>\n
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real living of life with the feeling of freedom and self-expression. Play is the business of childhood, and its continuation in later years is the prolongation of youth.<\/p>\n
Walter Rauschenbach<\/i><\/p>\n
Pleasing God<\/b><\/p>\n
1. You will be most careful to understand the Scripture, to know what doth please and displease God.<\/p>\n
2. You will be more careful in the doing of every duty, to fit it to the pleasing of God than men.<\/p>\n
3. You will look to your hearts, and not only to your actions; to your ends, and thoughts, and the inward manner and degree.<\/p>\n
4. You will look to secret duties as well as public and to that which men see not, as well as unto that which they see.<\/p>\n
5. You will reverence your consciences, and have much to do with them, and will not slight them: when they tell you of God\u2019s displeasure, it will disquiet you; when they tell you of his approval, it will comfort you.<\/p>\n
6. Your pleasing men will be charitable for their good, and pious in order to the pleasing of God, and not proud and ambitious for your honor with them, nor impious against the pleasing of God.<\/p>\n
7. Whether men be pleased or displeased, or how they judge of you, or what they call you, will seem a small matter to you, as their own interest, in comparison to God\u2019s judgment. You live not on them. You can bear their displeasure, censures, and reproaches, if God be but pleased. These will be your evidences.<\/p>\n
Richard Baxter<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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