| Beautiful Flowers
Beautiful flowers grow in the valley
Everyone knows it is true,
Watered by tears, painted by smiles
Beautiful in various hues.
Down in the valley
Refreshing streams
Give courage and strength
To face broken dreams.
What a wondrous thing
When we feel downcast
To know troubles are fleeting,
They cannot last.
So, we walk along
This pilgrim way
Wanting mountains of joy
With the sun's bright rays,
But the flowers in the valley
Are a wondrous sight
Put there by God,
Such a delight!
God always puts just the right person
or just the right event to help us
through any valley in life.
-Katherine Mattoon, friend of Robin Gray RN ;) | Footprints in the Sand
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the
Lord.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,
other times there was one only.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life,
when I was suffering from anguish,
sorrow or defeat,
I could see only one set of footprints,
so I said to the Lord,
“ You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you,
you would walk with me always.
But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life
there has only been one set of footprints in the sand.
Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”
The Lord replied,
“ The years when you have seen only one set of footprints,
my child, is when I carried you.”
Mary Stevenson 
Encouraging Scripture Verses
TRUST in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.
Proverbs
3, 5-6
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee, Lord. Psalms 56:3
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7
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