September 12

Let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need. — Eph 4:28

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
— Amiel.

How good is man’s life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy!
— Robert Browning.

Do something! No man is born with a mortgage on his soul; but every man is born a debtor to Time. Meet this obligation before you find too late that your life is impoverished and you cannot redeem it.
— M.B.S.

Prayer

My Father, what I have left out of my life I know I cannot recover now. I pray that I may give the best to what is left. Make me deliberate, that I may prove my earnestness. Make me industrious, that I may use my best resources to develop my life and further thy kingdom. Amen.