Daily Encouragement For June 04:

Brighten Your Corner

We cannot all be famous or be listed in "Who's Who",
But every person, great or small, has important work to do.

For seldom do we realize the importance of small deeds,
Or to what degree of greatness unnoticed kindness leads.

For it's not the big celebrity in a world of fame and praise,
But it's doing unpretentiously in an undistinguished way.

The work that God assigned to us, unimportant as it seems,
That makes our task outstanding, and brings reality to dreams.

So do not sit and idly wish for wider, new dimensions
where you can put into practice, your many good intentions.

But at the spot God placed you begin at once to do,
Little things to brighten up the lives surrounding you.

If everybody brightened up the spot where their standing,
By being more considerate, and a little less demanding.

This dark old world would very soon eclipse the evening star,
If everybody brightened up the corner where they are!

By Helen Steiner Rice

“Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day:
we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not
sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that
sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in
the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the b
reastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5-8.