HAVING PLENTY

a sketch on canvas board 

by Eva-Maria

“I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten… .  And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.”  

---The Bible, Joel 2:25, 26--

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

--William Blake--

He that loses wealth loses much:

But he that loses courage loses all.

--Cervantes—

One man with courage 
makes a majority.

--Andrew Jackson—

I’m a hell of a general when I’m winning, anybody is, but it’s when you’re not winning – and I have not always been winning … -- it is then that the real test of leadership is made.

--Field Marshal Sir William Slim--

I learned that good judgment comes from experience 

and that experience grows out of mistakes.  –Omar Bradley--

Wealth consists not of having possessions 

but in having few wants.

The sun, which has all those planets revolving around it

and dependent upon it, 

can ripen a

bunch of grapes as if 

it had nothing else 

in the world to do.

--Galileo--

At a party one guest monopolized the conversation much to the annoyance of the hostess’s elderly mother.  The guest talked about his military experience, and that once

He lived for a week ON one can of sardines.  The frustrated woman asked, “Really!  Weren’t you afraid of falling off?”

Pray to God for a good harvest, but don’t quit hoeing.

Eva-Maria checking out a blooming cactus

--Proverb--

The Lord thy God in the midst of you is mighty.

--The Bible, Zephaniah 3:17-17--