by Pat Nordman

I love the old writers and the old ways. Paint me stubborn and reactionary but I personally feel that if it worked for my grandparents and their grandparents, then it will work for us today. One of my dreams is to meet in heaven these great people who helped set our course in life and who sacrificed time and even life so we might better understand what life is all about.

William Booth (1829-1912) left an established church to become an evangelist to the poor. He eventually founded the Salvation Army because the churches would not accept his slum converts. Because of his work with the poor and downcast, General Booth eventually formulated rules for Christian living:

1) Consider your body as the temple of the Holy Spirit and treat it with reverence and care.

2) Keep your mind active. Stimulate it with thoughts of others that lead to doing something.

3) Take time to be holy with daily Bible reading and prayer.

4) Support the church of your faith.

5) Cultivate the presence of God. He wants to enter your life and will as far as you let him.

6) Take God into the details of your life. You naturally call upon him in trouble and for the bigger things.

7) Pray for this troubled world and the leaders who hold the destinies of the varied nations.

8) Have a thankful spirit for the blessings of God: country, home, friends, and numerous other blessings.

9) Work as if everything depended upon work, and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

10) Think of death not as something to be dreaded, but as a great and new experience where loved ones are met and ambitions realized.

They all sound good to me!

Pat Nordman