"You have been called"

Tony Snow asks some questions that are worth considering this side of "Paradise" (interesting word... not exactly what I'd always considered it to be according to it's original scriptural text meaning!!!)...May we each one consider "life" and what we truly BELIEVE...
and in that definition ask ourselves...
"is what I am doing betraying what I believe?"
After reading the complete writing of T. Snow, I thought it appropriate to put these final questions of his in this place.....
as I fwd. many of you the entire writing,
I offer only this final part here.... (hoping that this truly is from the heart of TS... but worthy none the less..better check on the SNOPES report huh?http://www.snopes.com/glurge/tonysnow.asp)
I thank Mr. Snow for his candidness in leaving this word legacy for me...
Ya'll be blessed as you consider and then revel in this life we've been given for today...

..."Through such trials, God bids us to choose:
Do we believe, or do we not?
Will we be bold enough to love,daring enough to serve,
humble enough to submit,
and strong enough
to acknowledge our limitations?
Can we surrender our concern in things that don't matter
so that we might devote our remaining days to things that do?
When our faith flags, He throws reminders in our way.
Think of the prayer warriors in our midst.
They change things,
and those of us who have been on the receiving end
of their petitions and intercessions
know it.
It is hard to describe, but there are times
when suddenly the hairs on the back of your neck stand up,
and you feel a surge of the Spirit.
Somehow you just know:
Others have chosen,
when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up,
- to speak of us!
This is love of a very special order.
But so is the ability to sit back and appreciate the wonder of every created thing.
The mere thought of death somehow makes every blessing vivid,
every happiness more luminous and intense.
We may not know how our contest with sickness will end,
but we have felt the ineluctable touch of God.
What is man that Thou are mindful of him?
We don't know much, but we know this:
No matter where we are,
no matter what we do,
no matter how bleak or frightening our prospects,
each and every one of us who believe each and every day,
lies in the same safe and impregnable place,
in the hollow of God's hand."
'T. Snow