The Ottoman Society A Fine Furniture Consignment Shop
We invite you to a unique buying and selling experience in our newly remodeled store– more space, more exceptional consignment items and, now, Monday hours. Jill Wightman & Jennifer Morales
13408 Watertown Plank Road Elm Grove, WI (Located behind Great Harvest Bread) ____________________
262-786-1786 Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10-5 pm.
Thursdays, 10-7pm.
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b y G e r t r u d e M . Pu e l i c h e r
IS THE TURMOIL of the outside world
effort to keep our mind on “thee,” the
proving destructive to your peace of mind?
presence and power of the Father within.
Do you long to retreat to some quiet spot
Surely thousands of distraught souls have
where the low key, high key, or off-key pre-
found comfort in that promise.
election promises of presidential candidates
Again, Isaiah expects us to turn away
can’t irritate you, where the tragic plight of
from the disturbing external picture, to turn
warring nations can’t disturb you, where the
to trust in God and believe “in quietness and
crime brought so vividly into your living
in confidence shall be your strength.”
room by television can’t frighten you?
If we would find peace and happiness
Are the members of your family at
in our households, must we not completely
constant odds over seemingly insignificant
surrender belief in outside powers, and sit
incidents? Do you wonder how to bring
quietly in the realization that all power is
peace and happiness into your household
in the presence of the Father within? Must
despite the nervous strain of today’s
we not remember “they that wait upon the
unnatural pace?
Lord shall renew their strength; they shall
There is an answer if you choose to
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
make the effort. It is to recognize consciously
run and not be weary; and they shall walk,
each morning when you awake that right
and not faint?”
where you are is God, and not only that,
There is comfort in the knowledge that
but right at this moment and for all the
“the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it
moments of the day, the Presence and Power
cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it
of God, that one Infinite Consciousness, are
cannot hear.” What is required of us is that
filling your household.
we relax in a certainty that nothing can
Remember, there were others who
separate us from the Father within and that
made promises thousands of years ago,
these comforting promises of Isaiah can
promises that can really take us into the
become truth to us. We take them into our
promised land. The great prophet Isaiah,
consciousness, and gradually we are able to
in an inspiring song of thanksgiving, tells
bring back into our experience the peace and
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us: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
love that had eluded us. Let us never forget
whose mind is stayed on thee: because he
that all power is in God and our at-oneness
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trusteth in thee.” The promise, however,
with Him. And that truth governs not only
makes its own demand of us—a conscious
our households but our nation as well. n
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