Sunday's sermon was on the 'life in all its fulness' saying of Jesus... it seeemd to go well, covering much familiar ground, such as 'fulness' is qualitative not quantitative, and I suppose my 'angle' was to paraphrase 'life in its fulness' as being 'fully alive'.  I used three quotations in the sermon - one from Viktor Frankl, one from Annie Johnson Flint and one from St Irenaeus.  Here they are....

Life in all its Fullness

“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.”

Viktor Frankl

What God Hath Promised

God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;
God hath not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.

God hath not promised we shall not know
Toil and temptation, trouble and woe;
He hath not told us we shall not bear
many a burden, many a care.

God hath not promised smooth roads and wide,
Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;
Never a mountain rocky and steep,
Never a river turbid and deep

But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love

Annie Johnson Flint

"The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God."

St Irenaeus