IT SEEMS TO BE TRUE

"It's usually through our hard times,

the unexpected and not -according-to-plan times

that we experience God in more intimate ways.

We discover an unquenchable longing to know Him more.

It's a passion that isn't concerned that life fall within certain predictable lines,

but a passion that pursues God and knows He is relentless in His pursuit of each one of us."

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CAUSE AND EFFECT

"What happens when we live God's way?

He brings gifts into our lives,

much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard--

things like affection for others,

exuberance about life,

serenity.

We develop a willingness to stick with things,

a sense of compassion in the heart,

and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people."

Galations 5:22-23 The Message

TO BE KNOWN

"God reads the secrets of the heart.

God reads its most initmate feelings,

even those which we are not aware of."

Jean-Nicholas Grou

TOO GOOD TO MISS

"From now on, I am going to grab the good times with both arms.

I am going to walk outside and feel the sun on my face and learn to laugh, really laugh again.

Most of all, I'm going to take the love that comes my way
and hold on to it for dear life.

Sometimes we don't need new scenery, just new eyes."

Dawn Miller

NOWHERE ELSE

"God cannot give us

a happiness and peace

apart from Himself,

because it is not there.

There is no such thing."

C. S. Lewis

THERE IS A PLAN

"God possesses infinite knowledge

and an awareness which is uniquely His.

At all times,

even in the midst of any type of suffering,

I can realize that He knows, loves, watches,

understands, and more than that,

He has a purpose."

Billy Graham

ONE OF MOM'S FAVORITE VERSES.

"Those who wait upon the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will rise up on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not faint"

Isiah 40:31

She did indeed draw strength from it's truth.

WHOSOEVER

"The direct experience of God

is grace indeed,

and basically

there is no one to whom it is refused."

Ignatius of Loyola

LIVING WATER

"The overflowing life does not just happen.

It is only as our own deep thirst is quenched,

only as we are filled ourselves,

that we can be channels

through which His overflow reaches other lives."

Grace Stricker Dawson

OPEN OUR EYES, LORD

"People see God every day.

They just don't recognize Him."

Pearl Bailey

THE GREATEST LOVE

"God loves and cares for us,

even to the least event and

smallest need of life."

Henry Edward Manning

Love is lived out in "caring"
"Caring" is lived out in word and deed"

"For God so loved the world that He gave....."

Happy Valentines Day!

THE REASON WHY

"He made you so you could

share in His creation,

could love and laugh and know Him."

Ted Griffen

ALL

"An infinite God can give all of Himself

to each of His children.

He does not distribute Himself that

each may have a part,

but to each one He gives all of Himself

as fully as if there were no others."

A. W. Tozer

WORTH REPEATING

Previously postd last July
Still one of my favorites

"The greatest honor we can give God

is to live gladly because of the knowledge

of His love."

Julian of Norwich

I wish for you a day filled with gladness.

THE ART OF BEING REAL

"Be content with who you are,

and don't put on airs.

God's strong hand is on you;

he'll promote you at the right time.

Live carefree before God;

he is most careful with you."

1 Peter 5: 6-7 The Message

ASSURANCE

"It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want

but the experience of God's presence.

That is the miracle we are really after,

and that is also, I think,

the miracle that we really get."

Frederick Buechner

Brrrrrr...

This little birdie outside my front
window has puffed up his feathers
as a defense against the cold winds.
He is about to hop over to the critter tree
to get a bite of peanut butter.
"Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters.

Patience is the red carpet upon
which God's grace approaches us."

Max Lucado 

NEVER ALONE

"We have been in God's thought from all eternity,

and in His creative love.

His attention never leaves us."

Michael Quoist

REALITY

"Nay, seek not under February's snows

for summer's crimson rose;

Her petals frail and fair

Were long since scattered on the perfumed air.

Content thee now with frost and hoary rime;

There are no roses in the winter time."

A. L. S. 

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"God is infinite in His simplicity

and simple in His infinity.
Therefore He is everywhere and is everywhere complete.

He is everywhere on account of His infinity,

and is everywhere complete

on account of His simplicity."

Meister Eckhart