I
often want to say to people, ‘you have neat, tight expectations of what life
ought to give you, but you won’t get it. That isn’t what life does. Life does
not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it
better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.’
But some wouldn’t hear, and some would shatter themselves on principle.
-Florida Scott-Maxwell The Measure of My Days
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parenting….is
not a technique to master, but a day-by-day trek toward greater patience,
deeper love, and gutsier faith. - Sarah
Dunning Park
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Superbowl Spirit in Seattle
I've
shared this quote before,
but
it bears repeating as it rings more true to me each day...
“Be
kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle”
-J.M. Barrie
Life will have its demands, it will sing its
underbelly, it will disappoint, and we will fall short … AND life will bless,
kiss, nourish, create and surprise us.
Both will happen … both will happen each
and every day. But only we have the capacity to
decide which story of our day … of our life … we want to soak in.
Today … and hopefully tomorrow too … I want to soak
in the story of love.
Think
of ways to encourage one another in outbursts of love and good deeds.
1
Thessalonians 5:24
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of
the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window,
and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story. - Shauna Niequist
We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has
established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would
be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it? -Don Miller
sweet reunion with Pastor Samwell Kaaleng here in the USA http://celebrate-2day.blogspot.com/2014/02/worth-every-mile.html
You're going to have wilderness experiences. The world is a wilderness. Life is a wilderness to a great degree. There are drier places than others. But in the wilderness, God gives you provision. Even in the worst circumstances, there can be places of sweetness and growth and sustenance.....He treats you as His child and will care for you through the wilderness.
–Tim Keller
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with God. God walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labor is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake.- C. S. Lewis
Earth's
crammed with heaven,
And
every common bush afire with God;
But
only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The
rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
And
daub their natural faces unaware.
-
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
a few posts to share from the past month:
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