February Twenty-Fifteen

Arise, shine, for your light has come…. Isaiah 60:1

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou 

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. 

–Wilma Rudolph

All things are possible. When I was a girl, the miraculous happened every day. Or every other day. Or every third day. Actually, sometimes it did not happen at all, even on the third day. But still, we expected it. You see what I'm saying? Even when it didn't happen, we were expecting it. We knew the miraculous would come. 

― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

God isn’t asking us to earn His love.

He’s simply asking us to turn towards His love.

-Ann Voskamp

“I promise to always turn back toward you..." 

― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Whether you seek to run a marathon, climb a mountain, be an accomplished musician or revel in the joy of an intimate loving relationship … it will require a daily dose of intentional thought and action. This is what makes loving a spiritual practice. Daily loving intention … the art of appreciating and sustaining joy.

http://blog.tinaschermersellers.com/2011/07/05/when-love-is-a-breathtaking-vista/

 

 Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it. –Brennan Manning

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

 - Howard Thurman

 Unfortunately, the Lenten season often gets reduced to the question, “What are you giving up for Lent?” This is a fine question, but it can only take us so far. The real question of the Lenten season is, “How will I repent and return to God with all my heart?” -Ruth Haley Barton

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Desmond Tutu

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. 

- Helen Keller

 

We all underestimate our need for joy. If we are not careful, we live as if our schedules are our lives. We cross one thing after another off the list. At the end of the day, we have completed our chores, but we haven’t necessarily been present for our own experiences. -Mary Pipher

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