We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
-Proust
Monday, March 28, 2011
In this home...
We do second chances.
We do grace.
We do real.
We do mistakes.
We do I'm sorrys.
We do loud really well.
We do hugs.
We do family.
We do love.
"No, although there are my personal estimates, provided God paves the way for me. I mean I can only wake up in the morning and walk to the river and cast my reel."
"Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness."
“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”
"There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God."
"Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God’s goodness."
-St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
"How can we complain when He Himself was considered 'as one struck by God and afflicted'." (Isa. 53:4)
"Life is truly a constant beginning, a constant opportunity, a constant springtime. We need only to learn once again as we did as children, letting fascination and curiosity give us welcome cause for taking a second look, rather than taking for granted. Fortune, happiness, and peace of mind await those who learn to look for the miraculous hidden among the common. The unique blending of sun, soil, and seed at the springtime of seasons will provide predictable and miraculous results for those who will learn to take full and complete advantage of spring." -Jim Rohn