The longer I’ve walked with God the more I’ve realized that being thankful is vigorously celebrating what’s right in the world while anticipating that what’s wrong with it will soon follow suit.
In our darkest hours in when we must look up to our Highest Almighty God. He is calling for you to be your best self now. Nothing is holding you back. Go for it!
Hope is not some flimsy belief that things might somehow work out. Rather, hope is a belief in a God who’s already worked it out.
When we use up all our energy in keeping our inner lives above water, we have no strength left to look beyond our struggles – no strength left to love others. There is only one solution: to turn away from our anxieties, and toward Jesus and our brothers and sisters. If we do this, we will find that he is not so unmerciful that we need live in constant fear and self-circling. God is a God of love, and he gives hope and new life to all who seek him.
Why only at our great peril do we numbly walk past an outstretched hand: anyone we meet might be one of these beings upon whom and unimaginable burden rests. A burden you can ease by creating a sanctuary simply by accepting that outstretched hand in kindness and with an open heart...simply by being present.
My desire since adolescence to have a personal relationship with Jesus was coming true, and my heart beat hard with excitement.
God allows problems to disrupt our space so He can fit in!
When God gives me a plan, I don't fit my plan between His plan. I scrap my plan.
God can set my destiny, but he can't take my decisions
God will take your good, bad and ugly and create a masterpiece.
You can't make sense out of nonsense
The purest worship is to simply love -- to see the image of God in every human; to love them as they are, how they are, who they are -- without demand, without condition, without fear.
If I have faith, what I see as a wall in front of me is in reality a door that will soon be behind me.
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity, As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.
Despite how dark it might be, what is tonight but the precursor to tomorrow?
Light is somewhere at the End, to guide you not to blind you!
Maybe every now and then I need something ‘unbelievable’ to happen to help make that which is ‘believable’ a place where I start, but not a place where I stop.
If I’m only looking at an ending, I’ll assume that an ending is all that there is. And without a doubt, that kind of assumption is the beginning of the end.
I need hope in something a lot bigger than me, for if I’m as good as it gets then I’m in big trouble.
