If you’re unwilling to risk your reputation, you’ll never
build the boat like Noah or get out of the boat like Peter. You cannot build
God’s reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.
If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.
if every little girl in the world would hear this when growing up it would make the greatest difference in their life. this coming from a woman who heard so much negative comments i growing up. some parents, unfortunately, don't know any better, and with their words, curse their daughters to futures of low self-esteem and possibly self-loathing.
have you been a victim of such word abuse?
you know if one thing i learn in these years of life, is that you have a choice of how you react to things and you have a choice as to how you let something cling to you.
you don't have to still hold on to those thoughts or those words that brought you down.
you don't have to feel inferior. you are who you are and you are important.
you don't have to regret that years that you thought wrong, but start from fresh today and you will feel like all those years were not wasted but rather part of the plan.
today is the beginning of the season of blooming flowers and some rain showers.
let your spirit and soul bloom into the beauty that it was meant to enjoy. the true beauty that it was meant to express.
let the words of Abilene stay with you and never leave you:
"you is kind, you is smart, you is important"
you are what you say (declare with your mouth) and what you believe you are (what you think & let others make you think)
and most importantly never forget you are worth the blood of Christ
“Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct from "being in love" — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God... "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
A popular slogan says, "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." I see the phrase everywhere, on everything from T-shirts to pieces of art. It's a catchy phrase, but I think it's misleading.
If we measure life by breathtaking moments, we miss the wonder of ordinary moments. Eatin, sleeping, and breathing seem "ordinary" in that we do them every day, usually without much thought. But they are not ordinary at all. Every bite and every breath are miracles. In fact, having breath is more miraculous than anything that takes our breath away.
King Solomon may have had more breathtaking moments than anyone. He said, "I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure" (Eccl. 2:10). But he expressed cynicism about it saying, "All of it meaningless" (v.17 NIV).
Solomon's life reminds us that it's important to find joy in "ordinary" things, for they are indeed wonderful. Bigger is not always better. More is not always an improvement. Busier doesn't make us more important.
Rather than look for meaning in breathtaking moments, we should find meaning in every breath we take, and make every breath meaningful.
“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.” Jonathan Safran Foer
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Saturday, September 24, 2011
I feel as if my skin is the only thing keeping me from going everywhere at once.
