I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we’re expecting them and oftentimes when we’re not even paying attention.
Michael, I think we need to break up.” If.
What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.
Their relationship was as one-sided as a pizza.
It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we’re worried about something else happening.
The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else’s.
Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.
Unfortunately, large cities don’t have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.
I can’t use these things,” McKenna said, setting down her chopsticks. “Can I have a fork?” Ben’s brow furrowed. “But you are Chinese.” “Only my genes,” McKenna said. Ben looked at her pants. “Your jeans are from China?” McKenna shook her head. “Never mind.
We always assume that there’s tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that’s why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.
It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. –.
I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don’t see this as a good thing”.
Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison.” – Charles James.
There are none so impoverished as those who deny the blessings of their lives.
Yes, she’s fine. She’s rereading one of your books. There’s not many authors she likes, so if there’s nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.
Maybe that’s why I’ve always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist – one who uses our hopes, fears, and dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He’s up to.
We chain ourselves to those we don’t forgive.
Sometimes, it’s only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.
All that’s required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.