I was going to write something more solid with my thoughts interspersed but right now it may just be more effective if you read the things I’ve been seeing, hearing and dreaming:

“Jesus Bring the Rain”

Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You Jesus, bring the rain

I am yours regardless of the clouds that may loom above because you are much greater than my pain you who made a way for me suffering your destiny so tell me whats a little rain
~Mercy Me

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“Like most prayerful people, Elvis had begun his life by thinking of prayer as a little speech that one made to God: generally a want-list with a few worship elements through in for good measure. Then he had begun to understand that prayer was a dialogue, in which listening was as important as speaking one’s mind. Still later, once he had arrived at that point, he had come to understand that, as God knew what was on his mind anyhow, it was the listening that was most important. And these days, unless he was voicing a special supplication or a request someone else had made, Elvis rarely used words at all when he prayed. Rather, he just opened his heart and asked God to fill it. And generally he came away calm and comforted and soothed, like a child who has just spent an hour or so in the security of his loving father’s arms.”

Yucatan Deep (p. 280) Tom Morrisley

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“You know why you are having problems, you aren’t spending time in the Word.” (dream)

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“This is effecting every relationship that you have and until you deal with it, it will continue to do so.” (conversation)


How we feel on the inside has an extreme impact on not only us, but also all others around us, even when we think we are covering pretty well.

God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.

“This is my commandment that you love one another, that your joy be made full”

God's Word is faith food.

The more you read it, speak it, andhear it, the stronger your faith will grow.

Ponder that awhile... What does your faith diet consist of? Are you about to starve? What's that old saying... "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". Sad isn't it.

Happy

No I cannot count the ways you have made my life so blessed

All I know is that you came and made beauty of my mess

"Happy" Aiyesha Woods

Down and out?

"I am convinced that He has a funny habit of using us more during our vulnerable times-or maybe that's when we pay attention more. No to-do lists to distract us from seeing. No other "important" things to get to. Makes me wonder how many opportunities we miss the rest of the time."

Mary K.

Snowflake

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it's too late.

~Marie Beynon

A few of my favorite MADE UP words!

Splendiforous

Skeedaddle (that might be a word actually)

Fantabulous

Absastinkinlutely

Funnily

Sissin' (it's a sound)

Enlightening Quotes:

"Well, color me surprised" ~Me

"Heavenly days!" Peggy (or Grandma as I fondly refer to her)

"In all my glory!" Doris (or Grandma as I fondly refer to her)

"Slicker than snot on a doorknob" ~unknown

"I am not BLONDE." Alaina, Jess and Susan

"My pen threw up on me." Susan

"Somebody got their ticklebox turned over." Susan

Wooly Worm

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. Whenyou slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. -Isaac Bashevis Singer,Writer, Nobel laureate (1904-1991)

I read the first half and thought about how each thing God creates truly reflects who he is. I don't know who this Isaac Bashevis is and quite honestly if we were to take him literally from this singular quote then I would have to say that he didn't believe in God or he was sure we as human beings could destroy God altogether. Honestly, the slaughter part wasn't my focus..... Although I believe the senseless killing of God's creation causes God sadness in the very least.

It's hard with quotes sometimes to know the true intent of the words... because they are extracted from a larger picture. Be it a conversation, a book, thoughts in a journal....The quote from LM Montgomery I posted about the new day with no mistakes... if you read the story or watch the movie, you see all the negative that was surrounding it... means more.

I nearly flipped out this past weekend over a bug that was on the ceiling above my head. I was lying in my bunk and there was this critter. The other people in the room told me to kill it and I wouldn't.... I'm sure they don't understand why because I haven't explained it. I won't kill anything that isn't harming me or someone else. Scaring is a story altogether different, afterall it was just a bug.

Why won't I? Because God made it, that's why.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change;the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward, college administrator,writer (1921-1994)

Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it. ~Anne Shirley