“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will …
Today is a gift, don’t waste it! “Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with worry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Jerry Spinelli Be very …
A friend sent me this beautiful story. Enjoy! I just had one of the most amazing experiences of my life, and wanted to share it with my family and dearest friends: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, and got stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd. The car started to choke …
“A person is a person through other persons.” None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other …
Freedom is never free Thank you for paying for our freedom with your life!
By the time my granddaughter was 2 she had Christmas figured out. Once she identified which pile of wrapped presents were for her she could not wait to tear the wrapping paper off them. She went from one to another and on to the next. She spent little or no time actually looking what was …
“I chose you . . .” ( John 15:16 ). Keep these words as a wonderful reminder that you have not gotten God, but that He has gotten you. God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. He is the potter, we are the clay. All of God’s people are …
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did …
It’s has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with. Jesus talked about lawyers a lot too. None of it was very flattering, actually. He usually lumped lawyers in with liars and people who didn’t speak the truth. Jesus …
The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is ‘Do not fear.’ It’s in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn’t let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to …
