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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. • C.S.Lewis

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I am enjoying a Beth Moore Bible study on the book of Esther called" It's Tough Being a Woman". I am only 4 chapters into it but it is EXCELLENT. This past weeks section was called: It's hard being a woman in the tight fist of fear. More than any command in the Bible this one is repeated over and over and over again: Do NOT be afraid.

Beth talked about her own fears and how God challenged her to do "the what if game" with it, all the way through. Her greatest fear was: what if my husband leaves me for a younger woman? What if she is really cute? What if my kid's all adore her? ~So, she thinks this though and decided that she would be angry, crushed, broken, a mess. But. Then after a time...that she would get back on her feet again and live. That fear lost it's grip on her and she doesn't struggle with it anymore. She encouraged us to wrote down and fill in the blanks: If ________, then __________. She said, get to the point that no matter what you write down in that first blank, in the second one write GOD! (ie. If my child dies, then GOD!)

God is bigger than even the very big stuff we face in life.

Beth says: "There is no denial in courage. If your Dr. tells you that you have Cancer and you pretend that you don't have it, then that is denial and foolish! Courage is when you look fat in the face of that "cancer" and do not deny it but you deny it's VICTORY over you!"

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'The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.'

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

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All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled only with sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Billy Graham (1976)

Max Lucado's (from his book Fearless)

We fear being sued, finishing last, going broke; we fear the mole on the back, the new kid on the block, the sound of the clock as it ticks us closer to the grave. We sophisticate investment plans, create elaborate security systems, and legislate stronger military, yet we depend on mood-altering drugs more than any other generation in history. Moreover, “ordinary children today are more fearful than psychiatric patients were in the 1950s.”

Fear, it seems, has taken a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversize and rude, fear is unwilling to share the heart with happiness. Happiness complies and leaves. Do you ever see the two together? Can one be happy and afraid at the same time? Clear thinking and afraid? Confident and afraid? Merciful and afraid? No.

Fear is the big bully in the high school hallway: brash, loud, and un-productive. For all the noise fear makes and room it takes, fear does little good.

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"Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidity did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to just walk out?"

Max Lucado

C.S. Lewis quote

LOVE.
There is no safe investment.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal.

Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God’s will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness… We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as a way in which they should break, so be it. What I know about love and believe about love and giving ones heart began in this.

(C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves)

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Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me!"

Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky!

Hafiz (Persian Poet of the 1300's)

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"True Love for a brother or sister is GRACE and ACCOUNTABILITY balanced....
Grace with out Accountability is Tolerance.
Accountability without Grace is Legalism."

(This was a comment left on Blog. I thought it was tremendous!)

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"God is radical in His Mercy and compassion. He has Grace when He sees repentance."

Dave Botting

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"True intimacy with God ALWAYS involves humility."

Beth Moore

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“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We're afraid.”

“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”

“Come to the edge.”
And they came.

And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918
French Poet, Philosopher

Appreciate Simplicity

* Simplicity adds quality and contentment to your life.

* Simplicity comes from learning to say no.

* Simplicity is being satisfied with what you don't have as with what you have.

* Simplicity involves removing clutter.

* Simplicity means never buying something for the purpose of impressing others.

* Simplicity refuses to get caught in the trap of overspending, over committing, and overworking.

* Simplicity enjoys happiness and treasures joy.

* Simplicity cherishes tranquility.

* Simplicity knows how to be content in whatever situation you find yourself.

* Simplicity celebrates God's creation and sees God in the small stuff.

(I "borrowed" this from someone's Blog!)

Mother Teresa's Prayer

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you.

Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend year creating, others could destroy overnight.

Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.

Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.

Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.

It was never between you and them anyway.

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There is so much beauty 'round us,
for just two eyes to see.

singer-songwriter Rich Mullins 1955-1997

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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If it's worth doing, than it's worth doing it wrong until I can learn to do it right."
Dr. James B. Richards
(from his book: How to Stop the Pain)

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If you're still hanging onto a dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow.

~Joyce Chapman

Chin Up!


"Don't say, I'm never going to that again. Change your language. You don't need to be focusing on what you are not going to do again. What you need to do is to say, I am going to do whatever the Holy Spirit leads me into. Like an artist sees something in their mind and paints it, we need to be that intentional with the words that we speak. Speak into the positive. Chin up! "
Jeff Johns

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There are always flowers for those that want to smell them.
Henri Matiss