February 2012
39 posts
“It’s true that while ambition creates fear, it also creates the story. But...”
– Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– Herman Melville
“You can worship, or you can worry; you cannot do both at the same time.”
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
– C.S. Lewis
Embracing beginnings.
I want to enjoy where I am right now rather than wish I knew what lied ahead. I want to love the questions themselves, like the anticipation you get right before opening a gift. Like the feeling you have while awaiting an expected trip to a new city. Instead, I find myself struggling with impatience and anxiety in all that is unresolved and is yet to be seen. I know that as I begin to live these...
lauren-reavely:
“Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt, send me where Thou wilt, work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever.”
- Betty Stam
“…the very essence of anxious care is imagining that we are wiser than God and putting ourselves in His place as if we could do for Him what He has undertaken to do for us. We attempt to think of things that we could imagine Him forgetting; we work to take upon ourselves a heavy burden, as if He were unable or unwilling to take it for us… Anxiety makes us doubt God’s lovingkindness, and so our...
