They have nothing that you want

"But the nice thing about getting older is that it bothers you less and less 

how stupid you are.

Because you hang out with smart people long enough and you see that  they have

nothing that you want.

It's more important to be alive than it is to be smart.

Better a living dog than a dead lion, I guess."

~Rich Mullins

All the trees

"Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it.

Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord."

~Psalm 96:12

United States of Europe?

Statue George Washington in The Rotunda, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. sept. 2004

"If there had been no God,
mankind would have been obliged to imagine one."

~George Washington

He also said:
"Some day, following the example of the United States of America,
there will be a United States of Europe."

(ehhmmm)

Be forgiven every day

"Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly.

The hard truth is that all people love poorly.

We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly.

That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family."

~Henri Nouwen

It's like falling in love

Whitestrand, Ierland

"C.S. Lewis talks about how we don't really want to see beauty.

We want to participate in it. He says joy hurts kind of like an ache, that there's a

sense of longing in every kind of joy.

The closer I get to something, the more I realize how far I am. It's like falling in love -

I am more miserable and lonely for it."

~Rich Mullins

The Author of our faith

"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,

who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame,

and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

~Hebrews 12:2

Not even blessing

"My goal is GOD HIMSELF.
Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF... my GOD."

~Leonard Ravenhill

Come to life as well

"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

~George MacDonald

A Love Affair

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more
of a love affair."
~G.K. Chesterton

"My heart is in Ireland, it's there I long to be.
Her hills and her valleys are calling to me.
Though born here in this land, my heart is in Ireland."
~The Wolve Tones

Coumeenoole, Dingle Peninsula, West-Ireland

One of my favorite spots on Earth!

Trust is our gift back to God

☼    Midwinter Sunflowers    ☼

"The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally,

gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,

Beethoven’s "Ninth Symphony", Van Gogh’s "Sunflowers",

the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom.

Trust is our gift back to God,

and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it."

~Brennan Manning

All the way

Bantry House

2013

All the way my Savior leads me
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His faithful mercies?
Who through life has been my guide
Heavenly peace, divinest comfort
Here by faith in Him to dwell
For I know whatever fall me
Jesus doeth all things well
~Fanny J. Crosby
1867