zaterdag 20 april 2019

What a Day that will be



Wysteria Hysteria

What a day that will be
When my Jesus I shall see
When I look upon His face
the One who saved me by His grace
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me to the Promise Land
What a day,
glorious day that will be


woensdag 2 januari 2019

Winter



Can it be winter once again. Please.
Just for 1 week.
Then make place for Spring as soon as possible!


zaterdag 29 september 2018

Will lead you closer



"Dare to love and to be a real friend.
The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer
to God as well as those whom God has given you to love."
~Henri Nouwen


dinsdag 25 september 2018

Go together


Achter het Oude Stadhuis, Marktplein, Amersfoort

"Beauty and sadness always go together."
~George MacDonald


donderdag 20 september 2018

Divinest comfort, Jesus doeth all things well


Amersfoort

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


vrijdag 14 september 2018

Beyond which life cannot rise


Vermenton, Bourgogne

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life,
and beyond which life cannot rise.
And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive,
and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
~Jack London, The Call of the Wild


dinsdag 11 september 2018

But you keep on loving


Dieppe

"If you try to have faith, you will be attacked by doubts you never knew you were capable of.
But you keep on believing, even if you fall, even if you struggle with doubts, you keep on believing.

And if you live a life that is marked by hope, by the belief that God is good, and there is goodness in the world that awaits us, you'll be disappointed. You'll be crushed, even, sometimes.
But you keep on hoping.

And if you choose to love, you will be misunderstood, you will be betrayed, you will be rejected by the people who most desperately need the love you have to offer.
We are blemished people, and in order to love anybody,
in any way, we have to expose that part of us that we'd rather keep hidden.
Our own selfishness, our own fears, our own hangups, and it's embarrassing. So humiliating.
But you keep on loving.

Many of us are obsessed with becoming rich, many of us are obsessed with becoming smart.
But all of our wisdom, all of our great insights; we see in part and we prophesy in part..
But when that which is perfect comes, that which is in part is done away with.
But There are three things that will remain: faith, and hope, and love.
Make sure you live in those."
―Rich Mullins


zondag 9 september 2018

And He knew us


Rouen

"God loves us completely.
And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all."
~Rich Mullins


maandag 27 augustus 2018

Not a divine idea



"My idea of God is not a divine idea.
It has to be shattered time after time.
He shatters it Himself.
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed


donderdag 23 augustus 2018

Who Wander


"Not all those who wander are lost."
~J.R.R. Tolkien



woensdag 22 augustus 2018

We're saved



"We are not saved because we're good.
We're good because we're saved."
~Rich Mullins


woensdag 15 augustus 2018

My heart is overwhelmed



"From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed:
lead me to the rock that is higher than I."
~Psalm 61:2


zaterdag 11 augustus 2018

How our Father listens to us



"Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right.
That's how our Father listens to us."
―Rich Mullins


maandag 23 juli 2018

Past tears


Dieppe, Normandy

"Past tears are present strength."
~George MacDonald

zaterdag 23 juni 2018

What it had to be



"This life has shown me how we're mended and how we're torn 
How it's okay to be lonely as long as you're free 
Sometimes my ground was stoney 
And sometimes covered up with thorns 
And only You could make it what it had to be."
~Rich Mullins


zondag 10 juni 2018

Pleasure in the pathless



"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
   There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
   I love not man the less, but nature more."
~George Gordon Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods


maandag 4 juni 2018

Deeper meaning



"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."
~Vincent van Gogh


donderdag 31 mei 2018

Larger hope



"The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected
with the greater pains of Christ.
Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow, and therefore a larger hope."
~Henri Nouwen


woensdag 23 mei 2018

C.S. Lewis


Amerongen

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
~C.S. Lewis, A grief observed


donderdag 10 mei 2018

We have nothing to lose


Kasteel Amerongen, Mei 2018

"The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose."
~Brennan Manning


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