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

Gain what he cannot lose

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
~Jim Elliot

No enemy but time

"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
~W.B. Yeats

It is by loving

Katwijk, Holland

"It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come

nearest to the soul of another."

~George MacDonald

The storks

"There the birds build their nests; the storks nest in the fir trees
[sometimes on the chimney of a castle]."

~Psalm 104:17

Your shield

"He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge;

His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart."

~Psalm 91:4

My deepest awareness

"My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ
and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it."
~Brennan Manning

The marriage of the Lamb is come

"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come,

and his wife hath made herself ready."

~Revelation 19:7

Trust in the name of the Lord

"Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God."

~Psalm 20:7

How you'll never belong here

"Nobody tells you, when you get born here,

how much you'll come to love it but how you'll never belong here." 

~Rich Mullins

Every winter

"Can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter
just to help the shopkeepers?"
~C. S. Lewis

Of the free woman

"Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman."

~Galatians 4:31

Why, Lord ..

Hazelworm op de Amerongse Berg

 "But I cry to you for help, Lord;

    in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Why, Lord, do you reject me

    and hide your face from me?"

~Psalm 88:13,14

Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

"Do you give the horse his might?

Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.

He paws in the valley and exults in his strength."

~Job 39

Peaceful

"I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have peace."

~John 16:33

Don’t be afraid

"Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people."

~ Luke 5:10

Walk in the light

"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,

and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin."
~1 John 1:6,7

They sing

"Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches."

~Psalm 104:12 

Nils Holgersson

"But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles."

~Isaiah 40:31

Undying love

"Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love."
~Ephesians 6:24