We're saved

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

Marriage of the soul

"It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, 

and gives birth to imagination."

~Henry David Thoreau

I know Who holds the future

"I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future!"
~Billy Graham

Spirit and life

"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.

The words that I have spoken to you,

are spirit and life."

~John 6:63

Every house is built by someone

"For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything."

~Hebrews 3:4

You are Yourself the answer

"I know now, Lord, why You utter no answer.
You are Yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away."
~C.S. Lewis

I am

"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
~John 8:58

He takes the junk of our lives

"I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'.

I would say big deal -- God loves everybody. That don't make me special!

That just proves that God ain't got no taste.

And I don't think He does. Thank God!

Because He takes the junk of our lives and He makes the most beautiful art of it."

~Rich Mullins

Rather be in the Mountains

O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes

Castletown-Berehaven

 "How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me."

~Psalm 13

There are three things that will remain

"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

I shall not be afraid

"When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.

What can flesh do to me?"

~Psalm 56:3-4

Innocent and the beautiful

"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."

~W.B. Yeats

Come to life as well

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

~George MacDonald

Giving

Cliffs of Kilkee

"Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others."

~Henri Nouwen

At the door of God's mercy

"A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy."

~Brennan Manning

Produces Hope

"More than that,

we rejoice in our sufferings,

knowing that suffering produces endurance,

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope."

~Romans 3:3-5

Every walk with Nature

The Burren, Ireland

"In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks."

~John Muir

Look at Nature's loveliness

"I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness."

~John Muir

This is at one of my favorite spot's in the whole world. It's called "The Burren"
and it's on the Atlantic westside of Ireland. My beloved Ireland ...
In the background a part of the great Galway Bay.
This is ancient land and even kind of holy ground ..

What is unsayable

"Often secrets are not revealed in words,

they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth

of what is unsayable between two people."

~John O'Donohue