You'll bet beat up real bad

"So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. 

But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway.

It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars.

It will matter if you didn't Live."

~Rich Mullins

Hope

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances

which we know to be desperate."

~G.K. Chesterton

Some good

"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

~J.R.R. Tolkien

Big enough

Probably the largest cornflower field of Holland. City woods of Rhenen

"If God were small enough to be understood, He wouldn’t be big enough to be worshipped."

~Timothy Keller

Everything

"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear."
~Ayrton Senna

Comfort in the end

5 days earlier

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end;
if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap
and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
~C.S. Lewis

The pure in heart

"It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to."

~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering

which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve,

and you find that you have excluded life itself."

~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

één zwanenpaar maar
vier ganzen
en een futenpaar
koeien aan de overkant
er is er één die loeit
van mij mag het allemaal vandaag
ontelbare boterbloemen
de meidoorn, ze bloeit
smalle paadjes dwars door 't fluitenkruid
o, wat zie ik dit graag

waar blijft de tijd?
ach, wat maakt het uit,
het is later
zonnestralen, ze twinkelen
over het water
de Rijn kibbelt zacht
de lente, zij bloeit
en ik zucht
Heer, hoe lang nog?
de zomer groeit

mei 2016, Palmerswaard, Rhenen

A deeper meaning

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

~Vincent van Gogh

detail "Amandelbloesem" - Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

"I want to touch people with my art.

I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'."

~Vincent van Gogh

Admire as much as you can

"We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.."

~Vincent van Gogh

"Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough."

~Vincent van Gogh

Those things My hand has made

"Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?
For all those things My hand has made."
~Isaiah 66:1a

All the earth

"O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before Him, all the earth."

~Psalm 96:9

So much beauty around us

"And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see

But I am home anywhere if You are where I am."

~Rich Mullins

The riddles of God

"The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man."

~G.K. Chesterton,

Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907

Where mercy leads

Let mercy lead

Let love be the strength in your legs

And in every footprint that you leave

There'll be a drop of grace

Into the foolishness of God

That foolishness will save

Those who believe

Although their foolish hearts may break

They will find peace

And I'll meet you in that place

Where Mercy leads

~Rich Mullins

Geef niet op als God zwijgt

"Geef niet op als God zwijgt."

~Christa Rosier

There they will see Me

"Then Jesus said to them, 'Do not be afraid.
Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see Me.'"
~Matthew 28:10

“Surely this man was the Son of God!”

"And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how He died, he said,

'Surely this man was the Son of God!' "

~Mark 15:39

God has no grandchildren

"God has no grandchildren, only Children."
~Corrie ten Boom

Early fruit

"The fig tree forms its early fruit;

    the blossoming vines spread their fragrance."

~Song of Songs 2:13

We are frail, fearfully and wonderfully made

"We are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made 

Forged in the fires of human passion 

Choking on the fumes of selfish rage 

And with these our hells and our heavens 

So few inches apart 

We must be awfully small 

And not as strong as we think we are."

~Rich Mullins