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

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

Come to love it

Hulshorst, Holland

"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

Let your memory be your travel bag

"Own only what you can always carry with you: 

know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Unless we love the truth

Amerongen

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that,

unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

~Blaise Pascal

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

Far better things

Muckross House

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
~C.S. Lewis

Awesome majesty

"Out of the north he comes in golden splendor;

God comes in awesome majesty."

~Job 37:22

If you tell the truth

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
~Mark Twain

He has given you the autumn rains

"Rejoice in the Lord your God,

for He has given you the autumn rains,

because He is faithful"

~Joel 2:23

Kicking the door

"'Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking
the door like a maniac?"
~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Mercy triumphs over judgment

"Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law

that gives freedom,

because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone

who has not been merciful..

Mercy triumphs over judgment."

~James 2:12,13

Same Tree still

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances
which we know to be desperate."

~G.K. Chesterton

Your ways, God, are holy

"Your ways, God, are holy.
What god is as great as our God?"
~Psalm 77:13

Folly to him

"The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God,
for they are folly to him,

and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."

~1 Corinthians 2:14

Abide in the shadow

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty."

~ Psalm 91:1

Beauty for ashes

"To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes,

the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
that they might be called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified."

~Isaiah 61:3

Do not fear

"Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you.
He will not leave you or forsake you."
~Deuteronomy 31:6

Recline at table

"I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven"
~Matthew 8:11

Misty November II

"I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud,
and your sins like a heavy mist.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you."
~ Isaiah 44:22

Together,
separated
and
together
at last
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