More than your mask

Though we're 'strangers',
still I love you,

I love you more than your mask

They said to the olive tree ..

"One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves.

They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.’

But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, 

to hold sway over the trees?’"

~Judges 9:8,9

No one has ever become poor by giving

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

~Anne Frank

So, thank you ....

Whoever loves money never has money enough

"Prosperity knits a man to the world.
He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really
it is finding its place in him."

~C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters

 "Whoever loves money never has money enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.
This too is meaningless."
~Ecclesiastes 5:10

An eternal house in heaven

"For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed,

we have a building from God,

an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands."

~2 Cor. 5:1

Clothed with splendor and majesty

"Lord my God, you are very great;
you are clothed with splendor and majesty."
~Psalm 104:1

Comfort in this life

"If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth,
and comfort in this life,
God hated the apostle Paul."
~John Piper

We are not the healers

"We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers,
we are not the givers of life.

We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people

who need as much care as anyone we care for."

~Henri Nouwen

Het gaat hard als het gezellig is, als het niet gezellig is nog harder ..

Small things

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

~Vincent Van Gogh

If God was cultured, as most Christian people wish He was ..

"And if God was cultured,
if He was as civilized as most Christian people wish He was,
He would be useless to Christianity.
But God is a Wild Man.

And I hope that the course of your life you encounter Him.
But let me warn you,
you need to hang on for dear life,
or let go for dear life, maybe is better."

~Rich Mullins, 1997

Is home where the heart is?

"From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
    the name of the Lord is to be praised.

He settles the childless woman in her home
as a happy mother of children.

Praise the Lord."
~Psalm 113: