Pray Hard. Live Easy.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Magnetic fields , originally uploaded by colby hanks - pray hard. live easy. . "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love."~ Rumi

Malshanger , originally uploaded by colby hanks - pray hard. live easy. . Courage is the cue. Support is the glue. Desire is the lure. Action brings the cure. - PH.LE

Supernatural , originally uploaded by colby hanks - pray hard. live easy. . To me, the most natural way is the supernatural way.

We Are All Wild Things Now , originally uploaded by Boy_Wonder . ‎"Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement." - Anon

Baby love , originally uploaded by colby hanks - pray hard. live easy. . "You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think." A.A. Milne (Christopher Robin to Pooh)

"I haven't always been treated well by others, but I can choose how I treat myself." - Marthe Hagen, The Freedom Experiment

Una domenica autunnale , originally uploaded by kenyai . "The storm of doing is always followed by the calm of done." - Unknown via Richard O'Connor

Wind Surfing Mauritius , originally uploaded by tropical_vacances_loisirs . "The task ahead of you is never as great as the power behind you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Maxwell once said, “You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.” Celebrating a Dallas Cowboys Division championship here with my lifelong friend and soul sister, Laura, who happens to be raising a beautiful angel. (Way to reproduce!)

Double Exposure , originally uploaded by ryantatar . "Why is it easier to believe in limits rather than expansion? If you can really pause and see the limitations as being separate from “truth”, this is the first step in moving past them, and unleashing your unlimited power." - Kimberly Snyder

Royal Albert Hall , originally uploaded by colby hanks - pray hard. live easy. . "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." - C. S. Lewis

Mothering Heights , originally uploaded by colby hanks - pray hard. live easy. . "Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind."” - Howard W. Hunter We love you Momma.

j&t , originally uploaded by alyda mcgaw . “In God’s Word, marriage and love are for the tough minded. Marriage is commitment; and, far from backing out when the going gets rough, marriage partners are to sort out their difficulties in the light of Scripture. They are to hang in there, improving their relationship, working away at it, precisely because they have vowed before God and man to live together and love each other for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness as in health, until death separates them.” - Don Carson

"I tell you that it's been a long And oh it's been an uphill journey, all the way But I know, I know, I know I know my change is gonna come." - Soul Mama, Aretha Franklin

Words of Wisdom , originally uploaded by Boy_Wonder . "We'll never have new fabric in our lives until things unravel.  Allow those  broken heart strings to be re-spun for greater things."  The story below arrived in my inbox this weekend from local legend Simon Guillebaud. With this note I salute the designer, as I crawl back to the circle:  This man was born in a gypsy tent, of humble origins, and yet ended up being invited to the White House by two presidents. Rodney ‘Gypsy’ Smith came into the world in 1860 in Epping Forest, just outside London. Forty five times he crossed the Atlantic to preach the gospel to millions of people on both sides. His passion was almost unparalleled, and there was great fruit in what he did. What was his secret? Private prayer. His praying was even more powerful than his preaching. A delegation once came to him to enquire how they might experience personal and mass revival as he had. They wanted to be used the way Gypsy was. Without

powderfresh , originally uploaded by SARAΗ LEE . “You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchel)

NYC Taxi , originally uploaded by John Wardell (Netinho) . A NYC Taxi driver wrote: I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked.. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie. By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware. 'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said.

| Super Moon Over NYC | , originally uploaded by SOBPhotography . “We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.” - Ram Dass

daniel kereopa , originally uploaded by SARAΗ LEE . "Look again within yourself to know the marvels of creation." - Hafiz

Untitled , originally uploaded by tuesdy.is.shutterbot . "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." - Havelock Ellis

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18

Step up , originally uploaded by colby hanks - pray hard. live easy. . "Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. " Harold J. Seymour

“Small people always belittle your ambitions, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain

Sailing towards the storm , originally uploaded by dglezos . " A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." English Proverb

Bubble Rock - South Bubble , originally uploaded by shrike1964 . When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting. - Anon