Pray Hard. Live Easy.

In life you will meet two kinds of people. Ones who build you up, and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.

"We try and make life complicated, but it is not. Life is who you love, who loves you and what you do with that love."  Rev. Howard F.M. Childers

An email chain that hit the spot: "May today be all you need it to be. May the peace of God and the freshness of the Holy Spirit rest in your thoughts, rule in your dreams tonight, and conquer all your fears... May God manifest himself today in ways you have never experienced. May your joys be fulfilled, your dreams be closer, and your prayers be answered. I pray that faith enters a new height for you; I pray that your territory is enlarged. I pray for peace, healing, health, happiness, prosperity, joy, true and undying love for God."

"Ideal circumstances rarely happen to people, but ideal people can happen to circumstances." - Jackie Summers

it's all we've got and all we need the great gift, the great privilege for all involved... love is and forever will be

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."  - Rainer Maria Rilke  -    

“She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.” ― Terri St. Cloud

"Up now, slight man! Flee for a little while thy occupations; hide thyself for a time from thy disturbing thoughts. Cast aside now thy burdensome cares, and put away thy toilsome business. Yield room for some little time to God, and rest for a little time in Him. Enter the inner chamber of thy mind; shut out all thoughts save that of God and such as can aid thee in seeking Him. Speak now, my whole heart! Speak now to God, saying, I seek Thy face; Thy face, Lord, will I seek." excerpt from  Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” Howard Thurman

Earth Teach Me to Remember by John Yellow Lark Earth teach me stillness as the grasses are stilled with light. Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory. Earth teach me humility as blossoms are humble with beginning. Earth Teach me caring as the mother who secures her young. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands alone. Earth teach me limitation as the ant which crawls on the ground. Earth teach me freedom as the eagle which soars in the sky. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me to remember kindness as dry fields weep in the rain. *Wearing Noya Yoga's Yogzi, the Onesie for Yoga

"You are my friend and forever will be so never be afraid to find comfort in me." - Matt Flanagan, hometown hero

"Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse." Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

' War does not determine who is right--only who is left. ' ~ Bertrand Russell Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 2:44 AM Book Review: A Greif Observed After reading this book, it's hard for me to use my usual third person style of writing, so I won't. I actually read this book due to the fact I forgot the Four Loves in a friends truck over the weekend and didn't have anything else to read. I decide which books to read according to what part of my life deserves most improvement at the time, almost in an effort to make all faucets of my life more rewarding. I didn't feel Grief Observed needed any immediate attention, but I bought it anyways to put it aside to read at a later date. This work of Lewis gives a easy to read conversation or account of what went through Lewis' head after the loss of his wife. In the introduction there's a short point about how much less of a loss it was b/c Lewis' had only been married for a few short years and there was an ...

Spirit is Life It flows thru the death of me endlessly  like a river  unafraid of becoming the sea - Gregory Corso

"A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity." ‪ -Lawrence Kushner‬

Heres to the moments of encouragement that bless our lives,  and to the people who bring them to life. When you walk through a storm, Keep your head up high, and don't be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark, Walk on, through the wind,  Walk on through the rain,  Though your dreams be tossed and blown,  Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone Songwriters:  BENJAMIN WEISMAN FRED KARGER SID WAYNE This song was shared with me today by one of my life's greatest heroes, and without doubt it'll echo long into the future, more meaning with every read. #Spreadthelove You... wherever you are, just as you are, you are deeply, truly loved.

Look to this day, for it is life, the very breath of life. In its brief course lie all the realities of your existence; the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty. For yesterday is only a dream, and tomorrow is but a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Ancient Sanskrit This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.  Psalm 118:24 

“A relaxed attitude lengthens a man’s life…” - Proverbs 14:30

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone. ---- Gale Brook Burket

"Choosing courage again and again, the more courageous we become."