Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.
Craig D. Loundsbrough. www.wiseoldsayings.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Lord, you make all things new
You bring hope alive in our hearts
And cause our Spirit to be born again.
Thank you for this new year
For all the potential it holds
Come and kindle in us a mighty flame
So that in our time, many will see the wonders of God
And live forever to praise your glorious name.Amen
Weekly Pause & Ponder
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Augustine. www.christianquotes.info
Weekly Pause & Ponder
There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects it, and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves.
To Bless the Space Between Us, by John O’Donohue, www.allgreatquotes.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
It has been proven in my life that when your prayers are about gratitude for what is already here, Creator and the universe ALWAYS send more. Always. When you pray for what you WANT, Creator and the universe only hear the wanting, and that’s what you create—more wanting. Be thankful, offer prayers of gratitude for the blessings already in your life, whether health, prosperity or productivity, and more blessings will come.
Embers, by Richard Wagamese, p. 142.