He is Seen!

"You can see God's signature everywhere around you

once you learn to recognize his handwriting."

 

~Carol Harrington Brock

I like these!

Saw them in the latest Guideposts magazine.  :)

What if you woke up today with only the things

 you thanked God for yesterday?

~Brad Johnson

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The most important lesson of friendship is also the most basic:

In order to have a friend, you must be a friend.

~Ruth Soukup

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Pain is a gift.  It puts us in a position where we're quicker to be desperate for God.  When we seek him, we will find him.

~model Lauren Scruggs, who lost her eye and hand in an accident

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When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things

 a chance to catch you.

~Karen Lorimer

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For it is not failure that stops most people, but rather the belief that failure is permanent.  Failure is nothing more than a storm in the weather forecast for the week -- it comes and it goes, and it waters next season's yield because it teaches us where we can improve.

~Jake Ducey

 

So True!

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.



~author Rachel Naomi Remen

Thought-Provoking

This life is all the believer will know of hell.

 

It is all the unbeliever will know of heaven.



Word Magnets

Our theme in the main living area during May and part of June is black and white, which is great for Greg's birthday, graduations, and Father's Day.  Word magnets get put on the fridge, and we all work at composing silly, whacky, philosophical, and poetic lines.  If we have company, sometimes they'll get in on the fun.  My favorites are usually those with humor:

Man, horrible black galoshes like my bed.

Dogs do their time with family.

Toward the end, we start getting a little desperate to use EVERY word (which we accomplished this year!), and the sentences aren't always correct English:

Kid said, "This woman want my candy."

I am silent if she ask us for live skin.

I love this one, because Greg often says I'm on the "puter":

She was on the puter.

And we had a good laugh over:

They cry when you play ball.

All our lines were on the right fridge door; last year, they were more spread out:

Inspirational Quotes

There were a few quotes in the June edition of Guideposts that stood out to me more than usual:

"If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them.  Whisper.  Make them lean in.  My kids taught me that.  And I do it with adults now."  ~chef Mario Batali

Reminded me of the story in the Bible when God spoke in a still small voice:

"And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice." ~KJV I Kings 19:11, 12


"Behold the turtle.  He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."  ~Shirley Thiessen

Lol!


"Only God can turn a mess into a message, a test into a testimony."  ~Joyce Meyer

Ain't that the truth!