i have so many friends who are dealing with difficult situations...and while this post is written with them in mind, who among us doesn't need a little extra inspiration? so, here's a few random quotes/scriptures/etc for you :-)
if you can't feed a hundred people then just feed one
- Mother Teresa
a ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are made for.
- source unknown
He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me!
- psalm 18.19
grace makes beauty out of ugly things
- u2
we must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us
- Joseph Campbell
every day may not be good, but there is good in every day
- source unknown
fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name, you are mine
- isaiah 43.1
no one has ever become poor by giving
- Anne Frank
courage does not always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying: i will try again tomorrow
- Mary Anne Radmacher
be encouraged -- God sees you, knows you, and loves you.
{-me :-) }
Mother Teresa: one of my faith heroes and childhood icons.
Now recognized as a saint, I believe.
When asked once what she thought the first thing she would say to God when she got to Heaven she replied "I think it will be 'You have a lot of explaining to do'"
This quote makes me feel SO much better.
Because there are those times when that's exactly how I feel. That there's just so much I don't understand.
It reminds me that Mother Teresa, while a giant in her faith, struggled just like I do.
I don't know why my friend was just diagnosed with cancer.
I don't know why my friend's father's spinal cord looks like swiss cheese due to a mass eating away part of his vertebrae.
I don't know why so many people are unemployed.
I don't know why...
But I do know WHO.
And that...that makes all the difference.
