May you never be the reason why someone who loved to sing, doesn't anymore. Or why someone who dressed so uniquely, now wears plain clothing. Or why someone who always spoke so excitedly about their dreams, is now silent about them. May you never be the reason someone...
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive every year...is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us and our own snowbound, snowblind longing for him.
--Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers. --Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. --Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage....
I know and I speak from experience, that even in the midst of darkness, it is possible to create light and share warmth with one another. Even on the edge of the abyss, it is possible to dream exalted dreams of compassion; that it is possible to be free and strengthen...
You cannot know it now,cannot even imaginewhat lies ahead,but I tell youthe day is comingwhen breath willfill your lungsas it never has before,and with your own earsyou will hear wordscoming to you newand startling.You will dream dreamsand you will see the worldablaze...
Being a Christian is not essentially about joining a church or being a nice person, but about following in the footsteps of Jesus, taking his teachings seriously, letting his Spirit take the lead in our lives, and in so doing helping to change the world from our...
We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward are dreams.
As I was lying on a gurney in pre-op awaiting knee replacement surgery three days before Christmas, before the “happy drugs” were administered, I noticed a painting on the wall beside the gurney. It was rather nondescript, a field of blue flowers in a garden of rocks...
I believe that God made the world, set humans in responsibility over it, and chooses to communicate to us the nature of moral goodness and a rightly ordered world — even if sometimes it seems a distant dream. from After Evangelicalism