Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea...
Music imprints itself in the brain deeper than any other human experience... ...Music brings back the feeling of life when nothing else can.
For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. from God in the Dock
To worry is to go into the future alone, mentally painting a stark scene that, in fact, probably will never happen. And if it did, it wouldn’t be like you imagine. And if it were to be just like you imagine, you would not be alone. Breathe. Rest. Trust. It’s going to...
If your story hasn’t had a happy ending, it hasn’t ended. Don’t project today’s pain into the future. Life can and often does change in an instant. Hold onto Hope. That is your lifeline and that is enough. That is the grace walk experience.
As human beings we can only experience life emotionally.
There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul. In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows. Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way. Real...
If it [our framing story] tells us that the purpose of life is for individuals or nations to accumulate an abundance of possessions and to experience the maximum amount of pleasure during the maximum number of minutes of our short lives, then we will have little...
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles--someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals, and knowledge of a hundred previous...
The most difficult part of personal growth is being willing to turn away from erroneous views from our past. Beliefs held for a long time tend to become sacred to us, even if they're wrong. It's naive to think that we gained a perfect, flawless understanding of truth....