It's All In the Timing

 

Our patience will achieve more than our force

Edmund Burke

It takes time

For bread to rise

For a tree to grow

For a flower to open

The art of living...why not try giving it a little time?

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But let patience have her perfect work, 

that you may be perfect and entire, 

wanting nothing. James 1:4

Sharing the Leftovers

 

It is not the leftovers that are wasteful-

it is the people who do not know what to do with them

or cannot be bothered.

Julian Baggini

What have you got left over at the end of your day?

A cup more energy?

A crumb or two more of a smile?

A tablespoon of  curiosity?

Whip up a bit more life!

Throw  what you have left on the fire!

 

 Then invite someone to dine with you on the very joy of living!

After you do all the things in a day you have to do-

sometimes the "leftovers" you share

 are the best part of the day!

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Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.

Hebrews 13:16

Perpetually Thankful

 

"Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - 

it bores everybody else, does you no good, 

and doesn't solve any problems." Zig Ziglar

Just say: Thank you.

Thank you to those in your life who care

                                                       Thank you to those behind the scenes

                                           Thank you to those who make so many sacrifices

Be grateful.

Be thankful.

Because if you take the time to look,

in every moment of every day

there is something to be thankful for

Thoreau said:

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

And that's poetiquejustis 

 

Your Best Year

 

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life

 as by the obstacle that one has overcome.

No matter where you start this year

No matter where you end

If you have traveled well

If you have helped your fellow man

If you have built your life on truth

If you have given more happiness than you have received

Then YOU are overcoming the greatest obstacles of life

And you ARE succeeding

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Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit,

 but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

Philippians 2:3

Thankfully

 

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I want to.

Norman Rockwell

 For the words of kindness we say

and our right to say them

I am thankful today

For the words we pray 

and our right to pray them

I am thankful today

For the wrongs we have righted

The hope we have ignited

I am thankful today

 

And I will always be thankful 

for all of that

and for you

 

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I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my mouth and I will enter His courts with praise

Psalm 100:4

What's Ahead

 

Everything in life that we really accept

undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield

We all grow up

And then we move on

Dreams are outgrown

New dreams take their place

Do not mourn that things have changed

Celebrate that you were there to see the miracle of life

unfolding before your very eyes

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You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.  

Psalm 16:11

An Editable Life

 

It is never too late in fiction or in life to revise

Nancy Thayer

Do not like the "prose"

(or the cons!)

Edit your life

Don't like the way you are headed?

Revise your plan

Do not like the way things are turning out?

then start  right where you are

and 

 because

It is never too late

for lots of

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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 34:14

How You See Life

                 How you see life is how life sees you

                                Keb Mo

How can we not be amazed

Enthralled

 overwhelmed

 By the sheer magnificence

of life

Today

Give in to the beauty

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1 Thessalonians 5:5 For you are all children of light, children of the day

Within Your Grasp- Beyond Your Reaach

 

"The slender threads that move us forward"

Sue Bender

The whispers

The fleeting thought

The impression

These are the things that move our lives forward

These are the things that our heart reaches for

These are the things that are real 

 

Don't let them slip away

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"Be still, and know that I am God"

Psalm 46:10