“We’re always looking, but we never really see.” Milton Glaser, Imagine: How Creativity Works So what are we missing? Is this another “it is what it is . . . or is it?” kind of experience? Could this be “looking through a glass darkly” that is referenced in I Corinthians 13:12? What are we missing [...]
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Looking, Never Seeing
Posted in odd musings, quotes on May 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Can These Quotes Change Your Life?
Posted in fun stuff, quotes on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know that they can change your life, but they can definitely influence your perspective and make you smile awhile. #17 and #29 are probably my favorites. Trying to remember #2 as Peyton Manning leaves the Colts. #15 is taking on new meaning for me. What about you?
Smile
Posted in odd musings, quotes, uncategorized on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson As the song says, so PUT ON A HAPPY FACE!!!! Of course, Ralph didn’t get to play angry birds. Wonder what he would have said about that?
Lazy Thinking Be Gone
Posted in quotes on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955) This quote caught my attention on Facebook. However the quote only included the second [...]
More Life = Faster?
Posted in quotes, reflections on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s all about life and wanting more. What makes up more life? More stuff? More activities? More time? We crave more. Perhaps the paradox is less stuff, less activities equals more life. Taking the moments to stop and think, reflect, appreciate, and consider the world that we inhabit and the God who created it and [...]
Transformation
Posted in quotes on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“An individual cannot transform himself, nor can a church transform a person. That work can only be done by God, through the empowerment and direction of the Holy Spirit. But God is eager to partner with those who will cooperate with Him. Understanding what God seeks to do in our lives is a critical step [...]
5 minutes
Posted in quotes on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. Etty Hillesum Praying and resting! Doing the important things!
Faith
Posted in quotes on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. Oswald Chambers
Reminder to myself on Excellence
Posted in encouragement, quotes on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am working on ending the semester well and preparing for the summer well. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an [...]
Two Nieces With St. Patrick’s Day Birthdays
Posted in quotes on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On your birthday, I thought you might enjoy inspiration from St. Patrick. Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ to my right, Christ to my left, Christ in my lying, in my sitting, in my rising, Christ in the heart of all who [...]
