Category: Life Issues

Give It Away

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

— Corrie Ten Boom —

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open…

What Are You Looking For?

If you are looking for an excuse, you will always find one. If you are looking for an opportunity, you will always find one.

— Mark Batterson —

If you are looking for an excuse, you will always find one. If you are looking for an opportunity, you will always find one…

Past Fuel

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future only he can see.

— Corrie Ten Boom —

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future only he can see…

Trust What Is Known

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

— Corrie Ten Boom —

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God…

Gratitude and Enjoying the Ride

There is a flow to life, and the flow is much easier to capture, ride, and enjoy when we look at things from a perspective of gratitude.

— JMeyer —

There is a flow to life, and the flow is much easier to capture, ride, and enjoy when we look at things from a perspective of gratitude…

Gratitude and Perpetual Thanksgiving

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual... Oh, how I laugh when I think of my vague, indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

— Henry David Thoreau —

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual… Oh, how I laugh when I think of my vague, indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment…

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man, it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.

— Edward Sandford Martin —

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man, it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow…

Gratitude and Pain

If you feel pain, you are alive. But if you feel the pain of others, you are human.

— Leo Tolstoy —

If you feel pain, you are alive. But if you feel the pain of others, you are human…

Gratitude and a Rich Life

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich…

Gratitude and Perspective

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

— John Lubbock —

What we see depends mainly on what we look for…