I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing. . . . Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.
Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.
I can always tell when a girl comes from a good family because she's what's known as not at all attracted to me.
You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.