Being joyful isn’t what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
~Ann Voskamp
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Confidante
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
~Emily Dickinson
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A Love/Hate Relationship
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-Sydney J. Harris
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In the Day of Trouble
In his shelter in the day of trouble,
That’s where you’ll find me,
For he hides me there in his holiness.
He has smuggled me into his secret place
Where I’m kept safe and secure–
Out of reach from all my enemies.
Triumphant now I’ll bring him my offerings of praise,
Singing and shouting with ecstatic joy!
(Psalm 27: 5,6 The Passion Translation)
Sometimes we can see the answers to our prayers in the secret place with God before we see the answers show up in the place where everyone else can see them. Faith means having the freedom to praise God for evidence conceived in hope but not yet birthed.
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Enlightenment
We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the common place something that is inspiring.
~ Oswald Chambers
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The Demands of Freedom
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
-Os Guinness
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That I May Know Him
What were we made for?
To know God.
What aim should we have in life?
To know God.
What is the eternal life that Jesus gives?
To know God.
What is the best thing in life?
To know God.
What in humans gives God most pleasure?
Knowledge of himself.
-J. I. Packer
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Simple Things
Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.
-Oswald Chambers
Charis: Subject to Change 