Psalm ~

You've kept track
of all my wandering
and my weeping.
You've stored my many tears
in Your bottle - not one will be lost. ...
You care about
every time I've cried.
For it is all recorded in Your book
of remembrance.
Psalm  56:8

Deuteronomy ~

"Observe them (laws) carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?"

Deuteronomy 4:6-7

 

Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

¹ The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
²     He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
³     he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
⁴ Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,^[a]
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

⁵ You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
⁶ Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

Waiting For God ~

“But your greatest blessing was of another order. In gaining my friendship through your charity— I have never encountered its equal— you have furnished me with a source of inspiration more powerful and more pure that one could find among human things. For nothing among human things is as powerful for maintaining our gaze, applied ever more intensely on God, than friendship with the friends of God.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

Life ~

Celebration of Life
The celebration of life,
shared in the beginning, and again, in the end.
Yet we forget to celebrate it, in every moment we live.
Time, days, years, go on, but are we alive?
Alive and do not know it, sleeping in the world
and dead to the life we are to live.
To celebrate all life,
the sparrow who sang in the morning,
and died in the night,
why do we not celebrate its life?
To know thyself is to know you are alive -
to give, to love, to seek truth, beauty, and suffer pain.
In life as it is meant to be, pain is forgotten, and
strength is all that's left to be gained
in the moment by moment celebration of life.
By Deborah Peabody

Take It Up

"Try to live your life in a way
that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
Take up the battle, take it up!
It's yours, this is your life
this is your world....
I'll be leaving it long before you under the ordinary set of circumstances,
you make your own choices.
You can decide life isn't worth living
And that would be the worst thing you can do, how do you know so far?
Try it, see!" Maya Angelou.
In life we face depression, isolation, negative thoughts, mourning and more, but trust and have faith that morning is coming. Don't give up. Our Matriarch's words were powerful then and still stand today. " 

I'm Four Today ~

Flaws ~

“Good people are not those who lack flaws, the brave are not those who feel no fear, and the generous are not those who never feel selfish. Extraordinary people are not extraordinary because they are invulnerable to unconscious biases. They are extraordinary because they choose to do something about it.” ― Shankar Vedantam

" Gifts "

“For forgiveness to work in your life, it has to be genuine. It has to come from the heart. When it does, it is so powerful that bitterness fades away and you are able to see the “gifts” in what has happened. I also think forgiveness is a kind of humility." -

Praise ~

My praise shall be of You in the great assembly; I will pay My vows before those who fear Him. The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever! ... Psalm 22:25-26.

She Danced ~

She danced. She sang. She loved. She created. She dissented. She enlivened. She grew. She sweated. She changed. She learned. She shed her skin. She bled on the pages of her days, she walked through walls, she lived with intention. ~From "Living Eulogy", Mary Anne Radmacher

"I bet you don't Curse God" - Christina Grimmie - With Love

"Find Me" - Christina Grimmie Original

Journey ~

There are so many ups and downs in this journey of life
We hustle, struggle, and fight through the strife
Sometimes the conflict is located between our ears
Other times it is a battle with those we call peers

As we age the battles change as decay begans to stalk
We don't have the spring in our step as we continue the walk
Disease and worn out limbs move in and call us home
We also lose the energy of youth for in this world to roam

We learn how to adapt and continue our life worn path
Living with dignity and looking at the mirror of fate with no wrath
We journey towards the finish line never allowing self to be late
Because we have always lived with a sol;id view of heavens gate

Better Yet ~

How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future

      Don't enter conversations
about generations. Use the art
of misdirection. Tell her the rain
is falling. Tell her today
you saw a cardinal,
her favorite bird, and it was
feeding its young seeds.
No. Better not mention
the young. Tell her,
instead, the garden is coming in
thick this spring,
and the tulips have multiplied,
their buds like hands in prayer.
Better yet,
tell her about the work
crying in your briefcase.
Tell her you wish
you had three lives:
one for work, one for your dreams,
and one for her. That one
will have as many Siamese warriors
as she wants, swinging on a tree
as wide as an ocean,
its limbs twisting and turning.
In that life,
they listen, those warriors,
for the sound of her voice.
They wait for her to emerge
from the jeweled temple.

—Ira Sukrungruang