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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the disciplined lifelong commitment to offer Godly reactions to ungodly actions.
- Brad Braxton
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Gustav Jung
With peace at home, one can be satisfied with only a little.
- Yiddish saying
I adore the simple pleasures, they are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
Man will have to render an account to God for all the good things which his eyes beheld but which he refused to enjoy.
- Rabbi Abba Aricha (c. 175-247), Jerusalem Talmud, Qiddushim 4:12
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Gottman)
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
- Malachi McCourt
Every time you move, and every time you play a note, a piece of yourself is left behind.
-Victor Wooten
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them." -Igor Stravinsky
"It's madness, To be always sitting around in sadness, When you could be learning the steps of gladness."
- George Gershwin
"There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere. Of course, I had always known He was, but this time I felt it, I realized it, the way a person realizes they are hungry or thirsty. The knowledge of God seeped out of my brain and into my heart. I imagined Him looking down on this earth, half angry because His beloved mankind had cheated on Him, had committed adultery, and yet hopelessly in love with her, drunk with love for her."
- Donald Miller
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
- Louis Armstrong
"Tune it or die."
- Christy Walsh
Our cause is never more
in danger, than
when
a human, no longer desiring, but
intending, to do our Enemy's will,
looks round upon a universe from which
every trace of Him seems to have vanished,
and
asks why he has been forsaken,
and
still obeys.
-C.S.Lewis, Screwtape Letters, chapter 8
There is a strange attraction to riding in the black hat darkness of a lonely, mountain road in the wee hours before dawn when your vision is limited to the narrow tunnel of a single headlight and you can only guess if the road continues safely or off a cliff. Your mind conjures the worst kinds of monsters (deer) about to jump into your path. Add near-freezing temperatures, rain and a stuttering engine and you have the makings of a first class “he never returned” story. And then the euphoria of first light.
Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
- Ps 25:4-5
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Stand firm.
Let nothing move you.
Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labor is not in vain.--
You are solid in your faith.
You serve the Lord in everything you do.
Keep it up and let nothing move you!
- I Cor 15:58
Walk #4 (Eph 5:15-6:9)
Look carefully then how you walk