2013.06.01 Where you start

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception,

things create their own focus.

~ Kristin Cashore, Graceling

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go;

they merely determine where you start.

~ Nido Qubein

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said.

~ Matthew 4:19a

2013.05.26 Filled with glory

Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time,

then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
~ Betty Smith

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank you," that would suffice.

 ~ Meister Eckhart

Oh Lord, . . . the earth is full of your riches.

~ Psalm 104:24

2013.05.24 Always extraordinary

…the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about…

~ Berenice Abbott

Reality is always extraordinary.

~ Mary Ellen Mark

And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.

~ Genesis 1:31a

2013.05.22 The one that is waiting for us

I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.

~Ernst Haas, photographer

We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

~ Joseph Campbell

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

~ Matthew 6:10

2013.05.16 Do not stop

Warm winds bear old scents.

I ask why I have fallen

And how I may rise.

~ John Shors in Beside a Burning Sea

So we do not lose heart.

Though our outer self is wasting away,

our inner self is being renewed day by day.

For the things that are seen are transient,

but the things that are unseen are eternal.

~ 2 Corinthians 4:16, 18

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

~ Confucius