try try again

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." - Nelson Mandela

Breaking Free

"Sometimes we have no idea how we've been oppressed until we've been set free." - Beth Moore

Beggar who gives alms

Beggar who gives alms by Downhere
"There are no mystic jewels, embedded in my prose,


No moonlit haloed cherubs, perched on my piano,

No lyrics laced with pixie dust, no angels sings along.

I am just a beggar who gives alms


Chorus:

Gold and silver have I none, but such I have give thee,

Borrowed words from the one, who gave the gift to me,

The pearl that I could never buy, this life, this dream, this song,

And I am just a beggar who gives alms


I am not the creator, but a scribe with a pen,

I'm recreating visions, through a cracked and broken lens,

Only one has ever seen the home for which we long,

And I am just a beggar who gives alms."

If I Never Knew You

"I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you" John Smith- Disney's Pcoahontas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiuBw_kj1-U&feature=related <--- watch this!

Lyrics:
"If I never knew you


If i never felt this love

I would have no inkling of

How precious life can be


And if I never held you

I would never have a clue

How at last I'd find in you

The missing part of me.


In this world so full of fear

Full of rage and lies

I can see the truth so clear

In your eyes

So dry your eyes


And I'm so grateful to you

I'd hve lived my whole life through

Lost forever

If I never knew you"

tough stuff.

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell

Missionary

"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light"

-- John Keith Falconer

Cheesy time!

" When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. "

-- Dr Suess

No I am not in love with anyone! haha
I just thought it was a cute cheesy quote. It reminded me of that other quote about dreams I posted the other day...

Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face;

The rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of His hand.


~traditional gaelic blessing

Men and Women Part II

Man has will, but woman has her way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

So true, no?

Dream

"If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever."

--Unknown

Okay okay, super cheesy quote today! I just thought it was so cute. I have felt that way. I don't know about you but I struggle with facing reality. Sometime life seems too hard and in your dreams everything goes right. There was a time when I would lie in bed trying to dream or sleep, just to get away from it all. I realize now that I have to face the world and my life, I can't hide from it. The best thing is I'm not doing it alone. I have the Sovereign God of the universe behind me, leading me if only I would allow Him. Think about that today. Are you hiding from your life? Do you just want to pretend and dream all day or will you face your destiny?

Do you hear the people sing...

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Those three little words...

"It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands."
--Jaka

Isn't the phrase "I love you" so overused yet underused in it's true meaning. Let's remember today not only of human love but of the divine love of our Father in heaven. John 3:16, th most profound verse (to me anyway) in the whole Bible. Everytime I read it or remember it I can help but wonder why He did it. Why would He allow His Son to die for the world? It blows my mind but I am so eternally grateful for it. <3

Home is where the heart is

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is impossible

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

--Janos Arnay

Men and Women...

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

-Groucho Marx

It's worth fighting for

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
 
^--- favorite quote from the entire LOTR trilogy. <3
We watched Twin Towers last night! Such an awesome movie!

LOTR! :D

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

The Lord of the Rings

Farewell speech of Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 'A Long-Expected Party'.

chocaholic. ;)

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

Charles M. Schulz