I do.

"Do I believe that you're my God? 

That You're all I need?  

That You're all I need?"

Realizations...

"To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its hardest and worst- is, by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed."


~Frederick Buechner

Recently,

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

~John Burrough

God, teach me how to love.

"To love a person means 

to see them as God intended them to be."

~Fyodor Doestoevsky

God says "I have not called you to a place; I have called you to Myself."

"I don't know what God has for us, but I want to be available to go... I feel like God has me blindfolded and is leading me along a path I don't quite understand. 
But I will follow Him."
~Bonnie Witherall

{All for 1}

"I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it."
~Elisabeth Elliot in Through the Gates of Splendor

Let your light shine down on me.

"But the path of the righeous is like the light of dawn,

which shines brighter and brighter until full day."

Proverbs 4:18

I may be inadequate but :

"He does not build on any natural ability of ours at all.  God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks up to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come."
~Oswald Chambers

Beautiful, Strong.

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
~Elizabeth Kublar Ros

Being a strong person does not mean being comfortable or being ignorant or being naive.  Yet so often I choose to ignore the world's pains, disasters, and fears rather than face them.  This needs to change.

Only one, but...

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

~Helen Keller

Never Ever.

 “God never makes a promise that is too good to be true.”

~DL Moody

Grand Paradox.

"To allow this enemy to live is, in the end, to lose everything.  To repudiate it and give up all for Christ's sake is to lose nothing at last, but to preserve everything unto life eternal."

~A.W. Tozer in The Pursuit of God

Is this REAL?

Look at the stars, look how they shine for you...

If. Then.

"If God does what you think he should do, trust him.  If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him.  If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him.  If your worse nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign.  Believe he is good."

~Craig Groeschel in The Christian Atheist

?

"Have we come to the point where God can withdraw His blessings from us without our trust being affected?"

~Oswald Chambers

Who He is.

"God loves us because of who He is

and not because of who we are."

Don't you see?

"...I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done."
~Elisabeth Elliot

New Reality.

"Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality."

~Jim Cymbala

...the Lord will go before you...

"As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness.  But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us."

~Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for his Highest

"...

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."                         ~C.S. Lewis