Ruth: Love, Loss & Legacy

***It is our wisdom to make the best of that which is, for it is seldom that changing our place is mending it. -Matthew Henry

***God's ways are not always the most practical, popular, or unopposed, but they are the most blessed.

***How sad it is when people only HEAR about God's blessing, but never experience it, because they are not in the place where God can bless them. -Warren Wiersbe

***Obedience to God is often wrought with a slew of obstacles that persuade us to change our minds.

***Lack of honest communication has to be one of the ultimate destroyers of relationships, while learning the
quality of gracious but bold speech can be a balm in bitter & complicated situations.

***When God is at work, bitter hopelessness can be the beginning of some surprising good -Hubbard

***May the gospel's truth silence every accusing voice & erase every guilty thought.

***Just as the hollow of winter mysteriously gives rise to the bounty of spring, so times of humbling & hardship prepare us for a wealth of blessing we would have otherwise been unable to handle.

***Its possible that God is more inclined to tend to our outbursts than our detached silence.

***This may be one of the most tragic ways for a Christian to spend her life:  In the right place with all the right resources but without a willing heart. ........I so desperately do not want to get to the end of my life to find I've missed having an eternal impact because I made all of life's decisions based solely on what made sense for me & what was for my benefit - unwilling to yield myself to the Lord.

***All I know is that laying down our lives for others, for the sake of Jesus, is never wasted.  No matter how quiet, how humble, how thankless, God is making a name for you - one that will last an eternity.

Shades of Morning

• Sin was sin - no matter how acceptable in the world...

• "Sin was sin for a reason.  Sin would tear you apart, leave you bleeding, snatch your future & drain away the life.  It would make you alone when you could have had a family at your side." -Taylor

• She'd hung on to her regrets instead of her joys....

CS Lewis

When I was 10, I read fairy tales in secret & would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.  Now that I am 50, I read them openly.  When I became a man, I put away childish things - including the fear of childishness & the desire to be very grown up.

G.K. Chesterton

Fairy Tales do not tell children the dragons exist.  Children already know that dragons exist!  Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed!

Edwin Louis Cole

You dont drown by falling in the water;  you drown by staying there.

E. Joseph Cossman

The greatest power is often simple patience

Arthur Miller

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Michael Pritchard

You dont stop laughing because you grow old.  You grow old because you stop laughing.

Roy Hession

Be careful what you say about the faults & mistakes of others.... they may have already been to the cross about them.

Blaise Pascal

In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe  & enough shadows to blind those who dont.