BURN

Burn the churches, not the witches.

RESIST THE TEMPTATION

God provides for you a time to rest and come away long enough to be fresh. Remember, the most tragic mistakes in the Bible have occurred in times when godly men—leaders, no less—took on too much, worked too long, got too tired, stretched themselves too thin, or got so caught up in their circumstances that they failed to hear the still small voice of the Lord.

Resist the temptation to burn your rest time during this season in worthless pursuits. TVs, computers and sometimes even books and magazines and one more item on the to-do list can take the place of the sleep we need to fight for. These coming days will be for us, like Elijah, time to rest and eat, rest and eat…drawing our strength from the Word until we can pull ourselves together for a long hike to the mountain! Instead of letting us wander alone in the desert full of fear and feeling whipped, God sends the angels right to where we are, and in mercy and compassion He restoreths our soul. Rest, friends, and eat.

Scripture Of The Day: "And He said to them, [As for you] come away by yourselves to a deserted place, and rest a while--for many were [continually] coming and going, and they had not even leisure enough to eat." – Mark 6:31 (AMP)

THE WORLD INSIDE YOU

Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you.

BUTTERFLY

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

PEOPLE CRY

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

STRONG

You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it.

A WELL-SPENT DAY

If you planted hope today in any hopeless heart, if someones burden was lighter because you did your part, if you caused a laugh that chased some tears away, if tonight your name is named when someone kneels to pray, then your day has been well-spent.

HEART

At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart... but not in your life.

YOU ARE GREAT BEYOND COMPARE

A little boy once asked a question in the darkness of his room,  "God, who are you?" There in the silence came the reply, "I am you." The boy was confused but said, "It must be sad then, being you?" From the stillness the voice spoke again, "I'ts true. It is sad being you but it doesn't have to be." The boy looked down and his eyes were heavy now as he said, "What can I do to be happy?" The voice said, "Grab a mirror and look at me in you. Realize that you are true and you are never alone. You see me as powerful but you must see that the powerful one is you. Go dear child and love your heart back to health. Go and find the true wealth of your heart as it is coupled with mine."Sometimes the boy dreams that conversations like this one, actually did take place but then he remembers that no voice has ever come from outer space. He sees that no one speaks and so he takes the words of his heart and calls them Gods. Poor poor child. I love you so much....and I am sorry that you had to learn that the heart of God was on the tip of your tongue all of this time. I am sorry that you were never told that you were great beyond compare and that you could love yourself with the very words and imagination that were stored up in your heart from birth. The world made me feel like a dirty beggar but I am a King.

~Jacob Heynen

MISTAKES

You can never make the same mistake twice, because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice.

BE VULNERABLE

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

DEPRESSION

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

• The WEAK can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the STRONG" - Mahatma Gandhi

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• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future." - Lewis B. Smedes

DIFFICULT PEOPLE

I am thankful for the difficult people in my life.
They have shown me exactly who I don't want to be.

GRUDGE

Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head.

WEIRD

We are all a little weird & life's a little weird & when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them & fall in mutual weirdness & call it love.

-- Dr. Seuss

WORKING

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired & discouraged people who kept on working.

I AM TOO...

I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, & too determined to be defeated.

ENEMIES / FRIENDS

I told God protect me from my enemies & I started losing friends.

COMFORT ZONE

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.


~ Neale Donald Walshe

OUR LIVES

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King

SHE LIES

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.


~ Shakespeare

SILENCE OF FRIENDS

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

LOVE PEOPLE

God gives us people to love & things to use, not things to love & people to use.

LOVE IS EQUAL

"I see them mostly because they are in pain. The others do well on their own but I see the ones who can not live up to the expectations that others excel in. I see them because I am one of them. I see and wonder how anyone could ever believe that God would damn children who have fallen and are crying on their knees. I will never damn you and even if I am gone someday, my love will be the decision that is set in stone, just for you. Rest assured, I learned my character, that is of the highest quality, from my father. I am who I am because he was before me and I learned the way that he established. There is no distinction between my love and his. Love is equal."


- Jacob Heynen

MATURE

I'm mature enough to forgive you, but until further notice, I'm not dumb enough to trust you.

WONDERFUL

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

~ Steve Jobs

DALAI LAMA

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

BITTERNESS, IGNORNACE, SMALLNESS, INSECURITIES

Should you find yourself the victim of other peoples bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities, remember this: things could be much worse. You could be one of them!

MASKS

“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”

― Jim Morrison

DELIRIUM

"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

– Antonin Artaud

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

GRADES

"Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them."


~ Derrick Jensen

APOLOGIZING

Apologizing does not always mean that you are wrong & the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.

SINCERITY

"A seemingly insignificant act with sincerity is far better than great deeds with boast"

CHANGE

Put the politicians on minimum wage and watch how fast things change.

HAPPINESS

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder...

GOD'S CHARACTER

"You don't know who you are till you are able to see the amount of God's character revealed in you"

I CHOOSE

I choose;
to live by choice, not by chance;
to make changes, not excuses;
to be motivated, not manipulated;
to be useful, not used;
to excel, not compete.
I choose self-esteem, not self pity.
I choose to listen to my inner voice,
not the random opinion of others.

WALLS

Sometimes people put up walls not to keep others out but to see who cares enough to tear them down.

POWER

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

We may think we know what God ought to do in troubling situations, but we cannot know all that is at stake. Let's remember that with God, anything is possible--even resurrecting what we believe to be dead and healing what we perceive to be a hopeless situation.

GET A JOB

Teenagers: tired of being harrassed by your stupid parents?
Act now! Move out! Get a job! Pay your bills while you still know everything!

ANSWERED PRAYER

Each of us should carry a thankful heart for every “yes” we receive from God as an answer to prayer. We can also be thankful He doesn’t say “yes” to prayers that are not in agreement with His will—prayers that are based on our wisdom and not on His; that would bring leanness to our souls; that would put us in the wrong place; that would make us ineffective; that would bring us into wrong relationships; that would cause our hearts to cool; that would keep us from His highest and rob us of His best.

LIBERTINE AND LEGALIST

The libertine lives as though there is no God; the legalist lives as though he/she is God to everyone else.

CHRIST

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.


~ Mohandas Gandhi

EVERYBODY IS A GENIUS

Everybody is a genius!
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that its stupid.

~ Albert Einstein.

THE BEAUTY OF A WOMAN

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”
~ Audrey Hepburn.

ABORTION

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: 'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together. So the doctor said: 'OK and what do you want me to do?' She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.' The doctor thought for a little, and after som...e silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.' She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request. Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms. The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child! 'I agree', the doctor replied.

OBEY

The problem Christians have caused is that they don't get how desperately God loves us all and how high a value people have to Him! Obeying always follows relationship. If not the obeying will probably result in resentment and despair ultimately. That sadly is the equation of many churches. Obey and you will be loved. It's the same dysfunction as a boy that doesn't get his father's love. He will strive through performance to achieve something or become rebellious

SINNERS IN HEAVEN

I was shocked, confused, bewildered, as I entered Heaven's door, not by the beauty of it all, nor the lights or its decor. But it was the folks in Heaven who made me sputter and gasp--The thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics and the trash. There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money twice. Next to him was my old neighbor who never said anything nice. Bob, who I always thought was rotting away in hell, was sitting pretty on cloud nine, looking incredibly well. I nudged Jesus, 'What's the deal? I would love to hear your take. How'd all these sinners get up here? God must've made a mistake 'And why is everyone so quiet, so somber - give me a clue.' 'Hush, child,' He said, 'They’re all in shock. No one thought they'd be seeing you.'

JUDGE NOT!! Remember...Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car. Every saint has a past... Every sinner has a future! 

Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - It has no point.

LOVE, PEACE, HARMONY

Discord, anger and strife can't co-habitate with Love, Peace & Harmony, they will just never get along :)

WILLING

Jesus calls us to remember that we are all God's children. Just as He loves all His people and is willing to forgive their sins, we must be willing to forgive others who have done wrong to us: Anger can consume us with hatred and block out the love of God. Whether between parent and child, spouses, friends, or nations, expressions of anger divide us and drive us toward open hostility.....

SINGING

The fat lady is singing her head off!!

AUTHENTICITY

Authenticity - Having one face and heart holding the same thoughts, opinions & beliefs before everyone without tweaking or tailoring them to please one here and then the other there. What your best friends know "between us" is real.. why alter it to appease someone else or sustain their 'approval'... it always shows up anyway. Sincerity never promised popularity but does produce trust and consistency of character.

~ Dawn Schale

CHURCHES

Churches run like a polished broadway performance...... Like a woman who is attracted to a slick, smooth-talking man who has no substance, we start falling for the church and in the end we get hurt when we realize that all that glitters is not gold!!!

LIFE

The Adventure of life is to learn.
The Purpose of life is to grow.
The Nature of life is to change.
The Challenge of life is to overcome.
The Essence of life is to care.The Opportunity of life is to serve.
The Secret of life is to dare.
The Spice of life is to befriend.
The Beauty of life is to give.
The Joy of life is to love.

~William Ward