Smile

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

John Keats

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

Mark Twain

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator

W. Beran Wolfe

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Loaves-Tom Holladay

Have you ever asked yourself, Why doesn’t God make our lives easier? Why doesn’t He just
give us all the time that we need while we live in this world? Why doesn’t He just give us all the money we need while we live in this world? Why doesn’t He just give us all the resources we can possibly need?

I think you probably know the answer. I know it for myself at least.

If I had all the time, all the money, all the resources I needed in this world

I would have never looked to God and trusted Him.

Never.

I’d just have trusted in myself the rest of my life.

Jesus loves impossible situations.

He’s God!

Impossible circumstances do not bother Him.

He doesn’t discard what we have and do something better. He uses what we give Him to do something greater. That’s what I love. It’s not like the boy comes up and says, .Here, Jesus, five loaves and two fish. And He goes, “That’s nice, that’s cute,” And throws them over into the trash. “Now watch what I, Jesus Christ, can do!”
No. He takes the loaves and He takes the fish and He uses what the boy gave Him to meet everybody’s need. It’s incredible. That’s what God does. He uses what we give Him to meet the needs.

Anytime you face a problem or a challenge and you feel small next to the problem, there’s no way you’ll lead in that circumstance. The world has a lot of problems and challenges that are tall. And if we don’t lead in that circumstance, nobody’s going to lead.

So you don’t measure the problem or challenge according to your own abilities.

Sometimes often the answers to the most important and biggest questions of life are not
figured out logically.

They’re discovered relationally.

The reason God allows impossible circumstances in our lives is to remind us of the fact that He is there.

We can turn to Him.

Little in the hands of Jesus becomes much.

The Only Exception

When I was younger

I saw my daddy cry

And curse at the wind

He broke his own heart

And I watched

As he tried to reassemble it

And my momma swore that

She would never let herself forget

And that was the day

that I promised I'd never sing of love

If it does not exist

But darling,

You, are, the only exception

You, are, the only exception

You, are, the only exception

You, are, the only exception

Maybe I know, somewhere

Deep in my soul

That love never lasts

And we've got to find other ways

To make it alone

Keep a straight face

And I've always lived like this

Keeping a comfortable,

distance

And up until now

I had sworn to myself

that I'm Content

with loneliness

Because none of it

was ever worth the risk

Well,

You, are, the only exception

You, are, the only exception

You, are, the only exception

You, are, the only exception

I've got a tight grip on reality

But I can't

Let go of what's in front of me here

...

Ohh---You, are, the only exception

And I'm on my way to believing

Oh, And I'm on my way to believing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXewWr8V6Vg

Selah II (random)

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Marian Wright Edelman

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams

Jesse Jackson

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Tony Robbins

Our obedience is love
Joel Houston


"Love;
it will not betray you,
dismay
or
enslave you...
it will set you free..
be more like the man you were made to be"