“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.‘” Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll For…
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A God Kind of Crazy: Part 1 – Never Give Up
“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” Winston Churchill And he spake a parable unto them to…
Carport Prayers
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. Erma Bombeck This past weekend was bittersweet as I said goodbye to an old friend. He was with me through thick and thin, even if he did complain a good bit. I can’t say that I blame him….
Stuck in the Middle
The key word is work. It requires a struggle, but nothing good ever comes easy.
Just Start
Part 1 of a Work in Progress (WIP) The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. “Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?” he asked. “Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll My to-do list has lists…
Free Indeed
“For truth is truth to the end of reckoning.” ~ Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free…. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:32, 36 We often joke at the yarn shop that the biggest lie we tell…
Coincidence or Synchronicity
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” Albert Einstein Do you believe in coincidence? How about synchronicity? I didn’t even know what synchronicity meant until it was discussed in a murder mystery I watched a while back. Curious about the term, I decided to look it up. According to the dictionary, synchronicity is “the simultaneous…
A Little Less, A Little More
“A little more kindness, a little less speed, a little more giving, a little less greed, a little more smile, a little less frown, a little less kicking, a man while he’s down, a little more “we”, a little less “i”, a little more laugh, a little less cry, a little more flowers, on the…
Finding Joy in the Moment
“Happiness makes up for in height what it lacks in length.” Robert Frost This week I saw a link posted on social media about a contestant on a talent show. They asked her some questions, and it turned out she was battling cancer. She performed a song she had written titled It’s Okay. When she…
Not Alone
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east. Gandalf – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the battle of Helms Deep looked grim as the enemy surrounded the only entrance and there seemed…