“He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. Lewis I have often heard that God answers prayers in one of three ways: yes, no, and wait. I get the answer “wait”… a lot. There are times that I…
Author: lindablyle
Home Again
There’s no place like home. Dorothy Gale – The Wizard of Oz How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand…there is no going back? Frodo The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King J. R. R. Tolkien…
In Praise of Fleas?
But have you known a dog to praise his fleas? Wm. Butler Yeats I hate fleas! As I write this, I have literally sprayed myself into the corner of my house, more specifically to my office. Earlier today I gave each cat a dose of flea medicine, so they are currently cleaning themselves profusely while…
Stay Still
Think of yourself just as a seed patiently waiting in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. C. S. Lewis Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the…
Stay Focused
“Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee The two words set my nerve on edge: Below Expectations….
Stand Your Ground
“You cannot pass,” he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. “I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of…
Stay the Course
“‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’ So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.” The Hobbit by…
Disturbances
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio In the original Star Wars movie, Obi Wan tells Luke, “There’s been a disturbance in the force.” This is an understatement if there ever was one considering that an entire planet was just blown to…
Changes in Vision
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. (Attributed to a variety of sources including Albert Einstein) On March 25, 2021, I went to get in my car and noticed my irises had bloomed overnight. It’s always the first flower to bloom in that flowerbed,…
A Word Fitly Spoken
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Proverbs 25:11 For the last couple of weeks I have been debating about what to do about transportation. My car hit 300,000 miles, so I was faced with the dilemma of keep it going or get another car. I found a couple…