
You must love in order to survive.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

You must love in order to survive.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

The life we create is useful to God only if it is consistent with Jesus Christ’s foundation.
From 1 Corinthians 3:10-11: “According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.”

Though I have walked with God for several decades, I must confess I still find much about Him incomprehensible and mysterious. But this much I know: He delights in surprising us. He dots our pilgrimage from earth to heaven with amazing serendipities.
From Psalm 145:16: “You open your hand, satisfying the desire of every living thing.”

The past is the prism through which we see a great, great deal of ourselves.
Life’s passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

People, places, and things were never meant to give us life. God alone is the author of a fulfilling life.
From Psalm 23:5-6: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.“

Mount Rushmore National Monument is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The sculptured figures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln stand watch.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Don’t need a tourist destination to “celebrate” life. Take time to explore the treasures in your own backyard.
You attract what you give out.

On each occasion when we observe the Lord’s Table . . . we are not simply to feel or to read or to hear or to see, but to take into our very bodies the taste of our Savior’s sacrifice.
From Psalm 34:8: “O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in Him.”

The drive for happiness is vital; it’s what keeps us in motion.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

The bedrock of our Christian faith is the unmerited, fathomless marvel of the love of God exhibited on the Cross of Calvary, a love we never can and never shall merit.
From Romans 8:37-39: “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”