God’s
Unconditional love
Covering our shortcomings
Filling valleys, leveling mountains
Grace
Faith
Strengthened daily
Scripture’s inspirational light
Savior’s grace at work
Hope
Today’s
Looking forward
Christ’s fulfilling peace
Opening faith to grace
Tomorrow’s
Walking
God’s highway
Taking His way
Now becoming our way
Devotedness
Following
Christ’s example
Breathing with perseverance
Surrounded with countless witnesses
Steadfastness
Accepting
Father’s discipline
Tested by trials
Feeling His unwavering love
Righteousness
Fragile, yet unbroken
Remaining soft-spoken
Perplexed, yet answers found
Feeling free, homeward bound
Deadlocked, yet finding key
Moving on, let it be
Homeless, yet seeing light
Making nightly campsite
Troubled, yet finding peace
Forging life’s brand new lease
Hidden, yet discovered
Finding future covered
Misplaced, yet always found
Sleeping on softest ground
Wounded, yet walking free
Earning final degree
Useless, yet finding worth
Flying high above earth
Hungry, yet always fed
Tasting life’s daily bread
Shortchanged, yet now fulfilled
Making steps, always thrilled
Forgotten, yet now loved
Sharing days with beloved
Notebook always close
Springing forth from anywhere—
Writer’s endless thoughts
Writing with patience
Searching for smallest ember—
Words waken each flame
Quiet solitude
Stillness primes another page—
Words come, flowing free
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don’t, you have no business being a writer.
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever.
Will Self (born 1961) is an English author and journalist. He has written numerous published works, which include novels, shorter fiction collections, novellas, and non-fiction collections.
There is no secret to success, except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call “the breaks.”
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was an American poet and novelist, who made a significant impact during the Harlem Renaissance.
From Romans 12:2: “Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Mind submitting to Christ
Transforming worldly view
Opening to God’s truth
Holding fast, Spirit’s glue
Grace received at no cost
Traveling faith’s avenue
Walking daily with Christ
Feeling love’s bright breakthrough
Clearest, focused logic
Choosing right over wrong
Following Christ’s high road
Praising with hope’s new song
Prayers connect with God
Receiving blessed gifts
Aligning with His Word
Granting life’s heartfelt shift
Faith’s renewal strengthened
Breathing with clear thinking
Trusting always in Christ
Living without sinking
Father’s will comes to earth
Living as God and man
Overcoming with good
Teaching us that we can
From Romans 12:21: “ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Let us remember that the longer we live, the more we know, and the more we know, the more beautiful we are.
From Proverbs 10:14: “The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.”
Marianne Williamson (born 1950) is an American author who has written 14 books (at last count).
A man without words is a man without thought.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American writer. As an author of nearly three dozen books, he was recognized for his ability to bring realism into each one with keen perception and imagination. In 1962, he earned the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Life is a journey that’s measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route our life takes is built not on roads but on songs.
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Jimmy Buffet (born 1946) is an American singer and songwriter. He has also written three number-one bestsellers.
