Who Watches You?

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

- Clarence Budington Kelland

A Christian Life

"A Christian is one who makes it easier for other people to believe in God."

- Unknown

Are You Trying To Write Your Own Story?

"Advent calls us to stop and turn back from trying to write our own stories.  The more I try to write away the unknown, more of it seems they come out of the woodwork.

There is no peace for the unknown other than Advent:  waiting for Christ.

I forget there are just some problems that aren’t solvable by little ol’ me. I try to remedy myself with people, things, and my own good cheer.   This is the old way, where I hope in myself, my plans or my story.

God calls me to live a new way.  He wants to make His mark and to write His story instead.  As I wait for the worst to unravel, God shows up and makes sense out of the stress.

Thank God I don’t need to be stress-free, in order for Him to work in me. Jesus’ birth proves it.  Jesus came when the world was messed up, arriving small, under the most unpromising circumstances."

- An excerpt from The Hope of the Unknown by Bonnie on her blog Faith Barista

Finding Peace

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

- Virginia Woolf

Direction Determines Destination

"...In the book [The Principle of the Path] [Andy] Stanley unpacks this simple but profound principle: "direction determines destination."

This principle may be simple BUT we miss it so often! As Stanley points out in chapter 3, there is a huge disconnect that goes on in people's minds. Many people (myself included) do not connect the dots between the choices they make and the outcomes they experience. Stanley says: "They've come to believe the popular notion that as long as their intentions are good, as long as they do their best and try their hardest, it doesn't really matter which path they take. They believe somehow they will end up in a good place. But life doesn't work that way." (pg. 20)."

- An excerpt from Direction Determines Destination by Kevin on his blog Shooting the Breeze