Never Assume There Will Be A Tomorrow

"Our time on this earth is numbered, and we never know when we’ll take out last breath. Never assume there will be a tomorrow or take a loved one for granted. Count your blessings often and enjoy every second with your family… even on the days when it isn’t easy."

An excerpt from One Word at a Time... Mom by Bridget on her blog One Word at a Time

What Are You Thinking?

"The problem is we so often take such things for granted. For example, I wonder if any of us woke up this morning and thanked God that we were healthy. Did we thank Him because we can enjoy the beauty of the things He has created? Were we grateful for our meals today, or did we forget that millions around the world will go to bed with empty stomachs? Do we look at life through positive or negative eyes?"

- An excerpt from How Stinkin' is Your Thinkin'? by Kevin on his blog Shooting the Breeze

There is Still Good to Come

"I’m learning that in wrong, even in the worst of all betrayals there is still a good to come, that forgiveness is God’s way of reclaiming the wrong in the world.

It allows the person whose job it is to forgive the chance to grow and change. The wrong, even as evil as it is, can be redeemed in the heart of the forgiver."

- An excerpt from Except Forgiveness by Sarah Markley on her blog The Best Days of My Life (An excellent post! You must go read the rest.)

Enabled To Repent

"A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repent (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death wich Christ Himself carried out."

- C.S. Lewis

Fear

"Don't fear death, fear the unlived life."

- Natalie Babbitt