Inspiration and Encouragement for the Journey
This is a place for me to keep and share encouraging words and even links to videos and songs that I have come across in a variety of sources, or others have shared with me... for me, words are extremely powerful as they create images, hope, and even laughter.
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"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." - Jeremiah 29:11
Just a couple of thoughts, that I found especially powerful at this point in my journey:
"Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks. Remembering frames up gratitude. Gratitude lays out the planks of trust. I can walk the planks - from known to unknown - and know: God holds. I could walk unafraid." (Voskamp)
"All these years, these angers, these hardenings, this desire to control, I had thought I had to snap the hand closed to shield joy's fragile flame from the blasts. In a storm of struggles, I had tried to control the elements, clap the fist so tight as to protect self and happiness. But palms curled into protective fists fill with darkness....My own wild desire to protect my joy at all costs is the exact force that kills my joy...so the secret of joy's flame: Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control... let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and be. Be at peace." (Voskamp)
"Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks. Remembering frames up gratitude. Gratitude lays out the planks of trust. I can walk the planks - from known to unknown - and know: God holds. I could walk unafraid." (Voskamp)
"All these years, these angers, these hardenings, this desire to control, I had thought I had to snap the hand closed to shield joy's fragile flame from the blasts. In a storm of struggles, I had tried to control the elements, clap the fist so tight as to protect self and happiness. But palms curled into protective fists fill with darkness....My own wild desire to protect my joy at all costs is the exact force that kills my joy...so the secret of joy's flame: Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control... let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and be. Be at peace." (Voskamp)