celebrate good cheer

romans 12:2.

do not be conformed to this world.

...bE sTill my SouL...

"Leaves were falling, just like embers, in colors

red and gold,

they set us on fire,

burning just like a moonbeam in our eyes..."

_keep your eyes open to all of life's simple delights_

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field it beholds, every hour, a picture that has never been seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

_Ralph Waldo Emerson

In nature, nothing is perfect,

yet everything is perfect.

fear only the unlived life.

let the good things count for more.

wake up every morning and make it yours

get joy out of today

_GrOw WhErE yOu Are_

be who you set out to be.

so sit down and write that letter

sign up and join the fight

sink into all that matters

step out into the light

let go of all thats passing

lift up the least of these

lean into something lasting...

-planting trees by andrew peterson

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful,

ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
~ Gaston Bachelard ~

That is a good book which is opened with

expectation and closed in profit.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~

make your own opportunities.

The free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wings

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

-from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

-r e l a x-

"For lack of attention a thousand forms of LoVeLiNeSs elude us every day."

the world moves for love. it bows before it in awe.

_the village_

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud

was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

"Wake up with the dawn."

"I have DARED and DONE, for my resting place is found, the C major of this life..."

.begin at once to live.

"Somewhere, something incredible

is waiting to be known."

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he fall; for he hath not another to help him up."

- Ecclesiastes

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of the heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."

- Arabian Proverb

"For in the dew of little things

the heart finds its morning

and is refreshed."

.enjoy the small things.

It's never been more perfect

b E i N g a L i V E

I've never been so satisfied.

I could feel something different for the first time

Heaven made sense and all the words rhymed.

No chance of stopping now. I'm taking it all.

And now I'm caught in the air, its a good glide.

Pass it up, wouldn't dare, what a wild ride...

.Mae.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."

"my p a s s i o n is equal to the task"

"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."

"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Matthew 11:28

In oneself lies

the whole world

and if you know how to look and learn,

the door is there and the key

is in your hand.

Live simply.

I think on the beauty that still remains.

_Anne Frank

"Be CoNtEnT with what you have, ReJoIcE in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. "

"Who is rich? He who r.e.j.o.i.c.e.s in his portion."

"The ability to SiMpLiFy means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

"in the d e p t h of my soul there is a wordless s o n g"

S I M P L I C I T Y

Courage does not always roar.

Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying,

“I will try again tomorrow”.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes. _Chuck Swindol