Float

Sometimes -

God lets us

float around

on a small

raft in the 

middle of a 

dark ocean

for awhile so

that one day

when somebody

else starts 

drowning and

God appoints us

to help them,

we will already

know our way

around the waters.

~ullie-kaye

Changing things

Let July be July

and let August be August.

And let yourself

just be

even in uncertainty.

You don't have to fix everything.

You don't have to solve everything.

And you can still find peace

and grow

in the wild

of changing things.

One more day

God gave me 

one more day.

The question is,

what will I do with it?

How will I serve.

Who will I bless.

What will I bring

to the table.

The older I get,

the more I realize

that God doesn't

have me here just

to take up space.

What cruelty

that would be.

He is planting me a garden

that I can either choose to

water or walk away from.

His mercy is new every morning -

His love is that big.

And I never want

to recover from

how good it is to 

know Him.

~ullie-kaye

Survives

 From The First Ten

She Survives

Spades

I love the way she survives.

Survival looked good on her.

There were no dark marks under her eyes.

Maybe deep inside,

but I liked the way she looked through them

and laughed at life.

She did it gracefully.

She'd walked over glass and through fire,

but still smiled.

And

honestly,

I'm not interested in people

who haven't lived and died a few times.

Who haven't yet had their heart ripped out,

or know what it feels like

to lose everything.

I trust those people,

because they stand for something.

I knew what she'd been through.

I wanted to thank her for surviving

and her to know

she now had someone willing to stand with her, too.

You are more

 From Parked Car

 

He was lying beside me when I said,

"You are everything I wanted...

am I everything you wanted?"

He replied,

"You are everything I wanted."

Then he smiled and looked up at the ceiling,

as if remembering everything he had wanted

before he met me, and he turned to me and said,

"You are more."

Never give up

 Never give up

on the people

that you love.

Miracles happen every day.

Patterns

Nobody tells you this: The reason

you repeat patterns isn't because

you're broken. It's because patterns

are your brain's efficiency tool. It

takes massive energy to do

something new. Patterns are pre-

loaded. Cheap to run. Your brain will

always prefer the established

highway over the dirt road. Even if

the highway leads somewhere you 

hate.

~@scottdclary