Waters

 Shallow waters are noisy;

deep waters are silent.

Feed it

 Your mind will always believe

everything you tell it.

Feed it faith. Feed it truth.

Feed it love.

Shining regardless

 From 3 am Thoughts

You absolutely HAVE to become ok with not being liked. No matter how loving or kind you are, you will neve people please your way into collective acceptance. You could be a whole ray of sunshine and people will hate you because they're used to rain. Be ok with shining regardless.

Bravest thing

From Thinking Minds

The bravest thing you will ever do is love again.

13 Rules

13 Rules by General Colin Powell

1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

2. Get mad, then get over it.

3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

4. It can be done.

5. Be careful what you choose.

6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

7. You can't make someone else's choices.

8. Check small things.

9. Share credit.

10. Remain calm. Be kind.

11. Have a vision.

12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Miracles

 Sometimes miracles

are just good people

with kind hearts.

Contagious

 From ThirdEyeThoughts

Negativity is contagious.

Unhappiness is contagious.

Fear is contagious.

But so is happiness.

So is optimism.

So is love.

Surround yourself with people

who bring out the best in you.

And strive to be a reflection 

of what you want to receive.

Worthy now

You are worthy now.

Not when you get that degree,

or when you lose 10 pounds,

or when more people know who you are.

Now.

Simply because you exist.

The person and character of God

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? -Isaiah 40:12

We must be concerned with the person and character of God, not the promises. Through promises we learn what God has willed to us, we learn what we may claim as our heritage, we learn how we should pray. But faith itself must rest on the character of God.

Is this difficult to see? Why are we not stressing this in our evangelical circles? Why are we afraid to declare that people in our churches must come to know God Himself? Why do we not tell them that they must get beyond the point of making God a lifeboat for their rescue or a ladder to get them out of a burning building? How can we help our people get over the idea that God exists just to help run their businesses or fly their airplanes?

God is not a railway porter who carries your suitcase and serves you. God is God. He made heaven and earth. He holds the world in His hand. He measures the dust of the earth in the balance. He spreads the sky out like a mantle. He is the great God Almighty. He is not your servant. He is your Father, and you are His child. He sits in heaven, and you are on the earth. 

~A.W. Tozer

Part of me

 Seen on a Thomas Kinkade statue

I'm writing this from heaven,

Where I dwell with God above.

I am resting here with angels,

Who surround me now with love.

But though I may seem far away

We will never truly part.

For part of me lives on with you,

Forever in your heart.

To those

From Flying Free

To those who abuse:

the sin is yours,

the crime is yours, 

and the shame is yours.

To those who protect the perpetrators:

blaming the victims only masks the evil within,

making you as guilty as those who abuse.

Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.

~Flora Jessup

Most beautiful

What makes a man a man, is it what he has to offer the world in material, or is it what the world has forged him into through many lashings?

Some are full in pocket, and others are full in soul.

Some pay their dues in ten fold, and some never pay at all.

A man that has had to breathe darkness as air will possess one of the most beautiful souls of all.

~L.L. Cummings

Best feeling

 The best feeling in the world is being with someone who wants you as much as you want them.

My favorite

You're my favorite. 

My favorite pair of eyes to look into.

My favorite name to see appear on my phone.

My favorite way to spend an afternoon.

You're my favorite everything.

Healthy relationships

Healthy relationships feel boring to people who are used to relationships filled with toxicity and drama. They are not sure what to do with the love that is calm, kind, drama free, non-toxic and doesn't require them to constantly make painful sacrifices.

Overthinking

I know it's easier said than done but you 

have to control all of that overthinking

you've been doing lately. You're creating

scenarios that don't exist. And that's how 

you're breaking your own heart, love.

~r.m. drake

One good day

by Jeff Brown

It took me years to understand that many of us are more afraid of happiness than misery. Because misery and martyrdom have an inherent safety about them -- one is never particularly vulnerable, nor at risk of disappointment. Unhappiness becomes a security blanket, a way to armor ourselves against deep feeling. On the other hand, happiness has an intrinsically risky quality. When we open our hearts to life, we are always vulnerable to loss, to shattering, to having it all fall away. But it can also expand and deepen, joyfully permeating every element of life. I can often sense when someone has made unhappiness their shield, their perpetual life stance. Locking ourselves into a negative way of being is a self-fulfilling prophecy: misery begets misery. Only through risking something can we arrive at a new perspective. And most significantly, because the rhythms and tides of one's life can truly shift in the blink of an eye. All it takes is one good day and whole damn thing can come back to light...

Trust

When I say I need to trust you, I don't just mean trust that you will be faithful.

I need to trust you will listen to me when I need to repeat things over and over to process them. 

Trust that you will keep my heart safe.

Trust that you will honour our truth and keep an open heart. 

Trust that you won't run away when things get tough.

Trust that you will hold me tighter on the nights I feel the weight of the world.

Trust that you will let me wander in the depths of my own mind when I need space.

Trust that you will ride the waves of my contradictions without judgment.

Trust that you will see beauty in my scars and love me more for each of them.

~Barbara Gianquitto

Loves deeply

 She loves deeply regardless

of the love she gets back in return,

and it is both her biggest strength

and her biggest weakness...

~N.R. Hart

Adulthood

Adulthood is saying, "But after this week things will slow down a bit" over & over until you die.

You alone

owned by you alone

your peace

belongs to you alone

only you

can give it

to yourself

and only you

can take it away

Rise

 RISE

Don't get angry

or enraged

or insulted.

Rise above the b.s.

Flick your light back on,

and shine it brighter than ever,

and fall so deeply in love

with your own life

that anyone who tried to wrong you

becomes a laughable, ridiculous,

distant memory.

Not worthy

How they make you feel

says a lot about them

and nothing about you.

Trust me when I say,

someone who makes you question

if you are worthy of being loved

is not worthy of being loved by you.

~Bianca Sparacino

The Strength In Our Scars

Storm bringer

 From Sacred Dreams

Interesting perspective...

I was ten

when I first heard the term

thunder thighs

and I wondered how to become

the type of woman

strong enough

to hold thunder

in her very legs;

the type of woman

loud enough

to make thunder

when she walks;

a storm bringer

drowning out words that

call attention

to thighs, and not souls

that call attention to guys

and enable trolls.

I wondered how to get

legs of thunder

and if I could get a

tongue of lightning

to go alongside.

If I could really

shake institutions

with each step I took

and make a reputation

from all the foundations

I shook.

My body

rapidly 

expanding

to take up the space

I was told I could never have.

Clapping thunder

into the atmosphere

and the faces of those

hellbent on my silence and

fear.

Hear me and my thighs;

they are more powerful

than the men

who name them.

They are more beautiful

than the world

that hides them.

And I was ten

when I first heard how women

are hated;

how their bodies berated

and their ideas negated

and I was eleven when

men first made me

wary;

and thirteen when

they taught me

storms were too scary;

but I'm now 

thirty plus four

and my thighs keep growing,

asking for more.

They're clapping

and shaking

and making a scene

and bringing a storm

and washing things

clean~

~Kaitlin Shelter Poetry

Only one who can

God doesn't intend for us

to meet all our children's needs

or answer every question

or heal the deepest wounds

or satisfy their greatest longings

or save their souls.

He wants us to tell our children about the only one who can ~ Jesus.

My hurt

I explained my hurt and still got hurt.

So I learned to stop talking.

Tell my children

 Some day I'll tell my children

Someday, when my child is old enough to appreciate what motivates a parent, I'll tell them...

I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, who with and what time you would be home.

I loved you enough to worry and nag about your health.

I loved you enough to choose your temporary upset, in the hope that lessons would bring you longtime happiness.

I loved you enough to be "overprotective."

I loved you enough to not make excuses for your bad manners and lack of respect.

I loved you enough to choose to put myself last, every day.

I loved you enough to ignore what "every other parent" did.

I loved you enough to remove people that I loved from my life, so that I could protect you.

I loved you enough to let you stumble, fail and fall, so that you could learn to stand alone.

But most of all, I loved you enough to risk you hating me for decisions that I made in the hope that I was doing what was best for you, that was the hardest part of all.

Waiting room

From 3 am Thoughts

I love how you pray for something, it seemingly goes unanswered, and then one day you're at the center of the very thing that once felt impossible. The waiting room isn't punishment. God was positioning you to receive the fullness of your request. Stay in position.

To live

 "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."  ~Thomas Campbell

Safe now

 from The Modern Break-Up novel

Yes toxic relationships are hard but do you know what else is hard? Your first healthy relationship after a toxic one. No one talks about how hard it is to unlearn all the toxic behaviors you adapted as coping mechanisms. How hard it is to convince yourself that you're safe now.

Genuinely fell

 I genuinely fell for someone when I wasn't searching for love, I was searching for peace. I was searching for myself and found a friend, who became the love of my life. Sometimes you need to focus on growing yourself and you run into what's destined for you.

~@moonssoulchild

Working hard

Still thinking about this one...

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress,

Working hard for something we love is called passion.

~Simon Sinek