Something small

God: Send her something small today.

Angel: What kind of small?

God: The kind of small she'll almost dismiss. A song that

catches her off guard. A moment of light in the kitchen. A

stranger's kindness she wasn't expecting. A memory that makes

her smile before she knows why.

Angel: She won't know it's from you.

God: She doesn't have to. Not right away. I'm not sending it for

the credit. I'm sending it because she needs to know she's not

walking through today alone. I want her to feel a little lighter

without knowing why.

Angel: And later? When she looks back?

God: She'll start to notice the pattern. The small moments that

showed up right when she needed them. The tenderness that

arrived without her asking. She'll trace it back to me eventually.

Angel: For now?

God: For now, just send it. Let her feel loved today, even if she

can't name where it's coming from.

~jacqueline whitney

Something different

 From She Rises

For three years,

Jesus loved someone

He knew would end up

betraying Him.

He spent His time healing the sick

and offering grace to those

filled with regrets.

The Savior of the world

surrounded Himself

with people others shunned.

Being like Jesus often means

something very different 

than what we think it does.

Repay

 From Civil Engr Juan Garza

"I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten."

Joel 2:25 (NIV)

Friend, can we talk about the word years in this 

verse?

Not days. Not weeks. Not a hard season that

lasted a few months. Years. God is speaking to

people who have watched locusts strip everything

- crops, livelihood, hope - year after year after

year. And into that accumulated, compounded,

seemingly irreversible loss, He speaks one of the 

most extraordinary promises in all of Scripture.

I will repay you.

"God does not promise to stop the locusts. He

promises to repay what they took. He is not just a

God who ends the loss - He is a God who

restores it. Every year of it."

So many of us are carrying a loss that is measured

not in days but in years. Years of a marriage that

was slowly consumed by something neither

person knew how to stop. Years of a health battle

that took more than a body - it took time, dreams,

plans, the version of life that was supposed to

happen. Years spent in a career that turned out to

be a dead end. Years raising a child who walked

away. Years of financial struggle that never

seemed to turn the corner. And the accumulation

of those years can start to feel like too much even

for God to reach. Too much lost. Too much time

gone. Too far behind to ever catch up.

But Joel 2:25 speaks directly into that

accumulated loss. The word repay in the original

Hebrew is the word shalam - the root of the word

shalom. It means to make whole. To complete. To

restore to a state of wholeness and peace. God is

not just going to give something back. He is going

to make things whole again. The years the locusts

consumed - the time, the opportunity, the joy, the

relationships, the health - God says He is going to

restore it to a place of completeness that the loss

never fully destroyed.

"The God who made time is not limited by time.

He can do more in one season of restoration than

the locusts stole across many years. That is not 

math - that is a miracle."

And here it what is so stunning about this

promise. God takes personal responsibility for the

repayment. Not - the situation will improve. Not -

things will work out eventually. I will repay. God

Himself is the guarantor of the restoration. He is

putting His name on it. The years are not lost

forever. They are on a ledger that God has 

promised to settle. And when God settles a debt,

He does not settle it minimally. He settles it with

abundance.

The lost years are not gone forever.

They are on God's ledger. And He has promised to repay.

Not partially. Not eventually maybe.

I WILL REPAY. HIS WORDS. HIS PROMISE. HIS NAME ON IT.

PRAYER:

Lord, we bring You the years. The ones the locusts 

consumed. The time we cannot get back, the dreams

that were stripped away, the losses that

accumulated until they felt permanent. We trust

Your promise today. You are the God who repays.

Who restores. Who makes whole what was

broken. We do not know how You will do it. We just

trust that You will. Lord God Almighty we pray in

the Mighty Name of Your Son Jesus Christ, Amen.

Marked

 By Steve De'lano Garcia

"You can always recognize the woman God has

marked, because life hits her like it has a personal

grudge and she still gets back up with fire in her eyes

and worship on her lips. She gets dragged through

grief, betrayal, silence, shame, and pressure heavy

enough to crush softer people, yet somehow she rises

again, not polished, not delicate, but fiercer, wiser,

and far harder to shake. People watch her crawl

through what should have buried her and wonder

why she is still standing, still breathing, still lifting

her voice to God as if hell itself failed to make her

bow. That is how you know. Favor does not mean

she was spared the pain; it means she was carried

through it, held in it, and brought out of it with a

presence that unsettles anyone who thought she

would disappear. She does not stand there because life

was kind. She stands there because God decided that

what came for her would not get the final word."

Broken crayons

Broken Crayons

He says, "wait."

We ask "how long?"

He says, "I have something better."

We say, "but it hurts."

He says, "My plan is for you."

We say, "I don't feel it."

The problem is - 

we use broken crayons

to draw the picture of

what we think our life 

should look like and hold 

it up to a God who formed 

mountains from His own

breath.

~ullie-kaye

Faith

Linda and I were just talking about this over the weekend...

God is not going to wake you up with a 

detailed roadmap for your life because

He wants you to trust in Him, not a plan.

If you knew every step, every turn, and

exactly when you would arrive, faith

would not be necessary. You would rely

on your own understanding rather than

walking in trust.

Faith is not about having all the answers.

It is about believing even when you

cannot see, trusting even when you do

not understand, and holding on even

when everything feels uncertain. Faith

means walking forward despite the

unknown because you are confident in

the One who leads you.

It is not about clarity. It is about

confidence in God's faithfulness. 

Would help

 If you'd hurt me, it would help.

It would make every step more freeing

to walk away.

Because holding on to you

is destroying every shred of peace

in my life.

But the thought of releasing you

is more painful than words

can describe.

~Morgan Richard Olivier

Reminded

 Sometimes we just need to be reminded of this:

God will make a way

prayer changes everything

God is always fighting for you

God has great plans for your life

God breaks chains, not promises

God's in control of every situation

even in the waiting, He's working

God will connect you with the right people

God removes and God replaces

God knows what you need, go to Him

put God first and everything else will follow

taking time to be with God is the best place to find strength

~jacqueline whitney

The mess

 How can I blame the wind for the mess it made, if it was me who opened the window.

Hurtful things

We must let go

Of those hurtful things

That burn and hiss

And bite and sting.

That hurt the heart

And clip our wings,

Where we can't fly

And we can't sing.

I think it's time

To turn the page,

Turn to the light

And quiet the rage.

Forgive the slights

We cannot change,

And spread our wings

To escape this cage.

Afterglow

I saw this taped into a sympathy card that Kitty & Bob sent to Mom/Gma after your accident:

Afterglow

I'd like the memory of me

to be a happy one.

I'd like to leave an afterglow

of smiles when life is done.

I'd like to leave an echo

whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times and laughing times

and bright and sunny days.

I'd like the tears of those who grieve,

to dry before the sun

Of happy memories that I have

when life is done.

~Helen Lowrie

Fighting me

 Whoever is fighting me is fighting God.

And God has never lost a battle.

Not one.

Not ever.

Real connection

 I don't know who needs to hear this, but

one difficult conversation, one bad night,

or one moment when your insecurity got

the better of you does not end

something that was meant to last.

Real connection is sturdier than that and it

can hold you at less than your best.

The point

 Marriage vows exist

because feelings move.

The promise was built

for the days the feeling

isn't there, and that was

always the point.

Won

 By May Ann Mateo Rigor

To the husband who thought he won: you may

have traded the woman who loved you deeply for

a moment you will spend years trying to 

understand.

She wasn't just your wife. She was the woman

who believed you when you gave her your word.

The one who stood beside you when life wasn't

easy. She carried parts of your life that nobody

else saw. She trusted you with her heart because

she thought, after everything you had built

together, you were the one person she never had 

to protect herself from.

Then she found out.

And something inside her changed that no

apology could completely repair. She didn't only

cry over another woman. She cried over every

memory she suddenly couldn't look at the same

way. Every "I love you." Every promise. Every

ordinary moment she thought was real. She had to

grieve the man she thought she married while still

looking at the man standing in front of her.

Maybe you think you won because someone else

wanted you. Maybe the attention made you feel

alive again. But don't confuse being desired with

being loved. You had someone who knew your

flaws, your struggles, your worst days, and still

chose you. That kind of love is not easy to replace.

And maybe one day when the excitement is gone

and the silence becomes harder to ignore, you'll

remember the woman who once would have done

anything to protect your marriage. You may finally

understand what you threw away.

But by then, she may have learned to live

without you. And that may be the one

consequence you cannot talk your way out of.

Staying married

 Staying married is a

Kingdom mission to love

the unlovable and to show

grace and mercy to each

other even during 

undeserving moments. It's 

not about loving the 

spotless bride or groom; it's

holding on to the covenant

by loving each other even

with the spots and wrinkles

for God's glory.

As good as it gets

God just wants

our fish and loaves.

That's it.

When the little child

handed over everything

he had, that's when

the miracle happened.

Not one loaf.

Or one piece of fish.

All he had.

The full basket.

And it makes me

wonder how often

I've only fed myself,

convinced that it was

as good as it gets.

~ullie-kaye

With integrity

 People with integrity

feel ashamed when

they know they're

wrong.

People without it glorify

their mistakes, play the

victim, and refuse to

take accountability.

Could be

 i was so afraid

of the person

i would be

without you

that i never

thought about

the person

i could be

without you

Confession

 I am glad that he at least sent me the police report himself and I didn't have to find out on my own...

She may forgive a

confession, but she will

absolutely never forgive

discovering the truth on

her own after being

gaslit into believing she

was losing her mind for

simply suspecting it all along.

There is a specific kind of betrayal that cuts deeper than the lie itself and that is being made to question your own sanity while the lie was happening. She came to him with her gut feeling and he looked her in the eyes and made her feel paranoid, insecure, and irrational for trusting what she already knew. Then she found the truth herself. Not through him finally being honest but through her own pain and persistence. That is unforgivable not because she cannot heal but because he chose to damage her mind and her trust simultaneously. She deserved the truth from the very beginning.

~Gentle Truths

Stop overthinking

 STOP OVERTHINKING.

IF IT'S GOD'S WILL, IT'LL

HAPPEN AND NOTHING WILL

STOP IT. IF IT'S NOT, HE HAS

 A BETTER PLAN. HAVE

PEACE IN KNOWING THAT.

The detour

I saw a quote today

that's been stuck in 

my mind ever since:

"God protects you in

a way that feels like

bad luck at first."

Trust the detour.

Being ignored

 When a woman is faced with a situation

where she is being ignored by her

partner,

there are two ways she will respond.

First, she will get angry, seem demanding,

and always ask, "What did I do wrong?"

If she does that, it means she's still trying

to save the relationship.

Second, she will choose to stay silent and

not care.

That means her heart is truly exhausted.,

and she's trying to save her own peace of mind.

Decide

 An unhealed person can

find offense in pretty much

anything someone does.

A healed person understands

that the actions of others

have nothing to do with them.

Each day you get to decide

which one you will be.

Stop

 If you're lying awake tonight wondering how you're

supposed to stop loving them, don't try to stop all at 

once; just stop reaching for them. Stop checking on

them, stop reopening the wound, and let the feelings

exist without acting on them. Eventually, the space

between what you feel and what you do will become

the place where your healing takes place.

~Mark Smith

The ability

You have the 

ability to move

entire planets

with your love,

yet you've

settled for 

lovers who

wouldn't touch a 

mountain for you.

Lost you

 You didn't lose him, he lost you.

Because what did you really lose?

A man who can't communicate?

A man who gets mad when you express your feelings?

A man who entertains other women?

An emotionally unavailable man?

No, you didn't lose a single thing of value.

You gained the freedom to find someone

who truly values and respects you,

who can communicate honestly,

and who is emotionally available.

You gained absolutely everything by 

letting go of a man who never

deserved you in the first place.

Ask yourself

 From Divorce Lawyer Denise

YOU START DETACHING FROM AN AVOIDANT

THE MOMENT YOU ASK YOURSELF THIS:

Is this how I want to be loved for the rest of my life?

Or would you rather be with someone who

chooses you every day? Someone whose

presence doesn't make you anxious about being

left.

Someone who listens to your needs instead of

running from them...Who tries to meet you

halfway instead of creating distance when things

get uncomfortable.

A partner who stays, even during conflict. Who

doesn't disappear when emotions get intense, but

remains present and engaged.

Someone who thinks about how their actions

affect you. And who is willing to take responsibility

when something hurts, instead of avoiding it.

A relationship where you can speak freely without fear.

Where you don't have to walk on eggshells or

constantly worry that saying the wrong thing will 

push them away.

A love where disagreements are moments for 

understanding and growth. Not reasons to shut

down, leave, or turn the relationship into a power

struggle.

Someone who includes you in their life and future.

Who builds with you instead of keeping you at a

distance while you wait.

Not competing

 A wife is not competing with the

other woman.

From the very beginning,

they were never on the same level.

In commitment, she is the one who

was chosen.

In loyalty, she is the one who stayed.

In dignity, she has nothing to prove.

The other woman was never the

prize.

She was simply a distraction that

revealed someone's lack of

character.

Real love

By Noer Kim

The Day I Realized You Never Really Loved Me 

The hardest part wasn't the arguments.

It was watching you see me hurting

and still choosing to do nothing about it.

You watched me cry.

You watched me fall apart.

You knew your actions were breaking my heart...

yet nothing ever changed.

That's when I understood --

that isn't what love looks like.

Love doesn't watch someone it claims to love

slowly fall apart.

Love doesn't protect its pride while sacrificing the

heart of the person it promised to cherish.

Looking back, I finally realized...

Maybe you didn't love me.

Maybe you loved what my love gave you.

The comfort.

The attention.

The loyalty.

The certainty that I would always stay.

But love without care isn't love at all.

And the moment I finally accepted that,

walking away stopped feeling impossible.

Because real love never makes you beg

to be seen, heard, respected, or valued.

The right person will never take for granted

the heart they were lucky enough to have.

Hungry

 Jesus prepared a 

meal for the 

multitudes to

remind us that we

feed people not

because we believe

they deserve it, but

because they're 

hungry.

Suffering

The devil doesn't even

want you to suffer.

He wants you

comfortable.

Because in 

suffering,

we often find 

Christ.

Pruning

pruning feels 

like loss until

you discover

what the

Gardner

was making 

room for.

~Taylor Paslay

Afraid

 Everything you are

afraid of is afraid of

Jesus.

A partner

She didn't need more help.

She needed a partner.

"I'm tired of having to tell you

what needs to be done."

"Like what?"

"The bills. The groceries. The kids.

The house. Everything."

"But if you tell me, I'll do it."

She looked at him.

"That's exactly what I'm tired of."

He paused. "What do you mean?"

"I don't want to manage you.

I want a partner who notices things

without waiting for instruction."

He slowly put his phone down.

"So you want me to start paying attention?"

"I don't want to feel like your mother,

reminding you what needs to be done."

She paused,"I just want to feel like your wife...

like we're carrying this life together."

Marriage isn't about helping when you're asked.

It's about noticing when your partner is tired

and stepping in without being asked.

Lessons

There are

lessons God

is trying

to teach 

you in this

storm that

you could

not learn

while on 

the shore.

~TobyMac

Ordained

 If a man is ordained for you,

God will remove the scales

from his eyes and soften his

heart toward you.

God is not the author of

emotional torment.

Every love story God wrote in 

His word required sacrifice 

and sanctification - not

compromise and sin.

What God ordains will never

require seduction and sin to 

sustain it.

Heal what still matters

 From Restore My Relationship

I'M NOT PRAYING FOR SOMEONE NEW.

I'M PRAYING FOR GOD TO HEAL WHAT STILL MATTERS TO MY HEART.

I'm not asking God to erase the past or pretend

the pain never happened.

I'm asking Him to heal what was broken.

To bring peace where there was tension.

To replace bitterness with forgiveness.

To bring understanding where words once caused wounds.

To restore what can only be restored through Him.

Because the restoration isn't simply getting back together.

It's becoming different people before trying to build something again.

Sometimes God begins His work in a relationship long before we see anything change on the outside.

He works in the hidden places:

in the heart,

in the thoughts,

in the emotions,

in the wounds,

and in the choices we makes when no one is watching.

What feels like silence may actually be preparation.

God may be teaching you to release control, grow in wisdom, heal your own heart, and trust Him with what you cannot fix yourself.

I used to think restoration would begin when the other person changed.

Now I understand that sometimes God begins by changing me.

So if that person is still in your prayers, don't let the lack of answers make you lose faith.

You don't have to know how the story will end.

Just place it in God's hands.

Pray with faith.

Heal with patience.

Trust His timing.

And let Him lead you one step at a time.

What looks finished to you may not be the end of what God is doing.

Some chapters close before we understand why.

Others begin when we finally surrender them to God.

I DON'T WANT TO START A
NEW STORY.

I want God to do something new

in the story that already exists.

You are worthy

 You are worthy of love.

You are worthy of good things.

You are worthy of healthy relationships.

You are worthy of your dreams.

You are worthy of happiness.

You are worthy of kindness.

You are worthy of respect.

Even when you don't believe it.

~Charlotte Freeman

That's love

 When you give and expect a

return, that's an investment.

When you give and don't expect

anything back, that's love.

Let him

 LET HIM, CHOOSE YOUR PEACE

Don't spend too much time thinking about what 

he's doing right now.

Let him live his life. Let him text whoever he 

wants and make his own choices.

Not everything needs your reaction.

Not everything deserves your energy.

Sometimes peace begins when you stop

checking, stop chasing, and stop overthinking.

Focus on healing and moving forward.

And if he chooses to mess everything up, then

that's his path to face.

You deserve calm nights. You deserve a love that

doesn't make you anxious every day. And you

deserve the kind of peace that doesn't beg to

stay.

Stop worrying about the things you can't control.

Agape

 Agape

(Greek) A selfless, unconditional

kind of love, the love that

expects nothing in return, that

heals without asking & gives

simply because the heart

knows no other way

 It is the love that stays gentle when it could become bitter.

The love that forgives without demanding repayment.

The love that gives simply because giving is part of who it is.

Agape is love without a transaction - given freely, felt deeply, and offered without asking what comes back. 

Have peace

 Stop overthinking.

If it's God's will, it'll

happen and nothing will

stop it. If it's not, He has

a better plan. Have

peace in knowing that.

Wisely

 Someone once said,

"You've already

learned how to love

deeply. Now you're

learning how to love

wisely," and that really

stayed with me.

Because sometimes

the lesson isn't to love

less, it's to stop giving

your deepest love to 

people who don't know

how to handle it.

Quiet tragedy

 From Hope After Betrayal Ministries

A quiet tragedy after betrayal is that many

partners begin believing it is their job to uncover

the truth.

So they check phones.

Study bank statements.

Compare timelines.

Read facial expressions.

Notice every inconsistency.

Search for hidden meanings in ordinary

conversations.

Over time, life becomes an investigation.

Not because they're controlling.

Because they're trying to survive.

But here's the problem:

If your sense of safety depends on how well you

can detect deception, you will never truly rest.

There will always be another password.

Another deleted message.

Another unanswered question.

Another possibility your mind feels responsible to

uncover.

That isn't peace.

That's hypervigilance.

Real safety was never meant to come from

becoming a better detective.

It comes from living in a relationship where you no

longer have to investigate because truth is freely

given.

Where transparency is volunteered, not extracted.

Where integrity makes secrecy unnecessary.

Where your partner's life is no longer divided into

what is seen and what is hidden.

This is why rebuilding trust requires far more than

ending destructive behaviors.

It requires becoming the kind of person whose life

can withstand the light.

Until then, don't mistake your exhaustion for

weakness.

Your nervous system is carrying a job it was never

designed to hold.

God did not create your heart to become a surveillance

system.

He created it to flourish in the safety of truth.

Live with staying

 From M.N. Borromeo

It's not really about whether the cheater is sorry.

Many cheaters cry. Many apologize. Many swear

they've changed.

The harder question is: Can you live with what

staying may require of you?

Because taking back a cheater is not just about

forgiveness. It means living with what you now

know about the person you love and what that

knowledge has done to you.

The images. The suspicion. The anxiety when their

phone lights up. The questions that appear when

they're late. The humiliation of knowing they wre

capable of betraying you, then coming home,

looking you in the eyes, and carrying on as if

nothing had happened.

That's why reconciliation is not just about whether

you still love them.

It's about the psychological price of staying with

someone your mind has learned may not be safe

to trust.

And that creates a battle inside you.

Your heart remembers the love and says, "Maybe

we can rebuild."

Your mind remembers the betrayal and warns, 

"They did it once. They could do it again."

And your self-respect asks the question that hurts

the most:

"Is this how low I've fallen, that I can now accept

someone who cheated on me? This used to be my

non-negotiable. Have I lost so much of myself that

I'm now willing to accept the very thing I once

swore I never would?"

That is the real battle after infidelity.

The cheater can apologize. They can change.

They can spend years trying to become someone

worthy of your trust again.

But they cannot stop the battle they created inside

you.

And in the end, the hardest question may not be

whether you can forgive them.

It may be whether you can forgive yourself for

letting them stay.

Reassure

 From Dester Clyde Ruelo

I saw someone say they were talking to their

therapist about their anxious attachment, and their

therapist told them the truth is, you're not hard to

love or hard to be with, you are impossible to reassure.

I feel like there is someone with anxious attachment who needs to hear this.

I saw someone say they were talking 

to their therapist about their

anxious attachment, and their

therapist told them the truth is,

you're not hard to love or hard to be

with, you are impossible to reassure.

I feel like that there is someone who needs

to hear this.

Its teeth

I tried to forget them

the way Rome forgets its ruins:

by building over them.

But love leaves its teeth in you.

Even now,

I can feel their ghost

biting the edge of my softness,

testing if I still bleed belief.

~Israa Hussein

Redemptive work

 There is,

in fact,

NO

redemptive work done

anywhere

without suffering.

~Elisabeth Elliot

Overflowing

 One minute you don't have it,

the next your cup is overflowing.

That's how God works.

Suddenly, abundantly, and always

right on time.

Carry one thing

 IF YOU CARRY

one thing with you today, let it be this:

You are amazing, strong, brave,

wonderful, kind, loved, worthy, and there

is no one like you.

Never seen

 I've never seen a woman

of God be rejected by 

something or someone

that was above her or

above what God has

ordained for her.

Never.

Mature love

This is what mature love understands.

You don't need to know

where they are every minute to feel loved.

They can have their own friends, plans,

and time without you feeling pushed aside.

You don't need to control someone 

to keep them close.

Real love feels different. You trust each other,

give each other room to be yourselves, and

still choose each other at the end of the day.

See your face

To see

Your face and

Feel nothing.

That would be

Peace at

Last.

Worth

 YOU are worth the trouble,

you're worth the time, 

you're worth the hassle,

you're worth the resources,

you're worth the risk,

you're worth the heartache,

you're worth waiting 

and fighting 

and rooting for.

You are worth believing in.

Burn it into your brain.

~Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

A try

 "It's impossible,"

said pride.

"It's risky,"

said experience.

"It's pointless,"

said reason.

"Give it a try,"

whispered the heart.

Next six

 The next six months

are going to make

sense of the last six

Trust yourself

From The Redeemed Marriage

After betrayal, everyone talks about rebuilding

trust in your spouse. But there's another kind of

trust that can get shaken too.

Trust in yourself.

You start wondering how you missed it. You replay

conversations and question your own judgment.

Sometimes you even wonder if you'll ever be able

to trust what you feel or believe again.

That part of healing took time for us too. But

eventually you begin to realize that being deceived

doesn't mean you were foolish. And you don't

have to spend the rest of your life second

guessing everything just because someone once

gave you a reason to.

Healing isn't only learning to trust your spouse

again. Sometimes it's learning to trust yourself

again too.

One more time

 Have enough courage to

trust love one more time

and always one more time.

~Maya Angelou

Do things

If I do things for you,

it's not because I want

you to love me...it's

because I want you to

know that I love you.

Concealing

 A man who can't address

your concerns without becoming

hostile or dismissive is concealing

far more than just that response.

Write that down.

His anger is the tell. When she asks a simple question and he explodes, he's not reacting to the question he's reacting to being held accountable. His defensiveness proves he has something to hide. His hostility is admission without words.

A man with nothing to hide answers questions calmly. A man with secrets gets angry. She's asking because she sense dishonesty, and his explosive reaction confirms it. He's not upset because the question is unfair, he's upset because the question is accurate. His rage is a confession. His defensiveness is proof. She doesn't need more answers, she has all the evidence she needs in how he responds to her asking questions.

Tired

You can be tired of someone and still love

them. That is a painful truth because

exhaustion and affection can live in the 

same body. Your heart may still care while

your spirit has nothing left to give. 

Sometimes love stays, but the part of you

that could survive it has already left.

~Richard M. Drake, Detoxify

Both lost

In the end,

They both lost...

He lost a woman that would've never

given up on him and she

lost the woman she was before he broke

her heart 

Honor God

 Do not give up on your

marriage easily just because you

cannot forgive your

undeserving spouse, just

because it's hard to extend

mercy. You made a vow in the

presence of GOD that you

would continue to cleave unto

your spouse every day,

every moment for better, for

worse. Honor the vows to honor

GOD and honor GOD without

holding grudges.

Last ordinary day

 You never know

when you're

living the

last ordinary day

before life changes.

That's part of

what makes

ordinary days

so precious.

~Lori Deschene

One more reason

 I was not looking for closure.

I was looking for one more reason

not to let you go.

~unburied_eulogies

Still believe

I don't

Know why,

But I still

Believe

It will be

You and I.

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

Same God

 Every giant in the Bible was

defeated by someone who simply

believed God was bigger

You have that same God