Karen

“If we wait for everything around us to be OK before we open up our hearts to praise, we will wait forever. The secret in life is to make a place for joy and thanksgiving no matter what the circumstance.”
― Linda McCullough Moore, The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live

“Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you.”
― Kurt Bjorklund, Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer

“Be Thou my battle shield, sword for the fight; Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight; Thou my soul’s shelter, Thou my high tower: Raise Thou me heavenward, O power of my power…. Thou and Thou only, first in my heart; High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art. “BE THOU MY VISION,” Traditional Irish hymn [PD]”
― Kurt Bjorklund, Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer

“God is Lord of all, or he is not Lord at all. Christianity is many things, but one thing it is not is a sideline, a nice hobby, a part-time occupation. We have two choices: in or out; holy or not holy. We must never pretend God sent his Son to die so that we might have life occasionally, so that we might flicker in and out. Abide, he says. In me.”
― Linda McCullough Moore, The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live