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

“I think the devil must dearly love short prayers, the quick and easy kind where we can dip one toe in, tell ourselves we did it, and console each other: “Prayer is hard.” We shake our heads and say, “It’s not easy,” as if to say God isn’t always there, when truth be told, we haven’t stuck around long enough to find out whether he is or not.”
― Linda McCullough Moore, The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live

“Who shall separate me from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? … No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ROMANS 8:31–37”
― 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