Gena

“We cease trying to make ourselves the dictators and God the listener, and become the joyful listeners to Him, the Master who does all things well. —A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly”
― Jim Branch, The Blue Book: A Devotional Guide for Every Season of Your Life

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver

“I don’t ask you to bless what I have decided to do, but
give me the grace to discover and to live what you
have dreamed for me.”
― Jim Branch, The Blue Book: A Devotional Guide for Every Season of Your Life

“Faith is a deep-seated belief in the existence of God that radically alters the way you live your life. Now, here’s the rub. Faith isn’t natural for us. Biblical faith is counterintuitive and countercultural. So we even need God’s grace to have faith to believe in the existence of the One whose grace we so desperately need. And the grace is yours for the asking again today.”
― Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional