Jennifer

“We grow like what we look at, and if we spend our lives looking at our hateful selves, we shall become more and more hateful. Do we not find as a fact that self-examination, instead of making us better, always seems to make us worse?”
― Joanna Weaver, Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out

“As life slows down, we can become controlling and critical, or we can reflect on God’s sovereign love that chose and planted us in his house. The more we live in the light of the reality of his presence, the more we flourish as his Spirit fills us with sap to nurture and encourage others to flourish.”
― Sharon W. Betters, Aging with Grace: Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture

“As we do our best to give and receive love—to God, ourselves, and others—we will experience the”
― Whitney Hopler, Wake Up to Wonder

“By praying about a specific subject at bedtime, we invite God to send a dream message in response to that prayer. By recording what we remember about our dreams soon after waking (when we’re in what psychologists call the “hypnagogic state” of transition, with our conscious and subconscious minds working together), we create valuable records to study and learn from dream patterns. By thinking and praying about the images in our dreams, we can learn from their symbolic meaning for us. By applying what we learn from dream insights to our waking lives, we can experience the wonder of closer relationships with God. Look”
― Whitney Hopler, Wake Up to Wonder