Quotes about Reflection

I leaf through more pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.

If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.

You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

How wonderful the days when all was well. How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don't you think?

I understood that feeling of regret, the sense that there was a moment when the paths divided and you chose one over the other.

We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.

Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden? Trent

Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed. Each event, each person, changes us in some way. Even in times of drought we are still moving and growing, but it is during seasons of rain that we expand the most-when water flows from all directions, sweeping at terrifying speed, chasing against rocks, spilling over boundaries. These are painful times, but they enable us to carry burdens we could never have thought possible.

The thing about mistakes is, they become valuable when you learn from them. I

Take a breath, look around, a voice seemed to be whispering. None of this is here by accident, and neither are you.

The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They'd

What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.