Quotes about Reflection

Learning to live with evening, or rest, as a top priority is an ongoing process. Many times I ask God to help me reprioritize, make time for physical rest and put "evening" back where it belongs.

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before.

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

We don't think about fixing things until we realize they are broken.

coated with unmet expectations. So, what do I do? Well, I've found it tremendously helpful to list the expectations I have of a relationship in which I'm feeling slighted. Then I prayerfully discern whether or not my expectations are realistic or unrealistic. And if I can't really discern one way or the other, I ask. I ask God. I ask that person. I ask someone wise who knows both of us well.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).

We've survived what we feared. But can we survive the remembering? Memories are both our greatest treasures and our greatest sorrows.

Grace doesn't give me a free pass to act out how I feel, with no regard to His commands. Rather, His grace gives me consolation in the moment, with a challenge to learn from this situation and become more mature in the future.

I want it to be evident that I'm a girl who spends time with Jesus and that He's working on me.

It's interesting that the original phrase in the late 1500s was "God be with Ye." The contraction of that phrase was "Goodbwye" which eventually became "goodbye."….. I wonder, when Jesus watched the rich young ruler walk away, what was the look in His eyes? I wonder, when Peter denied Jesus and abandoned Him just before Jesus went to the cross, what was the goodbye like?