Thankful Always

To new beginnings

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"Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody, 40 years learning he was nobody, and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.”

D. L. MOODY

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There’s a way of working that strengthens and a way of working that tires you out.

If work is prayer, I want all the work I can stand.

Hands to working and hearts to God.

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"If everyone in the world wrote down their problems and put them in a hat, wot you risk grabbing one or keeping yours?"

maybe you needed to see this today.

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Speak good or stay silent.

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you don't just marry a person. you marry their ecosystem. their food. the temperature of their house. their sleep schedule. their friends.their family. their way of moving through the world

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God will not judge us by according to how much we endured but by how much we loved.

Richard

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I am thankful to be among the beaten then among those who beat.

-Richard Wurmbrand

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Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Galatians 6:7-8

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You can love someone deeply and still not be meant to build a life with them.

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October 17, 1946

D’Arline,

I adore you, sweetheart.

I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.

It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you’ll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing.

But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I always will love you.

I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector. Can’t I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.

When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn’t have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.

I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.

My darling wife, I do adore you.

I love my wife. My wife is dead.

Rich.

PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don’t know your new address.

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In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

— Anne Frank

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“Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people. But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.”

‭‭Titus‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭11‬ ‭

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The fastest way out of suffering is appreciation.

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Want to be happy right now? Trade expectation for appreciation and you’ll have a whole new life.

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Your truth arrives like a photo developing in a darkroom. Slowly. Precisely. In layers.

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That’s how I would describe my walk with God

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Sometimes I feel like I’m in a movie. I look at our family portrait and realize I’ll be looking at this photo one day and my parents won’t be around anymore. I’m in the future feeling the great sadness of losing them. My sister and I sitting there with tears in our eyes many years after they’ve gone. Then all of a sudden I’m in the past (present) when my mom walks in the room. It’s a crazy feeling. I feel like I’m in a movie. There are too many things to be thankful about.