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I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see. And to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look! Life is so generous a giver. But we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there. The gift is there and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Your joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it; that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country home.

Within Our Reach: Joy, FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO

Gorgeous fall day exploring -- love that mountain air 💛🏔🌲 (at Roosevelt National Forest)

🌲 O Pioneer Adelina! 🌲 (at Nederland, Colorado)

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my dear, we are all made of water. it’s okay to rage. sometimes it’s okay to rest. to recede.

Sanober Khan (via kvtes)

“It is a bit of a cliche to characterize life as a rambling journey on which we can alter our course at any given time – by the slightest turn of the wheel, the wisdom goes, we influence the chain of events and thus recast our destiny with new cohorts, circumstances, and discoveries. But for the most of us, life is nothing like that. Instead, we have a few brief periods when we are offered a handful of discrete options. Do I take this job or that job? In Chicago or New York? Do I join this circle of friends or that one, and with whom do I go home at the end of the night? And does one make time for children now? Or later? Or later still? In that sense life is less like a journey than it is a game of ‘honeymoon bridge’. In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions – we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made shape our lives for decades to come.” ― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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“...hard does not always equal bad. Times can be hard and also good.

A difficult workout is not necessarily bad. In fact, it will probably reap greater health benefits than an less stressful, low impact workout. Hard work, a rough patch in a relationship, a time of feeling lonely are not always bad. They may seem bad momentarily, but pressing on, getting it done and believing Jesus to show Himself strong on your behalf will yield good results from a time of exhaustion. Allowed by a gracious, merciful Heavenly Father more interested in our future calling than our present comfort, "hard" is synonymous with growth- growth of our character and growth of our awareness of our absolute, never-ending need for our Savior. Do not despise it. “

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I have been imagining myself at 80 — alone so much more and surrounded by more quiet and my books and my old, creaky husband, and looking back at this moment and knowing that it was when things turned in such a frightening, fascinating way. My 80-year-old self is glad I was alive now. She wants me to be brave. She wants me to have, if not faith, at least a sense of my bigness and smallness simultaneously.

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#NowPlaying California by Melaena Cadiz

#music #spotify

Prettiest sunset tonight. No filter. Sky on fire.

"When we know the one who ordained the seasons and the wingspan of a singular burnished oak; who invented sugar and salt and the perfect sphere of a hardy cherry tomato; who knew how comforted we would be by things like wool and tea and the light in our babies' eyes; when we know him, we know that all his schemes, even the seemingly nutso ones, are for our gain. And when we trust that, our fingers start to loosen their grip, and we reach out to touch the very edges of freedom." ~ @shannanwrites #FallingFree

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In the midst of chaos When the wind is howling I hear the ancient song Of the ones who went before And know that peace will come.

Susan Stauter

Out of work early & getting a head start on a book loaned by a coworker before Halloween festivities. 👌🏻 "The Jesus that dismantled the life I chose didn't call my name from centuries ago or from foreign lands. He descended from heaven and donned a toga for John and Rahab and Zacchaeus, and does the same for us, meeting us right in this moment, wholly with us in our messed-up world." #whollywithus #FallingFree #shannanmartin

#fallingfree #whollywithus #shannanmartin

Love Grows

“Love grows as you grow as an individual and the two of you grow together by letting each other into deeper layers of your heart. It grows over time, with dedication, commitment, and a willingness to soften into vulnerability.”

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"All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize society or we can help lift it to a higher level." - Bill Bernbach in the fifties, but ever so relevant today.

Grateful for old friends, happy tears, and unconditional love. Fall '16 (at Ellwood Thompson's)

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Jenna Kutcher | @jennakutcher

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