“If you fall in love because someone makes you laugh, what happens when you no longer find them funny? If you fall in love because someone is beautiful, what happens when that beauty fades? If you fall in love because someone can provide for you, what happens when they lose wealth? Real love defies all reasons. When you truly love someone, you do not look for reasons, you see beyond reasons.” – (Jefroy Hanson)
“Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.” – (Thomas a Kempis)
“A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray.” – (From Trees by Joyce Kilmer)
(1 John 4:16) – We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before… .What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.” (Jan L. Richardson, Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas)