Good Quotes to get you thinking!

"Every day people make choices. Some choose to be mad. Some choose to be sad. It's just as easy to choose to be grateful and glad. Sadness will make you grow weary and weak. Anger will make your life dark and hard. But joy will make you strong and healthy. Remember, I told you so." --(p 180)--

"We can't see evil fighting to keep our promise away from us, but that's what's happening. We're children and we don't need to see everything, we just need to keep believing God. That's why we have to be like Daniel, we have to believe and pray. Even better, we got to fast and pray and sometimes--sad to say--we got to cry. The good news, when the devil is fighting, God got even more reinforcements He can send in to get the job done. We can't see it, but when we pray, God is listening. ...it may take some time, but God is going to keep His promise."
"At the end of all that crying, praying fasting, and angel-fighting, Daniel got his promise--he got his word. ...don't ever give up. Your answer is just a prayer, a fast, or even a tear away." --(p 78)--



--Riding Through Shadows by Sharon Ewell Foster--

Trusting God to "figure it out"

"We never figure it out. It never gets figured out. We're not supposed to figure it out. We live every day and we never have it figured out. We pretend to ourselves that we do--it makes us feel safe. But we don't."

"Just breathe... We're never going to figure it out. We just have to be where we are and trust that it's the place that God wanted us and that He's taking care of us--all of it is part of his plan."

"We don't have to figure it out. God's got it all in His hands."

--Passing into Light by Sharon Ewell Foster (pp 247-8)--

This is so true, eh? Don't we all need to learn to trust in God to get it all figured out?

(This is a really good book to get a good perspective on the power of prayer. It is the sequel so read both. They are worth it. Oh... and they are fiction, too.)

Analogy

Guys are like trees.

There are two different categories for trees. There are the deciduous trees, and there are the evergreen trees. The evergreen trees stay green even throughout the tough, cold, wet, brutal winters. They are green even when the going gets rough. The deciduous trees, on the other hand, lose their leaves when the going gets rough exposing them for what they truly are.

When a girl is looking for a guy, she must watch him throughout the winter months, when the going gets rough, to find out which kind of tree he is and whether or not he is worth keeping.



P.s. By the way guys... the same goes for us girls.