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cumulus nimbi.
The best thing about living halfway across the country from the past you’d like to forget is that you’re not obligated to reveal it to anyone.
A life
You don’t drown by falling in the water; You drown by staying there. —Edwin Louis Cole
Faith. It’s the difference between hiding fear and mastering it.”
now I could see that we all have marks of some kind,
scars we’d rather not live with. It’s what we do in spite of them that matters.
Cat in the Hat a million times.
Nothing worth doing comes easily,
A well-lived
lived life, an authentic life, involved risks—and faith allowed you to take those risks.
The great leaps in life are not made in the absence of fear, but in the presence of faith.
I’d been so busy focusing on my self-determined parameters of what I felt my family should be, that I’d missed the beauty of what they actually were—fragile, flawed, heroic, imperfect, champions of lost causes. Each with things to learn and things to teach. God had knit us together like plantings in a garden—wild and unique above ground, blooming in different ways at different times, the roots intertwined deep beneath the soil.
The future is a blank page, but not a mystery. The truth of that small phrase, of that plain-spoken proverb from the wall of wisdom was so clear to me now. Though we only read the story in due time, the books of our lives have been already written. God has drawn us in shades of charcoal and pastel, known our hours, seen our days, laid down our paths, created each of us as unique and uniquely loved. Our lives come as a blank canvas only because we cannot see as He sees. Before we can conceive our stories, He has watched them in His mind’s eye, and not the stroke of a pen happens at random.
Above the book, the Architect watches with a broader eye, a greater plan. He knows what is to be written on every page.
