Transformation is not seeing different things in your life, but seeing what is in your life, differently.
~ Jim Palmer
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Getting mail makes you feel special. Especially when you're the only one.
~ Silas Weathersby
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The season of being under our wing, even in our home, is so, so short. You can hold on with both fists, you can refuse to concede the truth, but here it is: this child - this person - does not belong to you. Never did.
Our children are meant to fly.
The imagery of the Psalms says it all, doesn't it? Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. The purpose of an arrow is to be aimed, and set free to do the work set before it. Archers don't follow behind the arrows they have released into battle. They don't grab the arrow mid-flight, wrestle it back into the nook, and try again.
Archers trust that they practiced well, aimed true, and will see fruit.
So should we.
~ Heather Schwarzen at To Sow a Seed
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Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities, that's why a bear can rest at ease
With just the bare necessities of life
~ Bare Necessities from The Jungle Book
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Today's Small Thing is to ask someone what you can do for them.
Think carefully who you'd like to ask and make sure you'll be able to follow through on it. As importantly (sic) as the task itself is the attitude that goes with it. Serving with joy blesses a person like nothing else.
Sometimes it feels like all we do is serve others. Serve, serve, serve. Blech. But there is a difference between servitude and serving. Servitude is being enslaved to someone or something more powerful than yourself. Serving, on the other hand, is a choice from the heart - a gift that helps, empowers, frees, and loves others.
~ Rachel Anne Ridge at Home Sanctuary
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