Happy 2013!!!! Quotes Pt. 28

The new year has begun! We’ve rung it in! Now let’s determine to live it for the One who made it! Here to begin us on the journey are some great quotes.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
– C. S. Lewis

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
– Napoleon Hill

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
– Eddie Rickenbacker

 

 

 

 

 

The Christmas Season Pt 6: the 2012th Noel

 

Every year we sing “The First Noel”. We are so far beyond that now.  We are tonight celebrating the 2012th Noel (give or take). It amazes me that being so far separated from the event we yet celebrate it. That fact alone speaks to the importance of the act, God coming to dwell among us! How blessed are we that the Creator chose to take on the form of man…to become one of us…to bear our sin and so liberate the entire creation from the bondage to decay!

Merry Christmas friends! Never forget what God did for us!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

Tada!!!

 

“Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.”
― Erma Bombeck

Help me I’m 21
photo be MJ Lillie

“Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence — a surprise.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Surprise smooch

 

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.”
― Charles Morgan

 

 

 

 

Christmas Pt 5: Christmas Carolling

Photo Courtesy of Tamie  Charbonneau

One night a year during the Christmas season our church family gathers to send Christmas carollers out into the community. This is an opportunity for the two areas of ministry I work in ( creative arts and pastoral care) to meld together to bless our townships. I love the chances God’s children get at Christmas to spread the Light of Jesus.

Photo courtesy of Tamie Charbonneau

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that
the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then
smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven’s
making.  ~Leigh Hunt

photo courtesy of Tamie Charbonneau

Isaiah 9:2 tells us that people walking in darkness will see a great light. That light God has chosen to shine through us! What an awesome privilege we have to be chosen to be His ministers to the world!

A Partridge In a Pear Tree.:hoto courtesy of Tamie Charbonneau

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops
Heaven to Earth.
~Richard Crashaw

Cousin Charlie Photo courtesy of Tamie Charbonneau

Who is God calling you to share the light with this Christmas? Nothing else about this season is as important!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ugV6QGcafEE#t=5s

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

A shortcut To Mushrooms By JE LIllie

“The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream, Though Death shall call the whirlwind to his aid, Enlist men’s passions, trick their hearts with hate, Still shall the Vision live! Say nevermore, That dreams are fragile things” Anon

A Shortcut To Mushrooms 2 By JE Lillie

Evening Snow by JE LIllie

“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.” Hazel Lee

Snow In the Gloaming By JE Lillie

 

Quotes Pt. 27

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius 95 BC – From Perseverance

Quotes Pt. 26

Faery Garden At Midnight by JE Lillie

You can’t stand up to the night until you understand what’s hiding in its
shadows.  ~Charles De Lint

Holding the Snow

 

“We could never learn to be brave or patient, if there were only joy in the world.” Helen Keller

Raining Pines by JE Lillie

 

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”  ―    Frederick Douglass

 

Quotes Pt. 25

“When the prayer meeting becomes the most important meeting revival is right around the corner.” Mark Batterson

Quotes Pt. 24

“Life is about choosing between imperfects” Bob Rhoden

“Let God be as original with others as he was with you.” Oswald Chambers

 

Quotes Pt. 23

I see three common traits in the people we hold up as heroes: unusual ability, unflagging commitment and undeniable weakness. For these reasons we like our heroes to be kept on television or in a book. Shutting them off or putting them on the shelf is easier than living with great talent and unwavering tenacity mixed with the stuff of human frailty! JE Lillie