My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown

Hope means hoping
when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
Faith means believing the incredible,
or it has no virtue at all.

~ G.K. Chesterton
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis

Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler

Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown
Beware of paying attention
or going back to what you once were,
when God wants you to be something
that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM

You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom
Do not have your concert first, and then
tune your instrument afterwards.
Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison

Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven) 

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

Jesse's Poems


About Jesse

LONG DAYS NIGHT INTO DAY

Where have you been
This self I am
Wandering aimless
Empty
In wilderness
Across dry desert
Where there is
No water
Over endless oceans
That touch
No land
Swept at every wave
Drowning
Thirsty
Parched
No place
To rest my head
Or soul
No place
To find
Peace
To feed hunger
Of heart and spirit
Forever wandering
Like some ravenous
Wind
That can not stop
Or touch down
Or
Find rest
Dying
Running on empty
Can not lay down
The night. 		          Gazing the moon
          Flickering at the stars
          Crying up there
          To some One
          I know not
          To finish
This
          And hide
          From day

          Then
          In
          My own
Dark
          Night
          Ragged
          Dirty
At ropes end
          Suspended
Hanging
          The edge
          Between
          Nowhere
          And Neverwhere
          Facing
          The deluge

          Gave up- let go
          And there

          Was

          GOD!

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