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

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College
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
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis

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

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM

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

~ Henry Van Dyke

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

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ Abraham Lincoln
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

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

~ unknown
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

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

~ Carissa Cooper
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud

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

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

~ St. Francis of Assisi

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

~ Will Rogers
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
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
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")

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

~ unknown

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

~ unknown

Cat Haiku

Always There

May 8, 1994 Mothers’ Day

purring lap cat is
bathed with the tears silently
dropping from my heart

Heroes

November 12, 1999

Don Quixote cats
tilt at leaves in the wind – fierce
imagined feathers

Coming Inside

February 11, 2000

Indoor cat sniffs wind
in my hair – wishes to be
outdoor cat today

Nana

December 14, 2003

Cat watching snow fall
millions of toys to play with
but it’s warm in here

© Lisa LaLonde