"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 |
 
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Cat HaikuAlways ThereMay 8, 1994 Mothers’ Day
purring lap cat is
bathed with the tears silently
dropping from my heart
HeroesNovember 12, 1999
Don Quixote cats
tilt at leaves in the wind – fierce
imagined feathers
Coming InsideFebruary 11, 2000
Indoor cat sniffs wind
in my hair – wishes to be
outdoor cat today
NanaDecember 14, 2003
Cat watching snow fall
millions of toys to play with
but it’s warm in here
© Lisa LaLonde
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