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

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven

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

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

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

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

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

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

~ Abraham Lincoln
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis

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 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
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison

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

~ Oswald Chambers
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

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

~ Will Rogers

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich

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

~ St. Francis of Assisi

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

~ Carissa Cooper

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

~ unknown

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

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

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

Lisa LaLonde’s Ministry Schedule 2008

Sundays at home: on worship team at Mid-Hudson Christian Church, Wallkill, NY
www.midhudsonchristianchurch.com

Jan 6-11 Mid-Hudson Christian Church week of prayer (on worship team)

Feb 2 CFO* Midwinter Retreat, Secaucus NJ First Reformed Church, 53 Centre St.

April 4-6 CFO* Zone 4 Spring Retreat, Good Tidings Bible Conference Center, Cornwallville, NY
www.goodtidingsfellowship.com

May 22-29 CFO* Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA

June 22-27 Colorado Front Range CFO* Colorado Springs, CO Hideaway Christian Ministry Centre (worship leader)
www.hideawayreservations.com

June 29-July 4 NY Adirondack CFO* (formerly Silver Bay CFO) Christ The King Spiritual Life Center Greenwich, New York
www.christ-the-king-center.org

Aug 17-22 NY Taconic CFO* Milan, NY

CFO* stands for “Camps Farthest Out” a Christian family camp organization that has been in operation for over 75 years...check out their website for more information!
www.acfona.org Visit this website for more detailed information about each retreat...we’d love to have you join us! Contact Lisa for more information as well.

Thank you for keeping the above itinerary in prayer!
Keep tuned for more updates as the year’s plans takes shape...