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

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

~ Will Rogers

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

~ 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 writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown

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

~ unknown

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle

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

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")

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
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
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
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

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

~ Carissa Cooper
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)

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

~ St. Francis of Assisi

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

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

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

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

~ Henry Van Dyke

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

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

~ Oswald Chambers

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

~ unknown

Writing

Cats in the Manger, Sheep on the Couch
Tito's First Christmas Celebration: A Story of Two Mangers
Cat Haiku
Room for One More

CFO is not a place…is it?
Sam's Bridge
The Language We Speak: an Adventure in the Ukraine
Youth Leadership Training Articles:
YLT1: Report on Hilltop CFO 2001 Youth Training Program
YLT2: Youth Leadership Training: From Hilltop to Cedar Lake
YLT3: Passion, Purpose, Planting & Pursuit: CFO Youth Leadership Training Camps: A report from Black Hills CFO (South Dakota) and Tennessee CFO 2003.
YLT4: MN Koronis CFO 2004: Youth IN Leadership
One Door Into the Banquet Hall
Silent Giants
The Sheep on the Shepherd’s Shoulders
A Small Black Stone
Impossible Prayers
Tracing the Pratical Thread of Quilting History
Grandma's Double Wedding Ring
No Piece of Fabric is Too Small
Another Place to Call Home
Homecoming
My Mexican Quilt: A UFO
My Great-Grandmother's Points Didn't Match Either
Francisco Xavier and the Ladies From Many Countries
Lessons With Montserrat
The Question of a Haircut
Hogar Elisa Margarita
A Diet Coke in a Thirsty Land
Out of the Corner of My Eye
Somewhere in Atlanta
St. Joseph Underground
Red Maple Tree
Coffee With Lucy
Latter Rain/A Good Crop
Dragonfly Haiku
Emmaus Road
Mexican Skies
Mexican Trees
Moving My Memories
Fishing
Nursing Home Vision
The Loveliest I’ve Ever Seen You
Last Minute Adoption
The Taste of Moonlight: Boca Chica
The Leaving
Very Okay
Lingering
Haiku: A Heart With a Mind of its Own
Haiku: Losses
Haiku: Who Can See the Wind
Haiku: Pursuit
A Forest of People Like Trees
Like Jesus Did
Kenya Haiku 2005
Haiku: Rainy Day Lessons