Answer to My Prayers

And I'm going for her. I want to tell her "thank you, Emma. thank you for fighting so hard to live. Thank you for proving to me that fighting matters."

Quotes

"Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up. " -Mother Theresa
Claire sniffs the air when she gets in the car..."It smells like snow, mom".
"The church is the only fellowship in the world where the one requirement for membership is the unworthiness of the candidate." Robert B. Munger
"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood."-an English Proverb
Isaac (age 7): "Mom, I just love black people. You know why? I just love their big brown eyes. Precious has such big dark brown eyes."
10/18-Jeremiah, tearfully, after a traumatic run-in with his public health nurse mom and her needle: "Mom, I wish flu shots didn't exist."
"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused." -C.H. Spurgeon.
"Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions." Exodus 16:4
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." Oscar Wilde
"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere." Zig Ziglar
="You are never behind. Jump in where you are." Flylady
"God did not say, You will not be troubled, you will not be hardpressed, you will not be disquieted. But God said, You shall not be overcome." Julian of Norwhich-a Benedictine Mystic
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller
"The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Havelock Ellis
"From sun in the summer. From rain when it's fall-ish, I'm going to protect them. No matter how small-ish." Dr. Seuss in Horton Hears a Who!
"Mom, I love dance day. When I go to dance I forget about all the problems of my day." Claire, age 11
"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." Lin Yutang.

Answer to My Prayers

Monday, March 19, 2012

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