What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.
True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread. " He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light. " He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door. " He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd. " He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. "
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.
I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.
Oswald: "All your life" Aurore: "What?" Oswald: "All your life, isn't that what you wanted to know? How long I loved you?" Aurore: "Well, yes, I suppose I did, but that wasn't what I was going to ask just now. " Oswald: "I tell you I've loved you since the day you were born, and you tell me you want to know something else. There's no one quite like you, is there, Aurore?
We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and He loves us back.
To me, love, spirituality and life are all the same thing. To me they're all about honoring the circle, and they're just different ways of defining the same understanding. Our society as a whole, because we have placed our love for money above our love for life, has devalued the sacred and devalued love.
I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.