So much stress comes from not listening, not trusting our inner voice. So much confusion comes from trying to act before we have heard, before we are guided.

Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie, p. 39

Take time to notice what’s right in ourselves, in others, and in the world around us.

Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie, p. 38

Whatever your project is, or ”learning a lesson on your journey, learn to live comfortably with unfinished work.”

Whatever you’re working on, whatever you’re in the midst of doesn’t need to be finished, in perfect order, with all the loose ends in place” or tied together.

Enjoy all the stages of the process you’re in. The first moments when the germ of the idea finds you. The time before you begin, when the seed lies dormant in the ground, getting ready to grow.”

Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie, p. 37

Learning those lessons, the lessons of setting each other free, became an important part of our journey.
p. 4, Journey to the Heart, Map your own Journey, Melody Beattie

Hurting but still hoping – that is the human journey.
p. 14, Seeing Beautiful Again, The Process before the Promise, Lisa Terkeurst

I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.

The farmer sows the word

A word to weary workers
You look at the apparent waste of labor,
at the seeming loss, at that which looks like failure

item in the pentecostal evangel 1921, spirit led woman

The best known habit forming principle of tobacco is nicotine, but most deadly and demoralizing is furfural.

Dr. Connor (formerly john hopkins) Item in word and work, august 1922, beside still waters

Serious, sweet, stepping

Daniel Diller, Livingston, TN, beside still waters

My thoughts before they are my own, are to my god distinctly known. Isaac Watts, Beside still waters