All that we have endured in this life will then seem as nothing.

Fred Beachy, Crofton KY Beside the Still Waters, vol 27, issue 6

And keep in mind, Americans:

each November,

and December;

Just 3 short weeks before

thanksgiving and christmas

Embrace your destiny. Know you help create it by what you choose each step of the way.

Let your choices come from your heart.

p. 319, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

Sometimes when life shifts and changes, it can feel like we’ve lost our place.
We may ache, feel irritable and doubt the course of our entire journey. We may doubt whether the magical way we were living was ever real.

p. 317, Journey to the heart, Melody Beattie

Where the sky and the earth touch are the boundaries for all things to live. All things share in the essence of life through cycles of life and death.

p. 315, open up your connections., Journey to the heart, melody beattie

… bitterness is actually a seed of beautiful potential not yet planted in the rich soil of forgiveness?

The consideration of how to let tenderness in again.

pp. 208-209, seeing beautiful again, Lysa TerKeurst.

Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

Where is the connecting thread, we wonder?
How can we ever pull this together into something that makes sense, something with purpose, something with meaning?

The scattered pieces will come together – the scattered pieces of yourself, your project, your life.
The connecting thread is love.

pp. 290 – 291, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

… Like a weaver I have rolled up my life,
and he has cut me off from the loom;
day and night you made an end of me.

For ye have need of patience.