Category Archives: Faith

Write Your Character

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“With the story of your life, you don’t get to write the whole book, only your character.”  ~Olivia Munn

What an amazing quote.  The more I think about it, the more I like it.  Simple, but profound.  So much of my frustration in life comes from trying to “write” the characters/people that surround me, what they should say, how they should behave, what they maybe should do.  But that’s not in my control….I can only write me.  What I say, how I should behave, what I should do.  And sometimes I don’t even write myself too well, so that gives me plenty to “write” without trying to mess with anybody else.  🙂

Think about it.  I know I still am.  Blessings, Lisa

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” – Jesus, Matthew 7:3

Blessing in the Midst

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It’s easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song

But the man worthwhile is the one who can smile

When everything goes dead wrong.

For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years.

And the smile that is worth its salt

Is the smile that shines through the tears.

~Irish, Unknown Author

I was moved by this blessing/poem today, and it encouraged me to keep smiling, keep singing, keep hoping…through trouble, through pain, through hard times.  Because life is good, God is loving, and joy can be found, right now.  Blessings for a good weekend, Lisa

Upward and Now

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Upward towards God, living now…the way towards hope.

“Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”  – Philippians 3:13

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do.  But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Author unknown

“One day at a time – – this is enough.  Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come.  Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.” – Author Unknown

Love and blessings, Lisa

Looking for Joy & Finding Sparkles

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“You have to look for the joy.  Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.”      -Barbara Johnsonsurf

May God bless you with many sparkles of joy today.  Slainte, Lisa

“Joy” by Lisa Lyons, Flight of Freedom

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You Can Run…

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You can run, and you can hide….

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But we’ll find you and take that picture!  🙂

Sometimes we all wish we could hide away…hide from our past, hide from responsibilities, hide from pain.  Crazily, we sometimes even want to hide from God, thinking that He won’t want to see us after what we did/said/thought/etc.  But He’s always there, ready to forgive and let us start over.  He’s watching over us as a loving Father, protecting and thinking of us even when we don’t know it.

“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You…..How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand, when I awake, I am still with You.” – Psalm 139:11-12, 17-18

How amazing that is to me…I pray heaps of blessings on your day today.  Slainte, Lisa