“A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it,
A song’s not a song ’til you sing it
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay
Love isn’t love ’til you give it away.”
-Oscar Hammerstein II, Sound of Music, “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”
Ringing, singing, loving…whatever you’re doing today, go for it with all your heart! Slainte, Lisa
Christ be with me, Christ be within me
Christ behind me, Christ before me
Christ beside me, Christ to win me
Christ to comfort me, Christ above me
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger
Christ in hearts of all that love me
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger
– St. Patrick, Irish cleric
This Gaelic prayer is deep and beautiful. May the love of Christ surround you today. Blessings, Lisa
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 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
You can run, and you can hide….
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
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