Small Enough

Teeny Tiny Silver Cross Necklace
by: amandadeer $22 USD, Esty

"Look to the Lord and be strong; at all times seek his presence." Psalm 105:4





TINY FOOTPRINTS Locket Brag - Hand Stamped and Domed Sterling Silver Pendant with Crystal Birthstone
by: BragAboutIt $29 USD, Etsy

"Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that re-creates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. Neil C. Strait

Small Enough - Mindy Gledhill

Oh, Great God,
be small enough to hear me now
there were times when I was crying
from the dark of Daniel's den
and I have asked you once or twice
if you would part the sea again
but tonight I do not need a fiery pillar in the sky
just wanna know you're gonna hold me if I start to cry.
Oh, Great God, be small enough to hear me now

Oh, Great God, be close enough to feel you now
there have been moments when i could not
face Goliath on my own,
and how could I forget we've marched around
our share of Jerichos,
but I will not be setting out a fleece for you tonight,
just wanna know that everything will be alright.
Oh Great God, be close enough to feel you now

All praise and all honor be
to the God of ancient mysteries,
whose every sign and wonder turn the pages of our history
but tonight my heart is heavy,
and I cannot keep from whispering this prayer
"Are you there?"

And I know you could leave writing on the wall
that's just for me,
or send wisdom while I'm sleeping,
like in Solomon's sweet dreams
but I don't need the strength of Samson
or a chariot in the end.
Just want to know that you still know how many hairs
are on my head.
Oh Great God, be small enough to hear me now .

Adiemus

"A man away from his home is like a bird away from its nest." Proverbs 27:8

Night Moon Star Fairy Angel Painting Art Print Mounted on Wood
by: Sascalia $35 USD, Etsy

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." Martin Luther


Adiemus" ...

This song makes me think of our own world and the whole universe..
of good and evil..
of peace and war..
of nature and destruction..
of life and death..
of all those dichotomies that we can find everywhere,
even inside ourselves.

"What is most necessary for understanding divine things is prayer." Origen of Alexandria

"To be surprise, to wonder, is to begin to understand." Jose Ortega y Gasset

You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find rest in you." St. Augustine of Hippo

Tremble

The Holy Family (Claudio Coello)

"Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?Who is like you, majestic in holiness,awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?" Exodus 15:11

The Holy Trinity 1577 Museo del Prado, Madrid

"If the Holy Spirit guides us at all, he will do it according to the Scriptures, and never contrary to them." George Muller



Nichole Nordeman - Tremble

"To live the sanctified life we must choose to be holy. Sanctification is a life of Christ-centered choices, made evident in loving obedience to God." Mel E. De Peal

Here Comes The Sun

"We are told to sing to the Lord a new song. A new man knows a new song. A song is a thing of you and, if we think of it, a thing to love. So that man who has learned to love a new life has learned to sing a new song. For a new man, a new song and the new Testament all belong to the same kingdom." St. Augustine of Hippo

"That's what we are here for: to make the world new. We know what to do: seek justice, love, mercy, walk humbly, treat every person as though she were yourself, these are not complicated instructions. It's much harder to decipher the directions for putting together a child's tricycle than it is to understand these." Nancy Mairs




Here Comes The Sun - Yo Yo Ma & James Taylor

A clip from the program Yo Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace. Grammy-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma collaborates and performs songs from his latest holiday album "Songs of Joy and Peace."

Those Sweet Words

Sweet Puppy Dog Hair Clip - Ireland
by: roseyposeybowtique $3.85 USD, Etsy

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting ..." Emerson






Audrey -- Sweet Plume
by: sweetplume $175 USD, Etsy

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." M.W. Hungerford




Those Sweet Words by Norah Jones

"Don't ask for the meaning of the sweet song of a bird or the rising of the sun. Behold their beauty."

"Listen while you work Whether spring cleaning or just working around the house, make the most of your time."

Stand

Custom PAINTED SHOES to match your fabric LOGO
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"The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy." Corrie ten Boom





60's Style Booties with Bowtie
by: madelinerenee $24 USD, Etsy

"God wants us to be victors, not victims; to grow, not grovel; to soar, not sink; to overcome, not to be overwhelmed." William Arthur Ward



"Stand" - Rascal Flatts Official Music Video

"Everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith." 1 John 5:4 NIV


STAND FOR TRUTH

Be the voice that nobody else will be
Be the answer that someone could be looking for
Stand up for those
Who others won't
Stand up for those who need a friend
Speak out for those who are afraid.

Be the voice for those who cant speak
For those who are trembling in fear
Be the voice for those who wont
Speak for those who dont know
The love they could have
Speak to the hearts the love weve been given
Speak the words of grace and forgiveness
Just as our Father has done for us.

We all have a voice in this world
So why do we hurt each other?
So often we use our words to curse and to blame
When we should be encouraging and lifting up
Dont you know your words could heal?
Dont you know your prayers could save a life?
With His words God spoke the world into motion
With His words He spoke love and grace to our hearts
With one word He forgives us
His last words spoken
Meant the victory over death forever
Its time we use our voice for good.

Poem by Kool Christian Girl

Butterfly Fly Away

Sparkle Bye Mr Butterfly, Wooden Butterfly Necklace Pendant
by: gossimarwings

"Touch me, Father, to value each day, to live, to love, to laugh, to play." Kathi Mills



Fanciful Favor Bags and more creative crafts projects, templates ...
From Martha Stewart Living, April 2006

"What an I give him Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would give
him a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man, I would
do my part, --
But what I can I give him,
Give my heart."
-- Christina Rossetti


Butterfly Fly Away - Miley & Billy Ray Cyrus
Hannah Montana

"Love is extravagant in the price it is willing to pay . . . the hardships it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Love never thinks in terms of "how little," but always in terms of "how much." Love gives, love knows, and love lasts." -- Joni Eareckson Tada

A Matter of Trust

VINYL QUOTE-NEVER TRUST A SKINNY COOK-special buy any 2 quotes and get a 3rd quote free of equal or lesser value $10.99 USD, Etsy
by: vinylforall

"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." Job 13:15 KJV





Embroidered Quilt Block - TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART
by: RestlessNeedle $3.00 USD, Etsy


"Those who trust the Lord are like Mount Zion, which sits unmoved forever." Psalm 127:1




Billy Joel - A Matter Of Trust

Trust is a treasured item and relationship. Once it is tranished, it is hard to restore to its original glow." William Arthur Ward

"He who trusts in himself is lost. He who trust in God can do all things." St. Alphonsus Liguori

Wishing You More Than This...

Wishing you a Happy Saint Patrick Day!

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, of being loved in spite of yourself." Victor Hugo





Forest Fairy with Rabbit, Deer and Owl Painting Art Print on Wood
by: Sascalia $35 USD, Etsy

"We are told to sing to the Lord a new song. A new man knows a new song. A song is a thing of joy and, if we think of it, a thing of love. So the man who has learned to love a new life has learned to sing a new song. For a new man, a new song, and the new Testament all belong to the same kingdom." St. Augustine of Hippo



Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. James 5:13

Wishing You...

More Than This
by Eden's Bridge


Silence and moonlight
Treetops, the breeze
Morning and snowflakes
Coldness, the freeze
Autumn and laughter
Raindrops and smiles
Tall mountains, deep canyons
Beginnings, the extra mile
What do you think’s important to Me?
What do you think?
What do you think?
What do you think’s important to Me?
I love you more

More than rainbows and shadows
More than good things, more than time
More than sparrows and ravens
More than sunshine, more than life

I love you more than this
I love you more

What Do I Know of Holy?

OlgaViolaArts sterling silver hamsa hand magen star of David blue bright heart pendant
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"When we are linked by the power of prayer, we hold each other's hands, as it were, while we walk along a slippery path." St. Gregory I





Sterling silver magen david - star of david classic modern greenish golden dichroic glass pendant
by: OlgaViolaArts $45.00 USD, Etsy

"Do not let us fail one another in interest, care, and practical help; but supremely we must not fail one another in prayer." Michael Baughen

Addison Road - What Do I Know Of Holy

"The reason we must ask God for things he already intends to give us is that he wants to teach us dependence, especially our need for himself." St. Francis of Assisi

"Your needs are absolutely guaranteed by the most stringent of warranties, in the plainest, truest words! Knock, seek; ask. But you must read the fine print, "Not as the world giveth, give I unto you." Annie Dillard

I'll Be Your Shelter...

Umbrella Gal Metal Wall Sculpture Signed Original $175 USD, Etsy
by: frivoloustendencies

"Pray for rain, but keep on hoeing."

"Always watch your step--even when you're not going anywhere."




Primitive Folk Art Saltbox Birdhouse $31.00 USD, Etsy
by: ACOUNTRYWAY

"A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body." Margaret Fuller








Yellow Stained Glass Votive Candle Shelter $17 USD, Esty
by: DavidAdairWeisman


"There are two ways of spreading light; to be a candle, or the mirror that reflects it." Edith Newbold Wharton






Music video by Taylor Dayne performing I'll Be Your Shelter. (C) 1989/1990 Arista Records Inc

"Love's finest speech is without words." Hadewijch of Brabant

I Love You More...

Rainbow Mystic Topaz Peace Dove Necklace - Beautiful AAA Quality Mystic Topaz on Sterling Silver FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE $29.o0 USD, Etsy
by: FizaDesigns

"Whatever moves the heart wags the tongue." Charles Thomas Studd
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Shabby Cottage Metal Tray wall art, Dove and Carnation $28 USD, Etsy
by: lunaclaydesign


"My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on you." St. John of the Cross

Removable Wall Stickers - 45 inch x 38 inch Golden Cage (BE 2-7) $49.00 USD, Etsy
by: contemporarydreams

"Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own: for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love." Thomas a Kempis

More- Matthew West

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"O Lord our God,

grant us grace to desire thee

with out whole heart so that desiring,

we may seek, and seeking, find thee;

and so finding thee, may love thee,

and loving thee, may those sins

from which thou hast redeemed us. Amen.

--St. Anselm of Canterbury

Ventura Highway....

Oval Map Ring - Size 5.75 $85.00 USD, Etsy
by: art925

"A roadhog is a fellow who meets you more than half way."




USA jigsaw brooch $8.00 USA, Etsy
by: MrPS

"When you walk with God, you get where he's going." Anon.




Oregon Black Metal Tray $15.00 USD, Etsy
by: SimplyDivineLove

The road is long and hard and difficult. Never be afraid. You won't be if you understand where you are and why you are there. " Catherine de Heuck Doherty



Ventura Highway - America (1972)

Chewin' on a piece of grass walkin' down the road
tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe?
Some people say this town don't look good in snow
You don't care, I know.

Ventura Highway, in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go I know

Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
and the day surround your daylight there
Seasons cryin' no despair
Alligator lizards in the air


Wishin' on a fallin' star
Watchin' for the early train
Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain
Aw, come on Joe, you can always change your name
Thanks alot son, just the same


Ventura Highway, in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine!
you're gonna go, I know


Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
and the days surround your daylight there
seasons cryin' no despair
Alligator lizards in the air
in the air


"The vocalist Dewey Bunnell has said that the lyric "alligator lizards in the air" in the song is a reference to the shapes of clouds in the sky.

Dewey adds. "It reminds me of the time I lived in Omaha as a kid and how we'd walk through cornfields and chew on pieces of grass. There were cold winters, and I had images of going to California. So I think in the song I'm talking to myself, frankly: 'How long you gonna stay here, Joe?' I really believe that 'Ventura Highway' has the most lasting power of all my songs. It's not just the words — the song and the track have a certain fresh, vibrant, optimistic quality that I can still respond to.

"That's Gerry and Dan doing a harmony on two guitars on the intro. I remember us sitting in a hotel room, and I was playing the chords, and Gerry got that guitar line, and he and Dan worked out that harmony part. That's really the hook of the song." The song also contains the phrase "purple rain," later the title of a Prince song, although it is not known if there is actually any connection.

The song "Ventura Highway" went on to become a #8 single for "America" - Wacky Wiki

The Hardest Word...

"Make it clear. Make it simple. Emphasize the essentials. Forget about impressing. Leave some things unsaid. Let the thing be simplified." Charles R. Swindoll




Sorry Seems to be The Hardest Word - Blue and Elton John


Words to Warm The Heart

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I cannot forgive." Henry Ward Beecher

"Even fools may be thought wise and intelligent if they stay quiet and keep their mouths shut." Proverbs 17:28 GNB

"Nothing in this world bears the impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness." Alice Cary

"And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us." Matthew 6:12 BCP

"How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent, and God will speak again." Francois de la Mothe Fenelon

Cherish The Day

FOUR SEASONS BOOKMARKS or TAGS. DIgital sheet. Download and Print (25.22)
by: artvision $2.99 USD, etsy (Download & Print)

"Never look at what you have lost; look at what you have left." Robert Harold Schuller





Four Seasons- Abstract Landscape Art Prints- Free Shipping inside US
by: colorblast $46 USD, Etsy

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Johan Wolfgang von Goethe





Sade - Cherish The Day

"Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek him or his gifts." Ralph Washington Sockman

Classic Collections for Spring 2010

Spring 2010: Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta : "Never look back, look forward. Always learn something new..."




Spring 2010: Vera Wang (Bling never looked so good)

Vera Wang: "I love that yin with the yang."

Spring 2010: Donna Karan

Donna Karan's style is so simple, feminine and sophisticated that's both urban and organic.

Video credit: Style.com

Alice In Wonderland

Here one of the latest movie posters from Tim Burton's remake of Lewis Carroll classic fairy tail Alice in Wonderland!

Review: Alice in Wonderland ‎ -
The minute she lands in Wonderland, things change - not just for Alice, but for the viewer wrapped in warm memories of a colourful, and largely benign ...

Fans of Tim Burton and the twisted classic fairy tale come together in the much anticipated Disney release of this dark adventure through the looking glass.

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Starring Johnny Depp as the Rabbit and Tim Burton’s lovely wife Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, with Ann Hathaway as the White Queen, Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum!

Lesson In Survival

Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860, Frederic Edwin Church, Cleveland Museum of Art

Lesson in Survival

Spinning out on turns
That gets you tough
Guru books-the Bible
Only a reminder
That you're just not good enough
You need to believe in something
Once I could in our love
Black road
Double yellow line
Friends and kin
Campers in the kitchen
That's fine sometimes
But I know my needs
My sweet tumbleweed
I need more quiet times
By a river flowing
You and me
Deep kisses
And the sun going down

Maybe it's paranoia
Maybe it's sensitivity
Your friends protect you
Scrutinize me
I get so damn timid
Not at all the spirit
That's inside of me
Oh baby I can't seem to make it
With you socially
There's this reef around me
I'm looking way out at the ocean
Love to see that green water in motion
I'm going to get a boat
And we can row it
If you ever get the notion
To be needed by me
Fresh salmon frying
And the tide rolling in

I went to see a friend tonight
'Was very late when I walked in
My talking as it rambled
Revealed suspicious reasoning
The visit seemed to darken him
I came in as bright
As a neon light
And I burned out
Right there before him
I told him these things
I'm telling you now
Watched them buckle up
In his brow
When you dig down deep
You lose good sleep
And it makes you
Heavy company
I will always love you
Hands alike
Magnet and iron
The souls

Joni Mitchell-Lession In Survival (FOR THE ROSES, Album)

The Heart Has Its Reasons

We Hold Hands (Fine art, giclee print) $18 USD, Etsy
by: AugustEve

Things past belong to
memory alone.
Things future are the
property of hope.
xxxx -John Home



"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." Blaise Pascal



Music video by Colbie Caillat performing Realize. (C) 2007 Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

"No man can understand spiritual mysteries by carnal reason." Thomas Benton Brooks

"God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity." St. Augustine of Hippo

"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." 1 Peter 3:15 NIV

Let Myself Fall

Courting Victorian Couple Decorative Hand-cut Silhouett $11.80 USD, Etsy
by: mountainbrook

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart." Dag Hammarshjold




Let Myself Fall - Rosie Thomas

"Christian perfection is loving God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. This implies that no wrong frame of mind, nothing contrary to love, remains in the soul; and that all the thoughts, words, and actions, are governed by pure love." John Wesley

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"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quite we become toward, the defects of others." Francois de la Mothe Fenelon

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"The past cannot be changed, but the response to it can be." Erwin W. Lutzer

Time After Time

Rabbit in Fast Time Ring $20 USD Etsy
by: FernStreetDesigns

"In, God, time and eternity are one and the same thing." Heinrich Suso




Vintage Cream Flower GE Kitchen Clock $17 USD Etsy
by: monichelles

"God's infinitude places him so far about our knowing that a lifetime spent in cultivating the knowledge of him leaves as much yet to learn as if we have never begun." Adien Wilson (A.W.) Tozer




Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

"I cannot tell where God begins, still less where he ends. But my belief is better expressed if I say there is no end to God's beginning." Andre Gide

"God is an infinite circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." St. Augustine of Hippo

"Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord. Jeremiah 23:24 NRSV

Please Read The Letter That I Wrote

Antique Love Letter Post Card by rosaamarilla


Love letter written by Jack London to Anna Strunsky

Dear Anna,

Did I say that the humans might be filed in categories? Well, and if I did, let me qualify -- not all humans.

You elude me. I cannot place you, cannot grasp you.

I may boast that of nine out of ten, under given circumstances, I can forecast their action; that of nine out of ten, by their word or action, I may feel the pulse of their hearts.

But of the tenth I despair. It is beyond me. You are that tenth.

Were ever two souls, with dumb lips, more incongruously matched! We may feel in common -- surely, we oftimes do -- and when we do not feel in common, yet do we understand; and yet we have no common tongue.

Spoken words do not come to us. We are unintelligible. God must laugh at the mummery.

The one gleam of sanity through it all is that we are both large temperamentally, large enough to often understand.

True, we often understand but in vague glimmering ways, by dim perceptions, like ghosts, which, while we doubt, haunt us with their truth.

And still, I, for one, dare not believe; for you are that tenth which I may not forecast.

Am I unintelligible now? I do not know. I imagine so. I cannot find the common tongue.

Large temperamentally -- that is it. It is the one thing that brings us at all in touch. We have, flashed through us, you and I, each a bit of universal, and so we draw together. And yet we are so different.

I smile at you when you grow enthusiastic? It is a forgivable smile -- nay, almost an envious smile. I have lived twenty-five years of repression. I learned not to be enthusiastic. It is a hard lesson to forget.

I begin to forget, but it is so little. At the best, before I die, I cannot hope to forget all or most. I can exult, now that I am learning, in little things, in other things; but of my things, and secret things doubly mine, I cannot, I cannot.

Do I make myself intelligible?

Do you hear my voice?

I fear not.

There are poseurs. I am the most successful of them all.

Jack