My toes are warm from sitting in front of the heater and my belly is warm from drinking hot tea. What time is it? Time to share more quotes from my Commonplace Book.
No unwelcome tasks become less welcome by putting them off until tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us and done that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant. Accomplished, they are full of blessing and there’s a smile on their faces as they leave us. Undone, they stand threatening and disturbing our tranquility and hindering our communion with God. If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink, walk straight up to it and do it at once. The only way to get rid of it is to do it.
Alexander Maclaren.
As the former Queen of Procrastination (surely someone else has taken over the title by now!), I appreciate this quote so much. I’m often one to put off “unwelcome duties.”
The joys of Christmas are not a break from reality or an escape from reality, but an invitation into reality. In the great scheme of things – that is to say, the eternal scheme of things – joy is the rule, not the exception.
Jonathan Rogers
Did you hear that? Joy is the rule, not the exception. Amen!
Fear arises when we imagine everything depends on us.
Elisabeth Elliot
Truth without beauty can be a weapon;
Beauty without truth can be spineless.
Andrew Peterson
In order to see birds,
it is necessary to become part of the silence.
Robert Lynd
In order to delete this, it is necessary to become part of the morning…
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