pivots

...if you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by storm and send you out...you are not to spend all your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbor bar, full of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbor bar into the great deeps of God and begin to know for yourself. -oswald chambers

...every time there are losses there are choices to be made. you choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper... - henri nouwen

does the clay say to the potter "what are you making?" - isaiah

look for the holy in the common place...open the windows and feel all that's honest and real. - sara groves

arise, shine, for your light has come... - isaiah