Happiness

A lot of happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.

Suffering

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with his Presence. – Paul Claudel

Testing

We’re in perpetual beta.

Backwards and forwards

Life must be lived forwards, however, it can only be understood backwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

Welcome to the fairy tale

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. - Hans Christian Andersen

the Climb

Life is in the climb. - Toby Mckeehan

It's Friday but Sunday's a Comin'

It was Friday. It was Friday and my Jesus was dead on the tree. But that was Friday and Sunday's a comin'.

It was Friday and Mary was crying her eyes out. The disciples were running in every direction, like sheep without a shepherd. But that was Friday and Sunday's a comin'.

Friday. They're saying, `As things have been so shall they be. You can't change anything in this world; you can't change anything. But those cynics don't know that it was only Friday. Sunday's comin'.

Friday, them forces that oppress the poor and keep people down, them forces that destroy people, the forces in control, them forces that are gonna rule, they don’t know it’s only Friday. Sunday’s a comin’.

Friday, people are saying darkness is gonna rule the world. Sadness is gonna be everywhere. But they don't know it's only Friday. Sunday's comin'.

It was Friday and on Friday Pilate thought he had washed his hands of a lot of trouble. The Pharisees were struttin' around, laughing and poking each other in the ribs. They thought they were back in charge of things. But they didn't know it was only Friday! Sunday's comin'!

This is the good news. Even though we know this world is rotten, we know it's only Friday...

The full sermon from Tony Campolo

Gethsemane

Looking through the shadowy foliage of Gethsemane, we don't see the classic portrait of Christ, rendered by the artist. We don't see Him in a snow-white robe kneeling beside a big rock, hands peacefully folded, with a look of serenity in His face as a spotlight from heaven illuminates His golden-brown hair.

Instead, we see a man flat on his face, fists pounding the hard earth in agony. We see a fact stained with tears and dirt, hair matted with sweat, facial muscles contorted in pain like the gnarled, twisted olive trees looking on. God was never more human than at this hour.

Have you been in the dark garden of Gethsemane? Betrayed by a friend? Deserted by those around you? Felt abandoned? Lonely?

The next time you think no one cares, pay a visit to Gethsemane and see the man of sorrows. Because seeing God like this does wonders for your suffering.

Charles Swindoll
For Those Who Hurt

Love consists in

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let us not despair

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments. -John Calvin

Knowledge and Power

Knowledge isn’t power until it it applied. – Dale Carnegie

Your Darkness

Knowing your darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
Carl Jung

Eyes open

Keep your eyes open before marriage. half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Your voice

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow

The distance

Judge a man by the distance he has traveled.