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When you’ve been tying yourself in knots trying to make a relationship work and then you (really) realize that you can be whole and happy even if it doesn’t, it’s hard to keep your dancing feet still.
“If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.” Unknown
“You have turned my mourning into dancing. . . . I will give You thanks forever.” Psalm 30:11-12
If there is one thing about you that you spend a lot of time disliking, why not try saying thank you instead (unless it’s the sort of thing that God dislikes, too)?
“You created my inmost being. You wove me together in my mother’s womb. Thank You. . . .” Psalm 139:13-14
“Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the beloved.” Henri Nouwen
Even when she can’t remember, after decades together, who he is, he keeps right on holding her hand and comforting her and waiting for her. He is a lesson in loving.
“Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.” Brian Andreas
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” 1 Corinthians 13:1
If you tried to carry all your teeming to-dos and sorrows by yourself yesterday, you know how you don’t want to live today.
“[W]e learn to let God take care of us – not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.” Marva Dawn
“I will take the load from your shoulders.” Psalm 81:6
What if we were all looking for chances today to welcome each other in out of the cold?
“It was cold . . . , so they kindled a fire and welcomed us.” Acts 28:2
Father, please make me welcoming today in thought, word and deed.
When you’re going in the wrong direction, you can choose at any given moment to turn around and start fresh.
“Humbly let go. [L]et go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears.” Ann Voskamp
“And He said . . . ‘How often I have longed to gather [you] as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.’” Luke 13:34
