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It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.
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Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while
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I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.
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If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes.
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novel
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Donna VanLiere |
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I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
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motherhood
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Donna VanLiere |
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The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.
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Donna VanLiere |
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Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things."
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Donna VanLiere |
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I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for...because everyday was a special occasion with your father.
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Donna VanLiere |
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If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...
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Donna VanLiere |
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Meghan and I talked about music - she loved Ella Fitzgerald. "What about all the hip acts that college kids love? Do you like any of them?" "Like who?" "I don't know all their names. Snoop Diggity Do and all those hip cats." Meghan shook her head and laughed. We talked about movies - she loved anything made before 1964. No wonder I thought she was older; she was an old soul in a young body. "So what's your favorite movie?" I asked. "To Kill..
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Donna VanLiere |
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Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END."
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Donna VanLiere |
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There comes a time when you don't know what your capable of anymore. Looking back, you can remember what you were capable of then, how you thought, what you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes all that away, the basket of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you, all of its gone in an instant, and its just you, naked, bare, exposed.
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Donna VanLiere |
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Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.
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home
love
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Donna VanLiere |
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. --C. S. Lewis It
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Donna VanLiere |
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Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.
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hope
life
love
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Donna VanLiere |
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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. --Eugene O'Neill My
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Donna VanLiere |
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Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.
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family
hope
love
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Donna VanLiere |
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So much of life is made up of questions that we think matter today but are forgotten tomorrow.
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Donna VanLiere |
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ne odin chelovek ne zhivet po-nastoiashchemu, esli on ne otdaet sebia drugim
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Donna VanLiere |
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence ... --HELEN KELLER
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Grief never ends ... But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. --AUTHOR UNKNOWN
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It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.
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quiet
silence
truth
virtues
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Don't ever underestimate who or what He'll use to get something done. But the choice to believe that is always yours to make.
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