If the invitation of Lent is to practice abstaining from something to focus more fully on who God is and how God is at work in the world, then I need to fast from my dependence on criticism.
February 22, 2023
Latest February 22, 2023 Quotes
Each year, around the latter part of winter, Lent arrives. It nearly always surprises me. Here it is, once again, summoning me to change how I typically live.
The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise.
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Flowers are the alphabet of angels whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.
