Quote (Sept. 19, 2020): "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." (Oprah Winfrey).

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord... since you know you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward..." (Col. 3:23-24)

"Do your best to present yourselves to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15)

Quote (Sept. 18, 2020): "A wise man travels to discover himself." (James Russell Lowell)

Joshua 1:9 -> "Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

John 15:16 -> "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed YOU so that you might go and bear fruit - fruit that will last - and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you." 

Quote (Sept. 17, 2020): "Surviving is important. Thriving is Elegant." (Maya Angelou)

Ezek. 16:7 -> He made his people thrive like plants of the field, growing up and maturing, becoming very beautiful... they started out as stark naked.

Ezek. 17:9-10 -> Will it Thrive? Even in winds and trials?
Ezek. 17:24 -> The Lord brings down the tall tree and makes the low tree grow tall. He is the Lord. 

Quote (Sept. 16, 2020): "Go for the journey of a thousand miles." 

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this:
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27)

Quote (Sept. 14/15, 2020): "The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"..put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator." (Col. 3:10)

Quote (Sept. 13, 2020): "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." (Thomas Calyle)

"The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace." (Romans 8:6, NIV)

Quote (Sept. 12, 2020): "Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open." (Thomas Dewar)

"For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 Tim. 1:7)

Quote (Sept. 11, 2020): "Let the adventure begin"

Psa. 30:4-5 ->
"Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

For his anger endures but a moment; in his favour is life:
Weeping may endure for a night, but JOY comes in the morning." 

Quote (Sept. 10, 2020): "I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." (John H. Johnson)

James 1:2-4 ->
Consider it pure JOY when faced with trials of many kinds.
For the testing of our faith produces perseverance.
With patience, perseverance will finish its work so that we may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 

Quote (Sept. 9, 2020): "Make your dreams happen."

Prov. 22:1-4
"A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

Rich and poor have this in common:
The Lord is the Maker of them all.

The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

Humility is the fear of the Lord;
its wages are riches and honour and life."