haste makes waste
“On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.” - Ann Voskamp
(Source: burningthursdays)
Posts tagged "one thousand gifts"
June 01st 2011
Five beautiful eggs are residing in our Bluebird box. I can’t wait until they hatch. I hope the parents have several more sets of birdies over the summer. :) :)
I couldn’t help thinking of One Thousand Gifts while I captured these photos. Today I started my “official” list… hmmm, I wonder how long it will take me to get to 1000? :)
How many of you have read the Ann Voskamp’s book? Are any of you literally counting the gifts?
September 04th 2011
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
September 06th 2011
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows.
September 07th 2011
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
September 08th 2011
It’s only when you live the prayer of thanksgiving that you live the power of trusting God.
September 13th 2011
And I see a world through His lens: “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32 NIV).
