May 8, 20131 Comment
Quotes of the Day: Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached. ~Stephenie Meyer Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada. ~Ellen DeGeneres In all the highs and lows – God is still GOD. ~Unknown The Single Woman Says: I had one of those horrible cricks in my neck … » Read More
May 5, 20133 Comments
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one!” ~C.S. Lewis “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” ~Brené Brown “Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, … » Read More
April 30, 2013CommentQuote of the Day: Take a deep breath. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life. ~Unknown The Single Woman Says: Confession: Some days I don’t feel like being positive. Some days I wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I have a bad hair day. My cat relieves himself in the floor and I have to stifle the urge to wring … » Read More
April 28, 20133 CommentsQuote of the Day: “Almost every day I’m tempted take things into my own hands because I think God won’t handle them the way I want Him to or when I want him to. But today, I’m going to choose to trust God to give me what He wants, when He wants to.” ~Renee Swope The Single Woman Says: For almost a year, I had a … » Read More
April 23, 20133 CommentsQuotes of the Day: Desperation and impatience twist our thinking and pull us into error and deception every time. ~Michelle McKinney Hammond There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. ~Maya Angelou While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our … » Read More
April 21, 2013CommentQuotes of the Day:
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. ~Robert J. Sawyer
Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? ~David Baldacci
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Single Woman Says:
Almost every day I come to the coffee shop to work, not always the same coffee shop (always … » Read More
April 17, 20131 CommentQuote of the Day: “You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. … » Read More
April 15, 20131 CommentQuotes of the Day: “Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test… You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.” ~Rick Warren “Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.” ~Unknown “Here’s a tip: If you’re arguing against empathy, no matter the context, you’re on the wrong … » Read More
April 11, 20132 CommentsQuote of the Day: Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. ~Arthur Yorinks The Single Woman Says: You know those relationships that come along ever so often in life that burst onto the scene with the power and intensity of a jet plane…only to limp out of the picture a couple of weeks later with less potency than a Radio Flyer with two … » Read More
April 10, 20131 Comment
Quotes of the Day: I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing. ~Donald Miller There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness. ~Shauna Niequist What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons … » Read More
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Life doesn’t always look the way we want it to look. In Mandy’s upcoming book, Turn Toward the Sun: Releasing What If and Embracing What Is, you’ll find encouragement to live in the moment, sit with your experiences, and trust God with the unknown.
