Mondays are for Grace

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world 

the master calls a butterfly."

-- Richard Bach

Mondays are for Grace

"Take the very hardest thing in your life - 

the place of difficulty, outward or inward, 

and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. 

Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

-- Lilias Trotter

Mondays are for Grace

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, 

not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

-- Martin Luther

New Years Are For Grace

“I wish, my brothers and sisters, 

that during this year you may live nearer to Christ 

than you have ever done before. 

Depend upon it, it is when we think much of Christ 

that we think little of ourselves, 

little of our troubles, 

and little of the doubts and fears that surround us.” 

-- Charles Spurgeon

Mondays are for Grace

"It takes courage to listen with our whole heart to the tick of God's timing 

rather than march to the loud beat of our fears."

-- Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way

Mondays are for Grace

"Gratitude is a gladness of soul."

-- Lailah Gifty Akita

Mondays are for Grace

"Trusting God means that in spite of our questions, doubts, and fears 

we draw on his grace and continue to believe that he is loving, 

that he is in control, and that he is always working for our good."

-- Ken Sande

Mondays are for Grace

"Strong memories of God's faithfulness and provision in the past become the fuel 

for strong faith in present times of hardship and distress."

-- adapted from "And It Was Beautiful" by Kara Tippetts

Mondays are for Grace

"Cease endlessly striving for what you want to do 

and learn to love what must be done."

-- Goethe

Mondays are for Grace

"The cross you've been given is always God's kindest decision. 

The cross you carry -- is carrying you toward who you are meant to be."

-- Ann Voskamp

Mondays are for Grace

"Every saint in heaven is as a flower in the garden of God, 

and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, 

and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. 

Every soul there is as a note in some concert of delightful music 

that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, 

and all together blend in the most rapturous strains 

in praising God and the Lamb forever."

-- Jonathan Edwards

Mondays are for Grace

“If man really is fashioned, more than anything else, in the image of God, 

then clearly it follows that there is nothing on earth so near to God as a human being. 

The conclusion is inescapable, that to be in the presence of even the meanest, 

lowest, most repulsive specimen of humanity of the world is still to be closer to God 

than when looking up into a starry sky or at a beautiful sunset. 

Certainly that is why there is nothing in the New Testament about beautiful sunsets." 

-- Mike Mason 

Mondays are for Grace

"He that always has something ahead, need never by weary."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Mondays are for Grace

"We are weary because we forget about grace. 

We act as though God's showing up is the miracle. But guess what? 

God's showing up is the given. 

Grace is a fact."

-- Sarah Mackenzie in "Teaching From Rest"

Mondays are for Grace

"Love is not affectionate feeling, 

but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good 

as far as it can be obtained."

-- C. S. Lewis

Mondays are for Grace

"The more we practice remembering the story of God's goodness,

the better we can remember that in Him all will eventually

BE WELL.

-- Sally Clarkson

Mondays are for Grace

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - 

or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

-- Stanley Crawford

Mondays are for Grace

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

-- Edith Sitwell

Mondays are for Grace

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mondays are for Grace

"Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every bush afire with God;

But only he who sees takes off his shoes;

The rest sit around it and pluck blackberries."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning